Have a Very Scary Christmas?!

When we pulled out the Christmas decorations a few weeks ago Cody made a new friend, but Neil was terrified of our Nutcracker! Maybe because it's bigger than he is!

I should probably have been a good mom and been sympathetic, but it was too funny, so I teased him a bit with it, okay and chased him a little too! If our kids don't get screwed up it will be a miracle!

He was fine with it, even amused from a distance, but when it got closer his mood changed so quickly!

Why I Can't Shower...

At least before the boys have finished eating breakfast. I thought that they'd be so occupied with eating that I could slip away for a quick shower, but apparently not:

Neil takes after his mom, we've gotta have our cold cereal!

Wyoming...

Should be the windy state! We went there this last weekend to visit Nate's brother Chris and his wife Brittany, there 2 dogs and 2 cats. Nate and Chris went fishing and had good success!

While the rest of us, minus the pets, went shopping, without success. Apparently there is not enough toddlers in Rollins to have a need for the 2 stores in town to carry any undershirts. So Neil got to wear one of Cody's for a couple days, it only hung out 3 inches past his shirt, which came in handy for wiping his nose!

We had fun playing guitar hero world tour, keeping the boys and the cats from destroying each other, relaxing watching movies, and eating at Sanford's, watching Neil demolish his spaghetti!

He ate that whole bowl of spaghetti, plus some of his breadstick, a side of applesauce and some ice cream! Good times, good times!

Halloween

The boys were very fitting wild animals for Halloween, and Nate documentd the process of painting Cody's face as a tiger. Neil's face job was so fast and furious that it could not be documented. It was done with my eyeliner in the blink of an eye, so all you get is the finished product at Grandma and Grandpas house!

Here's some of the clips from Cody's transformation:

Neil thought Cody's face was funny!

Here's the cheetah and tiger with Grandpa Tanner. The tiger's face was already starting to peel off!

Trick or Treat!

Vegas Baby!

The week before Halloween we went on a quick 2 night trip with our friends, Nate and Malia Bond, to Las Vegas. They had the trip planned and pretty much let us tag along, but we had so much fun!

We almost didn't make it though, the van we were in, (Bond's Mom's van) broke down just past Arizona and we were stranded on the side of the freeway in the middle of the desert! Luckily we got a tow truck and a rental car and continued on our way! We had alot of fun doing Wii Fit competions, played in the pools, had an amazing buffet, and one far less than amazing buffet.

We also played around at the M&M factory. It was so fun and very warm, and we only lost $3 on the slots between Nate T, Malia and me!

Few Fun things in October...

We went with my family on a tracter-pulled hay ride to a pumpkin patch where all the kids got to pick a pumpkin, This was out in west Layton at J & J's. It was alot of fun, untill I tried carying Cody's giant green/very heavy pumpkin and I dropped it, on his head! :( It cracked it, the pumpkin that is, but we still took it home!

They were so fascinated with all the different pumpkins!

Earlier in the month we had fun with the boys at the Ogden Dinosaur Park! They weren't scared at all by the creatures, even the moving ones!

Cody, look out behind you!!!

Nate Posts (hope you dont mind Catherine)

Hey Catherine and Friends,

Hope you dont mind me posting here. I have tried blogging and have never managed to get past a few posts. Catherine is keeping up a good thing here so rather then trying to keep up a blog of my own maybe I can tag along and post a few here or there.

Im sitting in a hotel in Atlanta on a business conference. Im wishing I were home with the family eating breakfast for dinner. Being away makes you appreciate what you have. Man I love my family! Anyway I was bored and as I was looking at Catherines posts I wanted to comment on what was going on. I thought I might as well just make this a family blog :)

Here is a picture from the flight to Atlanta. Its amazing to be in the air looking down at how small and insignificant everything seems.

Here is an addendum to things Cody doesnt like to eat. His DINNER and surprising as it seems... Cotton Candy?

Cody and the Praying Mantis...

Nate got some good pictures of Cody making a new friend... untill it jumped on his head!

Camped Out!

In August we went camping as a family 3 weekends in a row, 4 for me because of girls camp, and I think I am done camping for the year! The first camping trip was to Bear Lake for a weekend of fun on the beach, but it was a little cooler than we'd expected, luckily we were prepared!

It was a lot of fun, and the next weekend was the elders quorum camp out at Perception Point. We had fun playing volleyball with everyone, and making super messy smores. Not so much fun listening to our boys cry half the night.

The next weekend was our annual Labor Day camp out with my family in the Uintahs. We went to my parents' stakes property at Lake Lyman. We got to do some canoeing, hiking, fishing, napping, playing with cousins, chasing squirrels, and a lot of chasing the boys around and wiping the dirt off them!

This is the picture Nate got of the squirrel that was protesting our camping by chucking pine cones at us the whole time we were there. Mostly at my Dad's truck, which was really loud when they hit! You can see the pine cone it just released during one of it's assaults!

We hiked and Neil napped, shots of the fishermen, Uncle Daniel in the hammock with Cody, Neil chasing Bradley, and the view in the evening of Lake Lyman!

Snowbird 2008

We went to Snowbird in July with my family and had a lot of fun! We swam alot, went on the Alpine Slide, the ski lift, and the tram! I also climbed the wall outside the Cliff Lodge, a 20 story building, and made it to the top in just over 9 minutes! That's good for me, last time I climbed that wall it took me almost 30 minutes! It takes my little brother Daniel between 3-4 minutes. My arms were so sore for the next few days! This is me going up the wall and Daniel repelling back down. Yeah, it's a big wall!

Here's Cody having fun in the pool getting tossed around, and Neil and Grandma Watt having fun at the playground, Grandma getting tossed around!

This is Cody and me going to the top of the alpine slide, and coming back down. Luckily there's no pictures of us waiting in the line at the top for an hour! Also brother-in-law Andrew Butcher riding to the top with his daughter Abbi, my sister Angie, her husband Bruce, and son Bradley Floyd, my other sister Kim Butcher with Jaron Floyd, and bringing up the rear, Karlee Floyd, all riding down. Karlee doesn't look like she's having much fun!

Cody went again another day with Nate, my Mom and Dad, definately all enjoying the ride! What was wrong with Karlee's ride?

This is the group in our annual pose outside the condo on the way out, saying goodbye to Snowbird and each other.

Neil needs a haircut.