December 12th-January 29th!

It's been so long since I posted so I'll just put up pictures of events and a short descriptionand let you enjoy:)

Chris's Elementary Chistmas program Jocelynn's in the front row on the left and Chris is on the half court line in the second row.
Ben and I's 5 year anniversary was on December 15th. I took him on a suprise trip to Salt Lake. We ate at The Roof restraunt, took a horse drawn carriage ride around Temple Square, and stayed in the Swiss Family Robinson Room at the Anniversary Inn. It was a fun trip:)

While Christmas shopping, we ate lunch at Chilli's. Well, they had a balloon animals guy making them for tips. Peyton got a doggy, named him puppy, and loved him until he withered away to nothing.

My parents brought up our Christmas from them the weekend before Christmas. It was nice to visit.

It was a Roseborough Christmas this year! Everyone got to be there. Here we are painting fingernails and toenails. And the kids are playing twister with Grannie Annie!

The adults busied themselves with some skeet shooting.

Ann hosted the nativity story Christmas Eve and all the kids that would dress up as characters did, and LOVED it:)

After opening Christmas eve gifts at Grandma and Grandpa's, we came home and our kids got to open their Christmas eve gifts from us too!

Bentley's Santa Loot!

Peyton's Santa Loot!

Chris's Santa Loot!

Christmas Day at home!

Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpa's!

Kenny & Kristie's Family!

Derek & Hailie's Family!

Rob & Michelle's Family!

And the whole family!

Peyton playing with the stockings after Christmas was over!

Peyton was too funny "pushing" the cart for dad.

Christmas brought us a new 50" TV and the box brought my kids tons of fun:)

We, the kids and I, took a weekend trip to Bear Lake. Peyton LOVES: "Bert-me" "Bert-me-boo" "Boob" and "Boobie". ALL of these are Peyton's way of saying Britnee!

Bentley's 1st hair cut:(

After!

KaDee's basketball games! Bret, Peyton in Bret's shades, Bentley, and Ben.

Peyton in her "Doe TaDee" shirt with Heidi!

KaDee shooting a freethrow.

Grandma Sony and Grandpa Rusty and Bentley cheering on KaDee.The whole gang! Peyton LOVES Bret and Heidi. She calls them "her friends" and wants to know when she'll see them again!

KaDee plays JV and Varsity, but hasn't actually played Varsity since being split onto both teams......until this game! #40, which ironically enough, was Ben's basketball number in high school.

Hope you enjoyed our past month and a half, and I hope to do better at posting again now that stuff has slowed up a bit:)

December 5th-11th!

(5th) I've been awful at keep up on taking pictures so I'll give a run down of day to day activities. We left our kids Monday morning and afternoon and ran to Twin to do all our Christmas shopping. We got everything bought and in good time too:)

(6th) We ended up needing to go to town again the next day too so we took the kids with us and grabbed some lunch @ Arctic Circle on the way home. Bentley LOVED his ice cream cone, to say the least:)
My amazing mother-in-law found a really cool book called 'A Christ-Centered Christmas' By Emily Freeman and has been going through it with us on a few evenings since December started. We've done little devotionals at her house and with every devotional, we read about another person who played a role in the first Christmas. The 2nd chapter was Joseph and had a story that had bells in it. So as a token to go with the story, she gave us bells to put on our doors so every time we heard them, we thought of the story. Well, Bentley makes sure we hear them alot, beings that it's one of his new favorite toys:)
(7th) I had to run to the dentist and while I was in Burley, stopped by Les Schwab and had my wheels looked at because they'd been making noises. Come to find out my barrings were going out and had to be replaced. It only took an hour and I had taken 'Breaking Dawn', the book I was reading, with me. The car got fixed and I got my book finished waiting:) That evening we got to go to our ward Christmas Party and it was really good. The primary sang 'This is the Season' while some of them set the stage up as a nativity as the song went on. Chris sang really good and all the primary pulled it together quite well.
(8th) Chris got to spend an extra day at his dad's house for the weekend we we took him to Pocatello on Thursday night. We stopped in Burley on the way home and picked up a present for the whole family while we were there:)
(9th-11th) Didn't do much for the weekend except stay home and clean up and just spend time inside where it was warm with my awesome family. It was fun to relax because I knew the next week was going to be hecktic:)

November 28th-4th!

(1st) I've so been slacking on picture taking, but I do have a few. After Chris got home from his dad's after Thanksgiving break, we put up our Christmas tree together!
The kids had fun helping! The were a little mad when I put the dog gate up around the tree, but with young kids, this helps minimize the distruction that occurs between now and Christmas to the tree itself and the presents, once wrapped and put under the tree.

(2nd) The next day, before Chris left for school, he let Peyton in to plug in the tree and grabbed my camera to take a picture, since he LOVES feeling big and being able to take pictures for me.

(3rd) This was the last Boise State game of the regular season at home so Ben took Chris and his parents with him. I got to ride up with them and got to go shopping with the two youngins while they were at the game! We had alot of fun:) We were a little late getting back to them after they were done at the game, so Grandma and Chris peroused Albertson's until we got there.

November 21st- 27th!

(21st) Chris decided he wanted to pass off one of his scout goals and help plan a meal, set the table, and do the dishes afterwards. I was not going to stop him, by any means ;P And if Chris was helping, Peyton was helping too!
Then for family home evening, we decided to make gingerbread cookies. Peyton and I mixed up the dough while Chris finished the dishes.

Then we all used some cookie cutters to cut some cute cookies out.

Add a little frosting and "skinkles" as Peyton would put it, and you have some nice cookies made and decorated with LOVE!

(23rd) We were getting a house ready for a little Thanksgiving company, and when I say little, I mean my mom! And Peyton wanted to help! So she slipped on my shoes and grabbed everything that needed to go to her room and off she........scuffled!

(24th) For Thanksgiving day, we joined my mother-in-laws parents for their meal! Of course, Thanksgiving translates into Football for the male gender so here is Kenny, Ben, and Dayn watching what ever team didn't happen to be on commercial at the time!

My mom used up every chance she got to love on Bentley, since he is such a cuddly little boy! And he didn't mind at all that someone was around that would pick him up on his every whim!

(26th) Happy Birthday Bentley! I can hardly believe that my little guy is one. I remember so vividly his arrival into this world and the 4 LONG days that followed and it doesn't seem possible that it's been a year already! But here we are, celebrating the life of our handsome Bentley boy!

His toys were not wasted either. He has played with and loved each one......starting with the boxes:)

After we accembled the toys, all the kids(minus Chris) enjoyed the heck out of it. It was a big hit:)

Grandma Sony wanted to head home before she was driving in the dark so we all said our good-byes before she left.

Bentley was not happy about the fact that we put the cupcake so far away just to get a picture.

But the fact that we let him eat the cupcake all by himself made up for it:) He enjoyed the heck out of it! Cupcakes have always been a big hit for the first birthday parties. Here's Bentley with his.......

And here's Peyton at her first birthday enjoying her birthday cupcake:) Oh, how alike they are!

He truely liked all of his cupcake! It was licking his fingers and lips for quite a while afterwards!

(27th) Jocelynn's birthday is the day after Bentley's so we got spoiled and got cake 2 days in a row! She turned 6 and I can barely believe she's getting so big. She was only Bentley's age when Ben and I got married and now she's a smart growing girl and we're loving watching her grow!

We purchaced Bentley a new car seat a few days before his birthday and broke it out this evening to the straps adjusted and fit to him before we put it in the car! He thought the box was tons of fun!

Peyton decided to try it out and didn't to much care for it when she sat back and it rolled backwards:) So funny!