JANURARY 2012 RECAP

Lots and lots of Bengal games! 

 The kids finally sat still long enough for me to snap a few photos. It was also pretty amazing that all three still looked decent after three hours of church.  I guess it was my lucky day! I feel so blessed to have three wonderful, happy, healthy and energetic kids in my life. I love these three kids so much!

 This picture doesn't do the sunset justice...it was so beautiful.

 Burklee was quiet for a few minuets so I thought I better go see what she was up to...colored chalk in the fish tank = dead fish! Sorry Ammon, I know how much you loved Disco!

 I had to put this picture on the blog for Kellan.  He loves this picture because it looks like he is going "super fast!" He call his plasma car a "skater boy" so if you ever hear him tell you his skater boy is so fast you will know what he is talking about.

We love our cousin.  We don't get to seem him often but when we do we have a blast together.

NO SNOW SO...

...hit the trails for a January ride.

 We went up City Creek and had a GREAT time.  It was definitely scary coming down because the trail was frozen and snow-covered in a few areas.  All in all it was quite the adventure and I loved every minute of it.

Guess who got stuck washing these dirty bikes...yep...ME! 

SCARY SPIDER

Burklee came in our room one night and told us there was a scary spider in her bed.  She was terrified! I felt so bad for her so I let her crawl in bed.  Well the next day I forgot about the whole incident.  I went in her room to check on her during nap time and this is how I found her.  When she woke up I asked her why she was sleeping on the floor and she told me that the scary spider was still in her bed.  Needless to say, Jeff and I had to rip the bed apart, shake the sheets, move the bed to a new spot and vacume the room several times in order to convince her that her room was spider-free.  Pretty cute how she put all her little dolls next to herself on the blanket and how she made a little bed for her cat on the pillow-pet instead of using it for herself.

MORE DECEMBER FUN

Grandpa teaching Ammon a few drills to get him ready for his first season of basketball.

 Kurt and Joe getting into "Just Dance".

 Taylor and Jean bustin' a move.

While the big kids played basketball the little kids had their own fun. 

CHRISTMAS 2011

All I want for Christmas is a whale pillow pet...forget my two front teeth.  Ammon has wanted a pillow pet for a year-and-a-half.  I know what you are thinking...just buy the kid a pillow pet already.  I thought he would grow out of it but apparently his need to have one grew stronger to the point that he didn't care about anything else but the darn whale pillow pet.  Christmas morning he ran down the hall towards me...

... then out of the corner of his eye he sees his pillow pet. He sprinted over and...

 hugs for the soft, cuddly whale.  I have never seen him get so excited

 Of course they all had to get one!

 The twins had to watch carefully as they each took turns opening their presents.  Burklee making sure he doesn't open something she wants.

 She saw a Christmas tree decorated with barbies a while back and ever since then she has wanted her own barbie. 

Ammon loves to take pictures and he always scares me when he gets a hold of my camera.  Good thing Bonkin and Papa got him his very own camera.  HE LOVES IT! 

In the words of Burklee "oh it's Tangled...she is so pretty." Notice her nails...she has to make sure everyone notices her nails when they get pretty.  Good thing Bonkin painted them so she could have pretty nails for Christmas. 
After we opened our gifts we had time to eat some yummy gingerbread waffles with buttermilk syrup. They make the house smell so good.  After breakfast we had just enough time to make it to church for a wonderful musical program.  After church we changed back into our pajamas and spent the rest of the day with the Tingey clan.  It was a wonderful day.

CHRISTMAS EVE

 We always start off Christmas Eve-day with a yummy breakfast at Elmer's for Kent's Birthday.  After breakfast we open presents and have cake at the house. 

Another competitive game of basketball!

 This year we went to Soda for dinner. We were lucky to enjoy such a beautiful sunset.  The sunset and delicious dinner were well worth the drive.

Kid's table

Once we got back to the house the kids opened their one gift each...we always get new pajamas. After we set out cookies and milk and Jeff read a few stories we were finally off to bed.

FUN IN UTAH

On our way down to Salt Lake for an ISU women's basketball game we made a quick detour to walk around Temple Square and show the kids the lights.  It was so beautiful, as always.

Later in the month we went down to Provo for Uncle Tanner's basketball tournament.  Becky and Caden had just arrived from New York so it was a blast for all the kids to get together and swim.

Say Cheese!

Kellan happy to get some alone time with his daddy.

Having a great time as always.  Jeff and Kristy love the water...which the little kids really appreciate!

Say no to crack!  Skinny Kells couldn't keep his shorts on.

SANTA CLAWS FUN RUN

All bundled up for the Santa Claws Fun run. When they got up the temperature was 7 degrees.

 Ammon was so excited to run the kids 1K this year because he got to wear bells on his shoes.

 Ammon & Benny

 I am not sure why Jeff ran in shorts when it was  7 degrees outside (weird nack). I like this pic because you can see his breath....brrrrrr!

 Ammon was able to chat with Santa while Jeff was running the 5K. There was a silent moment so Ammon says to Santa "well have a very merry Christmas Santa" it was so cute!

After the race the boys were able to ride in the wagon pulled by horses. This was such a fun morning for  Ammon and Jeff.

PRINCESS TEA PARTY

I decided I should take Burklee to her first Princess Tea Party due to her girlie girlness. She has recently got into Beauty & The Beast and Cinderella. So off we went to enjoy an evening filled with girl stuff.



CANCUN CHALLENGE

Jeff and I were able to travel with the women's basketball team for a tournament in Cancun. We had such a great time getting to know the players, watching basketball, unlimited free food and drinks and of course relaxing in the sun.

  I love teasing Jeff with this photo. He looks like he is trying to put out the vibe with his tuff guy face :)

 As he would say "Nothing like a Clancy book and sun."

  

 I was a little scared to get off the cart because there are signs on the course warning golfers about crocodiles and boa constrictors!

Jeff hit a ball over by these rocks.  When I walked over to find the ball this croc scared me so bad! I had Jeff get the camera to take a pic and he got quite the scare when the croc flung itself out of the water! I am sure anyone watching us got a good laugh. We looked like two idiots running away!

I tried to sneak up on this little critter to get a picture. When I got to close it got mad at me and started chasing me!

It was sure hard to focus on the ball when I could see this bad boy out of the corner of my eye!