Iron Man

Keen got this Iron Man outfit from Grammie and has been wearing ever since.  He wore it to the mall, had it on to see Santa and wears it when he's just hanging out at the house coloring.  He is so cute and funny!  I love it!

Morning fun

We have the best and craziest kids!  This morning they all jumped into bed with us and took over!  They always have to have a crazy face picture or two but they snuck in some smiles for us today.  We sure love all these kiddos of ours!

Christmas with Papa and Grammie Losee

Papa and Grammie are going to Boston for Christmas this year so they wanted to have a night with each of the families to give out their presents.  We had a really fun night with them eating dinner, opening gifts, playing games and enjoying the Christmas season!  The kids of course got spoiled and went home with lots of fun toys.  And the highlight gift? Tickets for Josh and I and the girls to go to the Warriors game when they come to town to play the Jazz!  Wohoo!  (Mom and I planned this together and we bought the tickets together as a suprise.)  We can't wait! Such a fun Christmas night with our Grammie and Papa.

Car mishap

We were trying to get kids and bags loaded into the van today when we heard a yelp coming from outside.  We looked out and noticed that Rease was covered on one side in mud.  We got the story from her and found out that she had somehow managed to fall out of the van and into the gutter that was full of muddy melted snow.  After finding out she wasn't hurt, we got a good laugh out of it.  She was pretty sad that she had to ride home with muddy clothes though.  Silly girl!

Prepping for the missionaries to return

Josh's parents are almost ready to come home from their mission!  We have all been so excited to have them back!  We wanted to have a weekend to work on their house and get it ready for their return.  They've had renters in the house and we knew it would need some work.  So Friday the siblings gathered and got to work painting, cleaning carpets and fixing up around the house.  Then Saturday we finished it off with a lot of help from the rest of the families.  It was a very productive weekend and we were able to get lots of their furniture brought back into their newly cleaned and painted house.  I know they are going to be so grateful to have a home to come back to.  We can't wait to have them!

BYU Volleyball

I took the girls to the BYU women's volleyball game this weekend and we had a great time.  It was the first round of the NCAA tournament and BYU had home court advantage so we decided to take advantage of it.  It was a great game and they ended up winning too!  Such a fun date night with my girls!

Candy Day

Our Family

I wanted to get some year end pictures of the family.  The pictures of the kids turned out so cute!  Love these kiddos of mine!

My 1st Selfie

No one is too young to take a selfie - including this chubby one!

And by the way - he's 6 months old!  Here are stats from Dr. Erickson:

Weight: 18.01 lbs - 60%

Height: 27.76 inches - 89%

Head: 17.7 inches - 83%

Piano Recital

Rease and Rhen had their year end piano recital tonight.  Rhen has just been taking lessons since September but she has done so well for the little time she's been doing it.  And Rease is improving so much each week.  I am proud of both these two girls and all their hard work!

Great Grandma Losee

We spent the evening in Delta tonight with my grandma Losee.  It has been a while since we've seen her so we wanted to take the kids and spend some time together.  She sang the kids a couple of songs that I remember her singing to us when we were little and that was really fun.  And the kids loved just hanging out and being with her.  She is 92 years old and still doing well.  She had a stroke a few years ago but seems to be doing ok now.  We are so glad we got so spend a few hours with her!

BYU Football

We love BYU Football! And we're so glad football season is here so we can enjoy it as a family!  The kids love to go, mainly because of the hot dogs and cougar tails, but whatever it takes to get them there.  The weather this year has been so nice and we've enjoyed some awesome nights and afternoons at the football stadium!

Rhen's Report Card

Rhen had a great report card and her teacher Mrs. Ricks says she is doing amazing.  I don't doubt it!  She has loved reading this year and learning to write better.  Here are a few of the things she's been working on this year so far.

Rease Report Card

Rease had a great report card and parent teacher conference this term.  Her teacher Mrs. Willson said she is doing a great job.  This year the 4th graders are working a lot on writing and essays.  In her conference folder she had some of Rease's essays she had written and a few other things she has been doing this year so far.

Liev's Report Card

Liev had a great report card and parent teacher conference.  Liev has really been working on his attitude at school and treating others nicely.  He has improved a lot since the first of school and I'm really proud of him for that.  He is also doing so good on his letters and sight words.  Here are a few things he's been working on this semester.

Lost a tooth!

Liev's tooth has been loose for a couple weeks and I was afraid that it wouldn't come out on it's own.  The permanent tooth is coming in behind so I didn't think it would get loose enough.  But tonight he showed it to me and it was barely hanging in there.  I talked him into letting me pull it out and it was over in about a second.  He was so excited!

Losing a tooth is the best - especially when the tooth fairy comes!

Contaminated milk

Many times throughout the day I look at the things my kids do and ask myself "why?"  This particular incident was one of those times.  

Most of the time Josh's answer to my question of "why" is "because they're boys."  I still think that's no excuse. 

A new tooth

This boy has been drooling like crazy lately so I knew this was coming.  Today this tiny tooth finally broke through!  And the one next to it isn't far behind!

Amazing Race

We put on an amazing race for our neighborhood this year.  Actually Josh didn't help me because I wanted him to be able to be on a team and race, so Hayley and I did it together.  We had a group of 45 people on 10 teams.  It was SOOO Fun!!! Can't wait until next year!

Dad's candy drawer

Josh has a drawer full of candy at his office and the kids raid it every time we go visit him.  Today when we walked in, he wasn't in his office so we snapped this picture of the kids and their treats to show him that we were there.  Such crazy kids and their sweets!

Invitation

Basketball season has started and we LOVE watching the Warriors play.  The girls are totally into it and get excited every time a game is on.  Today I was conflicted because the Warriors were playing and I also had bunco the same night.  Rease made this invitation for me to help me decide what to do.  I love this girl so much!  She is so sweet and I love that she wants to be with me.  We had fun watching the game together!