Thursday, December 21, 2017

Our Little Girl is 6!

It is crazy seeing how fast these kids grow up
 They are proud of their building
 Mason is slowly getting more patient when it comes to reading books. Every now and then we make it through a whole book
 What a pretty girl
 Cute kids
 Mason getting the royal treatment (pulled in a wagon)
 Lyza got this birthday crown at school a few days before he birthday and she has been wearing it all the time
 Google just released an app that takes videos on your phone and turns them into comic strip style pictures. It is kind of fun.

 Mason and his mom at the library
 Lyza got this Christmas ornament at school
 Kim loves seeing Mason in these Christmas diapers so much that she won't dress him
 Look at that pose! I think this was the morning of her school Christmas party where they got to wear their PJs and watch a Christmas movie at school
 Nixon has lots of fun with mom when Lyza is at school
 Mason did this for a long time
Silly boys
 Mason is trying to reach Figgie
 Mason loves sleeping with covers over his head
Mason has learned how to act like a pig
 This boy is dangerous
 Kim has been super crafty lately
 Thing 1 and Thing 2 shoveling snow
 On Friday Kim and I had a date attending my work Christmas party
Google thinks we had a year full of smiles
Kim bought this hose head for a white elephant party and the kids didn't like it

Mason practices cooking
 Saturday was a BIG day
Decorating Lyza's birthday cake
 Lyza requested chocolate chip pancakes for her birthday breakfast
 Here she is with her cake
 And what a cake it was!

 Freeze dancing was lots of fun 
 Mason loved watching all of the kids and laughed every time they froze
They played musical chairs and of course the birthday girl won ;)
Here is the bunch (minus Nixon who was having a hard time at the moment)
 What is a birthday without the song?
She barely blew the candle out
 If that face doesn't scream joy, then I don't know what does
 The kids had lots of fun with presents and the hugs were adorable
 They all watched some PJ Masks (the theme of the party) before it ended
 After that I helped Lyza (and Nixon) work on her fossil kit. It was a big chunk of plaster that needed to be broken up (slowly) to find the dinosaur fossils)
 Lyza kept telling us that it was the best day of her life!
 Cat Boy!
 We did some family gifts later in the day and Lyza got a one-of-a-kind dinosaur night gown
 When she found out that he mom made it for her she did this
 I have been telling Lyza that it is likely that she is the only girl in the entire world that has a dinosaur night gown
She also got this robot dinosaur and is in love with it
Mason's reactions are a little more mixed
 That evening Kim and I went to an adult Christmas party and gift exchange
 We found this cool house nearby
On Monday night we organized a Christmas caroling activity with 6 other families. It was a lot of fun
 Get back to work Mason, the snow doesn't clear itself!
 Mason has been obsessed with coloring and fortunately he spends more time actually coloring than trying to eat the crayons 
 The kids got to watch old Christmas cartoons (like Mickey, the chipmunks and Pluto, and Donald Duck) with their mom yesterday and they had a blast
I can't believe that Christmas is only 4 days away! We are excited and hope you are too!
Take care and Merry Christmas!

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Christmas Parties are the Best Parties!

Last week the big kids and I went on a "date" to Home Depot to make gingerbread houses

 They were pretty proud of them
 After the paint dried they got to decorate them with stickers
 This boy's hair has gotten out of control
 Lyza and Nixon looking Christmas-y for church last week
 Mason too!
 I have been enjoying (parts) going to nursery with Nixon and Mason lately
 For family home evening we went for a walk around the board walk to see Christmas lights

 Lyza wasn't so sure about this dragon display
Me and the baby
 Mason was happy to get out of the stroller and run around
 Which gave Nixon some time in the stroller
 Mason was mesmerized with these lights outside of the resort
 We spent some time at the fish tank
 Cute fish!
These kids are so silly sometimes
 Kim has been crafty lately
 Every day the kids get to open up a Christmas book. They were so excited to open the one where great grandma and grandpa Bullock read the Christmas story to them
 Kim finally caved and got Mason's hair cut. We had to bribe him with a sucker so he would hold still
 He was a sticky hairy mess by the end so he needed a good bath
 Lyza lost her first tooth (naturally) this week, well as natural as your dad pulling it out of your gums and making them bleed can be
 Mason looks good with his new hair cut!
 We had a herd of moose on our street this week

When you are exhausted you don't care if your legs are sticking out of your crib while you sleep 
 Nixon has really caught the spirit of Christmas. He LOVES using this little gift box and filling it with drawings for us
This is his newest stage of drawing, which is drawing us when we were kids. We have probably got about 100 of this picture around the house right now
We found Kinder eggs at Walmart, well "Kinder Joys" anyway 
 The egg splits in half with a toy on one half
 And chocolate on the other. Apparently you use that scraper type thing to scrape out the soft white chocolate and then there are those two chocolate balls that are akin to ferrero rocher. Not the same, but the kids were still excited 
 Is it possible to any more cool?
 I guess so...
 Phase two of the mud room bench is underway. I got the cubbies almost finished. We just need to decide what we are doing as far as shelves and then trim it all out
Mason had fun playing the piano this week
He might be a little musician when he grows up
This all happened because Kim and I were messing around with the piano figuring out how we could make recordings of her
I am glad we figured it out
 We had our ward Christmas party last night. It was amazing! (the primary/Kim was in charge of it)
Nixon knew what to do with Santa. When Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas Nixon said "money." Smart boy!
 Mason didn't do so well
 This wasn't Lyza's first rodeo so before hand she negotiated an escort as a condition to speaking with Santa. Santa asked her if she wanted dinosaurs for Christmas and Lyza was AMAZED that he knew ;)
 Lyza maybe had a few too many candy canes
 My wife is so beautiful!
 Lyza is looking special as she loses her teeth...
 Mason was chomping on a huge piece of ham and he was in heaven

 Santa narrated the children's nativity (Lyza was a sheep)
 It was a wonderful program
We are loving the Christmas season and hope that you are too
Take care