Heli Fun!

2009 has been a dream come true so far for Luke! Thanks to Papa John collecting on a few favors, we were all able to go on an awesome helicopter ride! Little Luke was in seventh heaven the entire time. He got to sit in the front with the pilot. He took us on a little scenic tour right next to the mountians and even flew us right over our house. It was really cool, we had so much fun! Thanks again Papa John!!!

Copilot Luke!

The Last of 2008

Get ready... I've been savin' em up so this is a heap load o pictures. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!
Kissing 2008 goodbye under the mistletoe.

Luke having a great time with Daddy at a BYU basketball game.He is now quite the cougars fan.."Mom is my BYU sweatshirt clean?" Thanks Dian and Shaun, it is worn daily!Playin' with the cousins in grandma's backyard.
Eating chips with Papa John. Soooo glad Grandma Patsies and Papa John are back home for a little while!

Nothin' like a little tractor sledding down at the barn!

One cute little Joseph and Mary. But there are no words to describe the wise man in the next picture! :) We had lots of fun parties, tons of good food and sooo much fun with grandpas and grandmas and all our family!

Reading a few Christmas Stories and eating some of Santa's Oreos before bed on Christmas eve.

More sledding... this time it was wild and crazy jeep "fork"wheel drive sledding. (as Luke calls it)

Way to much Christmas fun = two totally tuckered out kids.

Little Ava all dressed up in her new Christmas dress from Emmy.


Such a girl! Doing nails and watching movies with Emmy and Grandma Barker, while the guys cleaned guns on New Years Eve. (I didn't put in the picture of Luke, but lets just say that right now nails are more fun then cleaning guns.)

Holding daddy's sweet new gun!

This little joke of a gift from Sarah's friends was actually really NICE! Right! J/K I know I'm a dork. But you have to admit that hot cardboard vampires with little kids... is really cute! Ava always goes for the bad boys! (not a good sign!)
These next 2 are gross, sorry but so funny! Ava had this nasty snot bubble that stayed for like 5 minutes and Luke and I couldn't stop laughing. Ava was laughing just as hard and kept posing for the camera. (Maybe you had to be there but the pictures are kind of funny.) Just so you know my kids don't always run around with snot coming out of their noses.

Oh yeah and the first song on my blog goes out to all you who can't stand those pesky squirrel faced rodents runnin' around. You know who you are.

Love it!

Just wanted to post this nice picture for...I guess myself. I can't wait to see the movie again and again....so CUTE!!!!

SANTA!!!

Luke and Ava got to see Santa on Saturday. It was so fun to see their little excited faces as they got to talk to him and tell him what they wanted for Christmas. Luke told Santa he wanted a helicopter and some train tracks. Little Ava just stared at him and kept saying "yeah" to anything he would ask her. As we were leaving he said "Santa loves you." He was so sweet with them. Ava kept blowing him kisses and waving. I love getting to see Christmas through the eyes of little kids, it really brings back the magical feeling of Christmas for me. It was funny because on Thanksgiving Jeremy asked Luke what he was thankful for and Luke answered, "I'm thankful for the Holidays." I'm not really sure if he even knows what holidays means but it was cute. I'm thankful for the holidays too! There are so many things to be thankful for!

Have a Good Laugh on Me!

Just A Few More Family Pictures

First Snow!

We woke up a few days ago to this....

Burrrrr SNOW! Luke and Ava were so excited. And I have to admit it made me a little excited for the up coming eating turkey, Christmas trees, and being together with family for the holidays. But snow? I'm just not ready to give up the nice warm fall weather yet. Pretty cute little snowman though right! Duce kept eating his mouth off, we used walnuts from our tree in the backyard and he likes to eat 'em.