Glooooooooooooooooria in Excelsis Deo

This is the cutest thing I have ever heard and seen. Lincoln was going around the house singing this. I was thrilled with his willingness to do it for the camera. He is a little angel we have heard on high.

School Christmas Parties

Christmas Violin Recital 2011



Twas The Night Before Christmas-WAG

-Lydia and Grace-

Earlier in the fall Lydia auditioned for 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' with Wylie Acting Group for Children. She got the part of 'Holly' and was super excited to be a part of another play. It takes a lot of work with memorizing lines and going to all the rehearsals. By the time the performance day comes around Lydia is ready for it to be done. However once she starts performing she wishes they had more than three shows. She LOVES it!

 I don't mean to brag but she does an awesome job and we are so proud of her hard work and the courage that it takes to get up in front of people.

The kids along with Dad got to come and see opening night! -as usual Cooper is either not looking at the camera or is making a scowl. :)

Lydia's second grade teacher-Miss Burns (Lydia loves her so much.) and the two directors, Miss Nancy and Miss Melanie.

Santa!

The boys got to go to a birthday party where Santa made a surprise visit. They were all speechless once it was their turn and couldn't think of a thing they wanted for Christmas. After Santa left, Kyler was determined that it wasn't  the "real" Santa and even pointed out who it was that was dressed up. I asked Kyler, "How do you know it wasn't the real Santa?" His reply was, "Santa has black boots and that Santa had on brown shoes." So there you have it, you cannot fool a very observant six year old.

More Light!

When we are driving in the car at night all we here from Lincoln is, "MORE LIGHT!" Every house he spots with Christmas lights, he needs to make sure we see it too. Because it's dark this video is more for the sound. Sometimes we can barely carry a conversation over the yelling of "more light, more light".

Building With Dad

The kids love going with Dad to Lowes on their build and grow worshop days.

Lincoln's Twos Are Not So Terrible

Lincoln is officially a two year old. He had his birthday and loved opening presents, blowing out candles on his Elmo cake and playing with new toys-that no one could take away, at least for a few days. Lincoln is such a loving little guy who always has a smile. He is so mellow and even tempered until you get him in sacrament meeting, then he is squirmy and screams if you just look at him wrong. He is doing better though, hopefully soon this will be a thing of the past.
Lincoln's favorite things are trains, cars, fruit snacks, his "doggy and bear"-has to have them to sleep with and he loves being outside especially with his brothers and sister. His favorite word is "hola." We had wood floors installed and the installers taught him how to say it and now he says it all the time to everyone. He just started saying, "Booper" for Cooper. It was the cutest thing; Lincoln had just woken up from a nap to come downstairs and find Cooper taking a nap on the couch. I told him to "shhhh, Cooper is sleeping," he went to go play but must have been bored playing by himself cause he walked over to Cooper and bent down into his face and said, "Booper" while tapping him on the arm. It was the first time I've heard him try to say Cooper's name. Cooper woke up and said, "Hi buddy." Melts my heart.

These are some highlights from his Birthday.

He loved opening presents this year, but he had to walk over to the trash can with every piece of paper and throw it away before he could rip another piece.

This is Lydia helping him open up presents-He is actually saying, "Oooo, trash"

This video is long, but hilarious. You can see how particular he was with the trash. You have to know Lincoln, he is a boy of not too many words. He has taken a long time to start talking. But in this video, you can hear him say clear as day say, "Choo choo train mine." He is very territorial about his new train and no one touching it. :)

 "I've got my eye on you Cooper, you better not be touching my train."

 A new train set with LOTS of trains and cars- one of his favorite things to do with cars and trains is line them up, he plays with this thing for hours.

He did not like the lit candles being anywhere near him, he refused to blow them out in his highchair.