Jaxson's big 8th!

For Jaxson's eighth birthday we told him he could have a "friends" party and he choose to go to Outer Limits fun zone. It was super fun and he had lots of boys from school come play! They all had tons of fun and we were so happy they could come share his big day.

This was all the kids after they played laser tag. (I scanned it in and it didn't turn out super good)

Jacob W, Sam and Landry

Landry, Gabe and Brodi

Jacob and Sam W. making a deal

All the kids spinning the wheel for tokens

Eva

Carter driving the motorcycle

Daddy and Eva playing together

The "BIG ONE" Jaxson got the big automatic nerf gun, and as you can see he was only a little excited :)

Pretty Babies Sleeping through all the noise

PIZZA!

Look at those red faces! (They just finished laser tag. So much fun!)(L to R) Jacob C., Jax, Brodi, Sam, Gabe, Landry, Dallas, Jacob W.

Eating Pizza and getting ready for cake.

Gabe, Brodi, Jax

Blowing out the candles. (I can't believe there's already eight!) Jacob C, Dallas, Jaxson

Birthday boy with the cake ( I probably needed to get the picture before laser tag, he was super hot!)

Here's a close up of the cake before it was completely finished. (the driftwood said "Happy Birthday Jaxson!" and the life preserver had his name and an 8 on it)

Cute Kiddos and More Teeth

Fun Great-Grandkids Christmas Party at Old-Papas house. My Grandpa is 90 years old and he is adorable. He called one night to invite us to this fun little great-cousins party at his house. He fed the kids pizza and soda and ice cream and played with them. It was super fun. THey love him soooo much! Vercein, Carter, Eva, Savanah, Alexus (up)
Benjamin, Jaxson, Jacob (down)

All the great-grand-cousins (that live in town)

Jax is so silly! He sleep walks and we found him on the floor in our room, sleeping with Audi (the dog) like this one night. (Must have been cold!)

I came upstairs from changing the laundry one day and found Evy watching a movie like this! these kids are sooo funny! They come up with the silliest things. I'm sure proud to be their mama. I love all their quirky thought and ideas!

Sweet Baby asleep in the swing. I love the color red on Elena ( in case you couldn't tell) it looks so good with her dark skin/ hair. Love it! She's so pretty :)

Sharkey the pirate. Arg! he got all this fun stuff at a buddy's birthday party. He wore it for like three days straight-- even slept in it, he only took it off to bathe (and kind of against his will).

Jax chillin out

Carter, Papa and Eva practising dance moves on a sunday afternoon.

Mommers playing with the baby

Cute kiddos cuddling with sissy.

Just over a week after Eva lost her first tooth she lost her second! Her teeth sure have gone fast. They've both gone from normal to super wiggly to out in like a day.

She was only a little excited!

Cute baby playing with papa

We just took off her dress and she cuddled up to him so sweetly. I love this picture!

Sweet Ellie-girl after church one day

January

For new years my family all got together and had fun! We were so happy it was the first time that we have all been together in over a year (maybe even 18+ months) Nathan came home from Ukraine, Chewy and Adina came from Seattle, Krista came home from CSI and Elena came from Heaven. It was great we talked and laughed and played and ate! The night before Bryan and Adina went back to Seattle we all went to Texas Roadhouse together but they don't have any conference type dining area so we all sat closeby in seperate booths. (Dad, Mom, Krista and Nathan)

The Wilsons and the Bart Call's

Pretty Elena started smiling :)

Eva and Lori in their matching outfits/earrings - so cute!

Jaxson cuddling with Millard (he is our good friends' cat and we are babysitting him until they close on their new home)

Eva lost her first tooth!Which is Crazy cuz she's only five (Dave, Jax and Mommy were all six+)

She came home from school and told me she had a loose tooth and I thought " oh okay. . . " then I wiggled it (just to appease her) and it WAS really loose! I took this picture because you can see how loose it was -- its the crookedy one in the center. It came out that very night and she was soooo proud.

More Texas Road House Pics. I think this must have been the crazy face pic (dad, nathan and I must have missed the memo lol)

Jax, Sharkey, Eva and Daddy eating peanuts while we waited for our table.

