Nativity

Over the past several years I have received a part of the nativity each year. I love Willow Tree and this nativity set is amazing. Because I get a part of it for Christmas it usually stays up until February at our house. It is about time to take it down, but it has been nice to see it on the piano and remember the Savior. He did so much for me and I try to do my best to be like Him. I often feel like I fall short in most areas of my life. But I will keep trying and hopefully it will be enough.

My sister Torie made this for us for Christmas, it is an awesome puzzle. It is nice to have a nativity the kids can touch.

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We celebrated Jake's birthday a couple weeks ago. We kept it small. He and I went to Pocatello for lunch and a hair cut and my Mom watched the kids. Then we had home made pizza for dinner and brownie covered Oreo for dessert. Thing 2 called them "cookie" that is his favorite word. They were pretty tasty. I took some of the left overs to work because Jake is doing the biggest loser with my family, so they were just a temptation in our house.

Whipple's love to make faces in pictures (I don't really understand it)

Boots

The other day Thing 1 wanted to put on her cowgirl boots that Charlynn handed down to us. They are so cute, and she has small enough feet that they fit over her pj's. I think she was heading to work with my lunch box.

Books

Our kids love books. Here are some fun pictures of them reading. We always have someone throwing a book at us to read. Yesterday Thing 2 walked over to the bookshelf and said "book". He wanted a paper storybook from the upper shelf. Today, they sat on Aunt Charlynn's lap to have a book read to them and she had her daughter sitting there too, it was one crowded lap. They also like to read in bed at nap time, if you lay them down with a book they will lay down long enough to fall asleep.

Thing 1 relaxing on the couch

Thing 2 reading his book

All smiles

Jake babysat for Charlynn for an hour or so, he took this picture, everyone was reading together.

Happy New Year and 16 Months?

For New Year's Eve we went sledding. I forgot to get the camera to take with us, so here are some pictures playing with the snow boots after the fact. They both say "boots" very well. Thing 2 loved sledding, he would get on a sled with anyone going down the hill, grinning and having a blast. Thing 1 tried to like it but going fast down the hill scared her, so she would wimper a little each time. After a while I just let her watch Thing 2 go down, soon she acted like she wanted a turn, but still wimpered when she went down with her Dad. Maybe next year she will like it more. The both did very well being out in the cold.

After sledding we came home and got ready for our New Year's Eve bash. It was going to be a little appetizer dinner with my sister and niece, but my other sister was stuck here from Wyoming so we invited them to come also, and in inviting her we invited my parents and then my other sister and my brother's family as well. It was a full house, however it was fun to spend some time together.

"Boots"

We tried to catch a picture of her carrying the boot around on her arm, but we missed it.

Perke #1

Chani

Thing 1 is in cousin A's carseat

Playing music in a box, cute sweaters from Aunt Bridgett and Uncle Phil

This has started much earlier than I thought it would. Thing 1 is being sat on, this happens regularly, she giggles for a while and then cries.

The twins are now 16 months old, it is hard to imagine where the time went. We had a check up today and they are both growing. Thing 1 is 21 lbs 12 ounces and is 30 inches tall, Thing 2 is 24 lbs and 30 inches tall. They are both saying a lot of words, Thing 1 repeats a lot of words if you ask her to. Thing 2 says functional words like "cookie" and "cracker" and "snack". It is fun to watch their personalities. Thing 1 is very good at throwing fits (I can't wait until we are 2, can they really get worse). Thing 2 is happy most of the time, but he has a super sad face when he is going to cry. They love to have stories read to them and are content to look at their books by themselves, a post to come on that soon.

Christmas

I'm finally getting my Christmas pictures posted. We had a great Christmas, it was fun to watch the twins open presents, look at lights, and visit Santa. I think next year will be even more fun.

Opening their first present Christmas Eve.

I don't know how they switched presents but Thing 2 put the princess present over his head and threw it, it was priceless.

Who cares about the pj's, it is the boxes and climbing in.

Christmas morning was fun because they opened presents they wanted to play with. It was difficult to get them back to opening presents and away from the toy they just opened.

Uncle Ben and Becky's baby B

Bath toys

This picture reminds me of a care bear stare only backwards

Books

And the reason we celebrate Christmas, I love nativity sets and Jake's Mom has several beautiful sets, I need to take a picture of mine and post it. I have gotten a part of the set each year for the past several and it is also beautiful. I love the Savior, I'm grateful for his birth, his life, and his sacrifice for me. I know he was resurrected and made it possible for us all to have eternal life. Merry Christmas.

Christmas PJ's

We all opened our pj's on Christmas eve, but I didn't get my new camera until morning, so we took pictures Christmas morning. More of the toys and Christmas fun to come. But here are the cutes kids in their jammies.

Our family all decked out in new pajamas.

Thing 2, Thing 1, and cousin B (I think that is Thing 1's serious face)

Thing 2 wouldn't sit by the girls

Very cute baby girls.

When we put them down together they looked at each other and put their arms around each other. So cute!