2011 School Pictures :)

I think these kids are soooooo adorable. :)

6th grade

5th grade

1st grade

Preschool

Christmas Wishlist 2011

I always like to keep track of what my kids ask for on their Christmas lists. I find them adorable. Here goes (word for word):

Tyler (age 12)

1. A million bazillion magic cards for sure
2. A million bazillion more of them.
3. An iPad It doesn't have to be as good as yours.
4. A whole bunch of movie tickets like dad has.
5. Something that I can move around the neighborhood with ( bike, dirtbike, hoverboard, air plane,  etc.)

Hailey (age 10)

1) Mermaid Tail (Blue!)
2) American Doll (Julie)
3) bike (blue)(big)
4) Aeropostle shirts
5) Aeropostle pants
6) Aeropostle jewelry (and hair things)
7) Build-a-bear (more than 2)
8) Build-a-bear clothes
9) Build-a-bear accessories
10) shoes (lots of them)
11) brown mascara
12) clear mascara
13) off-white eyeshadow
14) pink blush
15) lipgloss (pink, light, lots, glittery)
16) stuffed animals (lots)
17) Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter cups
18) Hershey chocolate
19) cookie dough
20) hair supplies
21) body scrubber
22) lotion
23) mirror
24) body wash

Emma (age 6)

1) mermaid tale (green)
2) pet turtle
3) lipgloss
4) chapstick
5) blush
6) bubble gun
7) I SPY book
8) princess dress
9) fake jeep
10) stuffed animals
11) American Doll
12) cookie dough

Mason (age 3)

1) Polar Express train
2) small Thomas the Trains.
3) Thomas the Train pillow
4) Buzz Lightyear key

Fall

Pumpkin Patch

I love going on field trips with my kids. It was tough to get on this one but I stayed up until 1am the night before doing my "stuff" so I could spend the day with Emma at the Bluebell Corn Maze. I barely made it to to the school on time right when the busses were leaving. Even though I was just following behind I stopped the bus, climbed on and waved to Emma to make sure she knew I was coming. Her grin made it worthwhile-even though I was that annoying mom searching and stopping all the busses. Totally worth it.

12 year-old boys are the nerdiest dancers.

"Receiver of the Year"

Found crumpled up in a pocket. :)

Hyper after school

"To Mom from Emma Eaton"

"I love you. You mac my gigl."
(Make me giggle.)
With a penny.
:)

Does anybody need to be baptized?

Because this boy has the priesthood...

"Mom! Come'n find me!"

Hailey's element

Hailey had a 4-hour "lock-in" at school with all the 5th graders and teachers until 10pm at night. (And moi, since I like to be in my kids' bizness). This girl is the life of the party. A natural leader and such a happy sunshine-y girl.

1st day it snows=awesome snow hats!

"Butt"

Hat Day @ school. Should be called Ugly Hat Day.

Mason

Mason Monkey is officially potty trained. I even waited a month to publicly declare that just to make sure. The awesome thing is that it literally took 5 hours. Now before I get the mother-of-the-year award I will give my secret process:
1) Wait until 3 so there is complete understanding. None of that age 2 nonsense.
2) Have Dad give a stern lecture. Just a pinch of fear never hurt.
3) Bribe Bribe Bribe. Almost like it's Christmas. Masons love? Thomas the Trains. Lots of them. Like 15. In one day. (Now I wasn't expecting it that fast. Thought I could use a few for Christmas.) After the fantastic bribes keep it up with MnM's and Skittles. Nice....

Oh yea. This is how Mason comes into my room after naptime every single day:

FHE activity

The Hokey Pokey just for Mason. A blurry picture is all I have to remember this dance in our kitchen. :)

Debate

Nathan and I were debating last night. I got an email notification from Facebook that said, "Your anniversary with Nate Eaton is in 5 days." I say, "Why did you put in a wrong anniversary date?" He says, "I didn't, you did." And than we argued about who was at fault.

10 minutes later we realized Facebook was right.

oops.

I promise our anniversary date is important to us. :)