January 2012 fun

Finally, we have snow. I was pretty certain that we weren't going to get any snow at all this year. But we got this, didn't get a lot but Kaleigh and Hagen were excited to be able to make a snowman.

January is not the most eventful month, normally, but thanks to my super hero's it has been a little crazy.Thanks to little Boston donating his dress up to my kiddos we have not had a dull moment. Hagen lives in the batman costume. As soon as he comes home from school he dresses as up in his batman attire. You would think he wouldn't wear the gloves as much, but he does. He gets very sad when he has to take them off to eat dinner or even do homework. Poor kiddo!

We have been cleaning out the office and found the remotes to the cars that we bought at yard sales these past years. So we charged them all and Jared and the kids took them outside along with the cars Hagen got for Christmas. They had so much fun, they didn't even complain that they were cold.

Hagen eventually gave up on the cars and pulled out his skate board.

Aww... my sweet Sid loves the cars.

Calvin thought it was pretty cool to stand at the door at watch everyone outside.

Here is little Calvin eating Mac and cheese. He is almost 11 months!! He wants to eat everything that we are eating and is getting so big.

Here we are at Trafalga. This year we got the 7 peak pass of all passes. We play miniture golf at least once a month. The kiddos really enjoy it, plus it is kinda funny watching them.

Hagen and Kaleigh

Sid and Dad getting some tokens to play games.

Calvin was sleepy after a long night so he took a little snooze while everyone played games.

Sidney's Nursery Graduation

My cute little Sidney graduated from Nursery! Cute little thing was so excited that she wouldn't even go into the nursery room that day. She kept telling the teachers that she was a big girl now. She is in a class with about 8 other little three year olds and they are so stinking cute.

Here she is with her little friends.

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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.