Bears and Monsters

Tonight we went to Thanksgiving Point which is a really fun place with shopping and a barn and dinosaur museum and what not. For Christmas they have Santa there to take pictures with and real Norwegian reindeer to look at and touch. They also have a area that you can drive through with your car and see Christmas lights. We went and saw the reindeer first and Israel was thrilled. I told him about how reindeer pull Santa's sleigh and he was really excited. Then we drove through to see the lights where they had several polar bear statues and more. He was really excited to see the polar bears and kept yelling "bears!" for about 15 minutes. When we got home I told Israel we had to go to bed so that we could be one day closer to when Santa came. I asked him if he remembered what pulled Santa's sleigh and he said "Yeah, bears" then he paused and said, "and monsters!" I couldn't stop laughing.

Family

Happy Holidays! I am so excited it's this time of year again. It always makes me evaluate my life and how much service I have done or could be doing for others. Even just something as simple as saying hello to someone who is alone or dropping off cookies to a friend. It always makes both parties feel a little better. Let's just hope we can stick with it all year this time and not just for the holiday season.

Israel and Ezra

This is Israel with his adorable cousin Ezra who is 4 months old!

Santa

We told Israel about Santa a few weeks ago and he has been talking about him ever since. So he finally got to meet him this wednesday and was a little scared. When Santa asked him what he wanted for christmas he said he wanted a "bikey" (i.e. motorcycle) I was suprised when this morning he remembered and told me that he wanted a "bikey" from from Santa.

Animal sounds

Thanksgiving

We had so much good food this year for Thanksgiving. We went to Jacob's sister Sara's house earlier in the day and then we went to my Grandmother's house later. Israel loves playing with his cousins at Sara's and they love him. Sara spoils him too. As seen here when she gave him a whisk full of whip cream to eat.

My first 5K

I had so much fun doing my first 5K on saturday! It was was called the Nutcracker 5K and you work a tutu while you were running.

Dancing King

Israel loves to dance all the time. Any time there is music on he is sure to be dancing and singing. He loved it when his Aunt Harmony came from montana to his birthday party. They played and danced the whole time. My favorite part was when he had her help him with a summersault.

Israel is 2

Israel's birthday party was a hit! Thanks so much for all those who remembered it and were able to be there. It was a Chopper party complete with a tatoo parlor where the kids were able to get fake tatoos of motorcycles and what not. Israel loved having the little girls on hit party sit behind him on the mini 4 wheeler so he could give them a ride. He got a ton of awesome presents and we all had a blast.