More December Happenings

More of what has been happening in December.  I think I'm actually caught up now!  

Abby's first time in the bath with the boys.  The level of the water is the same level as my trust in the boys with Abby.  About one inch.  

Chillin out with Maya

Building gingerbread houses in Owen's classroom

Our garage has been taken over by power tools!  Joey is planing some of the shelving for the pharmacy.

Cute faces!

We got a bunch of fruit from our friends who have family in the valley and the boys went to TOWN on the grapefruit.  

I've really enjoyed this advent season with my Advent Journal from Blessed Is She!  Also my new mug from Mary.  :)

Making pizza!  Levi figured since we were rolling out dough that we should cut shapes out.  So we did one star pizza in honor of Christmas.  :)

Owen's is a face.  The star cutout is his mouth and the pepperoni eyes.  haha   

Levi's turned out yummy!

Last night we had a seven course meal with a local chef at our neighbors house.  Here he is making fresh mozzarella out of cheese curd.  It was SOO yummy.  I am STILL full!

He taught us the whole night about different olive oils, wine pairings, cheeses etc.  It was super fun.  He is giving a course in Thai food the beginning of January that we are hoping to go to!  The thing we miss most about living in a small town is the Thai food!

Truckee Break

We just took our second annual ski trip to Truckee to celebrate my birthday weekend!  It rained REALLY hard most of the time, but the boys still got three ski trips in and we had a lot of fun hanging out at Northstar!  

I'm trying to add some videos of the boys skiing below.  I'm so amazed how quickly little kids can catch on!  It is so cute!

Third kid to wear that same hat!  It is a miracle that we haven't lost it yet!

Hanging out by the bonfire downstairs!

Pizza and beers to start off our trip!

So fun to have Abby with us this year!  I remember thinking last year when I was 9 months pregnant--we will have an extra kid next year.  Time flies and here we are with our little sweetheart!

They've been waiting a year for this!

Goof ball!

We got sushi take out two nights that we were there!  We never get sushi anymore, and last year I was pregnant and couldn't eat half of it!  So fun!

Morning cartoons!

Off to the snow!  Joey is a brave man.

The hot chocolate after skiing tradition continues...

That's one way to transport the baby to the car!

Abby thought it was a pretty cool ride!

Catch Up In Pictures

So I don't forget the past four months that I didn't blog about...

Owen started Kindergarten and Levi started Preschool without having Owen there!

Submitting my application to the Board in September!

Levi LOVES his baby Abs

Because our house isn't already a zoo...

We couldn't just get one and split up the brothers.

Levi Love

Rocket

Cheetah.  (although it might be a pic of the same one they look identical!)

She loves the food I make her.

The kitten loves has not worn off whatsoever.  They wake up in the morning wanting to play with them.  

Owen taking Ukulele

Headed to his first sleep over.

When you are driving up the canyon without another adult and you need the baby to stop crying you give her a food packet.  It certainly entertained her.  That was the last leg of our trip to Portland!

Pumpkin Party!

They turned out so good!

We went to Mexico without the kids

And a lot of Joey's family!

Joey and Shannon morning surfing

Not a bad view from the living room...

They always find the cutest places to sleep

The double decker kitten hold.  I think they love it.  

Owen played soccer and LOVED it!

Part of the neighborhood bike gang

Garret came for Thanksgiving!  And our priest joined us too!

Abby and the boys LOVED Uncle Garrett!

We also got recruited to make the advent wreath so Garrett got to help with that too!

Joey and Adam got the Christmas tree this year.  That is actually a picture of Adam accidentally...  People would get them confused in residency though so I guess it's only natural that I would too.  ;)

I had a cookie decorating party with my mom's group and their kids!  Fun!