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!