Christmas Eve

We spent the night with just my family and opened presents.

Cute Grandpa playing "guys" with Riley and Kadie

Candace, Molly and Chris

Abby got a cute Cabbage patch and has to sleep with it during naps and bedtime.

The prized castle Riley received from my parents. He hasn't stopped playing with it since, we have to take it everywhere.

Riley and his cousin Kadie

Grandma and baby Molly

I got a bloody fat lip playing Foosball with my sister Nikki. The ball was stuck so we usually blow on it to make it move. As i was blowing she made her players kick right in front of my face. Leave it up to me to injure myself in a non contact game.

Our fun family weekend

I wanted to take pictures of the kids before church...apparently they didn't want to cooperate.

We went to temple square to see the lights with my parents and sister Nikki. It was freezing cold and after 10 min. my kids were done.

Nikki and Jake's picture turned out blurry unfortunately.

I didn't want to post my birthday but we had such a fun party. This is a blurry pictures but i have to explain it. My Mom and sister were in kitchen laughing about my cake then Ken walked in and started laughing. So they started singing to me and at the end when they were suppose to say my name, they called me Jeff. I looked at the cake and it said Jeff. I laughed so hard i couldn't blow out the candles. When my mom went to the bakery, she said Jess and the lady behind the counter said with 2 f's? Of course my mom thought she said s and didn't check the cake before she left. Anyways my brother called my Jeff the rest of the night.

My parents wrapped a box of ornaments for my birthday present with money inside so i had to brake the bulbs to get all of it out.

We had our family Christmas party/birthday party at my parents house. It was so much fun my mouth hurt from laughing. We do a white elephant every year and my parents strategically received framed pictures of actors they have or had a crush on.

Nikki took a picture of Jake on the toilet and taped it onto a bottle of cider calling it Sheriff's Finest.

Riley eating birthday cake, well the frosting anyways.We also went out to dinner together as a family. Thanks mom and dad, we had a ball!

Watch out! It's Batman.

Batman with a binky! Riley was given this mask from his friend Cole for his birthday and he loves it. He made everyone take turns wearing it.

Abby played with Nino all night long. Five months ago she freaked out if he looked at her, not anymore.

Look at those muscles! This is Riley's daily wardrobe, he takes his clothes off daily and puts on his cape. Notice where the sword is, in his diaper. He is going to be sad after the holidays when we potty train him and the sword doesn't stay so snug.

He made Grandpa put on a cape and play swords all night. We got a kick out of the show.

Then he wanted Grandma to have a turn with Grandpa.

Then it was back to his turn. So cute!

Let's go see santa... yeah right

I went with some of my girlfriends to the mall for pictures with Santa. As you can see Abby isn't excited and Riley is behind me against a pole hiding from Santa.

Now she is really mad and had a melt down because she looked over and saw Santa and is determined not to go over there. Note the Santa picture police lady. She told me twice that i can't take pictures around Santa or even in the mall. She was very scary so I continued taking as many pictures as i wanted. I'm a brat.

This is the play area behind Santa's set-up. Riley's new thing is wearing his capes and bringing his swords everywhere he goes.

So i settled for a picture directly behind Santa were my kids couldn't freak out.

Happy Birthday Riley

We had a party at our house with mine and Ken's family's for Riley's birthday. After dinner we started the celebration with cake and presents.He tried so hard to blow out the candles but the blowing through his teeth didn't seem to work. Mommy had to help a little.

Riley is obsessed with sword so this was my lame attempt to make a sword cake.

He didn't understand there were lots more presents to open after the first. He was ready to open the toy and get playing.

This is what he ended up with and he's loves everything.

Here is the knight outfit with his spider man cape his Aunt Nicole made.This was what his bed looked like by the end of the night. He took (on his own) all his presents from the night and slept with them.

He was on the very edge of the bed so there was enough room for the toys.