January 2013 Reagan is a Daisy Scout

Reagan started girl scout in October 2012. She LOVES it! She is a daisy scout.

 Here is one of her first activities

 This is from her girls "Under the Sea Dance"

 This is from the International Fair

January 2013 Ward Service Project at Reagan's school

 Brock was in charge of the service project for our ward so he set it up to clean up Reagan's school.

January 2013 Pajama Day at Preschool

Today Easton also got to celebrate his birthday at school.

 Happy Birthday Bubba!!

January and February 2013 School Skate Parties

 Reagan and Luke LOVE to go to the school skate parties. Luckily my sweet friend Steph who isn't pregnant like me can take the kids to get their skate on. 

January 2013 My sweet, sweet boy

 Easton came running into me with this special picture he drew for me

"Hey Mommy, I look like Daddy!" 

January 2013 Reagan's surprised us with a special tea party

January 2013 Easton is finally a Sunbeam

Easton and his new class. He is so excited to finally be in primary with all the big kids.

January 2013 Home Depot Craft Day

Our new bird houses 

The kids looked every day for a week to see if they could catch some birds eating the seeds. I was so bummed for them that not one bird came. 

January 2013 Duncans Visit

 Zoe and Jude, our good buddies came to visit

New Years Eve December 31st 2012

We started the night with Reagan's princess jewelry game and they just love seeing their dad with all the jewelry on and making fun of him while he tells them they better not tell his friends that he's wearing all this jewelry and they squeal with delight bc they tell him that they ARE going to tell all his friend.

To be honest, New Years is usually pretty much looked over in our house. It's me just wishing I can hurry up and get in bed. But we do like to play a few games with the kids and one that has become a tradition in our house, stemming from Brock's childhood is the penny in the flour game. The kids think it is the greatest game ever and I just cringe as I see the flour fly all over the kitchen and think of the mess I'm gonna have to clean up off the floor when they are done. I'm so Debby Downer, I know, but I'll glady do it just to see the joy it brings to my little sweet potatoes!!

Daddy is taking all the kids up to bed on his back.....this is so gonna end with someone dying on the stairs.

December 2012 Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

 Waiting for Santa Christmas Eve at Grandma's house

Easton waiting to see what Grandma and Santa have brought him.

Yea! A pillow, pillow up it! I don't know what it is about those infomercials but my kids LOVE all those crazy things they sell.

 Easton loving the new gifts Santa and grandma brought him

 Uncle Bruce and Hunter modeling the shirts that grandma got all the girls

 Reagan and her cousins playing with the new gifts Santa brought them.

Time to go put out our Reindeer food to attract Santa ans his Reindeer

Leaving a note and cookies out for Santa with our cousins who stayed at grandma's house with us

Christmas morning...Santa ate his cookies and left us a letter

Santa left Reagan a Barbie house and Eastona new Thomas the Train Track  

Reagan reading the note Santa left

 All the kids lining us to come out and see what Santa left them

 Reagan was so excited to get the boots she asked Santa for.

 Christmas "Blink-n-duffy" breakfast with all the family

 Showing the cousins their new toys

 Christmas dinner at Johnny D's

 The traditional competitive white elephant gift game we look forward to every year!

 For Christmas this year I gave Brock tickets to the BYU bowl game in San Diego. I also had a few of my girlfriends give their husbands the same gift so the boys could all go together. Surprise!

 Brock and I took a trip to Vegas right after Christmas and the kids stayed with grandma. A last "hurrah" before the twins come. Here I am with one of my best college buds, Roach who lives there. Below we are at a private Billy Joel concert she gave us tickets to. We met The Blads, Kochs, and Ohlson's there too and had a great weekend. The original plan was to got to The Killer's concert but since I was due next month with the twins and it was a standing only concert I didn't think my belly or swollen feet could handle the mosh pits. Since being pregnant, my new bed time has been about 8:30. When all our friends got back from the concert at 3am I knew I made the right decision. 

 When we got home the next day Reagan and Easton were surprised to see that Santa left them a special gift at home!!