Lots of Christmas & New Year Photos

We had a great Christmas! Thank you to everyone for the very nice gifts. We spent the day relaxing at home, eating & playing with our new things.

Erik's dance to one of the sounds the Catapillar makes. Erik loves Football. He can't stop talking about it or trying to figure out how to come up with a team and equipment. Here is one of his homemade football helmets and outfits.

Cameron loves to eat! He loves food and he loves his sippy cup!

Cameron's new skills include clapping, making all sorts of "boy" noises (which includes growling, brooooooommmm noises and a gasping sound that makes me think he can't breathe but it's just play to him), waving & playing peek-a-boo. He even likes to sit in the car shopping cart at the grocery store and pretend that he is driving. That had Erik & I both laughing & many grandparents stopping to say hi.

Erik and Daddy built a sledding run-way. This is the starting ramp.

Cameron is sitting up now and. . .

has learned the finer points of "falling" over.

The only thing that makes Cameron more happy than sitting up is standing. (Well other than being packed around.)

Our little Indian brave. He likes to target practice in the garage.

Erik's homemade merit badges. Major icicles are the neat thing this winter. We have plenty of icicles but this is a large portion of a broken one that Dad & Erik played with. It was INCHES thick.

Jeff & Sloane, Spencer's sister, had taken their family to the Festival of Lights and Sloane highly recommended it. We went! Loved it Sloane. Thank you! Erik still mentions it and wishes it would come again soon. We so enjoyed it. Here's just 2 of the many pictures we took.

Daddy wanted to make Eclairs & so he did; even though he was giving Mommy a break from Cameron! Cameron was very happy about this decision, especially since Daddy didn't notice Cameron was getting his first bites of homemade chocolate pudding and LOVING IT!!!!!!!! The picture doesn't even show all the chocolate he had on his hands, face & the snuggly.

Erik likes to put hats (among other things like blankets, sun glasses etc.) on Cameron.

The one and only time Cameron might be caught asleep.

We have had a wonderful holiday season! We feel so blessed to be living where we live and enjoying the experiences that we are having. We wish you all the best the new year has to offer! We love you all & think of you way more than we let you know. May God's blessings be abundant in your life and you feel & recognize his presence.

Part II -- It Ain't a Joke, but it's funny

Erik was playing Backyardigan Super Secret Super Spy yesterday. He hasn't said a word about his bow tie, but I noticed that he made his own.

That got me to thinking that I should take him and get a new bow tie, if he wanted one. I figured that since this is a 5-day weekend for him that on Friday (tomorrow) I would make a trip to Provo/Orem and one of the errands could be to get a bow tie.

So guess what happened this morning!? He pulls out his Thomas the Train sets and starts playing trains. All of a sudden he gasps & says "MOM! Look it's my bow tie!"

Sure enough. He's pulling his red bow tie out of the trains and holding it up in the air. "I found it! It didn't go down the toilet!" I had to laugh, but then asked so Erik why did you think it did go down the toilet. "Well when I couldn't find it anywhere I just guessed that it fell off & I didn't see it in the toilet."

I still don't know how this boy thinks. :) !?