Very Pretty Girl

It was so fun to watch Rachel at her Christmas concert. She looked so pretty in her dress and it was fun to watch her move and dance while singing. There was this girl though in the front row that had huge antlers on. She was right in front of Rachel. I had to really turn to the side to film her. The girl should not have been able to wear them or at least should have had to move to the back. We really enjoyed watching both our kids perform.

I love how Rachel moves back and forth while singing in this song.

Rachel's wiggly arms are awesome. She is so cute.

A momentous Occasion

We had a very momentous occasion today. Kaelen fell asleep in his high chair. He never falls asleep in places other than in your arms or his bed. Actually he rarely seems to do that lately. He is really teething right now because he will chew and bite on your shoulder when you hold him. He is not sleeping because of that we think. Kaelen has never wanted to sleep since he was about a day old. He seems to think that he will miss out on something. This last week for example he didn't take a nap in three days. He took maybe three catnaps a day and then wouldn't go to sleep till about 1 am and then he'd wake up a few hours later to eat. (Yah Enoch and I haven't slept much lately) He is usually happy when he is awake though. We are happy about that. Well today he was so tired that he actually fell asleep while I was feeding him in his high chair. He may never do this again so I was happy that I got pictures.

Actually maybe he was tired becasue of all the work he has been doing for Santa. He sure works hard for him.

Christmas Party

This last weekend we went to Grandpa and Grandma Heileson's ward Christmas Party. It was a lot of fun. They had a really yummy turkey dinner. For entertainment they had the Idaho Falls Fire Department Bagpipe band and then a choir from Bonneville High School. The kids in the primary also performed some Christmas songs for us. I was so proud of my kids because they actually got up and sang with the other primary kids. They didn't know any of them but they got up. I was so proud of them because I knew that I would never had done that when I was their age. I was always too embarrassed. They also of course got to see Santa. Kaelen wasn't sure about this man in a red suit who was holding him but he didn't cry. That was surprising since he cries at times when people he doesn't know just look at him.

Kid's Decorating Trees

Our kids have their own Christmas trees that they get to put in their rooms every year with lights and little ornaments. They always have fun doing it. It is fun to watch them put the lights on their trees and ornaments. They are so different at decorating their trees. Rachel is so precise and Jacob just throws the lights on and even when he is precise his ornaments all end up clustered together.

Jacob's Spotlight

Jacob last week had his turn for the spotlight at school. Every week a child is picked to bring in some pictures of them as a baby and their family and stuff. They are also asked to bring in some family members to talk about them. The family members can also play a game with the kids, or read them a story. Pretty much what ever they like. You are given a half hour to talk about your child. Well we all went as a family for Jacob's spotlight. We made a poster of things about Jacob. We had things from what activities he likes to do to pictures of him with his cousins. We also added some crayons and paper on the poster because of how much he loves to draw. We played the name game with the kids. It's the game where you come up with the name of a famous or well known person and then you write it on a piece of paper. Well somebody reads all the names and then you guess which name everybody picked. We tweaked it a little bit so it was easier for a bunch of 5 year old to play. It was really fun. The kids enjoyed it. We played this game all Thanksgiving week and so Jacob wanted us to play it with his class. We also brought a book of Jacob's. Jacob doesn't have a favorite book so he just picked one that he likes to read. The book Jacob picked was "click clack Moo cows that type." Jacob was the one that read it to his class. Jacob loves to read and so we thought that it be appropriate for him to read it. We had so much fun in his classroom and he enjoyed having us their. When we left we gave the teacher little boxes of crayons and dum dum suckers to hand out to each of the kids. Crayons because of how much Jacob loves to draw and then suckers because every kid loves candy. Oh yah by the way Jacob was finally tested in his reading and he reads middle of the year 2nd grade. We are so proud of him. He is getting books from the library at his reading level and his teacher is giving him books to come and with and read and other things for him to do to help him improve. We are happy about that. We sure are proud of our little Jacob.

