New Years Eve

New Years Eve we spent playing some games together and letting the kids drink some root beer and be crazy to end 2018 off right!

The first card Emmett drew for this "Heads Up" game was just perfect for him. He didn't know that his card said "nut" on it and yet he made this face for his picture! haha Just perfect!

This game turned out to be really fun with all the boys. Emmett would get super excited when he would ask a question (that we told him to ask) and he told him yes. Ethan and Wyatt had fun and did a good job trying to guess theirs. We had fun playing it together and I think this is now Emmett's new favorite game.

I guess this is what happens when we give our boys root beer!!

lol!!! I love how goofy our boys are!!

We also spent some good time being unbelievably loud in our house. We were given some noise makers, which all of the boys including Brandon, figured it would be more fun to blow them as loud as humanly possible. 

Then around 8 it was time to bang some pots and pans. We don't let the kids stay up late yet. They won't sleep in and then they will be grumpy. So for now between 7 and 8 is Happy New Year in our house! haha I told the boys before handing them their spoons and pans not to try and kill my spoons. They could run around and scream "HAPPY NEW YEAR" and hit their bowls or pots or pans or whatever they had. I just didn't want them to try and kill my spoons. I didn't want another spoon casualty like last year! 

Well they had fun and then at the very end Ethan tried to kill his spoon and pot and broke my spoon again!!! Second year in a row that he has broken one of my mixing spoons because he is trying to hit it as hard as he can. Thankfully Brandon gave him one of our spoon we don't really care about so it wasn't as big of a deal except for the fact that I told him not to. So he was in trouble for a minute! They sure do love doing this though. I even opened the front door and let them stand out in the cold for a second to scream "Happy New Year!" haha It was super cold though so they just stood in the doorway and screamed it and then ran around the kitchen some more. 

Then it was time to say goodnight to 2018! I sure do love my sweet family!! 2018 has been a crazy one but, good one with lots of good memories! We can't wait for what 2019 brings! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 

Family Time during Christmas Break

Brandon had the week of Christmas off so we had lots of fun together as a family. We went and saw the new "Marry Poppins" movie, played at the Fort Fun arcade, played lots of games, relaxed and went out to eat using more gift cards we had gotten for Christmas. It was a good Christmas break!

Emmett poor face!! Nice black eye little man!! 

Emmett loved holding our baby Jesus! He was so cute with the little doll. I think he is going to be cute with his baby brother when he arrives.

Wyatt wrote me a note. haha

Marry Poppins returns was a cute movie and the kids liked it. Emmett is still not the greatest in movies but he did pretty good. The problem was that we went to a cheaper theatre because their were not seats available at the nice theatre. The seats are so much closer to each other in regular theaters so it was hard keeping Emmett from hitting the chairs in front of him. That was probably the hardest part of it.

The kids love playing at the arcade and lets face it so do Brandon and I. :-)

Kind of getting better!

So there is this place near Old Town Fort Collins that has a bunch of different places to eat. It has a pizza place, taco place, donut and ice cream place. Since we got gift cards to a couple of the places there we figured it would be fun to check it out.

It was fun but, it was cold! haha I could see it being a really fun place to go in the summer. The pizza was ok and the tacos were just ok as well. So I don't know that I would really care to go to eat the food. There was a chicken place that we didn't try out yet so we will have to try that out when it gets warmer. The funnest part of it was the cool fire place and just spending the afternoon together being goofy! Emmett really wanted donuts because he couldn't have the ice cream since his brothers used the ice cream cards up. Then once he got the donuts he said he didn't like them. What a weirdo! haha Christmas break was over all good! I was ready for them to go back to school by the end but we enjoyed it while it lasted!

Christmas Day 2018

Christmas morning started early! The boys came in super excited that Santa had come. Ethan was the first one to come in our room and say that Santa had come. He was also super excited because Santa had wrote his back with how many cookies he eats Christmas Eve. So Brandon and I got up and dressed and headed downstairs. The kids were so happy and excited and they were ready to dive into their stockings. Which Ethan agrees is the best part of Christmas morning. That was always my favorite part.

