New Killers, Elton John, Neil Tennant song/video

Go to this website (red)wire: http://red.msn.com/
and watch the new video, "Joseph, Better Him Than Me" by The Killers, Elton John and Neil Tennant. It's a great song - 3 wonderful voices together!

Christmas Day

Christmas Morning! (He's wearing his spongebob PJs that the elves left on his bed on Christmas Eve!). Gibson would open one present and want to play with it instead of opening more gifts! I'm sure one present would have sufficed!

Gibson LOVES his new racetrack!

Sassie finally got her new bear! The poor girl knew it was under the tree for weeks! She knows what the "Build-a-Bear" boxes hold now!

Baby Girl playing with her new catnip mouse!Two and Squeakers playing with their new catnip mouse!

We went to Courtney and Daryl's house for Christmas dinner (it was yummy - Courtney cooked a great turkey). We didn't make it to Brady's family on Christmas Day (a first) because of the huge storm across the state. Gibson got a new set of Legos from Grandma and Grandpa England!

Daryl, Courtney and Lukas!

Christen and Courtney in our almost-twinner shirts!

Brady and Christen

The fam!

Brady loves to chew on the babies! Look at Lukas's cute smile!

Christmas Eve

Wow! I REALLY love Sassie. She was giving me this pathetic "I would love to go on a walk, mommy" look, so I caved in. It was her Christmas Eve present - I bundled up and took her around the block. I saw a few neighbors who were quite surprised to see me - they know I don't surface in winter. I don't go out in the freezing temps for anyone: we never made it to see the temple lights because it was too cold!

We made a really cute gingerbread house together. Our neighbor had just brought over this glass candy, which made PERFECT shingles for our roof!

Gibson's pile for Santa: the gingerbread house, his "good chart", cookies and his Christmas letter.

Here are a few videos:

I caught Gibson singing. If he had seen me videotaping him, he would have stopped. Listen closely and you can hear him!

Here's a great video of Gibson being a "ballerina" - I can't believe he let us film him dancing around!

Squeakers got a Christmas Eve Present: a catnip-filled mouse. It was his first experience with catnap and it was funny! We thought he was a spazz before....

Here's Gibson decorating our gingerbread house. Watch his tongue (I wonder who he gets that from?!)

Christmas Festivities!

We had a fun time with some of our closest friends last night. I enjoy celebrating the holidays with such great people! We feel very fortunate to know such nice, giving, fun friends!

Bobbie, Steph and Marie

Matt, Tom and Deric

Steph and Matt AND Rhonda and Matt

Brady and Otto - BFFs!

Matt and Rhonda - the shutterbugs!

Tanya and Rene - beautiful ladies!

I'm trying to figure out who took this picture and why?! Anyone want to confess?

Time for the white elephant gifts!

What did you get, Otto? Looks like Rene's getting a kick out of it!

Brady had to get out the pump....

Tanya and Steph trying out Tanya's white elephant gift!

The ladies - what a beautiful crowd!

I like our new tree ornaments!

Gibson's artwork!

Here are some more examples of Gibson's art work.
He is learning so much at school! He wrote this Christmas list himself! If you look, you can make out "monster truck", "darts", and "airplane"! (We're hoping he settles for a remote-controlled airplane!)

This is Gibson's "thumb-art". I think he got the idea from watching "Bat-Thumb" on TV. He traces his thumb and then turns it into characters. The green one right in the middle on the bottom is "bat thumb" standing in front of his bat mobile. Gibson pointed out every feature on the bat mobile and told me what they do! The red 'thumb' on the right is "vampire thumb" - complete with fangs and wings, as is the green 'vampire thumb' to the left of the red one.

Our festive house!

My New Wallpaper

Enough said.

Annual Family Pictures

So after quite the ordeal this year, we finally got our family Christmas portraits. I'm just happy they are done! We ALWAYS take this picture on Gibson's birthday - but this year Brady had to work and Gibson's fifth disease rash was out of control on his face that day. So we scheduled for another time - we chose a weeknight thinking that it would be a lot less busy than a weekend. Well, Brady almost didn't make it home from work in time. Then, after scrambling to get there and barely making it on time, they didn't even have our appointment down. But, fortunately, they did our portraits anyway!

Thanksgiving

Well, I managed to take only 1 picture on Thanksgiving this year. This is a picture of Gibson in the car on the way home from Aunt Meili's house - he was exhausted! But he was not going to let go of his new Lego set he got from Grandma!