Merry Christmas!

So this is Christmas, I always feel sad when the day comes and goes. There is so much fun anticipation for a month and then the day is over and the radio stops playing Christmas songs and all of the decorations come down. But our memories are sure nice and next year's Christmas will come quickly. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas season. Our family did mostly everything we had wanted to do, see temple lights, bake cookies, visit with family, see Santa, sang Christmas carols and have friends over.

Our Christmas tree after Santa came with all of his goodies!


Santa brought Joshua a little quad, some tools to work on his quad and a puzzle. He also got a stocking full of goodies and several presents from family.

Santa brought Ethan a bike (which he has yet to overcome his fear of riding), a scooter and a drum set. Ethan also got lots of other presents from family and treats in his stocking.





My Sweet Joshua is enough of a present for me this Christmas. In one more year he'll be talking clearly and not have a soft diaper bum anymore. They just get big too quickly.

Ethan learned lots of Christmas songs at preschool and is very serious about singing them all the way through.

12/16/09

I have not updated my blog for a while, I am just not good at commenting on my life when I know other people will read it, so sorry. Our family has been just keeping up with life and getting ready for Christmas. Ethan is so ready for Christmas morning, he's says he can't wait another day for his presents. Christmas for him seems like it will never come, but for me the Christmas season is going to come and go all too quickly. Joshua is also excited for Christmas and loves looking at decorations and lights everywhere, although I don't think he realizes that there will be presents on Christmas morning.

Here are couple of our Christmas photos, the boys had fun decorating the tree. We also went out to Temple Lights and enjoyed teaching our boys about the true meaning of Christmas.

Michael's Grandpa Muir past away last month, and we were able to go up to Utah for the funeral. It was a lovely funeral and our boys behaved so well at all of the events. They were always walking around with their reverent arms.

Fall 2009

Here are our pumpkins this year, we tried to make the boys help but they hated to touch the stringy insides.

Ethan's preschool had a fieldtrip to Tomalchoff farms and Joshua got to come too. We picked vegetables, went to a pumpkin patch, a corn maze and the boys got to ride on a little train. We had a lot of fun with Ethan's class.

The boys got to ride horses on Halloween morning. Ethan did so well and wasn't scared at all. He ended up riding for almost a full hour. Joshua did well too but got ancy after about 15 minutes.

These are our Halloween costumes. Yes Michael and I always have fun dressing up too. So we were Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi. The boys went trick or treating at a few houses, we went to the park to visit with some of our neighbors and then we went to a party after so it was a very fun night.

Ethan's 5th Birthday

We had Ethan's birthday party on October 12th. Lots of friends came over to play games and celebrate with us. Ethan had fun blowing out his trick candles and eating the giant cookie he picked out for his birthday cake.

Ethan has learned and grown so much this past year. He still loves numbers and has been practicing his addition skills, he has even learned how to add "double digits". His reading and writing skills have improved alot too, especially since he has started preschool.

For his birthday he got is first mp3 player with the kid bopz cd on it that he loves to sing too. He also got some new cars and lots of games. Ethan loves to play games and is very competitive, hmm I wonder where he gets it from.

Ethan brings so much joy to our home and we are so blessed to have him as our son!

More New York

This is us standing at the base of the Statue of Liberty. You have to walk up a flights of stairs to get there but its a nice view of Manhattan across the water.

We didn't have tickets to go inside the crown but you can go inside the statue and look up inside it.

We went to the Top of the Rockefeller center with its glass balconies. Its good to get a bird's eye view since on the ground you can hardly tell which direction you are facing.

New York, New York

Michael and I just got back from our first trip alone together since our honeymoon. We stayed in Manhattan and just walked around seeing stuff for 4 days. It was exhausting but a lot of fun.

We had a lot of fun at Madame Tussauds. We would have learned more going to the Met or the Cloisters but we wanted to relax and have fun!

On our first day we went bike riding through central park. For those who know my athletic ability, you will know that this was my most perilous adventure in New York.

Just a few more of us posing....we had so much fun anyone who has never walked around NY for a few days we highly recommend it. Especially if you get to leave your kids at home ; )