Zoolights 2009

Christmas Craziness

Here's a sample of our Christmas..

Christmas Eve, Presents and wrestling at the Twiddy's

Christmas Day:

Presents, Dinner and the first annual Smith Family Nativity.

What you didn't see: Cooper choke holding baby Jesus.
What you don't hear: " I'm the Man!" -Logan

and more wrestling.

LJ's Real Birthday Party

As you can probably imagine LJ's birthday was crazy. We combined his birthday with the Twiddy family Christmas Eve presents.

It was chaotic, but we had fun. Who else do you know celebrates this way.

And yes that is a Monster Truck icecream cake...yummy!Logan sporting his worker man birthday present the next morning.

Lowe's Class Video

Here's just a sample of what they did at their Lowe's Classes.

Pictures with Santa....take 3

The boys with Santa AGAIN! This time Santa arrived at our Ward Christmas Breakfast.

Pictures with Santa....take 2

Logan kept asking to see Santa Claus so one day I decided to take him to the mall. He was so excited to see him, and waited patiently in line for 30 min., as Santa was away feeding the reindeer.

He was doing great until he tripped and and bonked his head right as it was his turn.

So here is he crying, not because he was scared, but because he tripped. This is his brave face.
P.S. You know I'm going to take as many pictures as I can with my kids with Santa, as I've had to wait 5 years for this!

Cupcake time!

Happy 3rd Birthday Month!

Logan's birthday is always going to be challenge to celebrate. So I decided to spread it out across the month. Everytime we had friends over or saw our friends (even at Wendy's!) we had cupcakes.

A few days after we set up Grama Nina's tree, I asked Logan what he wanted for his birthday. He told me, " I want a tree, with a star on top, and I want Santa to bring me presents."
Wish granted! He kept his birthday presents under the tree until his actual birthday.

Cookie Time!

I got ambitious this year and made cookie plates. The boys loved helping out!

Pictures with Santa..take 1

Tonight we went to the Green River Ward Christmas Dinner. If I had known that my boys were going to get good pictures with Santa I would have dressed them better.

This was the first year EVER that they wanted to sit on his lap! FINALLY!

Hammer Time!

Grama Nina started taking the boys to the Build and Grow classes at Lowe's Hardware store.

Cooper was able to see his buddy, Kyle from pre-school.

Decorating the Tree at Grama's house!

Every year Grama Nina let's us help her put up her tree. And for the second year in a row her train around the tree is a big hit with the kids.

Decorating the tree is always second to playing with the train,

But the boys love to help their Grama Nina.

Logan Claus

This is the same outfit that Cooper wore to the hospital to visit Logan for the first time.
Time flies.....