Christmas Day

Is anyone else ready to throw the tree out in the front yard. Christmas is nice and it is wonderful to spend time with family but there is only so much pine needle sweeping a person can take. It is still better than messing around with a fake tree though. Christmas day came and went. The kids were happy, the parents were tired, and the snow is still annoying. I love having Christmas with little kids. You don't have to get them very much and they love it. Lucas is happy to just roll around in the paper.

Jackson and his new pet.

Now that he is done cuddling with his chipmunk it is time to shoot some things with his new ray gun.
I love passing off needs for Christmas presents.

A nice relaxing game of checkers. I thrashed Addie. I came back later in the day to play her again and Aunt Robin had taught her a few tricks and she almost beat me.

Lucas and Ammie enjoying the new bath toys.

Christmas Eve

We had a very nice Christmas Eve time at Mom and Dad Wolfley's house. Wonderful dinner, stories, a few presents, and then home to put cookies out for Santa.

Christmas Cookies!

we went over to Mother Wolfley's house for the annual sugar cookie decorating bonanza. I'm not sure what to call it so it gets labeled bonanza. Mix frosting, sprinkles, and dough with 10 kids and you have a bonanza. Jack was a little possessive of the sprinkles.

Kenny posing with her beautiful plate of cookies. I never have to beg her to pose for a picture.

Davis licking the sprinkles.


Christmas Cookie nome.

Addie caught with her hand in the cookie plate.

I think this picture speaks for itself.

Happy Belated Birthday Sid!

We finally celebrated Sidnee's birthday last night with some family. You can tell she was really excited about it.

Arctic Blast 2008

For those of you reading this who have spent any amount of time east of the cascades, just relax. I know you have seen more and better snow than what you will see here but for us West coasters this is about the most we will ever see. Arctic Blast 2008 (so dubbed by the local news stations) is a week old and only half done. We have seen 8-12 inches of snow in the last seven days and are not out of it yet with more predicted for the coming week and Christmas. Thank you to Canada for that nice batch of arctic air to go along with our normal wet winter. Below is a picture of the girls playing in the preliminary flurries that cancelled school on Wednesday. Notice the bare road behind them and the grass still poking up through the snow.

Addie and her disappearing snowball trick. This is actually what is called a "500 ft. snowball." Get it? 500 ft. above sea level? Come on, that was funny.


This is after the second round of snow that cancelled school on Friday and the church Christmas party on Saturday. It's as if Heavenly Father knew that BYU was kicking off at the same time our party was scheduled to start.

This is what's known as a West Coast sled. You take your average Fisher Price kid picnic table, flip it upside down, tie some twine to one end, hitch it up to dear old dad, and "mush!"

I quickly discovered that if I just stand in the middle of the road and pivot real hard the sled would fly around in a circle pretty fast. Notice the snow kicking up as I whip Jack around.

No worse for wear.

Waiting for their turn on the Daddyhorn.

I got tired quickly and tried hitching the sled up to Addie. That didn't work out too well. I'm not sure what Davis is doing.

Here are some cool pictures from around the house courtesy of the freezing rain.

Because church was cancelled we decided to turn on the Christmas devotional this morning. Sidnee and Lucas went into General Conference mode.

This is Sunday night. Another 1-4" of snow expected again overnight. I can only imagine what the commute will be like tomorrow.

He's On His Knees!

Lucas has been very hush hush about his crawling desire. Every now and again we'll catch him on his knees rocking back and forth but the moment the camera comes out he flops on his belly. After weeks in the wild I finally caught him in the act. And so it begins!

Country Christmas

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Disco Christmas

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Deck the Halls!

We found time on Saturday to venture out to our favorite tree farm in Hockinson. I was in a bit of a rush so we could get back in time to watch Florida beat Alabama in the SEC championship game but the beautiful weather, cute kids, and mass of trees to sort through somehow made me forget about the game. It's amazing how a labyrinth of trees that all look the same can make you lose all track of time.

We looked far and wide. The kids liked this one. I convinced them to keep moving.

I tried to talk them into this one. We could take it home and just through it out in the front lawn to be picked up by the scouts in January and save ourselves a lot of trouble. They didn't bite and we kept looking.Kenny liked the nobles.

There has got to be a tree around here somewhere.

Here's a nice plump fir.
Enough talk, let's saw. Look Mom, I'm cutting down a tree!

Either I'm out of shape or this trunk is made of steel.
Almost there.


Maybe I can just push it over.

Whew! I thought it would never come down. How's the view kids?





OK, who get's to haul it to the car? Where's Sidnee?*





Yeah, you grab that twig Davis. Thanks for the help.

This is the finished product. I left out the pictures of the yelling, screaming, and throwing of ornaments. Once we got Sidnee to go do something else we finally got it all decorated.**
*Sidnee would have cut the tree down and hauled it to the car if her husband wasn't so prideful. She was busy taking the pictures.

**The kids where actually the ones screaming, yelling, and throwing of ornaments. Sidnee did a majority of the decorating work.

Happy Birthday Twinners!

The girls turned seven on Sunday. We enjoyed their favorite dinner ("some type of meat and mashed potatoes" pictured below) and some cake and ice cream with Anita.

Sidnee outdid herselft with these tasty lemon and strawberry cakes garnished with gourmet skittles.

They joined the 21st Century with their very own iPod. Best kid gift ever. It doesn't make any noise and keeps them busy for hours.

Addie rockin out to High School Musical.

Everytime I tried to take a picture of Kenny she stopped dancing and posed.

What blog posting is complete without the gratuitous cute baby photo.