Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! We didn't get a letter, or a card, or goodies this year, so the blog will have to suffice. :) This week has been filled with lots of fun. Logan's new favorite toy is the big bin of stuffed animals. He likes to climb in with all the animals.

He is cute enough that I do want to just hold him and squish him. :)

This is how their bedroom looks on a typical day before clean up time. They basically pull all their toys out, but it keeps them busy and happy while I'm still unpacking and organizing the house.

Logan is still my cheeser anytime he sees the camera.

And now Damon is following suit and actually says "cheese" when I bring out the camera. It's really cute.

They love their beds, although they have their "own" bed they seem to be okay sharing too.

That is Damon's favorite spot, it makes him tall enough he can switch the light on and off, that's usually where we find him in the morning, sometimes even when Logan is still sleeping. Luckily the lightswitch is only for the closet.

Now for Christmas. Our very first Christmas with just the 4 of us:

Logan and Damon snuck into the stockings that were full of cars and trains and loved playing with them. I think the house is still cluttered in those cars. :)

Damon and Daddy opening presents.

That's about how we all felt all day. The boys had a great time opening presents.

Logan loved his big rescue vehicles. And he did pretty good opening them by himself too.

Of course they each had to get a little outfit too.

Except the picture of Damon's didn't turn out too good, so you'll just have to see him in it later.

Damon likes the helicopter, it makes noises, but not too annoying.

Opening more presents. I think our kids got pretty spoiled this year.

Damon was still trying to grasp the whole opening presents thing.

Here's a quick video of him opening his present from Grandma and Papa, mostly for my parents' sake. :)

He was starting to get the hang of opening presents towards the end.

Another rescue vehicle, I think we ended up buying the whole fleet, which was good, so far we haven't had too many arguments or fights over them.

Logan and the police car, which I think ended up being his favorite, he asks about it before he goes to bed. "Momma, where's the police car?"

This is Logan opening his present from Grandma and Papa. The moose and the mouse now reside in the tent. :)

We all had a really great Christmas!

Logan got some slippers so his feet don't get too cold while we're downstairs watching shows in the basement. He's still getting used to them.

But Damon loves his slippers and wears them all over the house.

They love their little play tent, it's still set up in the living room and they like to have "picnics" in the tent where we all share a snack. It's actually been really fun. It was a bugger to get set up though, but we finally managed. :)

The boys love to sit on our laps and read books right now and I just love it.

Morgan and I decided that buying a new house and being in it for Christmas was just about the most perfect present ever, but then he went the extra mile and during his Christmas time off he built me the most perfect and wonderful storage shelves ever.

He did get a new drill out of it though. :) But he also got me a really great jacket and waffle shirt that I wasn't expecting. The shelves were really the best present though.

I'm excited to get all my food storage organized again and then I think I'll feel more settled.

It's really spacious and we'll probably be able to fit all our food, plus all our other "stuff" in there.

This is our little corner for our water storage that we'll hopefully get going this next week. Well, I hope you all had a very wonderful Christmas. It was definitely a different Christmas for us, but really great. We had some great parties and get togethers with both our families, but it sure was nice to just be together on Christmas. So, until next time...

Silent Snapshots

November in a Nutshell

Well...more like a bombshell of information. The following blog is probably for our journal keeping purposes only and not really for you're enjoyment, but if you're killing time, you may as well catch up. So, these are the noteworthy events (that I remember) from November:

1-My birthday. I turned 25 on November 6th! Wow, time flies, but I sort of feel like I've been 25 for the past few years anyway, so now I guess it's official. I had a great birthday while still in St. George, Morgan came down to visit and we got to go on a date together.

2-Morgan's birthday. He turned 30 on November 13th, but I think he still feels like he should only be 25 too. :) We did more of a joint birthday on his weekend. My parents babysat Logan and Damon overnight on Friday and we headed up to Zion and had an awesome time. We went to a movie, did some hiking, smooching, hot tubbing in the freezing cold at midnight. It was a blast! And now we know a really great place to stay if you're going to be at Zion for a few days, a little pricey, but really nice!

3-Our house got finished and we did our walk-through. They only had to fix a few minor things and replace the garage door. I came up the weekend before Thanksgiving so we could get it all taken care of. We all got to drive down to St. George together for Thanksgiving knowing that when we came up afterwards we would be moving soon.

4-Thanksgiving! We had an awesome Thanksgiving in St. George. Grandma and Grandpa Goodman along with Glen and Mindy's family came down and the weather was so great that we ate outside and basically spent most of the day outside. Logan had an absolute blast with Donovan and we were so glad that DeAnna and Donovan got to be here for Thanksgiving.

5-Closing on our home....just kidding....wait not we really are....nope, not yet....well okay, let's try that again...nevermind....one last shot....okay phew! Closing on our home was quite the exhausting week, usually it only takes a day, but really felt like it took the whole week. Between miscommunication and delay and sorting out paperwork we were just grateful that we were finally able to close on Friday December 4t....even though closing that late meant we couldn't move in that weekend like we had planned and we had to wait until Monday...and pay for another month of our storage unit. But really, we were glad to get the paperwork signed. :)

6-MOVING! We just want to thank everyone again for all your help with the move. We had it all done in less than 2 hours with all the help we had. The weather cooperated by not sending a blizzard. :) I love our house so much and I never want to move again...at least not for a very long time and after all our student loans are paid back.

7-Meeting our new ward! We love our new ward and it just feels so right to be here. We've been able to meet a lot of people and there is a good mix of people in the ward. It sort of feels like the ward I grew up in. After having several different experiences with wards, we are definitely grateful and happy to be where we are.

8-Finally getting: a refrigerator, a washer, a dryer, a garbage can, a recycle bin, a phone line, and Internet. Whew! I never realized that all those things would take longer to get in a new home because of being the very first to live there.

Well, that's about it. We're almost done unpacking, the boys are really slowing things down. :) We're having fun along the way though. They have both adjusted really well to everything. In the next post I'll try to get a conglomeration of pictures over the past month and try to stay on top of things now. Did I already mention how much I love our house?! I really love our house! (especially being able to park in the garage when it's snowing outside). :) Until next time....which hopefully won't be too long!