Sledding!

I love that the twins have early out every friday!!  We have had the greatest winter with lots

of snow and plenty of ski days!  Especially Boston!  It is amazing how good 

that kid is getting at skiing.   

We have an awesome sledding hill down the street from my house.  Early out 

was perfect to go sledding.  Since everyone else was in school. 

we had the place to ourselves!!  

Olivia with her friend Eliza...

Christmas eve...

Started off with CrossFit for me {duh}.  the workout was named "Victoria" to honor the beautiful

teacher from Sandy Hook Elementary who was shot and killed but saved her whole first grade 

class by hiding them in the closets.  Such an amazing story, and how wonderful to Honor her with 

a "Hero" WOD!  These are the things i love about CrossFit!

I love starting our own family traditions for Christmas eve, especially as the kids are starting

to get older.  We decided to go sledding with the freshly new fallen snow.  So 

much fun to go sledding, even if it was a bit windy. We were just super excited to 

be having a white christmas! 

after sledding we went to the Carson's for their famous Christmas Eve feast.  

We ate Tyler's yummy shrimp and prime rib.  It was so good! 

then we decorated some Christmas cookies, where Cory and Witney got a little bit

cometitive! ha!  

right before we went to bed, the kids always open their cousins gifts from the Johnson side,

Hayes got the coolest fort making kit from his cousin Savannah so they decided to make 

a Christmas Eve fort before bed while they watched Home Alone 2 

{our favorite christmas movie} 

one EXTRA week...

Of "No School!"

this past week we had one more week off of school, due to some flooding.
needless to say my kids were SO excited!

we tried to escape this cold weather, but our dad was in his busiest season of work, especially

 that particular week. bummer.

we still enjoyed the days playing while everyone else was in school.

i love love love my kids home. so we just continued on playing with our video games, 

dsi's, ipad, and our cousins.  Yep the other taylor cousins who go to our school 

were out of school too!!

we took the kids sledding, out to lunch, matinee's, play dates with friends from school,  

color me mine, and trafalga! 

{best place to go when everyone is in school}

all pictures are taken from my phone, so the quality is not so good.  but normally it takes good 

pictures.  i realized by the end of the week that my lovely little 2 yr old had messed 

with the settings. so now it's back to normal.

 trafalga in lehi is the bomb!  you remember "Liberty land" {right off the freeway}

 where we would go in the summer.  well it's new and improved and we got sucked into the 

"pass of all passes."  This place is awesome!  

Awesome laser tag, and glow in the dark golf, huge arcade area, along with
plenty of outdoor activites as well. 

these kids had an absolute blast!!

 {boston and camden}

hayes' favorite ride... "the pirate ship"

love this one.  especially when Heather went on!  

this is probably the coolest/cutest thing ever.  indoor go karts. {kid size}

we couldn't get hayes off these!!

 mini bowling.  so so cool!

laser tag.

we spent an afternoon {ivy-less} at color me mine.  one of boston's fav's.  I haven't taken the twins before and thought that would be fun.  well hayes was done after about 20 minutes. 

boston and livi could have kept painting all day long.  they loved it!

notice boston at his own table.  he apparently needed all the extra room.

look at boston's bobble head football player.  

he is obsessed with football, and very proud of his lucky #7!!

Sledding at the bowl!

 we live walking distance to one of the coolest sledding hills.  

why can't boston just sled down like all the other kids?! ;)

 today the kids started back to school, and a part of me is so bummed.  i love having my kids home.  i  think what i love the most is that they love to be home!  I love that they actually love being together as a family more than hanging with their friends. 

I am one lucky momma! 

One "Eventful" holiday...

Well, we woke up this morning to a TON of Snow, and we had to get out and Play in it!
Our neighborhood is so fun, everyone came out with their toys and started pulling kids everywhere! Boston & Chase were on Tubes behind the Rhino and loving it....All afternoon.

We even made Snowballs and i brought out the Flavored Syrup and all the kids ate "Snow cones" while we were waiting!

After Sledding/Tubing, we all ate Lunch at Jenn's and then went to see a movie.
My kids loved The Veggie tales Pirate movie, even Boston.
After the Movie, we went to eat at "Brick oven Pizza", this Guy who makes Anything out of Balloons was there and made some AMAZING stuff! He made Olivia a Princess Crown, and Hayes a Monkey holding a Banana. He was making Transformers, Motorcycles, helicopters, etc... He said he can even do Disney princesses. SO COOL!
Well there is no picture of Boston & Hayes' balloons, because after the guys spent 20 min on it, Hayes Ruined it right away...Oops!! ;) And we pretty much begged Boston to wait until Crew's Birthday and he can have him make 2!! (it did take forever)

~oh and on top of all of this, Guess who is getting "Potty Trained"??!!
Stay Tuned for that one...

Soldier Hollow...

It was a beautiful day today up at Soldier Hollow. We went with our neighborhood and had an absolute blast! Thanks Jane, for putting it all together! Hayes & Olivia were old enough to go this year, and they didn't really like it. They did love the tow rope part, but not tubing down! They just played in the tubes and did their own kind of tubing fun!
Boston had a blast with all of his buddies, and it was seriously such a great day to go tubing!

Baby, It's Cold Outside....

It is so dang cold here! I love the Snow, I just don't like the Cold, especially since the kids are out of School and now dragged to run errands in it.
I did take Boston and Brigham for the day to go see Charlottes Web! It is so cute. We liked it. He read the Book with his First grade class, So i thought that would be a fun Reward.

I had a Girls night out on Wednesday with my Friends in the Neighborhood! It was so fun, We all went to Jane's house and She ordered Cafe' Rio for all of us and we Made "Pomanders". It is her annual girls out Party, and I loved it! I have super Cute decorated Oranges! Thanks Jane for the Night out.
Now we have all the Christmas Shopping done, and can just finish up the Last minute details.
We are going to the Nutcracker on Saturday, Grandma Hansen's Party on Saturday night, and then I am Hosting the Christmas Eve Dinner at our House.
I love this time of year, I love to listen to Good Christmas Music, Recieving Christmas Cards in the Mail, and spending quality time with our Families!

May You all have a Very Merry Christmas!!!!