The Pheasant Hunt

Christmas 2008

Christmas is a very exciting time! I love spending time with family at this very special time of year! We have a very busy couple of days filled with fun and events. On Christmas Eve we go to my Mom and Dad's and eat snack food and the kids dress up like the nativity scene and my Mom reads a little nativity story. She usually has us watch a movie something that will help bring the spirit of Christmas to us. Then we go home and have Christmas with our own families, Christmas morning is always so exciting, the boys can't wait to see what they got! This year they both asked for guns. Branson got a shot gun and Carson a BB gun. Then at 10:00 am we go to eat breakfast at my Grandma Kent's house, we have been doing for as long as I can remember. My Grandma won't have it any other way. She is such a sweetheart! My cousin said it is like putting 40 people in a mini van, and it's just not healthy. I said we aren't very healthy people anyway! I can't imagine not being able to go to Grandma's on Christmas morning I have been doing it my whole life. I will miss it when we aren't able to do it anymore! Then we go to My Mom and Dad's again for lunch and to open our gifts from them and give them our gifts. This year one of our favorite gifts that Dad gave was a popcorn cart for the Grand kids that stays at his house. The kids thought it was so awesome. My Dad had to push snow most of Christmas Day, we missed him! Then later that evening we go to Roberta's house to be with Rod's family. She is very considerate of everyone and has her party in the evening so that we can get to all of our family activities. We had a great Christmas, we hope all of you do too!

Boy's Night at Aunt B's

Boy's Night at Aunt B's is a very exciting time! I love to have all the boys over and they have such a good time when they are together! I am missing two boys in this photo shoot. Newly's Lance and Kati's Payton. There have been several occasion's when I have had them all at the same time. Branson has his friend Wyatt over too. One of their favorite things to do is pretend that they are riding bulls, Bailey is usually the bull. He is a good sport. I love all my BOYS!!

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY 2 FRONT TEETH

Santa came to Fielding Town Hall last Saturday and Carson was so excited to sit on his lap and tell him what he wanted. Santa said I bet all you want for Christmas is your 2 front teeth. Carson said no I want a BB gun and a new saddle and a sled and.... OH BOY!
Branson on the other hand didn't want to sit on Santa's lap this year. Instead he wanted to take pictures. I gave him my camera and he went around snapping pictures of everyone. He tried to take a couple of himself with other people. What a kid. The older people thought it was great!

Salt Lake City

We went to Salt Lake this weekend on a mini vacation. I went to the Temple with Rod's sister Karen and her husband Travis, they were sealed to their children, it was such an awesome expericence! I am so happy for them! While I was in the temple Jacki toured Temple Square with my boys, they had a lot of fun. They did it all. They have never been to Temple Square. Jacki took them to eat in the Nauvoo Cafe while I went to the dinner. Rod had to work so he didn't get to go with us. That night we went to the concert at the Conference Center, that was really neat, I have never been inside of it and I was so amazed at how big it is. The concert was quite a show, more than I expected and the boys enjoyed it too! We stayed over at Little America and then went to the Gateway the next day, we were going to shop but we ended up just eating, because Jacki and I were worried about the snow. We had a lot of fun together. Thanks, Aunt Jacki. This was probably an overdose on birth control for her!

GINGERBREAD HOUSES

Rod's Mom makes gingerbread for everybody in the family. The couples get one to share and the kids each get their own. It is a lot of work for her, but she really enjoys doing it for everyone. We put our houses together the first Sunday in December every year.

The boys love to do this! Carson's favorite part is putting the house together and decorating it. That's what he said anyway, I think he really enjoys eating the candy too.

Branson's favorite part is eating it on New Year's Day. Rod remembers eating theirs on New Year's Day when he was a kid. I think it is kind of gross, because it gets dusty, but boys don't really care about that. Branson even put candy inside of his and said that it is a secret vault only to be opened on New Year's Day.





This is ours, however I did all of the work, Rod does'nt really get into it. Mine always looks about the same every year, this year I tried wheat thins on the the roof for shingles. I don't get to creative, I like to keep it simple. I like mine to be color coordinated of course in Red and Green. This is a fun tradition. Thanks Roberta for all of your work!