365- Week 50

12/10/11

Hanging out outside so we can stay out of Grammy's way.

12/11/11

Saying good-bye to Grammy and Papa.

12/12/11

Aubrey thought she was so funny to put her feet up on the table, probably because we were all laughing at her.

12/13/11

NO picture

12/14/11

The last pack meeting for the year. Nick and I received our Wolf award. Nick is now a Bear.

12/15/11

Chloe and Jordyn both dance at the same studio. They did a mall show for Christmas and one of the nights they both did a dance. Chloe looked so cute!!

12/16/11

Last day of school before Winter Break. The kids were so happy!

Aubrey LOVES to play outside any time she can, especially on the trampoline!

365- Week 49

12/3/11

All ready to got to Taylor's 1st birthday.

12/4/11

Nick at the Pamona car show. Nick was the lucky duck who got to go with Chris and Craig.

12/5/11

For Family Home Evening we decorated our gingerbread house.

12/6/11

Just my little buddies on our weekly Sam's Club run.

12/7/11

I was over at my mom's helping her set up for Bunco when I saw Max with a snuggie. I thought it was the funniest thing!!

12/8/11

Nicholas on the way to Fernley. Not sure if he was freezing to death or trying to take a nap.

12/9/11

Tahoe. Chris went snowboarding with Jordan and my dad for the day.

Fernley Trip 2011

Every year we try and go up to Fernley/Reno to see Granny and Papa and attend the Jeakins' Family Christmas Party that my mom puts together.

We mostly hang around town realizing how much we are NOT small town people.

We have a big turkey and ham dinner with all the fixings. After we do a white elephant gift exchange. All the kids get a gift from my mom. They love that!

The Jeakins' siblings

Uncle Mark, Uncle Kevin, Aunt Tammy, Aunt Michelle, Aunt Lisa, Aunt Lynda, and Mom

Everyone usually leaves pretty early since they all have to drive back into Reno. So this year we (Jenny, Katie, Ashton, Jordan ,and Amber) went to look at Christmas lights in a development that you can see from Grammy's house. There aren't too many houses in there, but man they have alot of lights. It was awesome!! We even got out of the car and did a little caroling. It was a sad rendition of Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. But it was fun and then we were off to Pizza Factory for our 2nd dinner!

Sunday came and it was time to say good bye to Grammy and Papa. I always hate that part.

Shark Reef

Last week I got to go with Alex on his field trip to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay. It was fun to be able to see him interact with his classmates and I loved being with him.

The kids got to go in before it actually opened and have a tour. After they went into a little classroom and kind of did some fun review of the things they learned.

Surprise!

Nick made a list of things he wanted for Christmas and his birthday and one of the things on his list was a surprise party. Then how was he surprised you ask. He also wanted a suit for church, so we went shopping for that and without plan a little discussion unfolded between Nick and his dad where Nick was made aware that if he got a suit he was not going to get anything else for his birthday. No party. No presents. I felt really bad and gave Chris the biggest stink eye, but he looked at me and grinned, it was all part of his plan!

Chris had Nick's birthday off, so he picked him from school and took him on some errands while I set stuff up and everyone arrived. He did know something was going on when he came to the front door (not knowing it was our house) blindfolded. SURPRISE!! All of our family was their and some of his baseball friends. We had a nacho bar and Nick requested Oreo cake. After he opened presents the boys were off to play some laser tag.

Nick is a special boy and I am glad that we were able to give him a special day!

Happy 9th birthday Nick!! We love you!

[Nick's School Pic]

So... I didn't post Nick's school picture with the other kids because he had a cheesy grin and we were waiting for retakes. The day before retakes Nick gets this nice scratch in the middle of his forehead that is okay, we will trade it for a cheesy smile! I finally got his pictures back and he says , "Mom, I did another bad smile". Oh well, only school pictures! I know there is a cute little grin in there somewhere!

365- Week 48

11/26/11

Sometimes I wonder how Aubrey is so BIG. She loves to play babies now and loves purses.

11/27/11

After Thanksgiving a little elf named Franky came to stay for the holidays!

11/28/11

On this day Franky was hiding in the Christmas tree and Cooper was dancing for him. I can always find Cooper making faces at him, talking and dancing for him. It was pretty funny. Especially since Cooper was kind of scared of him. He wouldn't want to be upstairs/downstairs by himself with him because "Franky had creepy eyes and he was watching him".

11/29/11

Aubrey is learning to climb up on things now. She isn't too bad at getting into stuff. I thought it was pretty cute when she sat up to the piano and played so nice!

11/30/11

I finally got Nick's album printed from 2008 and it arrived that day. Nick loved it!

12/01/11

Chloe took a picture of some of our Christmas friends.

12/02/11

Happy 9th birthday Nick!!

He was ducking behind the table because he didn't have a shirt on.