Christmas 2011!!

Christmas is finally here! After much anticipation the day has finally come. And finally this year I wasn't the first one up. Hagen came upstairs and was really excited and after he woke up the girls, we were able to open gifts. We had a nice day, we were able to attend church and have a small family dinner. But most of all we were able to reflect on the many blessing that we have received through out the year and to also be thankful for the generosity of those around us in our time of need. We are so blessed and we have the most amazing ward and neighbors. Calvin wasn't sure what to think of it all but had a blast getting into all the gifts that weren't his.

The kids all got scooters.
Kaleigh got Monster High Dolls, webkinz, and a new purse
Hagen got the Joker tower, more batman charectors, and a nerf machine gun
Sidney got a walking dog, princess vacuum, and a playhouse

Calvin got a piggy bank, car toy, and a drum

Jared got a new watch, tools, and a BYU sweatshirt and I got a new coat, slippers and a electric blanket (not sure why Jared thinks I need that ;) )

Homemade Family Gifts 2011- Christmas Eve

So on Christmas Eve we have our little tradition where drink hot coco, read from the bible, and then the kids get their pajamas. But I don't think we need anymore pajamas so in an effort to help the kiddo's realize that Christmas is about giving and not what they receive we decided to draw names and who ever they got they would make a homemade gift. I think that overall it was a good experience and something we will continue.

Hagen had Sidney and he made her animal finger puppts Dad had Kaleigh and with the help of a co-worker he made a cute bracelet for her.

I had Calvin and I made him a cute pillow, crib size.

kaleigh had Mom and she decorated a picture frame for me with peace signs and bug stickers, since I call her bug.

Sidney painted a picture frame and drew a picture. She made sure Dad knew that he had two arms on his body in the picture. It was cute.

Calvin had Hagen and with the help of Mom we made him cute Star wars finger puppets. They were pretty awesome!

Santa Visits at the Smith Family Party

Oh, I am such a slacker. Here it is mid January and I am barely posting my December pictures. So, in December we have our Smith family party. We went swimming, at breakfast/dinner and then Santa came and we opened presents. Calvin wasn't very happy with Santa, he wanted nothing to do with him. He cried the entire time he was in the room until he left. Then he stopped. Poor little guy!

These two cute kiddo's live in their dressup. So when we came home from swimming. This is what they changed into.

Hagen sang the best songs for everyone!

Aunt Holly FINALLY came to visit

Aunt Holly finally came to visit us during Thanksgiving. It has been a long time since she has been able to hang out with the kiddos. They had a ton of fun.
Ginger Bread houses!
Every year the kids look forward to decorating their own gingebread house. Mormor and Rose were admiring the houses.

Hagen is a Reader!!

Wahoo! After a diligently working on Hagen's homework everyday, Hagen has passed everything off. He is now working on his reading books. He is so excited! I love that he is so excited as well. He is too quick to me, he wants to work on it right away and I want to sleep or am not quite able to sit down with . I am so excited for my smart little guy and so glad that he loves to read.
I have a crawler on my hands. About a week and half ago Calvin started going forward a few crawls and then would stop. Nothing adventurous but he has since realized that he can finally go places. The minute I open the fridge he bolts for it. He loves the laundry room, a lot. And he especially loves that the minute the kids put a toy down he can finally get it. Tonight Hagen put his MP3 player and and Calvin was right their all tangled in the headphone cord. It is fun to see his personality become more prominent.

I don't know what the fascination is with hotdogs! Personally I think they are kinda gross but what do I know. So on Friday night we had my little niece Olivia over for the night. The kids wanted a fire so I thought that if I just boiled up a few hotdogs for them to roast then technically I wouldn't have to make dinner! Yay for me. Well they downed 16 hotdogs within 10 minutes. I was convinced that I would four little ones puking by morning, I was lucky. So the next day we went to RcWilly for free hotdogs. Who wouldn't pass that up! More hotdogs! Too many hotdogs but it was a fun weekend.

Halloween 2011

Here is everyone ready for tricker treating and a fun party at the Millers house. Jared and my cute kiddo's and our friend Spanky and her baby, Roger. We also carved pumpkins. Sid had a smily face, Hagen wanted the Batman symbol, and Kaleigh did a pirate skull. Kaleigh carved her pumpkin all by her self. I was quite impressed.

Here we are all ready for trunk or treat on the Saturday before Halloween. The kids were so excited to get candy and play with their friends.

Kaleigh hanging out in a car trunk.

Batman

Sid and Brooklyn


Calvin was a dinosaur. Soo cute

Teeth

I have three little munchkins who have lost and acquired teeth this last month

Hagen-Calvin-Kaleigh Kaleigh lost one tooth this last month. I think she is almost done loosing teeth. The funny thing is that she wrote a little note asking the tooth fairy what she did with the teeth. The tooth fairy is taking her time answering that one?! I did look on the web to see some of the common answers, some of them were really funny.
Hagen lost his first teeth this month. Every day for two weeks we would wiggle teeth and they were being extremely stubborn, but finally they came out at the same time. The tooth fairy had to cough up two dollars. Hagen was so excited, he wanted to take his two dollars and go to the store and buy a DS game that moment. I tried to explain that DS games cost more that two dollars, I don't think he understood but at least he quit asking.

No loose teeth here. She saw everyone else getting a pix of their teeth and wanted one as well.

I have been trying for weeks to get a pix of Calvin's first little tooth, with absolutely no luck at all. We had gone to our ward trunk or treat and Calvin sucked a sucker down to the stick and was completely sticky. One good thing about this pix is that we finally got a pix of his first little tooth. Kinda hard to see but it is their.