Chuck E Cheese Trauma

So last night some of our good friends called us up wanting to know if we could go to yes, that's right Chuck E Cheese. For those of you who have never experienced this magical (ha ha) place let me give ya the run down. First of all it is way over priced - $25 for a large nasty pizza and four pops, but get this, you get 40 tokens which you can use on rides whoa nelly! It doesn't stop there, after you play on all of the germ infested rides and games they give you like 5 tickets that you can redeem at the counter for a plastic fish or something your child will really cherish:) My friend is way on top of things though and she had gotten some coupons from the internet, and the kids absolutely love it, so we really thought it would be fun for them. After telling Tyler that we would be going to Chuck E Cheese, he was thrilled! You have never seen a more excited child, he was talking about rides, games, tokens, and could not WAIT to get there. When we got there, literally the whole city of Cleveland was at Chuck E Cheese and it was going to be at least an hour wait, so that's right, we had to tell Tyler we weren't going in. The poor child had his coat off and we weren't even in the door yet! He was scoping out all the rides and I cannot tell you the shot of pain I felt after crushing his dreams by telling him we weren't going to get to go in! OUCH! Everything worked out, we went to our friends and had $5 pizza on their living room floor and watched a movie, and it was way better than the germ infested Chuck E Cheese. PS I'm taking Tyler and Halle there for lunch next week to make up for the trauma they experienced last night:)

New First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Thomas S. Monson is the new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Monson, 80, succeeds President Gordon B. Hinckley, who died 27 January 2008.
The new world leader of the Church has called to serve with him in the First Presidency, the top governing body of the 13-million-member faith, President Henry B. Eyring, 74, first counselor, and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, 67, second counselor.
I love these elect men called by our Heavenly Father to lead His church on the earth!! Follow the Prophet, he knows the way:)

I wanna barbeque a fish!

So let me tell ya about my good buddy Tyler. He is such a great kid, anyone who has been around him knows that he makes friends with everyone wherever he goes. Whenever we have a gathering with our friends he is usually the entertainment. I find myself laughing a lot out loud at him and with him, he is such a fun little person... anyways, he is also very deteremined, and once he decides to do something he won't leave it alone. A few months ago he did "jobs" and "earned" a baseball mit and ball for T-ball this summer, and the other day he was saying that he wanted to do more "jobs" to get something cool, so I asked him what he wanted and he said, "I want to earn a fishing pole so that I could fish in Montana." Then I asked him what he was going to do with a fish, and he said, "I wanna barbeque it!" So everyday he does his jobs to get his fishing pole and can't wait to barbeque his fish in Montana:) We can do the fishing pole, but I don't know about getting to MT to barbeque it:)

Christmas birthday girl

I just couldn't neglect our poor Halle any longer...she had her birthday on Christmas and I have still not posted anything about our sweet girl. Halle Kay is our little 2 year old who is such a fun little person to have around. She is constantly going around the house singing her "ABCDEFG's" and I am a child of God in a high pitched voice. She loves pickles so much (just like her dad) and usually just yanks open the fridge with all her strength and shouts "peekle, peekle!" She LOVES to change her shoes/clothes on a regular basis making sure that she has at least 3 shirts on (usually a onesie, followed by a longsleeved shirt, and finishing with a short sleeved shirt on top). For pants it is usually pretty funny, she'll wear whatever pants but then she'll want either a pair of shorts or the little underwear things that she wears under dresses over her pants. She is always wanting to wear her snowboots, slippers, sandals, church shoes...and she wants to change about every five minutes. I only let her have her "options" on days I know we won't be going anywhere. She loves to play with her "chichin"(kitchen) and her babies, she enjoys getting horsey rides from her brother, "helping" with the dishes - or rather splashing water and bubbles everywhere, and she gets giddy everytime she heres Chase come in the door from school. She is so precious to us and we love her so much!

Christmas outfits with the cousins

Well, it has definatly been way too long since I have posted anything, so I thought I should at least do this Christmas pic until I can sift through the 500 pics my dad took during the Christmas break! We had a fabulous time in MT and were able to spend 3 weeks there, I know, that's a long time, it's one of the few perks of still being in school! We got to go to Fairfield where Chase is from and spend some time watching Tate play a few b ball games. He is quite the little player, as all of his brothers were:) The kids were yelling his name and I'm pretty sure they were probably a distraction. Halle kept yelling "Go Tape, Go Tape!" which was pretty funny. Since we have been home she has been wondering where uncle tape is? Janis showed me how to knit little hats with the "knifty knitter" looms, I have made several now for people who have had babies recently and they have been a hit, thanks Janis! The kids got to get gumballs from grandma pearsons gumball machine using pennies, I think we at least spent a dollar on gum:) We went to the community choir christmas concert at the highschool which was really good, Chase has several cousins with amazing voices. Best of all was just spending time with them visiting and catching up, we are so sad that we will miss McKay coming home:(

In Billings the kids strung fruit loops on yarn and made little cinnamon ornaments to hang on the tree. We celebrated Halle's 2nd birthday on Christmas Eve this year, she had a wonderful day and it was fun to be with family (I will do a special post just for her later) We did our famous re enactment of the nativity with costumes, we never fail to get excited about this:) We just did so many things it's hard to post it all, but I promise more pictures are to come, so get excited!

Thanks Grandma!

Thanks mom for such a fun package from Disney land! Tyler knew it was going to come today, and his preschool was cancelled due to a plumbing problem, so he kept checking the door about every 15 min. He kept saying, "I can't wait to see the toy grandma sent me, but if theres no toy, that's okay, maybe it's just candy or somethin!" He was thrilled to dump out all of that styrofoam to find a Transformer!! I wish you could have seen how excited he was, and to top it off there were mickey mouse ears for both of them with their names on them, the mickey mouse lollipops, and sweet bennion orthodontic backpacks with chapstick and floss!! Halle was down for a nap supposedly when we got the package, but woke up when she heard the commotion and started yelling "my suc!" (translation- my succer) from her crib:) She freaked out when she saw her disney princess phone:) She walked around with that the rest of the night talking to the princesses! I think you can see how thrilled they were in the picture with their loot! Thanks so much you guys are the best, I think they feel like they've actually been to disney land!!!

Life is good

Our Thanksgiving break has been awesome! Chase has had the entire week off from school! He had his finals the week before the break, and then will go back for two more weeks after the break to do work on kids in elementary schools (just doing sealants on them, nothing too intense), so he has been stress and study free, hooray! Chase has been so great to me and the kids, he has done so many extra things this week to make it fun. As you can see from the picture, dad has given the kids popcorn and hot chocolate about every other night this week, they have so loved this, being a dad can be so much fun, because afterwards the mean mom has to make sure they clean up the million pieces of popcorn all over the place:) Chase watched the kids while I did christmas cards with a friend one afternoon, and did the famous after thanksgiving day sales another. Both times I came home to a sparkling clean house, I so so so love that so so much:) He took the kids to the park and to the mall to get chicken nuggets, again why wouldn't dad be the fav? We went to the childrens museum, which we go to every Mon., but the kids loved showing dad all of the fun things to do there. We have had time to just hang out together and be a family, hooray for the best husband ever!