Christmas surprises!!

the kids' reaction when they woke up on Christmas morning!

fuzzy pic but one of her favorite presents was Hannah Montana Sunglasses!
Bubs got the TORMENTOR!! If you have ever seen Monster Truck Mater, a Pixar Short Film, that's where its from! He loves Monster trucks and mater.

Another surprise is that we all got my parents a new little weenie Dog. They named her Heidi and she is so dang cute. she, of course, loved cuddling with Bry!

Happy day on Christmas!

Hunter was beaming from ear to ear to get more geo trax!!!

The kids rockin out to ROCK BAND! one of my favorite moments of the night....

We helped make christmas dinner while my mom had fun holding Hogan!

Grandma playing games with the kids!

My NOT SO favorite moment of the night.....

We were eating my moms amazing yummy date cake when all of a sudden my nephew Caden comes running upstairs to tell us that Hunter is hurt and bleeding. My dad is the first one to get him and brings him up stairs and I see blood everywhere coming out of the back of his head. I want to hold him and take care of him. Bryan and my dad take him to the sink and put a washcloth over his head and I remember seeing a big gauge in his head. I loose it and my mom takes me away into their room. I hate more than anything seeing my kids get hurt. I ask if we can say a prayer with May, Caden and Miles. My mom says a sweet and sincere prayer that he will be ok. Bry comes in the room to tell us that they are taking him to the ER. All of the kids come in and we watch "Despicable Me" (which is seriously a FUNNY show) waiting to hear back about how Hunter is doing. About an hour and a half bry calls to say that he got 6 STAPLES in his head. Hunter was so brave and strong. He got to take home a stuffed animal Zebra. He named him Spoony!?! Yeah don't know where that name came from?!?! Anyway, how did all of this happen?! he was wrestling downstairs with his cousins and somehow he fell and hit his head on the coffee table. It made me think of a lot of things when all of this happened. It's really the first time any of our kids have gotten hurt really bad. It made me appreciate and love my kids even more. It made me think of christmas and how Mary watched her son Jesus Christ dying on the cross and the pain she must have felt to see him suffereing the sins of the world. I'm grateful for the spirit and the priesthood and for everything that happened to help me see life in a new perspective after Hunter's accident. here is the pic of his staples and him at the hospital.

Preschool fun with Santa! *Worth Reading!*

This is May's cute preschool class! She has made so many fun friends in her class. The last day of preschool before the winter break they got to wear their pjs to class and go see santa. Santa gave them TONS of treats! Her preschool teacher is so much fuN!

Christmas Day we opened a present that May made for us in preschool. It was more her teacher but it was a little recipe book. Inside this is what her teacher wrote to the parents: "I asked each of the kids their favorite recipes and how to make them and these are the resonses that I got"

So this is what May told her teacher

her recipe is:

VANILLA CAKE

3 eggs

1 C. sugar

1 C. oil

2 C. flour

4 chocolate chips

5 milk

Pat the dough until it looks runny. Make it go into a pan that dosen't stick. First it is wet then it cooks up not wet. Cook for 6 minutes on 17 degrees or on hot. Then put frosting on it.

(there are no typos in this recipe!!)

Another one I got a kick out of was AJ's recipe

BROWN BROWNIES

so much cereal

lots and lots cocoa puffs

maybe a whole bunch water

you need tape and wrappers

lots of orange eggs

only 1 black things

Put into bowl and stir everything. It goes super fast and one of our stirrere things broke. Put lots of cocoa puffs in, like the whole thing of them. Stir a bunch more and put in the oven. Cook inside the oven, not the outside. Super, really burning hot degrees. cook for a whole bunch of days maybe 7 or more. Cook til time to get them out then cut them up and wrap them with wrappers and tape.

LOL!! (no typos again).

What a fun present for us! One of my favorite presents for christmas BY FAR!

Christmas Eve Party!

We spent Christmas eve with the CALL family. We decorated a piece of paper of whatever we wanted a while back ago and then had them sent off to be made into plates. That was one of the fun presents we all got.
For the Grandma Toy Box. Hunter was stoked!

May loved all of the new stuff she got!

We dress up and read and listen to the Nativity Story in Luke 2 and then in 3 Nephi when the savior is born and the people in the america's know of his birth! I play the piano and we sing the christmas hymns too!

We did gag gifts or dollar store presents for white elephants this year. We gave Bry's mom Bart Simpson. Kyle had fun playing with him! Speaking of Kyle....my favorite part of watching him that night was waving his arms around when Steve would turn on the Iowa Hawkeye's fight song. CLASSIC!

