Crazy Week-end

I have been so bad at remembering my camera lately, so I'm sorry that there are no pictures. I will put it in the car today so I will take some pictures.
On Friday we were suppose to go to one of Ben's many work parties, but with the weather so bad we decided to no-show, and stay home and watch it snow and watch movies. It was so nice, I love this time of the year, Christmas tree lights, hot cocoa, and snow.
Then on Saturday Ben and I went shopping with Sarah and had a lot of fun. We also had our annual Poll Family Christmas Party. I love this party, I remember going ever since I was just a little girl. It was always held on Christmas Eve and I remember going and eating then playing BINGO and dancing. I don't know what makes this party so fun, but I love it. This year I was super excited because I knew that Boston was old enough to play BINGO and also my cousin Becky and Travis were going to be there, and I haven't seen them for a very long time. I had explained to Boston how to play BINGO and told him that you get to pick a gift and then keep it. We had a great dinner, and then BINGO began. Boston was pretty good at keeping up with the numbers and had a full card, but could not get BINGO, he was getting worried because everyone was getting BINGO and the gifts were going fast, finally he got BINGO and yelled BINGO and ran up to the stage to get a gift, we was so excited. It was so fun to watch his face and see how much he loved it. Someone came by and "stole" his gift and left him with theirs, and this kind of threw him, but he ended up with bubble gum so he was okay once he opened it. Next we got to dance, we do all these old dances. I wish I could remember the name of them. We did the Hocky Pocky and the bunny hop. Boston loved both. It was so fun to have Boston as my partner, because as a child I loved to dance, and Becky was always my partner, so it was fun to have my child love it to. This party is one of those memories that makes a mom happy to be a parent. Thanks to my aunts who were in charge of it this year, we had such a great time. Anyone is invited so next year everyone is welcome.
Sunday we had the Gunn family party, Adam is putting together a book of Ben's Grandpa Doug and gave us a preview. It is awesome. Adam is very talented, thanks Adam for doing it. We had so much fun hanging out with the Gunn's. After everyone had went home, Ben decided to pull out old family Christmas movies, we stayed up til almost mid night watching them with Erik, Craig and Keri, we laughed so hard and it was fun to see little Ben as a kid. I cant wait for Christmas this year.

Skiing vs Bolt

Yesterday I was so excited to take Boston up to Alta to do a little free skiing. From 3:00 to 4:30 anyone can go for free and I thought that it would be a prefect time to let him get use to his ski's and get some free practice in. I was so excited, we got out the ski bag the night before and made sure that his goggles and gloves were still in there and that his ski pants fit. He thought this was awesome. He kept his goggles on all night and could not wait to go. I told him that I would pick him up from school and then go rent some skies, but by the time school was over there was a storm up the canyon and you had to have chains or 4x4 to get up. Since we sold the trooper we are without 4 wheel drive. So we couldn't go. I was so mad, so I suggested that we take Boston to see Bolt. He has been wanting to see it. So we made a night of it, movie at the Gateway, dinner and a little shopping. It was really cold, and the boys were grumpy, but we still liked the movie, and I got a Christmas present. Doesn't get much better than that, right? Wrong, as much fun as it is to see a movie, eat out, and get something new, I would have rather been on the slopes with Boston. Its so much fun to teach them something new and see the joy that they get from it. So maybe in a week or two we can try again. Sorry Boston

Stocking Stuffers

Help!! I have been racking my brain for some fun stocking stuffers this year. I have a few ideas for Ben and the boys, but would love to get your opinions. Just let me know of some good ones that you do. Thanks...

( This is my new favorite Blu-Ray, its just a fireplaec, awesome huh..)

Skiing

Ben and I went and saw the Warren Miller movie with some friends earlier this year, and got some free ski passes to the Canyons. We decided that we would go and give it a try on Thursday. We both love to ski, its one of the few things that we both really enjoy doing together. ( I'm not much of a golfer and he isn't much of a shopper.) So we dropped the boys off at Grandma's and headed up. Now I know that on the news they keep saying that the resorts aren't getting much snow, but really, there was no snow. It was just a weird feeling to have your ski boots on and walking on dirt. We still had a lot of fun. We went with our friends Lincoln and Carina and we don't see them much. There were 2 lifts open and really only like 2 runs open. But it was so nice. When you got off the lift it smelled like Christmas. You could smell the pine, usually there is so much snow you don't get that. It was Nice just to be in the mountains, and get some together time in.

We are planning another trip up to Alta this week, to take Boston. You can ski for free for the last few hours of the day, it will be good practice for him. We took him once last year so hopefully he will remember a little bit and will love it as much as we do. Wish us luck. If anyone wants to go, let us know. The more the marrier.

Hopefully we will get some more snow!

Jaegan

One of my favorite things about blogging, is getting to know about the people that I love. I love reading your blogs and just learning about the funny little things that everyone does. So I thought that I would just tell you a few about Jaegan. As we were decorating the tree the other day we found Jae had a candy cane. I have no idea where he got it, I'm sure that it was years old, but he loved it, He was so sticky, and gross, so I put him in his high chair and broke it in half. He got so mad that he threw it on the ground and it broke. I gave him the other half and told him this was all he got. He decided to eat it, and of course as you can see, he loved it, despite it being years old.

Then the other thing that I love about Jae is he is so much like me. In the morning he wakes up and wants to have me wrap him in his blanket and get him a bottle. He needs just a few minutes to wake up and likes to be all comfy. I love to do that to. I am not a morning person and neither is Jae. Its so fun to see how our kids are just like us.

I love Black Friday

Ever since Ben and I were married we have went Early morning shopping the day after Thanksgiving. The first year we went, we started at Best Buy for a 10.00 Aladdin DVD. The people in line thought that we were crazy, wake up that early for a DVD. But every year I get so excited. We slowly over the years recruited others to join us, and always have such a fun time. This year was a little bit different, I found out the I had to babysit on Friday, and that they were dropping them off at 7:30am. ( How much shopping can I get done in such a short amount of time?) Also nobody was going to go with us. We planned a little better, making lists and planning just where we would go and how much time we had at each store. When we went to bed at mid- night and set our alarm for 3:00 am, I had my doubts that Ben would get up. But he is awesome and got up. We got to the first store about 3:45 and were home by 7:00 am. We got the girls and hit one more store. We had such a fun Thanksgiving week-end. Ben's family was here from New Mexico and we always have so much fun with them. We have been trying to catch up on our sleep, and poor Ben got a terrible cold. So thanks babe, for keeping the tradition alive. Next year we expect to have everyone there again.