Here's the only picture I got of Jabon (sorry, Jabon). I put it on my blog, but I thought I'd use it again since it not only showcases Jabon, but also my pretty tree!!
Millie and Josh.
Brett showing me how tough he is.
Abby.
Emma messing with Cody. Emma is always messing with Cody.
Tyler brought his list to give to Santa. I'm sure Santa enjoyed that a lot! Then Tyler asked if he could pull on his beard. He let him too. Tyler was told that he could only do it a little bit, otherwise it would hurt too much! :) Ty had been looking forward to that part for over a week! Silly guy!
Teagan actually sat on Santa's lap this year without crying! Yay! It's a miracle! I guess watching all those Christmas movies this year really helped. He is starting to like this jolly fat man!
Trenton also brought his list for Santa. He's unfolding it here. It was very important to him that Santa know everything that he wanted. I hope the boys have a great Christmas this year. Even if they only got one thing off of their list.
Merry Christmas to all of you! I love you and hope that you have a GREAT Christmas!!!
We had a lot of fun. It was nice to be away from the boys for a little bit and have time just for the two of us. I tell ya, we needed it! We went mini golfing on the boat, ate delicious food, saw a hypnotist, a comedian, and a show. It was great! They let you eat food all day and all night. And the only food you have to pay for separately is the sushi. Good thing I was going near that stuff!
When we got to Ensenada, James and I took the taste of Mexico tour. We got a tour around the town with them telling us how terrible the Americans are, and they are so great. Or at least, that's how it seemed. Then we went to a restaurant where they taught us how to make our own 3 course meal. It was really good too. Then we walked around town for an hour or so. That's when our money decided to fly right out of our pockets! Crazy how that happens.
In our room every day on the boat, we got a new towel animal. They were so cute! The only think I didn't like was how they would take away the old one to give us a new one. I wanted to have a whole jungle. Oh well, we did get picture with every one of them. They were so cute! Here's the elephant.
And here's the monkey. It was hanging around all day! Do you like James' monkey face. Yes, he's the one in the blue shirt. Then they gave us one that we didn't know what is was, so we just called it the baby. It was really cute too.
Now that we've been on this cruise, we've decided to do it again sometime. A longer one. 3 days is nice to get to know if you like it or not, but it's not quite long enough to do much. On the third day we were finally able to direct ourselves around the boat without our map. And that was the day that we disembarked. It was really good. I had a really great time, and I am so ready to go again. Any takers?
Can you find the REAL animal in this picture? Teagan and Trenton love to hide in the stuffed animals. And yes, most of them are from when I was little. I still love the teddy bears. My boys have even kept their original names that I named them.
And a Knight. Just ignore the others behind him.
And Captain Moroni.
We forgot to get a picture with them all standing next to each other. We also forgot to get a picture with them all next to their pumpkins that they carved. I told you it was a bad year.
Any way. They all got to carve their own pumpkins. Trenton would not even stick his hand inside his at all. I had to do it for him. Not my favorite part of carving pumpkins either.
This is Teagan's. His is the only one so far that was able to get a picture taken with his. The other two were still carving at this point. They all did a great job too. They all designed their own face.
Tyler wanted me to take some pictures of him posing. So I got some of the other two also. I'm not the best, and the big coats detract from it all, but I think they turned out pretty good.
I don't know why Teagan is pouting here. He was having a great time. He just gets like this every once in a while. I think it's because I was taking pictures of the other two and not him at the time. Be patient little one. I'll get to you!
Tyler found this great stump to stand on. It was pretty comical trying to get them all to stand on it. James is just out of camera shot waiting for one of them to biff it. Luckily that didn't happen.
They found a skeleton of something. I don't know what it was. I didn't look at it too closely. They thought it was great. They all stared at it for about five minutes. Boys. What can ya do?
Then we came home and had homemade peach pie. With our own peached that we jarred last year. It was delicious! 
Tyler took this picture. He's getting to enjoy getting so big! He's just doing it way to fast!
It's Ashton's birthday
Oh Colorado, why do you hate me so?
Trent's birthday was Thursaday. I still can't believe he's six! Holy cow! Where does the time go?
Tyler made this for him. It's a pencil holder. I don't think it will ever be used for it's intended purpose, but it's the thought that counts. It has a picture of Tyler holding Trenton when Trent was just a baby. Sorry it's turned. I guess I'm still not so good at this.
We decided to have a family party on Thursday since he was having a friend party on Sat.
Trent said that he wanted jell-o for dessert. So I went online and looked at recipes. I found one for a fish bowl. I thought it was a good idea. It didn't dawn on me what a brilliant idea it was until I put the candles on. It turned into a pirates ocean. YAY me!!!
I figured out how to do the timer on my camera. So I used it on Trent's big day.Teagan was counting with James how many times it blinked the red light. He was getting really excited with it. Hence this expression.
For the big party, I made skull cupcakes. I only have a 12 count cupcake pan, so the rest was just a little cake. I needed it though, that's where the candles went.
They had a treasure hunt too! Tyler made the clues. I think they had a pretty fun time. When they found the treasure, one of them asked if they got to keep it. Of course, it was the goody bags!
Then they got to hit the pinata. James was having a better time holding the pinata then the kids hitting it I think. He put it right on top of Trent's head. It was pretty funny. The stinkin thing was so tough that Tyler had to come and start hitting it without the blindfold. Needless to say, it took up plenty of time.
These are all the kids that came. 3 are from church, and 2 are from the neighborhood. They were all saying "Argh" for the picture. Gotta keep the pirate theme. All in all, I think Trenton had a pretty good time.
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