He's crawling

Kaelen for a couple of weeks has been getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. Well the other day he actually crawled. November 24th to be exact. He only took four steps then. We were so proud. Well then on Thanksgiving he actually crawled more and then the next day he crawled across the room. Thanksgiving day he went from crawling to sitting up, It was so exciting. I love watching him grow. It is exciting but sad at the same time. I can't believe how big he is getting. Since he started crawling a few days ago he crawls everywhere. Yesterday he ventured into the playroom. He was so excited. We now have to keep an eye on him now.

Kaelen on all fours November 18th and November 21st.

November 29th

Happy Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving Mom and Dad came to visit. Noal, Wendy , Morgan and Ainsley came for dinner as well as Boyd, Annelise and Sara. We had a really fun Thanksgiving. We had way too much food but tons of fun.

Dad sat down with Noal and Wendy and showed them pictures from when Dad lived in France as a child. Noal and Boyd sitting on the couch together. I am sure that Boyd was playing with is stuffed horse before I took that picture.

Noal and Dad together. Annelise and Rachel stuffed the turkey. It was funny to listen to them scream as they stuffed it.

Sara looking so cute. Wendy went up and kissed Boyd. The funny thing was that at first he thought that it was Annelise. Wendy was laughing so hard after wards. Poor Boyd got redder and redder in the face the more Wendy laughed.

I really couldn't resist. When I saw how large the bowl of potatoes was I had to make it like close encounters. Wendy made me a alien repelling hat. I was going a little crazy and we wanted to keep the aliens away. Wow two movies in one. Dad was busy on the computer. Can't get enough Solitaire Dad!

After the kids saw my hat they had to make one too. Rachel and Morgan said that they were unicorns instead of trying to keep the aliens from reading their minds.

Jacob was so funny in this picture. He was laughing so hard and looked so cute. I couldn't resist eating the large bowl of potatoes.

Sitting down for our Thanksgiving dinner. Kaelen was so excited to sit and eat a roll.

Rachel, Jacob and Morgan were excited to eat pies. We had five pies. Enough choices. Ainsley and Kaelen loved playing with each other. They had fun sitting together. I think that Kaelen enjoyed having somebody to grab at and not run a way like the dog does.

Mom and Kaelen. It was finally towards the end of their visit that Kaelen wasn't afraid of Mom and Dad.

Cute Stuff

These pictures I thought were so cute. Enoch and Kaelen are wearing the same clothes almost and then both wearing suits. I also loved this picture of Rachel and Kaelen together.

Kaelen and his Dad in matching shirts and both wearing hats. Kaelen sitting in his high chair smiling real big.

Enoch and Kaelen both in their suits, Rachel holding Kaelen. They both look so cute.

GO HILLCREST!

On November 21st we went and watched the State Championship High school football game. It was Hillcrest vs. Jerome. We were cheering for Hillcrest. Hillcrest is the high school in our neighborhood. The quarterback on the Hillcrest team is in our ward as well as three other boys. We thought that it would be fun to drive the 50 miles to Pocatello to watch the game. It was a really late game so we didn't get home till almost 1 am. The kids loved it though. Hillcrest had not won one game in three years and then this year they got a new coach and they ended up going to state. They won as well. 55 to 35. It was a really close game at one point but they ended up getting a head and staying a head the rest of the game. They scored a touchdown every time they had the ball. We loved the game and the kids had so much fun.

Blowing Raspberries

This is a funny video of Kaelen. He loves to blow raspberries and while he does he likes to spit. He will try to spit as much as he can. It is so funny. Enoch was laughing so hard when I filmed Kaelen doing this. I had many different video's to pick from. In this one Enoch isn' really laughing. It is funny though. Enjoy and watch out for the spit.



Kaelen has actually stopped doing this. I am so glad that I filmed it.

Funniest Noise

Kaelen makes the funniest noise with his mouth. We have no idea how he does it but he does it all the time. It almost sounds like a pig or frog. He will just sit and play and while he's playing he makes the noise. We finally recorded it for all to hear.