Friday Night Lights

This wasn't on Friday, but the rest were. This was today...Eliza in her sweet Christmas dress. She is such a girl and I love her. I just had to put this picture up.

Okay, now this was Friday night. I got some "peak bagging shoes" for my birthday and they didn't fit just right so we went to REI on 33rd south to exchange them. After we decided to drive to Temple Square to see the lights. I think we were very blessed in our decision because we got a parking spot right in front of the Conference Center, right next to the cross walk into Temple Square. Perfect. We all went up to see the big statue of Christ in the visitor center before walking around the lights.

Jack ran away before the next picture. But Aiden and Eliza are acting sweet together.

Here we all are in front of a beautiful orange tree. We loved it.

And here is the Temple with the lights in front. Eliza kept saying, "look at the view of the temple!" We have never taken the kids to see the lights at Temple Square, it always seems like such a hassle. But it was very worth it. We all had a great time.

Jack is 3!!

My little Jack Jack turned 3 today!

He was so excited about his presents, his party and his big day!

We did the Chuck E Cheese thing again this year and he loved it. Why fix something that is not broken?

He liked the orange letters on his cake. He is an orange boy.

Blowing out the candles.

Hugging it out with Chuck E. He really loved him this year.

Grandma and Grandpa Jaussi sent him a race car set. He liked it so much he took the three little cars to bed with him tonight.

We gave him a scooter and he gave us a pirate smile. :)

When we got home the kids had to go race their scooters around the driveway. Thank you everyone for the presents and birthday wishes. Jack felt really special today, and he should because he is the best! We love Jack so much and are very happy that such fun boy gets to be ours.

The week of Birthday's is over for us now, three in 8 days not bad. Now bring on Santa!

North Pole Express

On Monday night we went with Russell's family on the Heber Creeper to the North Pole.

It was an hour and a half ride filled with Christmas songs, jokes, hot chocolate and cookies. The kids had a blast.

Here are Paige and Eliza with their song book.

Jack has been loving trains lately, so it was great to take him on a real train ride. He really had fun. In fact Aunt Joleen told him to go up to the microphone and sing a song and he did. He sang a rousing version of Twinkle Twinkle.

We picked Santa up at the North Pole and he gave all of the kids a top. Aiden asked for Harry Potter Lego's.

Eliza asked for an Easy Bake Oven and Jack asked for a Jeep. After the train ride we all headed over to the Dairy Keen in Heber...home of the train for dinner. It was such great evening. Thanks, Becky for finding the deal and putting it together!!

Niner

Aiden turned 9 yesterday! It was a great day. He got to be the spotlight in his class so the whole family got to go to school and talk about him and bring donuts. Then he went to scouts after school. When he got home we opened presents and then off to Pirate Island for dinner.

This is Aiden on crazy hair day for school a couple of weeks ago...before the buzz.

This is Aiden last night with one of his presents from his Aunts Jean, Jane and Ann. A big ole tub of cookie dough. When they come to babysit he asks them for cookie dough, not cooked. So now he has a supply! He loved it.

He got Harry Potter Hagrid's Hut from his family (along with a new bike helmet) and went to work immediately on it. He stayed up late and woke up early this morning to finish it. It was fun to see him all excited about his presents. He doesn't like cake so I made him birthday brownies and that made him happy.

My toothless wonder! I love Aiden so much and I am grateful that I get to be his mom. He has such a fun sense of humor, he is smart and a hard worker. He gets to have his friends come over Friday night for a party, so he gets to keep on partying!