**Aidan's B-Day Post**

(Several Days later...)

Okay so it is like 11 days later, but who's counting right? (We celebrated his birthday on the actual day so that is what is important!)

This year for Aidan's birthday, we celebrated it with my parents and sister Em at my Grandparents. They live in Star Valley so we met there on Aidan's bday. My grandma's birthday was 3 days earlier so we celebrated her special day at the same time. It was a fun night and I am glad we went!

This is Aidan's new pose for pics. Not sure why he thinks a monster face is the way to go, but whatever. What a fun 3 year old...


Aidan loves Curious George so for his birthday he was determined that he would have a George cake. I didn't feel ambitious enough to make one so we ordered it instead and loved the results! Aidan picked the picture and was so excited that George was holding a banana!

Here is a picture with a nice smiling Aidan and my Grandma! Her last name is Erickson but my kids have always called my grandparents Eriskins.

It was a fun day for our little fella. He missed the Primary deadline by 2 weeks so he is the largest child in the nursery. He doesn't care though. He makes us laugh everyday and is spoiled rotten to the core. Mike has been home a lot lately so Aidan gets the undivided attention of his parents and struggles when the girls get home. He loves to wrestle and play. He loves watching TV and playing the computer. He is always saying something hilarious. He taught himself numbers and letters and is pretty smart and knows it! We love our Aidan and can't wait to see what the next year brings!!



In other news:

Just look at what our front yard looks like!! Makes you cringe doesn't it? Think about how long that pile is going to take to melt! I am relocating to a warm sunny place.

**A Summary of our Lives Lately**

As always I am a little behind on the ol' blog. Whatcha gonna do? So, here is a quick rundown of what we have been up to.
Here are the kids in their Christmas getup that my mom and sister got my kids. They always find the best things and we LOVE it!!

Our little library does the most amazing family nights that are always so fun. This year they were able to get Curious George to come for a visit and we couldn't miss because that monkey is Aidan's absolute most favorite thing on the planet right now.


The school did their annual Christmas program and it was wonderful as always. The girls love participating in it and they learn so much. This was Cam's last year in it.
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We went to Utah for Christmas this year to spend with my family. On Christmas Eve we went to my aunt and uncle's house for delicious dinner and some really fun festivities. We played chimes in groups (Oh Come All Ye Faithful) we frosted sugar cookies, we read a neat Christmas story and we went to "Pond Town". (A really pretty pond and park close to where they live.)

Emily and I at the Pond with lights shaped like Christmas trees that are out in the water.
The kids hats are courtesy of my dad. He always makes them every year to give to the kids in his class for a Christmas present. They love them and so do my kid!!

The cousins! Not pictured: MJ and my cousin Justin. (They were there...Not sure why they didn't get in the pic!!)

We had a really good Christmas morning! Old Santa found his way to my parent's house and managed to leave the kids everything they wanted. It was an exciting morning.

My girls think that nightgowns are the best things ever! (So does their Grandma Lori!) So, this year, Grandma found matching nightgowns with the girls and they were thrilled.

This is a picture of my parent's grandkids. Aidan thought holding baby Crew was the best thing since sliced bread. He wanted to do it himself! He did a pretty good job of it too!
Over the vacation we were able to take the kids ice skating and sledding. They loved it! One day while we were at my parents it snowed over 2 feet and I thought we would have to stay until spring... (I think my parents prayed extra hard that we could go home!! HAHA!)




I think I am pretty much caught up. It has been a busy couple of months. I am ready for things to slow down a little. As a side note: MJ finished his student teaching the middle of December and is now on a job hunt--as always. He really enjoyed teaching jr high kids. So, that is a good thing. If any of you hear of a teaching job, let us know!!