Bry is a super fun uncle and dad and everyone loves playing with him at grandma and grandpas house!

Eating papa john's pizza by candlelight at dinner for christmas eve. This is always a fun tradition the calls do!

Another fun pic of everyone chowin down on the pizza!

Bry's mom always plays a lovley rendition of "O Holy Night" on her mad skills with an accordian.

The kids had fun blowing voo voo zelas they got at the dollar store.

It was a super fun christmas eve! They loved the monkey's they got too!

I'm grateful for the wonderful family we have!

Dad's Bday

We got to go bowling and have Papa Murphy's pizza for my dad's bday this year! My sister was in town so it made it a lot more exciting!

We got my dad an awesome body pillow!

Then Santa showed up with Mrs. Claus at my parents house! Hunter wasn't afraid to see him.

They love Hogan!

All of the cousins!!!

What a fun birthday!!! We got to eat a yummy carrot cake from Kneaders Bakery too! DELICIOUS! I love my dad and he's a wonderful PAPA too!!

uglt sweater party!

our friends Heather and Rob have the funnest christmas party that we go to. They call it the UGLY SWEATER PARTY! We just chow down on delicious food and play super crazy and fun games. The first game was christmas carol pictionary. You had to sing the song to guess the christmas carol that the person was drawing! My favorite quote of the night was how Dave told Bryan that he didn't have to wear a sweater because he has a built in one!! hahahaha!! We also watched a video of Dave hiding in the garage and Rachel finding a dead mouse on her steps into her house. ahhhhh! poor Rachel! We guessed Bry was drawing "the drummer boy" song. Bry wore his boss' U of U sweatshirt for his UGLY sweater!

We loved Rob's drawing of "Oh little town of Bethlehem"

Our friends Josh and Danielle! They are hilarious! We had fun talking about Crazy Hockey Players and "The Donny"

John and Noriko in their ugly sweaters.

Our other favorite funny game was trying to open a chocolate bar that was wrapped a million times only with a fork and knife.

Heather and Rob! They are sooooooo much fun! We love them! Thanks for the good time.

We also give white elephants gifts! We laughed about the funny napkins I found for a quarter that Danielle got they said "I like candy and BOOS" and its a pic of a bottle of beer. Rob got the best 70's living room lamp! Hilarious!!!! This was such a fun night! The kids got to hang out with the the greco girls. They did all these fun crafts and treats with the kids! Thanks so much Grecos! We love our fun ward!

Fun Faces!

We love all the fun faces our baby Hogan pulls! It's so much fun having him around because we love him way too much!

He fell asleep on my knee the other night when I was burping him and then May came over to him and woke him up. needless to say he was mad!

"I gotta secret for you"

"My bum is burning change my diaper!"

"Life is good. Eating, poopin, and sleepin!"

Baby blessing day!

I love my family so much!! I love my hubby that he has the PRIESTHOOD . I love that we have the RESTORED GOSPEL in our lives. I love that we have a BEATUIFUL BABY BOY! Life is happy! *click* on the highlihted words to watch some awesome videos!

Thanks for everyone for coming! We had yummy food to eat for lunch! Papa Murphy's pizza, yummy jello salads, and some yummy brownies and cakes!

December time!

My cute hubby and hogan dressed the same! I Had to get a picture of them being matchy matchy! We are all so happy that the BUBS finally is potty trained. His reward was a NEW BIKE for finally keeping his pants dry both day and night. He's awesome. He calls his bike "THE MOTORCYCLE BIKE!"

We love to build snowmen at our house!! Bry and the kids made 5 all in one day! Bry said the snow was perfect for building the snowmen. Then at 4:00 in the morning when he was up with the baby he looked outside to see that a bunch of HOOLIGANS had came and wrecked all of them. May and Bubs had fun telling the story to everyone and telling them that a bunch of Hooligans smashed our snowmen!

Going out to eat with Grandma and Papa Redding after Mays Preschool Christmas singing performance!

Her preschool class singing christmas songs!! May was a wonderful and cheerful singer. We thought it was funny how her hat fell off in the middle of the performance and the little boy next to her was quite the ham himself. It was crazy watching her up there thinking she was old enough to be doing what I remember doing when I was a little girl in preschool once upon a time.

new pics of the fam!

Our good friend came over to take pics of us the other night with her nice camera! We had fun taking them and she had fun ideas to make Hogan look super cute!