Dad and Caleb's Birthday

Caleb had his 'fake five' party on Friday, the 19th. He wasn't really turning five, but he was still celebrating it so it was his 'fake five'. Then, the 29th was his 'real five' because it was really his birthday! We had the Olsen's and the Meinzers come over for cake and icecream, and Caleb was content with that.

I'm not sure why this picture won't turn the right way!

My dad was making fun of me because I was taking so many pictures. He asked if I was making a stop-motion video (whatever that means).

Mom made a Peppermint Cheesecake for Dad's birthday. It was soooo good! But who doesn't like cheesecake?

Nathan was just as excited as Caleb for opening presents!

Christmas Comics

The other day, we were in the car and Nathan was singing the song which I'm sure you have all heard and maybe even sung yourselves, "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid a gun, Shot a guy and made him cry in 1989 . . ." Caleb thought that was pretty funny, so he made up his own version, "Jingle underwear, Batman smells like underwear, Jingle underwear, Robin laid a underwear, Shot a underwear, and made it poop, in underwear . . ."

Last night, the boys were getting into bed, and Caleb asked for a drink of water. After he took a drink, he said, "Aaahh".

Nathan said, "Caleb, that's really annoying. You say 'aaahh' after you drink every time."

"Not every time!"

"Yeah, pretty much!"

"No, pretty much not!"

Uncle Math came over on Christmas morning for breakfast, and because Santa came here for him. He opened a present that was a tin, Grinch box thing.

Caleb said, "It's a Grinch lunch box!"

"Well, it's pretty small to be a lunch box. What's in it?" Math asked

"Lunch!"

"Oh." He opened up the tin, and there were Grinch boxers! "That's some interesting lunch."
"Oh, I guess it's not lunch."

Aunt Angie said that about a week ago she was in the car with Talon, listening to Christmas music.

Talon said, "She must know Grandpa Brent."

"Who?" Angie asked.

"The girl that's singing."

"Why would she know Grandpa Brent?"

"She is singing about Jesus. Grandpa Brent knows a lot about Jesus, too."

I have a really mean habit of tackling Nathan, pinning him down to the ground, calling Zoee over, and telling her to give Nathan kisses. It serves as a pretty sweet payback (she gets him wet to point that he looks like he just got out of the shower, almost)! So the other day, I decided to do it to Caleb when we were wrestling. I didn't even let her kiss him enough for him to fully enjoy it, and he was kinda half-gagging when I stood him up and he said, "Mom said Zoee can't do that to me anymore, because it makes me cough." He is pretty good at making up excuses, I think.

Periwinkle

This is our new birdie! I figured that Libbie was getting kind of lonely and I didn't really have a lot of time to get her out, so we got her a friend (hopefully a husband, but we don't know if its a boy or girl). We named him Periwinkle, Peri for short, because that's what color he is. Nathan really wanted to name him Peatie Jr, PJ for short, but he isn't exactly Peatie's son, so we couldn't name him PJ.

I got Peri from my friend Ashley. Her aunt had two birds that mated and laid 10 eggs, and they were having a lot of trouble getting rid of the 6 that hatched, so I got Peri for free. It was way cool. His hatch-day is sometime in November, but since they don't all hatch on the same day we don't know exactly what day.

In memory of Peatie

Christmas!

I tried to put these pictures in chronological order, but I don't know if that happened!

We had our Nativity Scene dinner thing on Tuesday night, I think. I finally got to be Mary again (Morgen has been Mary the past three years or so), and Nathan was Joseph. Baby Kyson was going to be Baby Jesus, but he had to have his diaper changed. Morgen was an angel, and I think that Caleb was a bunny! He wanted to be the donkey, but the only donkey costume that fit was a baby one, and he thought that it looked like a bunny rabbit.



Isn't Kinley the cutest sad lamb you have ever seen? She was sad that Caleb wouldn't let her sit in the mini recliner!


On the night before Christmas Eve, all four kids slept over at Oma Kim's house. It was really fun!

Opa went around in circles with his snowblower and make a huge snowpile, which turned into a snow fort. The kids dug a hole in the middle and made stairs on one side, and Opa kept going around and around and adding more snow to it! I wasn't there to build the fort, but I did spend the night, because I had to go to Velocity training for Volleyball from 5-6. : (

Christmas Eve!

Hanging our stockings by the fire with care, in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there!

Christmas Eve at Oma Kim and Opa Brent's . . .

Aunt Maggie wasn't going to see us on Christmas, so we got to open the presents from her on Christmas Eve. The boys each got a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, so we spent about half an hour playing with them, and they haven't been touched since. In fact, I think that the only thing the boys have played with since Christmas is the Wii! Not a big surprise!

