More fun in Missouri!

Here are some more pictures from our fun trip to Missouri!
Scooter loved Annabell! He would pet her whenever he could and follow her around! He loves animals!
Stories with Grandpa!
Smiling with Grandma!
Everyone was so nice & celebrated my birthday while we were there!! Here is the apron that Mom Miyake made for me! Its so dang cute - I love it!!
Time for a little nap!
At the Bass Pro shop- Scooter loved this place! He was running all around and calling for us to come and see the animals!
At the Discovery Center! Scooter loved this place too! They have so many fun things to do! I think we could have stayed here all day & he wouldn't have minded a bit!




However, we might have had a few complaints from a few other folks if we had tried to stay all day... ha ha!
Grandma & Daddy swinging Scooter to the car!
Scooter helping Grandma make sugar cookies!
At the church playin' ball.
Hiding with Alli. Scooter & Grandma read the book "We're going on a bear hunt" and they hid from the bear - so he wanted to do that all week! ...And he is still doing it a month later!
Playing with Alli.

Playing with his new computer!
With Alli & James!
With Katelynn & Steven!
He fell asleep on the airplane on the way home. As soon as we landed in Salt Lake he sat up, and started chewing his gum. We didn't realize that he'd fallen asleep with gum in his mouth!
Thanks so much for letting us come for such a FUN visit! We had such a great time - and we're looking forward to the next time we get to hang out together!

Christmas Part 2!

We were lucky enough to have 2 Christmas celebrations this year! We celebrated in Utah on Christmas, and on the 26th we went to Missouri! And did you know- in Missouri- Christmas Eve is celebrated on the 26th?!? Well...maybe it's only celebrated on the 26th when you have a WAY awesome family, and they decide to wait & celebrate Christmas Eve on the 26th, and Christmas day on the 27th! How cool is that?!

When we got to Gramma & Grampas house, Gramma showed Scooter this new addition to the house: A mini kitchen! He loved it - and cooked food with Katelynn & Alli all week! (my favorite was when they taught him to say that the food was burning, and he'd go running to the little kitchen to save the food!! We'd be upstairs - or sometimes not even at home!- and he'd suddenly say: "Our food is burning!")
Christmas jammies with Alli & Katelynn!

Sticking out their tongues!
Ha ha! I love his sweet, little face!!
Christmas Morning!

Scooter loves Kobe! He loves playing with him, and especially giving him treats!
A very happy little boy! He had so much fun unwrapping his presents and being with everyone! This was a fun present from Alli & James - there were firetrucks, an ambulance, a helicopter & other things like that! He loved it!
Scooter doing his pouty face.
Turning the frown upside down...or at least sideways!
A little later, baby Eli woke up and came in to celebrate with everyone! What a cutie!
I just thought this picture was funny!!

Christmas Part One!

CHRISTMAS EVE!

We were all able to spend Christmas Eve together - we slept at my mom & dads & it was So much fun! This is Scooter before we went to Nana & Papa's house!

Helping Myke wrap a present!
Erica!! (aka Miss Poinsettia!)
We had our suitcases out because on the 26th we were heading to Missouri -so Scooter wanted to bring his suitcase for the sleepover at Nannys! He pulled it around with him the whole night!
Borrowing Mauri's Christmas hat! Merry Christmas everyone!
Leaving out some reindeer food! Lins brought some of this for Mar & Scooter - and they thought it was great to spread it out over the snow!
Happy boy & happy mom!
Erica & Myke being silly! Myke pretended to fall backwards after this - and it really scared Erica! (they were on the stairs!)
Christmas eve jammies!!
CHRISTMAS MORNING
We were very lucky because the kiddos were both asleep around 10:30pm and didn't wake up until 9am! Mar woke up first, so we woke Scooter up & asked him if he wanted to see what Santa brought & he sat right up and said "Yes!" It was so fun to be together and watch the kiddos! Kids just bring something magical to Christmas, and being around them helps me feel the Christmas spirit more!

Santa brought Scooter & Mar both an easel!
Happy, handsome boys! So glad they're mine!!
Scooter's new computer!
Erica's new computer!
Playing with Myke!!
Glendon & Ry had almost the same pair of shorts for their Christmas jammies! We thought it was funny that they were so similar - so we took a picture! And afterwords they told me I was just supossed to take a picture of the shorts!! Oh well!!
Helping Papa clean up the Christmas mornig dishes.
My mom made our traditional scones & honey butter for breakfast - and we had so much fun being together!! We had to have a few "family interventions" - because Scooter & Mar would play fine for a while, and then one of them would get mad or hit or something & the other one would retaliate. At first it was so frustrating - they usually play so nice together! But then it became comical. Whoever was standing closest to them would just intervene & hold em back! Ha ha!! We love our family so much, and I'm so grateful that we could be together for Christmas!! Being with family is one of my favorite things about the holidays!!