2012, Week Fifty-Two

The boys enjoyed taking a spin at Grandma Sheila's house on Christmas Eve.

 What could be better than being with family during the holidays?

 Anxiously awaiting the arrival of present opening time!

 Aunt Shannon sure knows how to make kids laugh.

Spider brothers and their new Christmas Eve pajamas! 

 Merry Christmas!  We were happy to sleep in until the boys woke up later than normal.

 We had a wonderful Christmas morning!

 Silly Keegan really got into the train set.  He was quite proud of himself.

 Santa gave us music lessons in the form of the Rock Band game!

 We had a white Christmas!

 The Goldings stopped by for a visit later in the week for an awesome jam session.

 The Kellys joined us for the remainder of the week and brought Just Dance 4.

We had a lot of laughs, especially when Dallin would jump in for a freestyle maneuver. 

Most of our Christmas snow melted but the industrious kids gathered enough to build a snowman. 

 Nintendo's latest and greatest system was a huge hit because five people could play at the same time!  Another milestone here, Dallin played his first Mario game.  

 Keegan and Vincent had an absolute blast making a mess with Taika.

 Grandma Sheila sure loves her boys!

 The bad news?  We eventually had to return home.

The good news?  The Golding's were there!

Sometimes when we play games into the wee hours of the night, things go a little off script.

 Early risers they may be but these kids were all smiles.

 Group shot!

Ooh look! More presents waited for our return! 

2013, Week Fifty-One

It snowed!  Granted, not a lot of snow, but we'll take it!

 Keegan showing off his massive muscles.

 The holiday concert was spectacular, even if a lot of people had to stand the entire time.  Talk about a packed house!

 And now, it's time to show Keegan's newest fantastic feat.  Looks like someone is taking the initiative and making themselves a bowl of cereal!

 Dallin was so excited about his Christmas present to his teacher that he begged to have his picture taken with it.

 Not only did the Kelly kids stop by for a fun afternoon, so did the Creeks!

 The Kellys once again hosted a wonderful holiday party with great friends, delicious food, and ...

 SANTA!!

 So many kids but it's nothing Santa can't handle.

 Merry Christmas from our home to yours.

 An uneventful, if slow trip to Grandma's was fun as always.  Keegan sometimes loves his meals so much that he starts dancing, much to the delight of everyone else, as you can see below.

 It's always a hilarious time with Aunt Shannon, Uncle Danny, and Grandma Sheila!

2012, Week Fifty

Keegan joined in for even more racquetball this week.

 The boys could not wait for Grandma Denise to get out of the shower so they played right next to the bathroom door and talked to her.

 SyKart racing with Christmas lights!  We had the place to ourselves, which was sweet!  Unfortunately, Grandma got slammed into a wall a bit too hard and Grandpa actually cracked a few ribs!  Yikes!

 This is just too cute!

 Thank you for coming up to visit us, Grandma and Grandpa!  We miss you already!

 Now that's what we call brotherly love.

 Check out the ridiculously huge apple that Keegan ate! 

 What brave boys!

Dallin's friend, Sawyer, celebrated his birthday party at a bouncy house!  The photo below was about the only time those two remained still during the fun. 

Look out, Keegan!  The older boys are coming to get you! 

 Blue lips!

 Missy and Shawn had a wonderful night at Shawn's work holiday party but we got to play with the kids.

Our church had a holiday themed talent show full of heartfelt songs and laughter.

2012, Week Forty-Nine, Part Two

We discovered a delicious Thai restaurant with a ton of elephants.

Orlando and his Father enjoyed playing racquetball every other day.

Dallin impressed his Grandparents at his swimming lessons.

Who knows what these guys were trying to do.  Bunch a goofballs.

Now that is a big leg.

What a masquerade!

Life imitates art imitates death imitates life and Dallin was super silly.

Keegan loves to say "cheese" for the camera!

The new space center at the museum of flight recently opened so we had to visit.

We're inside a space shuttle!

Nothing can ignite the imagination quite as well as space travel.

Grandpa Mushroom shared his book in progress with the boys.  One of his characters is named after Keegan!

Guess who we met at Tara's work?  Santa!

Keegan was too cute with his reindeer nose.

Don't worry about the dragon.  He's just miffed that he missed the memo about the blue polo shirts.

We ran into Santa again at the store!

Dallin sure loves those leaves.

Tara loves to spend as much time with her boys as she can.

We took in an incredible laser light show with a variety of  number one hits.  It was awesome to see Dallin and Keegan dance and groove.

Keegan is so fascinated with any animal, but especially those that fly.

While everyone else watched an incredible 3-D Imax movie about butterflies, Tara and Keegan had their own adventure.

A new touch sensitive floor kept the boys so engaged that sweat was dripping.

We and a lot of other friends gathered to experience the awesome wonder of Ryan's musical Christmas light show.

Quite a surprise!

Congratulations Emily + Ryan!!!

A candid shot of the guys getting ready for church on Sunday.

The California Grandparents will still be here next week!