CHRISTMAS 2010

Well Christmas came early for us in our family, and we had a blast.


Farmor (Grandma in Sweden) starting us out with bows on the head

Charm for Farmor's braclet

Farfar (Grandpa in Sweden) picked the perfect gift for Farmor

Alexander is at the perfect age where he loved all his gifts even more pj's

Santa got some great deals on Black Friday!!!!

Farmor made the family matching vests for the boys and scarf for me, wait for the family picture post coming in the near future. Thanks Farmor they were lovely.

polarized glasses...I fell in love with Zac's pair...they really do make a difference.

Farmor and Farfar gave a great gift that will keep on giving for years to come and bring more Daddy son time.

Golf Clubs for a left hander like Alexander

Watch out Tiger Woods...

Our matching gift from Montana

Zac teases me about being a George lover...but the truth is I just find him more interesting after starting my new job....what can I say...

Zac's new game Tron for our new Wii....

our silly boy...

I really wanted a high tech crock pot...and thanks to Farmor and Farfar I got one. Another favorite gift and the big surprise was a new "nice" camera. Zac surprised me and I, of course, cried with happiness. Zac doesn't realize that you are suppose to take pictures of the big surprises...but next year...he will remember. :)

Zac's surprise gift made him cry too, his parents bought him a new fly fishing rod. He was soooo HAPPY!!!

The after effects...

It's tradition...you have to take the before and after photos of Christmas.

Santa left a new bike for our little guy, he is just growning up so fast!

Here is Alexander's sticker chart. He had to get 100 stickers for good deeds/behavior then he would get a new video game. What Alexander didn't know is that his new game would have to go along with a new Wii...(family gift thanks to my parents Christmas money...thank you!)

showing off his new games.

Trying out the new bike

Father and son ready for Christmas breakfast.

Just telling stories...

Santa found us...

Christmas Eve 2010

Starting our Christmas Eve dinner with Swedish candles, mardinelli's, and ham...you can't go wrong with that.

Alexander with FarFar (Gary)


Zac and FarMor (Kerstin)


Ready to eat...

Alexander wanted to take a photo too!

Getting ready to open up our Christmas Eve presents

A snuggle with Farfar

Yearly ornament

It was a Santa but he thought it looked more like an elf.

Christmas pajamas coming up

Farmor always finds the fun ones, and they are so comfortable

Here we are...

We got the tops

McCormick Park Lights for FHE

We have a few train parks in the area but this one is cheap and has Christmas lights. For Family Home Evening the Adam's and Lorenzen's took off to have a fun evening.

Late post of Amber's Birthday

Here is Amber with her German Chocolate cake, by request...


Here is the cake that soon after fell to the counter

Amber trying to save the cake...

Still trying to save the cake...

And...the cake was saved for the most part.

Me with the Birthday girl...she is beautiful!!!!

sisters....I'm so happy to have her so close to us. Amber has really helped us when we needed it...and That has been a great blessing to us.

my hubby...so cute

Birthday girl...twin sister Ashlee is missing...

Repenting

Okay so last Sunday I had a very productive morning with lots of bursting energy and I ran around the house getting all kinds of things done. One of those things to get done was make cookies that I would take to those I visit teach. Accept every time I came back into the kitchen more dough would be eaten and cookies would disappear. I yelled at my two boys to stay away from the cookies...I had just enough to get everyone taken care of.
Fast forward to church...
We are sitting there and they are passing the Sacrament, and Alexander keeps talking. So I remind him several times to be quite. Finally I whisper, "Alexander it's time to think of Jesus and what he did for us. During this time you can say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father to forgive us for our sins". Alexander looks at me and immediately folds his arms and says, "I am going to say a prayer right now because I took a cookie and hid it when no one was looking I ate it".

Well...at least he listened....right?!? :)