Tean's Second Lost Tooth

A couple days after Christmas, we went down to Utah for my family's Christmas party.  We stayed at Milisa and Lance's house while we were there.  One night, Tean was playing with Brody and Lance and all of a sudden he yelled out that his tooth came out.  His second front tooth had been loose for a long time and he was afraid to just yank it out.  It finally came out!

He wanted to wait until we got back home to set it out for the tooth fairy because he wasn't sure if the tooth fairy would find his tooth at his cousin's house.  

Grandma and Grandpa's on Christmas Day

After we opened our presents and talked with my parents, we headed up to Jake's parent's house to spend Christmas with them.  We took up our present that we got his parents, a "Bug Assault."  It was a gun that shoots salt at flies and kills them.  It was pretty cool.  Everyone loved using it to kill all the flies that were around the house.

 Ziah had a fun time playing with his new toy from Grandma with his cousin Alaina.

 He thought it was silly to put half of the ball on his face.

 Tean loved shooting the gun that we got for Grandma and Grandpa.

 Ziah loves to play with shoes.  He is always trying to put on daddy's shoes.  He found some boots up at Grandma's house and convinced Alaina to help him wear them.  He thought it was great.

We had fun on Christmas Day hanging out with family, having a wonderful Christmas dinner, and playing games with each other.

Christmas Morning

On Christmas Morning, Tean woke up around 8:15 and came into our room so excited because Santa had eaten all of the cookies and milk that he put out the night before.  We had to wake up Ziah, then we went to see what Santa brought and open up presenents.

 Tean was excited to go see what Santa brought him

 Tean had asked Santa for a remote control truck, and was excited when he saw that he got one.

 Ziah was super excited about his push jeep that he got.

 Tean had to look through his stocking to see what Santa put in there.

 Ziah was just happy playing with his jeep.

 Jake's business associate from China sent Tean this cool bike for Christmas.

 Tean couldn't wait to open up the rest of his presents under the tree.

 Ziah still just wanted to play with his jeep.

 We finally got him to open at least one present.

 It was a while before Ziah was interested in opening his presents from under the tree.

 Tean was excited to start playing with his presents.  Daddy was awesome and put together cooties for him and play it with him.

After playing Cooties, Tean wanted to try out his new bike outside.

He had a great time riding it around, even though there was snow.

Ziah had fun riding his new jeep around, too.

We had a great Christmas and loved being together as a family to celebrate Christ's Birth.

Best Bowling

A couple weeks before Christmas, we decided to go bowling as a family.  On our second game, Jake did AWESOME bowling.  He got his second best bowling game ever.  The game before he also got a turkey, so  that was two turkeys in one night!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we went up to Jake's brother's house in Idaho Falls to celebrate.  We first had our dinner of food that Mary and Joseph would have eaten.  We had fish, rice, flat bread, hummus, olives, nuts, fruit and lamb.  It was really good.  I really like it because it helps me to think about the time when Jesus was born.  

After dinner, we did the Nativity.  Tean wanted to be a shepherd this year.

He was a shepherd with his cousin Ben.

 We tried to get Ziah to be King Herod, but he didn't want to keep the crown on his head for very long.

 Before doing the Nativity we had to get a picture of everyone in their costumes.

 Jake was the donkey again this year.

 Tean had fun being the shepherd and listening to the angels tell about the birth of baby Jesus.

 Ziah wanted in on the action of worshiping baby Jesus.

 Ziah ended up playing Jesus as an infant when the wisemen came to see baby Jesus.

 We had a great time acting out the Nativity.  I love the Christmas season when we can remember Jesus, His birth, and everything the He did for us.

After acting out the Nativity, everyone got to choose one Christmas song to sing.  Ziah just wanted to play with the tree and the presents during the singing.  I love the spirit that the singing brings.

 After singing, Tean and Ziah opened one present.

Ziah thought it was funnier to bang his head with his present instead of opening it.

 Of course, they were pajamas.

We had a great time celebrating with family the birth of our Savior.  I love everything about Christmas and am so thankful for all the blessings we have had this year in our family.  I know the Lord has truly blessed us.

Ziah

Ziah loves to carry stuff in his mouth.

 I think he looks so funny when he does it.

He thinks it's funny too, and will get a big smile on his face or start laughing when he does it.

Decorating Gingerbread Houses

We decided to decorate gingerbread houses on the Monday before Christmas.  Tean was really excited to do it, I think mostly because he got to eat lots of candy.

 Ziah also liked licking off the frosting from the graham crackers that I gave him and eating the candy.

 Jake helped Tean put the house together.

 After Jake helped Tean put up the sides of the house, Tean decorated the house with candy.  He had lots of fun putting different candy on it, but he had to make sure that it was the kind of candy that he liked.

 I thought Tean was done decorating his house, so we took a picture, but then he decided there was more that needed to be added to his house.

 While Tean was decorating a house, I decided to do one too.

 Tean, and his final product.  I think he did a great job!

After decorating the houses, we drove around Pocatello and looked at the Christmas lights.  We saw some houses with some pretty cool lights.  One house we went to was giving out hot chocolate, another house had it's lights blinking to songs on a certain radio station.  We had a great FHE celebrating the Christmas season.

Grinch Night

Last Christmas, we did a Grinch Night, so I wanted to try and make that a tradition each year.  We had our "roast beast" which was Costco chicken, "who hash" (hashbrowns), who pudding, and green peas.  Our "Grinch" cut the roast beast.

 After eating our Grinch dinner, we watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

We had a great time with our Grinch Night!

Preschool Field Trip at Deleta

One day while we were at Costco, we saw Santa!  Tean was excited to have his picture taken with him, and so was Ziah as long as he didn't have to be held by Santa.

 One day for Preschool, we went on a field trip to Deleta Skating with the rest of his class.  We were lucky to go on a day when Santa was there too.  Tean was excited to be able to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas.

 Ziah was not so excited.

 I put roller skates on Tean, got my skates on and then when we skated over to the rink, he told me he didn't want to skate.  I made him go around once on his skates because it took a while to get the skates on, and then we took them off.

 We had brought his bike and he had lots of fun riding his bike around and trying to hit all the bouncy balls with his bike.

Ziah had fun being pushed around in his stroller by me.  Tean had a great time and was asking to go back.