Brandon, Mary, Adina and Chewy

Christmas and such. . .

Grandma and Elena

Opening jammies on christmas eve

Eating snow

Elena's sore button ( I finally found a pic I knew I had taken one) It's so gross looking and sore:(

Daddy and Jax racing down the huge snow pile (sharkey eating more snow)

Elena 1 1/2 months

Eva with her new American Doll she named her Lori and they "look
like twins!"

Jax sliding down the huge snow mountain in the church parking lot. So fun!

Sharks and Eva frosting cookies with Grandma.

Taste testing

We went to Island Park and spent Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Wilson. We made sugar cookies with Grandma and laughed and played with Grandpa-- and of course played in all the snow! We had a great time and the kids were totally spoiled by Santa and everyone else:)

IT'S Been TOO LONG!

Eva Mommers and Savanah at the nutcracker ( Eva is wearing a sapphire/pearl necklace that my grandma left to me after she died Eva's middle name Claire was her middle name as well)

Sweet miserable princess with crazy hair ( this was taken after one of her baths and an application of snake oil)

Hooray for our cute little "Gingy" house. THe kids love this tradition and are getting pretty good at decorating. the house have gotten more and more intracate each year:)

My sweet baby brother who got engaged before Thanksgiving to a darling girl we all adore and my adorable 90 year old grandpa "chatting" after Elena's Blessing.

All the Grandkids chilling while the grown ups make food after the blessing.

Hooray the happy Graduate and his Cheerleaders

Girls night out :)

Eva and Sharkey before the nutcracker

Mommy, Daddy and sleepy Elena

Grandma Wilson and Elena ( The dress is kind of hard to see but isnt it amazing?)

We have been super busy and I have been absolutely terrible at updating this blog! The last few months have been big ones for our family. My baby brother Brandon got engaged just before Thanksgiving and they are getting married this Friday in the Rexburg temple. Then we celebrated Thanksgiving here in town with my family which was nice after having the baby ( I wasnt in the mood to travel much).

December 5th we blessed Elena. It was a beautiful day, we were blessed to have many family and friends come celebrate with us and it was wonderful. Dave gave her an amazing blessing and we are soooo very happy to have her special little spirit in our home. Dave's mom Korena made her a beautiful crocheted (sp?) blessing dress-ensemble complete with bonnet, shoes and a blanket. She is so very talented and has made an outfit for both our girls to be blessed in and they will be such special keepsakes for them both.

Dave had finals the following week and passed with flying colors! He graduated in the middle of December with his BS in Psychology. Hooray! We are so proud of him and all the countless hours he's put in. He has applied to ISU's Graduate School of Counseling and we hope to hear if he's been accepted to that program in mid-April. The night of his last final we celebrated! The kids decorated the house with streamers and balloons and we made him an orange sign that read "congrats dad the grad!" We had his favorite enchiladas for dinner and butterscotch cheesecake for dessert. Then we spent the night playing board games as a family. It was really a great night!

That weekend the girls and Iwent to the Nutcracker with Aunt Jen, Mommers, Papa Call and Savanah. It was super fun! The baby was perfect! She slept the entire time, and Eva loved every minute of it- I'm not sure if she even remembered to breathe. She's sooo excited that next year she will be old enough to audition to be in it:)

The week before Christmas we made a darling gingerbread house and the kids had their Christmas concerts and parties at school. We were really busy but doing well and then we found out that baby Elena has an umbilical hernia and she was having some troubles with digestion and constipation. It is so ugly and just looked so uncomfortable! She was so patient and good natured about it but was just miserable. They had her on laxative and fiber treatments and hot lavender baths and snake oils and massages and they said it could take up to twelve months to heal and may require surgery if it doesnt heal. (I can't find a picture of it:( but trust me it was disgusting) She is doing really well now and has another appointment in two weeks to check it but I'm fairly certain it's healing well and rarely bothers her any more.

We Spent Christmas with Dave's parents in Island Park Idaho.We had a very lovely time and enjoyed lots of good food and snow! ( I'll have to do another post for that)