Elf Yourself!

I decided to hijack Kelly's blog tonight and add a family tradition. I know it isn't Christmas yet, but I've seen plenty in all of the stores we shop at. You may need to stop or pause the music on the player at the bottom of the page before you start the video.... Which reminds me that you can all thank me for the music on this blog as Kelly would have you listening to "The Sound of Music" soundtrack. -I have a confession.. I like the goat song.
By the way, Kendra asked if she could join us so I didn't decline.
Anyway, enjoy!

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What We've Been Up To.....

Well not a whole lot has been going on here. I haven't posted for awhile so I thought I would just do a quick post. I just wanted to right down a few of the things the boys have been doing lately. They have both really started talking. People that haven't seen them for a couple of weeks even notice the difference. They both are different in their speech though. Boston has a cute little voice and Preston is a little louder. Boston doesn't say word right away when we ask him to. He thinks about it for a day or longer and then it comes out really clearly. When my brother Marcus was coming down I worked on them saying his name and Boston would not say anything and then one day he just said it as clearly as me. Preston when you ask him to say something he doesn't even stop to think so most things come out nothing like what it is supposed to sound like. Preston loves to sing. Not real words to anything but you can definitely tell the difference between his singing and his talking. Boston and Preston both like to lead music. When we are at church as soon as the piano or organ starts playing that stop whatever they are doing and wave their hands around like they know what they are doing. Now that I am trying to think of things that they say I can't so I am going to have to try to write things down while they are awake. But Boston can say Preston's name. Every time I call for Preston I have a little echo of Boston repeating it. Also Boston has started calling Gary and I by our names. He will call and say Gary or Kelly. It is cute. He also says the word cute. One day I told him he looked so cute. So now when he gets his shirts on or his shoes on he looks at me and says Cute. Bostons loves animals. Every time we go anywhere and there is a dog he just laughs and laughs at it and wants to pet it. He also loves his trains and kicking balls. Preston has really learned alot of words too. He is a talker. He talks the most but alot of it is not understandable. He can't say his name or Bostons name but he calls Boston "brother". Preston is funny, he says the word -there- after about every sentence. He will go through everyone in a picture and say mommy there, daddy there, brother there. He has also started calling me monny. At first when he wanted me a would yell ma but then somehow it turned to monny. Preston also loves animals. Preston is a lover and a fighter. Boston for the most part unless he wants something from Preston leaves him alone. But Preston loves to wrestle Boston. He will knock him to the ground and then sit on him until I get him off. Boston hasn't quite learned how to fight back. But then Preston also like to give the loves. He always wants to give Boston hugs or hold his had and Boston will run away. Preston always gets his feelings hurt and runs around after him with his arms out until he gets the hug. They also both love to read books. We read every night before they go to bed. They have a stack of books in their bedroom and every now and then when it seems a little too quiet I will go looking for them and they will be in their bedroom together just looking at books and acting like they are reading them to each other. They love the moon. Every night they look out the window to try to see it and every night we have to say night night to the moon before they can go to be.
They are both just getting so big and so crazy. Some days I don't know how much more I can take. But they are also so fun to watch together. I can't believe how fast time flys so I am trying to learn to be a little more patient with them and just enjoy the time we have together.
Sorry this is kind of a long and boring post but this is my journal, like I know it is for most of you so it is my way of keeping track of what the boys are up to.
Here are a few pictures of the boys. Most of them are of Boston this time. Lately it seems like they have mostly had Preston. Every time I pull out the camera Boston runs over to me and wants to take the picture so he is hardly ever in them. But a couple days ago I was able to get a couple cute ones. So here they are.
Ok so this first picture is actually not so cute. But kind of (I guess) a funny story. The other day I was doing something in my bedroom and Boston was in the office playing with some walkie talkies. Then I notice it was really quiet so you know what that means TROUBLE. So I went looking for him and this is what I found. He had taken off his pants and diaper and pooped on the floor. Needless to say it was not that funny at the time but I couldn't help but laugh a little bit as you can see by the look on his face he knew he had done something wrong. I am starting to think we may be starting potty training soon but I am not looking forward to it so I will procrastinate as long as possible.

Hitching a ride from daddy. He loves to ride on daddy's back and shoulders.

Talking to grandma on the phone.

Going on a trip.

Posing for the camera.

Boston and Preston reading books together.


Preston relaxing in his chair.

Happy Halloween!

I know this post is a little late, but better late than never I guess. This year we went to Utah for Halloween. We went up on Tuesday and got there in time for my parents ward party. They had different games like a fishing pond, a cake walk, bean bag toss and many more. Boston and Preston didn't really get the games but they enjoyed the treats that the received. That night was the only night I got pictures of them. It was such a crazy night on Halloween that I didn't really get any. When we got to my parents house and my neice Rylee saw that the boys were monkey's she wanted to be one too. She had a monkey costume from last year. So we had 3 cute little monkeys. On Halloween we went down to a care center in Delta. That had some of the residents there dressed up and had a few games and treats for the kids. Then we went trick-or-treating to a few houses in my parent neighborhood. We only made it to about 6 houses but they still got a pretty good stash of candy. Preston loved it. He would always be the first one to the door and he would say Trick or treat and walk right into the peoples homes and then take as many peices of candy as he could get away with. Boston had fun too but he was more into eating the candy. Every peice a got in his bucket he would take out and want to eat right then. So as long as he had candy he was good. It was fun to see them having fun doing this. And now I have a whole bunch of candy to snack on. While we were there we got to see both my sisters and their families as well as my brother and his fiance. My Aunt Cathy and Larry came down from Salt Lake and my Aunt Marianne and Uncle Bud came from Olympia, WA. We don't get to see them much so it was fun to see them. Here are the pictures of my cute monkeys. I hope everyone had a fun day. Now I am just getting excited for Christmas. I can't wait to get out all my Christmas decorations. But I guess I have to wait for Thanksgiving to get over.
Here is Preston wearing some crazy eyeball glasses. Ry got these at a Halloween party and Preston loved wearing them.
Preston

Rylee

Preston, Boston and Rylee


These next two aren't the greatest picture but I wanted to get a picture of all the kids up. This is Rylee in here princess costume that she wore on Halloween.

Tanna and Isaac.