We wish you...

A Merry Christmas!!

Can you believe it is over already..So sad..

Well the kids got spoiled as usual. Santa brought a DVD system for our Yukon. We wanted one when we got the car last year and was so glad that Santa knew that. Kenyon had no idea what the headphones were for. He just kept asking Where did Santa hide the presents?? Finally Kamberlyn put it together. She said "hey these are like the headphones in Karibeth's car."

OH NO HE DIDN'T..

It was so funny!

(The girls enjoying a movie on the way to Grandmas house). Oh ya and Jon and I enjoyed the silence!! HALLELUJAH

They also got clothes, guitar hero for Wii and a couple of other Wii games. Jon got a snow blower. He tried to buy one last year when we had a nasty storm but everyone across the Wasatch front had sold out of them. Needless to say that wasn't going to happen again this year so he went shopping early. He loves it!! I wish I would have gotten a picture of his face on the first snow fall we had. It was priceless. BOYS and their TOYS.. go figure.

Klaire was a lot of fun this year. She kept saying Happy Birthday to me. Her birthday was in October so she associates opening presents with birthdays. She had the funniest look on her face when we told her she could finally open presents. They had been sitting under the tree for a couple of weeks, she would carry them around wanting to open them and we would tell her she had to wait tell Christmas. OK she is 2 it was hard on her.

FYI: Santa brought these darling hats for the girls. I think he had a helper @ http://www.alihats.blogspot.com/.

Top of Utah Tournament
Saturday December 13th Kenyon's basketball team competed in the Top of Utah Tournament at Skyview High School. We started the day at 8:00 in the morning and ended at 8:00 at night.They played 5 games and won the Tournament. GO BEARS!!!!The boys played hard each game. It was such a long day that by the last game you could see both teams were beat (tired). There was a lot going on, Jake got his feet taken out from underneath him and landed on his elbow. Yes that picture is of his elbow, not a knee. It swollen so quickly he had to sit out the last game. His parents took him to the ER and it was not broken. Triston Merritt played so hard, I think he feet grew. His foot broke through his shoes. Chase was thrown down trying to get a ball away from a kid. Chase was so mad he was going to go after the kid. Triston had to hold him back. (i have never seen chase get mad)Kenyon rocked on the rebounds!! He is the one that saved us on every game. Triston Hartfiel plays with such heart. Basketball is his game. I love to watch him run the court it's awesome. ALL the boys did really well. They get better and better every game. We played some good teams and not such good teams.
Scores
BR vs SkyViewYoung Guns 34-18
BR vs Star Valley Braves 33-11
BR vs Ballers 29-23
BR vs Logan Grizz 26-15
BR vs Preston 25-20

I stole this off of my friend Michelle's blog. I tried to get the pictures but can't figure out how to do that. Michelle you will have to send them to me.

Merry Christmas...

From our family to yours

sorry it's a picture of a picture..but you get the idea

Birthdays, Baptisms and other stuff

Kenyon Turns 11

WOW!! I have an 11 year old. It is so hard to believe. Where does the time go? I can still remember the first time I saw him. So perfect, so little and all mine. Now eleven short years later and here he is hanging out with his friends, asking for a cell phone, and liking girls!! I am so not ready for this. Can we turn back the clock some how?

We took him and some friends bowling. He was hoping to invite some girls but we talked him out of that thank goodness.

Here he is playing pool. He is so good at billiards even though we don't have a table. He watches it on T.V. so he knows the rules.



Eating pizza with the boys. Keetch, Triston, Nate, Carson, and Jake.

Grandma Sylvia

Grandma Sylvia came up from Spanish Fork to be with Kamberlyn on her baptism. The kids were so excited to see her. Klaire kept saying "I so excited to see grandma sylv."

Oh so cute!!

Jon and Klaire playing pin ball.


I love this picture!
This is our dear friend Matt. He absolutely adores Klaire as she does him.

Kamberlyn gets Baptized

Kamberlyn was baptized on December 6, 2008 by my brother Ryan Talbot. She has been so excited for this day and has been preparing for it for months. It turned out amazing. We have such great family and friends who came to support her.

Our family-Grandma Sylvia and Aunt Susan,

Grandma Sharon, Uncle Ryan and Brinley,

Uncle Shane, Katie, Jardie, Kayson, and Brock.

Our friends- Matt, Jamie, Keetch, Kenner, and Mattie Mecham.

Scott, Heather, Nate, Jake, and Kate Dahle.

Jerian, Triston, and Shayden Merritt.

Lisa, Ethan, Hannah, and Ashton Harrow.

She received so many wonderful gifts from everyone. I know it meant a lot to her that you all came to support her. Love you all!!

** Funny Kalire moment...

When Klaire saw Kamberlyn She blurts out

"sissy in a little swimming pool, I want to go swimming with you ."

Trimming the Tree

So we had had our tree up since before Thanksgiving but couldn't decorate it because some of the lights were out. Curse the pre-lite trees. They are fabulous when every light works but man if something goes wrong good luck. Anyway Jon worked on it for hours and hours. Not to mention all the trips to about 5 different stores to find the right bulbs. We finally got to decorate it last night. YEA! We love you honey Thanks!!

**One funny side note about Klaire. She has the most amazing vocabulary. Some days I just shake my head at the grown up things that come out of her mouth. (I had to write this down somewhere before I forget.)

I was fixing her hair the other day and when I got done she looked in the mirror and said

" Oh thanks mom, it's super cute". Isn't she super cute?