Caleb wasn't very happy that Dad kept beating him!

I love the looks on their faces when they are being competitive!

This year for our Seafood Dinner, Oma tried a Louisiana Shrimp Boil. It was really good. You put everything into a ginormous pot (corn, sausage, potatoes, shrimp, crab, spices, etc), and cook it. Then you separate it into bowls and let people pick what they want. It was really good.

Christmas Morning - the tree. Mom and Dad said that 'Santa' wasn't going to bring as many presents this year because we already have a lot of the things that we need, but apparently Santa wasn't thinking along the same lines! I think that this picture was even taken after some of the presents had been opened!

Nathan loved his BYU pillowcase that I made him!

He also got a Ripstick for Christmas, and is surprisingly very good at it. Since it hasn't been outside to get all dirty yet, he rides it around the bar in the kitchen, and usually gets in other people's way and then gets mad at them for messing him up!

Now for the big surprise . . . we got a Wii! We have a lot of sport games, Indiana Jones, a football game and Mario Kart. Caleb can really only play Mario Kart, but he likes Indiana Jones. My dad said that Caleb doesn't really care about playing the game, he just likes to jump off cliffs and whip things!

I gave Zoee this sweater, matchy-matchy with mine! She was okay with it on Christmas day, because she got two ham bones that she had to go through, and then she played Frisbee outside, but I tried to put the sweater on today and she nearly ate it off. Maybe we'll wait until she is out of the chewing stage, and hopefully then it will fit her better!

With all the snow, and because Zoee is blind as a bat, a tennis ball isn't working very well for playing fetch. So, we found this hot pink Frisbee, and she chases it just fine. We threw it pretty far one time, and she went after it and just plummeted into a huge drift!

Uncle Math came over on Christmas morning, because Santa came here for them. He and Dad had their matching Real Salt Lake shirts, and now all they needed were tickets. Dad couldn't understand why his shirt had a bulge and Math's didn't!

Christmas Morning at Oma Kim and Opa Brent's

I wanted to get something very special for Oma Kim, because she is so special. It took a while to figure something out, and I finally came up with my brilliant idea (I hoped). I got super cute pictures of each of us four kids and framed them. That was my brilliant idea, but then I found an essay that I wrote about a role model - Oma Kim. So, I brought it home from school and typed it up all cutesy and gave that to her, too. My mom bet me 1o bucks that Oma would cry when she read it, and when she didn't, my mom's excuse was, "She didn't want to cry in front of all those people!"

Christmas at Oma Cheryl and Opa Larry's

What do you know ... my dad's eyes are closed!

For some reason Mom wanted me to take a picture of Dad doing the dishes at his mom's house. She thought it was pretty unlike him, I guess, but I don't blame her.

Matchy-matchy

Kinley, the pickle girl

Of course, I had to take pictures of Kyson. He was just so smiley and adorable! I call him the baby brother that my mom never had for me.

Some More Recent Conversations

These are just for you, Michele. I was looking at my older posts and the one where I put the funny conversations got the most comments, and Michele requested that I do more of those posts. I decided that whenever I hear something funny, I'm going to write it down, and then once a month I'll put them all on my blog, so you can look forward to that!
Here you go . . .

I think that Nathan was just talking nonsense to anybody that would listen
"I don't know why, but when you stick your gum to the roof of your mouth it puts the flavor back into it. It's like the roof has all sorts of flavors and it picks out the right one and puts it back into the gum!"

This was when we were driving around and looking at all the Christmas lights.
Morgen - "Oh, look at that tree! It's bright red!"
Caleb - "Yeah, it's half green, too!"

My mom was clipping Caleb's nails, and he said, "I love it when you clip my nails, mommy. It feels good. Except now I can't itch when I have a scratch!"

I was talking about how my German and English classes are my two favorite, and Morgen asked, "Why do you have an English class? You already know how to speak English!"

We were at Oma Cheryl and Opa Larry's house for Christmas. Opa got all the family to hold hands in a circle around the tree for a prayer. When he was finished, Talon said, "Wow! That took a long time!"

Zoee has been hilarious lately. She loves to chew on anything that she can find. My mom came into the room earlier today holding a weird rag-looking thing that was all mangled and soggy, and said, "Zoee just hacked up this sock."

She is also big enough to jump up and put her front paws on the counter now. The other day, my mom was getting dinner ready and had gone into the office for a minute. She came back in and half of the turkey on the dish was gone! Zoee must have gotten onto the counter and eaten two whole turkey legs, and then laid back down on the couch in the 45 seconds my mom was out of the room.