Heading to the Cabin.....

We are going to the cabin today (we hope to get out of town today)....  So we hope everybody has a very wonderful and safe holiday...  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!  

All the FUN things we get to do!!!

It finally snowed here.....  Saturday night we got a little snow then Sunday it snowed pretty much the entire day....  Its still snowing.  The kids have waited for a white christmas and I think we are going to get it.  We went to Mary's for Snowball Soup and let the kids play around in the snow....  Ashton was so excited to just walk around in it.  

Kylee and Kylie

Josh and Ashton -- Ashton loved eating the snow

Are these girls to old to be sitting on Santa's lap????  No Way...  Your never to old to stop believing......  What did Kylee ask for ---  Ipod  ---  phone with texting (in her dreams)

Josh asked Santa for a Scooter and Drum Set

Ashton asked for a skate board (which he has but i guess we could wrap it up again) and a motorcycle.  

He was so excited to see Santa walk in the door.  

Ashton made a Ginger Bread House at preschool on Thursday.  He did a very good job.....

Think his favorite part was licking all the frosting.

We made sugar cookies on Monday for Family night and had lots of fun frosting them  (at least the kids did).......   Everyone was very eager to make the perfect cookie...  We took a plate to Mary's house just so they could go caroling....  They would only sing if we went to Mary's....  They had so much fun and loving giving the plate of goodies away...

Ashton's special cookie

Josh made this one for Grandma......  

The Prefect Tree..... by Josh Lewis

Saturday was the day we went and picked out the perfect tree for our house (Josh pick the first big one he saw).  The kids had so much fun running around and looking at all the trees.  We had to go to Wal-Mart and get some lights and candy canes for the tree.  We didn't have enough lights for our 8 foot tree.....  Think this is the biggest yet........

Kylee Ann

We finally got it all done Sunday afternoon.....  What fun we had!!!

Josh making his pose....

Baby Kylie came alone to help out.  She was a BIG help when it came to picking out our tree...

Here is the group --  Kylie, Kylee, Ashton, Josh and Ariana

Ariana wanted to help us too.  We are so glad to have our family so close.  Our kids love being with each other all the time and think that most of them are happy just playing with family......  Wish for a white Christmas!!!!!! 

December is Here......

Thought I would put some pictures from last year.....  The snow looks like so much fun and we had lots of fun in it.  Josh, Kylee and Ashton have all gotten so big this last year.   We all love this time of year with Thanksgiving and Christmas.  

Josh sledding behind our house

Joshy and Ashton

Kylee and Josh when we went snowmobiling in Priest Lake

Kylee and Grandpa on Snowmobile

Hawaii!!!!

Bob, Ann, Todd, Dena, Brent, Becky, Joel, Michelle, Tony, Mary, Tiff and Ruben......
Ruben and I right before the zip line we went on....(we'll i guess i went. Ruben was over qualitfied) We are in Hawaii...... Just a couple pictures for my kids to see... I'll try and get some of the beach today... Its really HOT and we are having lots of fun.... We miss you kids....

Halloween Pictures

Kylee is a Football Player........  We had a jersey made with her name and number on it....  (In PINK of course).....  She loved it and especially loved decorating her helmet.  She looked like a very Cute Football Player........
Josh dressed up as a Motor-Cross Racer.  He has all the gear in the pictures so it was pretty easy.   He loves riding his dirt bike and is now into making little jumps in our back yard....
"Ashton the Little Pirate".... He didn't care much for the eye patch or the hat but was all about the sword and fighting with people.......   We did some trick or treating before so that the kids could knock on doors and Ashton had so much fun.  There was some really scary houses out there.  Then we went to the church for our annual Halloween Party.  Food, Fun, Games and Candy.  They all had lots of fun.  Last of all we stopped by Roger's (our builder) house for a marshmallow roast.    
Ashton's Preschool Class
Here is the Mighty Pirate!!!

Ruben on the Tractor......

Ashton's most favorite thing to do is ride the tractor.  Ruben had to drive it to a service project on Saturday so Ashton got to ride with him all the way to Taggares Park.....

Cabin Pictures

Last weekend we went to the cabin and had so much fun...  There was 4 families (Stephen and Korbi, Tony and Mary, Jared and Bethany Jenks, Grandma and Grandpa for 1 night and us)  The girls and kids had fun sewing and making stuff while the boys entertained themselves with the  play-station.......  Its so nice to have a place big enough for all of us to go together.  My kids love playing with cousins.  

Taryn, Stephen, Ruben, Carsten, and Eddie

Ashton getting ready for our hike!!  He is wearing his pj's with Kylie's boots.

Korbi, Paisley, Kylee, Mary, Kylie, Beck, Ashton and Josh......

Beck and Ashton with there sticks running down the road....

Josh, Ashton and Beck!!!

Josh, Kylie, Kylee and Ashton

Hot tubing at the CABIN is the kids #1 thing to do.  Its the first thing they do when they get up and last thing before bed.....  We love the HOT TUB!

Beck, Ashton, Korbi, Kylie, Kylee, and Josh.........

Here is Kylee and the sewing machine.  She made a pencil holder for her school bag.  For some reason we didn't get a picture of the finished product but she did a great job.....

Josh and Kylie watch the movie 102 Dalmations.  They had lots of fun playing on those chairs.

Here is Josh sewing up his own little creation.  He loved using that sewing machine.  We had to start setting the timer so they could all have a turn.....

Ashton loves holding Paisley.

Just Having Fun!

Ashton got to peel his first egg all by himself and was very excited about it.  He peeled all 14 eggs by himself.  He made it all the way to the last few before he figured out he could eat them.  Then as you can probably see there is a few with the tops off.  He had so much fun that before he went to bed he got in the fridge to peel another and couldn't understand that those were not "hard boiled eggs".  He did drop it on the floor and sure enough we had egg yoke all over....

Jumping on the tramp is so much fun.  I think my kids would go crazy without this tramp.  

Ellie, Ashton, Josh and Mia

Ok so the week went pretty good

with the boys..... Daniel and Ashton 

took great naps (at the same time)

and Daniel went to bed very good here.  I think all that jumping on the tramp made he tired.  He really like playing outside.  The first thing he did when he woke up is head for the door.  Daniel and Ashton loved playing in the tub.  They were counting how many times they would dump the cup of water over there heads.  We loved having Daniel come  stay with us and have a little understanding what it would be like to have twins......   Lots of WORK!!!!!

Boys.....

Daniel came to stay with us on Wednesday after Stacy got off work.   His mom and dad are going to conference so he gets to stay with us and play of the farm.  He is loving running around outside with no boundaries (except of course the road).  Beck got to come over and play for a couple hours on Thursday.  Josh had all the kids running around the yard, hanging onto a rope while he was leading them.  All my kids and Daniel slept like a rock last night.  It was great!!!!  Today I went outside today to find Ashton and Daniel spraying each other with the hose.   It wasn't pretty.  They were both wet from head to toe and looking at me like "whats the big deal"?  I told them they need to play in the back and NO water.....  So while making there way into the back they decided they would stop by my freezer thats by the back door.  Lets just say they are lucky they are little.   They had cats climbing in and out, dirty hands touching my food and food out on my lawn...  Ashton was pointing the finger to Daniel and Daniel didn't know what to do........  Boys Boys Boys......  Trouble  Trouble Trouble.........