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.....

Gobble Gobble.....Happy Thanksgiving!

Good Time...Good Food...Good Company

Landen helping Grama with the whipped cream for the pies.

Cooper helping serving the pie...hurry up already!

Zada and Grampa Jim chillin'...

Reece focusing really hard on her dessert..

Two very differant Artists

Two versions of Turkeys:

Logan's

Cooper's

Two version of abstract Random:

Logan (4 combined pieces)

Cooper's Rorschach Test

Lunch date with Grama Pam and most of her Grandoodles.

Here's the crew at Red Robin with Grama Pam.

We were all doing our best to get Camyrn to smile.

Lexie was doing great job at getting her to laugh, and I caught this cute one.

We had a great time, Thanks Grama.

Happy Halloween!

Once again Halloween is upon us and the boys get all decked out in all their glory for the pursuit of the sugar rush.

Logan as Scooby Doo.

Cooper as Buzz Lightyear.
Usually we don't trick or treat in our neighborhood, but once outside
they both made a mad dash for their doors. Thankfully they were prepared.

We usually begin our evening with a short ride to Aunt Garnetts house.

Logan didn't make it.

So Cooper did all the work for him.

45 minutes later we were at Grama & Grampa Twiddy's house.

Logan was still asleep.

Our final stop was Grama & Grampa Smith's house. Logan had woken up just in time to eat dinner. Cooper was done trick or treating, and wanted to take his costume off. So I did so. 5 minutes later once the kids started coming to the door, he realized he wanted it back on. Took 5 minutes to get back into it. Time to go out and get some candy.

We met up with our friend Tyler, and we went around the neighborhood. This year was so much fun. It wasn't cold, it wasn't raining, and the boys are old enough that I didn't have to carry anyone 1/2 way around the block!

I was amazed by all the cuteness tonight.

Boo Boo's broken....

Logan's pacifier is gone. He had only been using it at night for the past year, but it was creeping back into the daytime for a couple of days. I realized it's better to just get rid of it on his terms.
So I cut off the nipple part of the "Boo Boo", as he calls it, and gave it to him at bedtime tonight. He looked at it, looked at me, and said.."boo boo broken..." with a sad face. I asked him if he wanted to keep it or throw it away. He got up from bed and threw it away in the trash, came back to bed and this is what happened next...

Playing at JoJo's

We've been spending alot time at Jocelyn's house lately.

It's fun to play with cousins.

Patching and Carving

Logan and I went to the pumpkin patch again. This time to get our pumpkin. It worked out great since, I only had one kid, it took less than 10 mins. and it was between down pours. Logan took this very seriously, he wanted to get the right one for the family.He even wanted to do all the work pulling the cart, but he needed a little help.Finally he found the right pumpkin.

We took it home, cleaned off the mud, and waited for Family Night to do the rest.

Logan and I gutted the pumpkin while Cooper watched.
He wanted nothing to do with it.

He was however very interested in helping dad with the carving.

All Done.

Happy Halloween everyone!