Day Off School

 The boys had a day off school and we decided to make a day of it.  We first went to "Get Air", a trampoline park where the boys could get all of their energy out ;)

 Then we headed to a Grizzlies hockey game with cute Uncle Nathan.  They boys loved it...

 Except McKay who was pretty tired from all of that jumping.

It was a fun break from school!

Trampoline Park

 McKay is such a good sport.  He gets dragged around to a million things and is such a sport.  Everyone once in a while however, it is fun for it to be just the two of us and to do something he likes to do.

 We went to a trampoline park and he had a ball!

 I couldn't stop taking pictures of all of his cuteness, too bad they were with my iphone, so not the best quality.

 McKay and I go on a lunch date with Josh every week and this was the day.

He is such a little sweetheart.  We sure love him!

Gingerbread Houses

I have wanted to do homemade gingerbread houses forever, but have always been a little intimidated.  This year however, was the year that I was determined to do them.  

 It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.  I used a template to cut out this house, but i think it would be fun to make up my own one day...I guess we will see next year...or the year after.

 I did some basics with the icing, and then let the boys go.

 I really really wanted to do it myself...but I let the boys do it all.  I think next year I might do small ones so we can all do one.  It was so fun!

 It took some major team work to get everything to how everyone wanted, but we got there.

We started the tradition of making gingerbread cookies last year with this yummy recipe.  I figured as long as we were doing gingerbread, we should do some to eat while we decorated.

 We added some of the gingerbread men to our house.

Our first gingerbread house was a success!

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl

We are huge fans of Utah State here (obviously) and were so thrilled with their awesome football season this year.  The second that we knew USU was playing in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl were were so excited to go.  We went last year and had a grand time (even though they lost...)

Before the drive to Boise we went to a pre-showing of The Hobbit that Josh's company put on (no pics...)  Right after that we headed to Boise in a huge snow storm (it was a bit scary).  As we drove we read the book "Unbroken" together.  Josh and I love to read together, it is one of our favorite things to do, especially on road trips.  This book has been amazing and eye opening to read.  We got to Boise too late to do anything but find our hotel and get to bed, it was pretty late.

As the morning of the bowl game dawned we headed to breakfast and then to do some Christmas shopping.

The game wasn't as cold as it was last year, but it was still pretty chilly.

Luckily we were prepared for the worst :)

We had a ball watching the Aggies win against Toledo.

 After it was over we all went down to the field and celebrated with the other fans and the team.

It was such a fun time.  I love being on trips with Josh, I am afraid that I like them too much because I always want to be planning one.  I have become a bit travel crazy :)  Hoping we get another trip soon!

Hunter's 7th Birthday

 Hunter turned 7 this year.  It is crazy to me how fast his life is going (all of their lives for that matter).

 Hunter's big gift this year was a Karaoke machine.  He love to sing and has spent a lot of time singing to it.

 He also randomly asked for a drum set.  This was the best we could do ;)

Cute Grandma Happy sang with him for a while, which he thought was awesome.

 McKay also loves his Karaoke machine.

McKay and I met Hunter at school to eat lunch with him.  McDonalds is always the request for things like that.

 Later that night was a bit crazy.  Palmer had a school performance and Hunter and Lincoln had basketball games.  We ended up going to Texas Roadhouse per Hunter's request (very late I might add).

I think the main reason he wanted Texas Roadhouse was for the birthday saddle.  Who wouldn't want that?