Christmas 2008

The Gingerbread house.
Auntie Linda sent this home with us at Thanksgiving. Approx. 8 hours, 3 sisters, and losing the roof a couple of times this was our finished product:-) Thanks Auntie Linda!

Going to see Santa. Addison wanted nothing to do with him, and we had to tell Peyton that there were other kids in line that wanted to talk to him......

He was going on, and on, and on!

Christmas Eve.....Addison stay out of Santa's cookies!

Christmas morning! A bow and arrow was all Peyton asked for Christmas this year. He was so excited when he opened this. This is the picture right before cranking back on it a bit too hard and busting it right in HALF!! Oh man DRAMA.....he was in tears saying Christmas was ruined, running to his room. I am laughing at the situation now (and someday you will too Peyton) but that was a little rough! Dad did seem to remedy the situation a bit with the trusty ol duck tape. I wish I had the after picture with the "cast". He did make sure to tell us that we were to send it back to the North Pole and make those elves fix it! Something that his mother sure hasn't done yet....

Redmon Christmas Party.

After opening all of our gifts Christmas morning. We loaded up and headed into probably the worst snow storm we have had this year. When we got back our neighbors told us they had to have someone come and plow our driveway for us. I guess there was about a five foot pile of snow sitting in our driveway from the snow plough. But we did eventually make it to Grandma and Grandpa Redmons to do a bit of celebrating. Wow is that side of the family growing fast!

My little Addison was more interested in putting the bows in her hair than the presents......such a girlie girl!

Christmas Day night Santa stopped by on his way back to the North Pole. Peyton was sure glad to see him to tell him all about the bow incident!

Ponderings on Life by a 4 year old

Peyton and I have been having some pretty deep conversations lately about life and growing up.

Peyton got up one morning and proceeded to tell me this (me fresh out of bed too).
"Mom when I grow up and I have a son, and when I go work with dad you are going to have to take really good care of my son OK?" "OK honey I will" "And when he tries to sneak into those cookies you just get really mad at him OK?" "OK I won't let him get into those cookies."
Then he left, just wanted to make sure to give me that memo:)

A few days later as I was putting him to bed.....
"Mom when I grow up I am going up to Alaska, and I am going to find a boat and learn how to drive it. Then I am going to catch fish just like daddy." "Really" I said "that's a long way from Utah." "Yeah maybe I will just stay here."

Few days after that.....
"MOM guess what?" "What honey." "When I grow up I am going to live with you and daddy with my son.....are you so excited?" "Yes, but what about your wife?" "Well, I just don't need a wife." "Really well then where are you going to get a son without a wife?" He thinks for a second and then said "I will just have to go find myself a son." "OK" I say "but most people have a wife to help them take care of a son, do you think she will want to live with us too?" "Well mom, I don't know about that."

Last night.......
"I know mom, when I grow up YOU can be my wife!" "Well honey you can't marry mommy, besides I am already daddy's wife." "OK." "I know, I can marry Addison" I could just see how perfectly this idea was working in his mind, because he knows that SHE won't have any problems living with us forever.....seemed like the perfect idea! "Well honey you can't marry your sister either, it will probably be someone that you don't even know yet." "But like who mom?" Trying to find an example that would suffice him I said "like Ashton" (the little girl down the street who is his friend Carters sister). He looks at me with a smile and said "you can't marry SISTERS silly!"

This morning.......
"Mom when I grow up and have a wife, guess what!" "What honey." "She IS going to want to live here with you and daddy FOREVER AND EVER!" I just smiled, what could I say to that?


Oh the other really cute thing he randomly came up and told me the other day.
"Mom when you have another baby, you are going to have to grow another arm!" "Really, why?" "Well, you have one arm for me and one arm for Addison, so you are going to need another arm!" EXACTLY!

Thanksgiving 2008

We got to spend Thanksgiving in California this year, with Tim's whole family. We don't get to see much of each other so it was really special, especially for the kids.....Peyton still tells us that when we are done living in Utah we are moving to Virginia to live by his cousins. He misses them and is always begging us to let him call and talk to them. Problem is that he doesn't ever want the conversation to end......which is complete torture for his cousins! But he does love his cousins! This is a collage that Sharon and I had my sis Tina make for us from a little photo shoot we had in Cali. Alanna is always saying that all she wants for Christmas from us is picts......so this is what we came up with. I think it turned out so cute. It was a little tricky getting all 7 kids out at the same time semi color coordinated, without having Grandma or Grandpa knowing what the heck was going on. We tried to tell grandma that the kids were hungry so we asked her to make lunch.....then we very sneakily took them outside.

Then we changed it up to send the rest of the cousins. Thanks Tina!
Enjoying a little sun at the park!


Fun in Papa Kelly's hot tub! Every spare second Peyton had, he was trying to coax one of his cousins to get in with him.
Uncle Dan and Aunt Jill had Thanksgiving for us ALL this year. It all turned out so nice, they had to move dinner out to the garage so we could fit everyone. They really spent a lot of time decorating and cooking and it was GREAT! Thanks for having us!

Hunter family get together. We are starting to get quite the little crew!

This was on the way back from the Hunter party in San Francisco. Peyton wanted to ride with the girls.....little did he know they were going to poop out and that their car DIDN'T have a DVD player! heee heee Life is rough;)

We got the chance to take the kids....(all but Addi, who stayed home for a grandma day;) to the zoo in San Francisco.

Cousin Christmas gift exchange.

The End.

The Last Road Trip From Alaska

OK because I wasn't actually on this road trip I don't have a lot of the juicy details. I do know the one of them getting stuck at the border for like 6 hours. Not good! Tim also said that Peyton just did so good and was such a sport about it all. His friend Eric flew up to help him paint and finish packing us up. I was so glad that he had someone to help him move all of the furniture and help him drive. Kind of weird that this journey we take twice a year is over. I wonder if Peyton will remember it when he grows up.


On the road again

Peyton helping Stella with a potty break or maybe it was the other way around...not sure;)

This was of their big hold up at the border

Lunch Break

This big guy apparently came and rubbed up right against their front bumper.....didn't get a good pic though.

For the life of me I can't remember the name of this place.....I know my dad will see it and know (help dad) but yeah Here's Your Sign:)

Last but not least here is one last pic of the Alaska house all empty and ready to go.