Christmas list and letter to Santa

Carson's letter to Santa...
Dear Santa,
Thank you for getting me stuff for Christmas but I'm going to give you material which is wood and we will basically trade stuff you will (please) get me a Wii U and I will give you wood and I hope you use it so bye. Syncerely, Carson

And his Christmas list...
1. Wii U
2. PS Vita
3. DSi
4. 3DS
5. DSi XL
6. Black Ops 2 for Xbox 360
7. Halo Reach Xbox 360
8. Xbox live 360
9. Call of Duty Xbox 360


Reed, Owen, and Grant telling Santa what they want for Christmas.

Everything's funnier when you're not allowed to laugh

"Tom and Tracy got to know each other in prison a lot."


Carson working on his fictional writing due tomorrow. :)

New beds; new roommates!

Loooong day. Almost everyone's out now. We picked up a new set of bunk beds for the twins today...



Owen gets a new big boy pirate bed on the bottom...



And Reed gets to sleep on the top.



We also moved Carson's bunk beds downstairs and he and Grant are new roomies. So Grant moved out of the crib and into a big boy bed...






Carson and I are hanging out until bedtime and then he's headed to the top bunk.



Big day for everyone. Getting ready for the move!

Good report card dinner!

Monday night we celebrated Carson's good report card with dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (the fanciest restaurant he knows) and ice cream at Kilwins. And we go to the fanciest restaurant he knows and he orders butter pasta.
Dinner out is always absolutely nutballs. We don't do it too often, and I wonder about our sanity when we do, but I'm always glad after. We're so proud of Carson. :)



Reed and her Mac & Cheese.


Checking out the cheesecake.



Give me your best ice cream face!



The whole family. :)

Growing up so fast

After the little kids went to bed tonight, Carson made himself waffles in the toaster, poured his own milk (and asked me if I wanted anything), and then initiated this conversation...
"Mommy, I remembered who the last person at my table is; it's Nyla"
"Really? Tell me about Nyla."
"I used to think she's cute. But now I know she's bossy"
"What does she look like?"
"Cute. And bossy."
Sigh.

Saturday morning

I didn't feel well on Saturday morning so I stayed home with the littles while Mark and Carson went to the baseball game. This is how they took care of me...



Owen put on a puppet show with his tiger mask. Tigers have stripes.






Reed set a table on my legs and made me some soup.



Grant ate the soup.
Then he wanted to be a tiger himself so he drew stripes.



Not fun being sick but fun to have an excuse to hang out with these guys!

Mommy! I wike you a wot!

Last night, Owen kept saying this or "Mommy! I wuv you!" and then posing for a picture. Before I could take it, he'd run away laughing.



I finally got one!



And, of course, Reed will always ham it up for the camera.



Grant was busy watching Carson at batting practice with his Dad. Beautiful night at JRP!