More Videos from New Years!

So I hate posting videos to you-tube so you will have to view a these short videos. Enjoy!

No, that is NOT a hat on Tim's head. It's a Sweat band. GO ROCKSTAR TIM!!!!

Who knew Jeremy was so flexible? Love those high kicks!!

New Years Eve

For New Years we decided at the last minute to stay home and invited some friends over. We played Rock Band with the kids the whole night. Then right after midnight we kicked the kids off and the adults played until 2:00 am. Tyler bought Rock Band 2 with his birthday and Christmas money, it has a no fail feature so Riley and Kyle were also able to play with us. They thought that was great because they are always wanting to play. I convinced Jeremy to do his encore of Sabatage for the camera and he agreed. He also agreed to let me post it on my blog. Enjoy because we all did!!!

Christmas Dinner Group

This year we hosted our annual Christmas Dinner Group. Chris decided he wanted the dinner catered, so we ordered the dinner from Cinco De Mayo. We got burritos and enchiladas, it was very good! After dinner we played our gift exchange game. Everyone walked away with a nice gift and something that they could all use. After that some of the guys wanted to play rock band. Who was I to stand in their way? Jeremy Evans can do an awesome impersonation of the Beastie Boys. I thought the Beastie Boys were in my Living Room singing Sabatage. It was so good. Unfortunately, he wouldn't do an encore for the camera. Tim Doll enjoyed singing Wanted Dead or Alive. We all took turns on the guitar and drums. It was a very enjoyable evening.

Christmas 2008

We celebrated Christmas so many times this season that I decided to do it all in one post. On December 10th we went to get our family pictures taken. Both the boys desperately needed a haircut so I took them. Riley Jo decided she needed a haircut too even though she had hers cut about 3 weeks before. I didn't think it was worth a fight so I let her get her haircut too. So now her hair is to her chin too! I will post a picture soon. On December 13 it was our ward Christmas party. We had a great dinner, and experienced our first deep fried turkey. It tasted awesome! They squirted teriyaki sauce into the turkey so it tasted really sweet. Riley Jo actually sat on Santa's lap this year without crying which was a huge accomplishment. I forgot my camera so I am waiting for one to be sent to me so I will post it when I get it. Then on December 18th Riley Jo's preschool had their holiday celebration. We walked into the classroom and all the kids had on a Rudolph headband with a red nose. They sang some Christmas songs and Santa came to visit. Santa brought everyone 2 books and then they could take a picture with him. I forgot my camera again so I am waiting for the pictures too. Then you can understand about the Rudolph noses. The kids looked so cute and they sang the songs really good. Riley Jo sat on Santa's lap again!!

Then on the 20th we woke out kids up and told them it was Christmas morning and we let them open their Christmas gifts. We have to do a lot of jumping around on Christmas day and the kids don't get to stay at home, so we spent the morning at home and after lunch went to the mall to try to see Santa. Unfortunately, the rest of Concord and probably the surrounding cities were all there too. So we couldn't see Santa with all our kids. So the two youngest got their pictures taken with Santa. This is the best picture we've had with Santa in 4 years. Riley has been kicking and screaming in everyone until this year.

Black Friday

Black Friday this year happened to be on Riley Jo's 3rd birthday!! Black Friday happens to be my all time favorite shopping day because I love to shop for all the deals. My sister-in-law Jeannine and I had planned since last year to go to the outlets in Vacaville to start our Christmas shopping. They open up at Midnight. Plus, it is our tradition to go with my brother and Jeannine to Old Town Sacramento the day after Thanksgiving. So Jeannine picked me up at 10:30 pm on Thanksgiving night to drive to Vacaville. We checked into our hotel and took our bags into the room. We then set off to the Outlets to wait in line outside of KB toys. We then went around the different stores until 4:00 a.m. The line was worst at KB, after that we had to wait to get into GAP but we didn't have to wait in line to check out. Then we drove to Kohls where we had to wait in line for about 30 minutes to check out. By then it was 5:30 so we headed to Circuit City to do our shopping there. Again another long line to check out. We shopped for 5 minutes and waited about 45 minutes to check out. Now at 6:30 I've been awake for a full 24 hours falling asleep standing up, plus my back and legs are killing me! But we aren't done yet. We still have to go to Target. We decide as we walk into Target that now would not be a good time to get caffeine because we would want to go to sleep after this store. So we go into Target and are totally excited that it seems there is no line to check out. So we get our shopping done, a little bit slower checking our list twice to make sure we got everything we needed and head to the front to check out. To our surprise there is an extremely large line wrapped around the entire store! We must have been too tired to notice that line right! Did we forget it was Black Friday. Who misses out on this shopping day? So we finally leave the store and get back to the hotel at 7:30. Our husbands and my kids were meeting us at 10:30. Yes I only got 3 hours of sleep. I called Riley Jo while I was in line at Target to wish her a Happy Birthday because I knew she would be up. I decorated her room Thursday night before I left after she went to bed so she had a surprise to wake up to since I wasn't there. Then we went to Sacramento for the day. We rode the Santa train, went to the train museum, and ended our day at Candy Heaven as usual. Riley Jo said she had a really good birthday. I was asleep before we left the garage and slept all the way home. Then when I got home I slept for another hour and a half. I am sitting at this computer right now falling asleep. Good thing there is spell check and a delete button because WOW it is time for me to sleep.

Thanksgiving 2008

Thanksgiving morning we woke up with every intention of going to our Wards devotional. Unfortunately we didn't move as fast as we needed too so we were too late to go. So I went and got my newspaper so I could start planning on my shopping trip for the next day. My sisters came over for appetizers and games. We played a new game called Phase 10 Twist. Then we all headed off in separate directions for Dinner. We headed over to Chris' moms house, Bobbi made a traditional turkey in the oven and Chris' brother Tim BBQ one. They both were GREAT! We played games after dinner which was a first, and we had a lot of fun.

Tyler turns 12!!

Friday November 14th Tyler turned 12. We started the morning off with pancakes and milkshakes and sent the kids off to school. That night Tyler had his birthday party with 7 boys. We went to see Madagascar 2 and then we came back to our house for cake and presents and the boys stayed the night. They had a fun time hanging out and playing games till 3:00 in the morning when we finally told them it was time to go to sleep. It got quiet very fast. However when you have 2 young kids who go to bed on time, they wake up early in the morning. So the boys were all up by 7:30 am. I made them all pancakes and they jumped on the trampoline until they got picked up. On Sunday November 16th Tyler was ordained a deacon and He recieved the Priesthood by Chris. Then on Sunday November 23rd Tyler passed the Sacrament for the first time and gave his first Sacrament Meeting talk as a 12 year old. So many firsts so fast, I think he is already broken in. He has gone to Mutual twice now and enjoys it a lot! He is even going on an overnight in a couple weeks and he is excited for that too.