Hope you are having a great Christmas season

Be cause we are....how could we not with a face like this!

We're back! (hopefully)

So I think I am in the mood to start posting again...I'm going to try it out for a bit.  I think instead of trying to catch up all at once, I am going to just go with where I am right now and I'll try and fill in the blanks as I go.  But with all of that said I would just like to post a few recent videos to introduce us again.

This was a couple of months ago...

This little piggy with little brother

Sister is in ballet and is looking good

A rappin' song about how our bacon looks like California

Just recently our baby started to speak and pray apparently

And a typical afternoon in our living room

And that my friends is a little update.  We're having fun!

Week 11 A farewell and a few surprises

Saturday, March 12: Memories of playing checkers with Grandpa Olson...We had the pleasure of having Grandma and Grandpa Olson for the weekend so that they could hear Chelsea speak at church.  Well, we have just been teaching Brendan how to play checkers so we broke out the checkers for him to play with Grandpa Olson.  Ryan Jones got a turn, too.  I am just sad that I didn't get to play a game with him for old time's sake.  I really enjoyed having them around.

Sunday, March 13:  Today was Chelsea's farewell at church.  She did an amazing job.  The other speakers were Andrew, who impressed us all and Neil who thanked everyone coming from afar to hear him speak.  They all did wonderful jobs on their talks on following the prophets.

Monday, March 14:  And Amber had puppies on Monday so we got to hold another family home evening around her to help her...well she didn't really need our help and did most of the work after we left to go home.  It was quite the educational experience for the kids.  This was sort of a surprise because we were not expecting Amber to have another litter of puppies, but she got pregnant when we were all busy with Sarah's wedding back in January.  HMMMMM.......

Tuesday, March 15:  The next morning we called over to Grandma's to see how many puppies Amber ended up having.  Lincoln knows and tells everyone who says the word puppies:

Nine.  We were trying to keep Lincoln inside most of the day because he has been having troubles with allergies.  This was pretty hard because he wanted to be out there with the puppies all day.  Well, not as much as Eliza.  This girl LOVES the puppies, but Amber was still being really protective about all of them.

Wednesday, March 16:  Has anyone noticed how long the boys' hair has been.  Well, it was time for a haircut, but I decided that after I had already stripped him for his bath.  So here I gave him a haircut and his bum was just so CUTE!  Whenever I give my boys a haircut, they grow up so much.  They look so much older...and much more handsome!

Thursday, March 17:  Have you ever seen so much laundry?  I have kind of been putting it off since I knew that I was needing to pack.  So I did all of the laundry in one day and then instead of having to put it all away and then packing it, I just packed it after folding it.  WOW! Then I had to get to bed early so that I could drive the next morning. 

Friday, March 18: Well, I didn't get to bed early and Neil never went to bed so he started out driving and dive until he got tired.  We were on our way to surprise Grandma Erickson for her birthday.  A lot of people knew that we were coming, but they had all kept it a secret from her.  We stopped at Wendy's on the way and the boys just had too much fun sharing a frosty.  They would steal the frosty off of each others' spoons and then just laugh and laugh.  We tricked Brendan that someone had stolen the car when Neil had just taken it to get gas.  Traveling is always just too fun.  The kids did really well in the car.  I think they were just too excited to visit Grandma and Grandpa Erickson to worry about anything else.  When we were close, we called Grandpa and drove in a different way so Grandma wouldn't see.  We sneaked into the backyard and let the kids jump on the trampoline and let Grandma "discover" them there.  We were pretty sneaky and were really glad when Grandma said that she enjoyed our surprises.  Thank goodness, because it seems like we have surprised her quite a bit lately.