Baby Jesus also arrived in his manger! The kids love seeing the baby Jesus in his manger that they worked so hard to fill by doing service and nice things for others. He is always right in front of the tree on Christmas morning.

After looking at all the presents under the tree the kids were ready to open up their stockings! 

They got so many cool things! Emmett of course couldn't wait to dig into his candy and bubble gum that he had gotten in his stocking.

Good morning my love!😍

Then after the kids opened their stockings Daddy got to open his from me. I got him some pants and a new body spray.

He got some socks too!

Santa gave all of us some matching socks!! Since I am the only girl in this family I am the only one that gets different ones! haha We all loved our fuzzy socks!! The boys especially thought they were fun after Dad showed them that they could slide on the hardwood floor really well. haha

Look at that tree full of presents! 

After stockings it was time to open up the present that Santa brought them.

Emmett was super excited to open his. He got a new train set! He didn't really tell Santa what he wanted this year so Santa just did his best. He liked his train set but he wasn't super excited about it. He was more excited about just opening the presents. 

Wyatt on the other hand....

Got a vivofit watch and was so stoked!! I loved his reaction!

He was so happy Santa had gotten him one of these watches. He had been wanting one for a long time. 

Ethan was also super excited about what he got from Santa.. 

This was his excited face when he saw he got a.. BOX! haha Kind of the thing we always say in our house. When we open up a present and its in a box we say, "YAY!! Its a box!!"haha So he put on a good show when he saw a box. haha 

However, that turned to true happiness when he saw what Santa had brought him.

He got these cool magnetic ball things. They are super strong magnets and he was so happy. Christmas could have been done after that! haha

Look at these cuties!!!! These faces always make Christmas even better!

Wyatt made me this snowman at school. He was so excited to give it to me! He kept telling me to be super careful when I opened it because it was very fragile! So I made sure I was careful. He was super proud of his work on his gift for me. I just love how excited he was to give me his gift he had worked so hard on!! 

He also made his Dad this snowman! He was also very excited to give Dad his present from him. He worked so hard on both of them. 

Cleaning up their stocking stuff so they had room to sit. haha

Annual Christmas cereal breakfast! 

Then it was time to open the rest of the presents. After breakfast the kids were able to give each other their presents that they had gotten for each other. I know they don't use their money to buy their brothers gifts yet but I love how excited they are to give to their brothers. It is such a sweet thing to not just see them excited about getting presents but how excited they are to give presents. I love it! So I have to get a few pictures of them hugging each other! haha

Brotherly love!

We also noticed that Santa ate all his cookies and drank his milk at our house.

I just love all the hugs!!! Christmas morning was a good one this year! The kids loved getting their presents and loved giving presents they had gotten for each other. It was a good morning. 

The rest of the day wasn't as smooth. Ethan kept grabbing his brothers stuff and then would get all mad when they would touch his stuff. It was mostly Ethan and Emmett (our blue eyes) that fought a lot that day. It was getting very tiresome. There were a few breakdowns and lots of arguing the rest of that day. Thankfully the morning went well or we may have canceled Christmas at the last minute! haha

The boys got this from Grandpa and GG. They thought there were 2 of them but there was only 1. So we blew it up and then Wyatt had fun just bouncing off the walls in the kitchen. haha 

Then the kids wanted to go play some laser tag in the basement.

We had to go in the basement and turn off the lights in order to play laser tag. It was fun running around the basement with the kids. We took turns with who was on whose team and played a few times.

After dinner the kids and Dad ran around some more playing a little bit more laser tag before calling it a night. Overall it was a good Christmas! The morning was great and although we had to deal with kids fighting over not touching their stuff and other things it went pretty well. See you next year Christmas!