Ice Fishing Too

Christmas 2008

Christmas was lots of fun this year. Tyler and Garrett were so excited! It was fun to watch the awe and merriment of the season in their faces. At first, Tyler would say we celebrate Christmas because Santa would bring us presents. He finally started saying the reason we celebrate Christmas is because of Jesus' birthday. The boys were very spoiled this year. Santa brought Garrett a motorized Jeep car. He brought Tyler a V-Motion video game with game cartridges. Both boys received the much anticipated transformers! Tyler had been asking for transformers since October. Both boys received clothes, pj's, contruction trucks and tractors, books, games, and Christmas ornaments. Grandma Kathy made each of the boys their own Cars apron so they can stay clean while helping mom bake cookies. Justin and I were very blessed this year too. We both received nice presents. Tyler bought his dad a bathrobe for Christmas which was a big surprise to Justin. He loves it though, because his little boy picked it out just for him. We spent a nice relaxing day with family and friends. We opened presents on Christmas morning, played, hung out and relaxed, then we went sledding for a little bit. That was fun. Our thoughts were with our family and friends we were not able to see. We hope everyone had a blessed Christmas this year. We wish you a Happy New Year!

Christmas

Christmas Eve

Every year on Christmas eve, Kama's family goes to church to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. This year, we went to the 5:30 pm family service since Tyler and Garrett were part of the Christmas program being performed during at this service. Tyler was part of the angel choir and Garrett was a little lamb. Garrett did a very good job. The other little boy who was suppose to be a lamb did not go up front at all. Garrett went up when the shepherds were telling their version of the Christmas story and stood still for about 5 minutes. Then he spotted and microphone. He had his feelings hurt when one of the parent helpers told him "no" when he grabbed it. He came back to mom and dad crying and needing loves.

Five minutes later, Garrett was out on Justin's shoulder sleeping the rest of the program away. Tyler was cute as an angel. He did not know all of the words to the songs, but he stood up in front of the church with all of the other little angels smiling and dancing. The boys were fun to watch as the story of Christ's birth was told.

Ice Fishing

This past weekend we went ice fishing with our friends Robie and Kurt and their two dogs, Lucy and Emily. Tyler and Garrett love the outdoors and like to fish even though Justin and I are not really into fishing. Justin likes to go out and play. We take the four wheelers and sleds and the boys have fun. When we were out on Saturday, the ice was 12 inches thick. It's a little unnerving when you hear the ice creak and groan. It was really noisy after a car drove by our little ice shack. Robie and Kurt brought a couple of hockey sticks and a hockey puck so the boys played a little ice hockey. Tyler would fall down when going after the puck. He would just giggle and get up and continue on. The boys like to help Robie and Kurt fish. Garrett sat down for about 10 minutes holding a pole trying to catch a fish. Tyler could not be outdone by his brother so he sat for a little bit but not as long as Garrett. We only caught one fish. Robie was reeling it in and it fell off at the bottom of the hole so Kurt stuck his hand in the water and grabbed the fish. Once the fish was out of the water, Garrett carried it around for awhile. The fish was still alive, moving its fin and Garrett would hold it. Once Garrett even licked the fish. YUCK!!! His mom was gagging and telling him no. We had to take the fish away because Garrett kept trying to put the fish back into the water. The boys played on the sleds and four wheelers and had a good time. Before the fish was caught, we grilled hotdogs and drank hot chocolate and just had fun. Garrett had so much fun and fresh air that he fell asleep while riding the four wheeler. All in all, it was a good time and the boys can't wait till we can go ice fishing again.

Tyler's School Christmas Program

Tyler's school Christmas program was Friday, December 19. He sang two songs during his program. The first one was called "Glory to God" which was to the tune of "Jesus Loves Me" and the second song was a bell one that went "Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding..". Tyler really got into the singing. He was up there singing and dancing his little heart out when all of the other kids were just standing there waiting patiently to go sit down again. Everybody was giggling because Tyler was so funny to watch. It was fun watching him get so excited about his program.

It's Cold Out

This past weekend it was very cold outside. On Saturday, we woke up to snow and very cold temperatures outside. Once the boys were up, the wanted to go outside and play in the snow.

On Friday, we had bought each of them snow shovels. Since they had their new shovels, they wanted to go outside and help shovel the sidewalk and driveway. They were able to go outside since I had to go out and shovel anyways.

I bundled them up in their snowpants, winter jackets, snow boots, hats, and gloves. I even tied scarves around their faces to help keep them warm. Once everyone was all bundled up, we went ouside to shovel the sidewalks.

Tyler thought he was pretty cool being a big boy and shoveling. We had to tell Tyler to shovel the snow onto the grass because he was just pushing it where ever he wanted to go. He like making paths in the snow. Garrett shoveled some. He liked to follow his big brother. Garrett got tired of shoveling and decided to play in the snow but then that was too cold and he wanted inside. It was a balmy zero degrees outside (without the wind chill) while we were shoveling. People would drive by and glare at me because my boys were outside but they were bundled up and not out for long. While we were shoveling, Justin was at work answering service calls. He was on call all weekend for work and he was busy both Saturday and Sunday due to the cold weather. It is usually a good guarantee, whomever is on call during drastic temperature changes will get called out. Justin was the lucky one this weekend.

New To This...

Once we got home to Montana, after spending Thanksgiving in Utah, Justin said we should look into having a website like BJ and Neisha, Trevor and Andrea, and Andy and Leslie. He said it is a nice way to keep family and friends informed about what is going on in our lives. Needless to say, we are trying it. Please be patient with us at we attempt to become savy bloggers. HaHaHa...

Picture with Santa

On Sunday we went to South Towne Mall with Grandma Kathy, Grandpa Earl, Aunt Shantel, Braxton, and Ethan to get the boys picture taken with Santa. That was the one thing Kama wanted to do since we were in Utah for Thanksgiving (besides visiting with family). Tyler was excited to ask Santa for transformers and bull riding stuff. Garrett had fun running around. He really did not want to smile at the camera until mom found the Elmo toy by the photographer's feet. After Garrett had Elmo, he was all smiles. The boys especially liked the candy canes they got after talking to Santa. Aunt Neisha, Uncle BJ, McKell, and baby Kennidee met us at the mall for their Santa pictures too. Everyone was there except Aunt Jami who took Brooke and Chad to the airport.