Jenna lost her first front tooth. It took a long couple of days for it to finally come out. It was literally hanging by a thread, I know gross. She went to bed and Byron told her to be careful not to swallow it. Luckily, she woke up with it on her tongue. She's one lucky kid.
I have found that I love to bake. I don't normally take pics of what I bake but it looked so good and got such raves that I had to share. Byron made yummy hamburgers on the grill and I made hamburger and hot dog buns. Is your mouth watering yet?
Jenna got a new game for Christmas. We have loved playing it. You have to ask questions to the other players to try and guess what you are on your headband.
The boys have their bday's within 4 days of each other. We celebrated lots. Byron wanted his mom's angel food cake with chocolate frosting on it. Now, I've tried hard to recreate the great things that she makes. Some times I do pretty good, other times...not so much. The cake tasted good, but it kind of fell. Not sure if it was the oven or the way I mixed it.
It's fun that my boys like to do the same things. We went to Dave & Busters to celebrate. It's basically a really, really cool Chuck E Cheese; except they have really great food. Some of the games give tickets to earn for prizes from the big D & B store.
Jenna taking a turn at Whack a something.
The Birthday Boys got a yummy brownie with ice cream and tons of whip cream. We had to practically yell to sing happy birthday because it is so loud there.
Corbin got a ton of tickets on one of the first games he played. Kallie would only play the games that gave tickets. She actually got the jackpot on one game which gave 1000 tickets. They shared the tickets (because we made them) and all three kids were able to get some fun prizes.
Corbin decided since we had had cake just a few days before for Byron's birthday, he wanted birthday ice cream. He was so excited to go to the store and pick out his own flavor. It's hard to put candles in ice cream.
We had a wonderfully relaxing holiday. I didn't take very many pictures...we were too busy watching Discpicable Me. We didn't even end up making what we had planned for Christmas dinner. We had grilled cheese sammies and stayed in our jammies all day. The kids loved it. My parents were here to enjoy the festivities with us. I hope we didn't bore them.
Some friends in the ward invited us over Christmas Eve to play in their snow. Every year they have snow in their front yard. I guess there is a company that you can rent from. They bring a big truck with ice blocks and use a wood chipper to blow out snow. My kids thought it was fun until the older kids started a snowball fight. It was not very soft snow.
We were so happy to put up our tree this year. With all that happened last year we just weren't able to do it. The kids are big enough now that they were able to help put the tree together. It went really fast. Not sure why, but I only got one picture of the process. The kids love the countdown to Christmas. On Christmas Eve we made gingerbread cookies for Santa. Our art abilities leave much to be desired, but we all had fun decorating them. Even Grandma Sandra joined in the fun. They were really good cookies. I think Santa had 4 of them.
