Holiday Fun!!

We have been busy with holiday fun!! I cannot believe it is almost 2009.
Time to catch up!
We went into Trey's classroom to decorate houses. He was so excited to have us there. Coby was happy to be eating all of the decorations. Trey's teacher let Coby make one also. Trey got Student of the Month for December!!! We are extremely proud of him. He works so hard and is an amazing reader. Of course being a boy, he loves math. He is constantly asking me the answers to big addition problems. Seeing as how I am not a fan of math, I finally gave him a calculator so I could stop racking my brain.
We went down to Tucson the weekend before Christmas to celebrate with my family. Everyone was there except Dan and family because the took a trip to Arkansas.
We stopped in Tempe to look at Costco and Ikea...we are on a mission to find bunk beds for the boys. We met up with my Uncle Chuck at Ikea to get a cooler full of fish from Alaska.
We had a good time in Tucson. Lots of food and fun!
Flagstaff got 20" of snow, so we had to go let the boys play!! We just went up for the day, but it was plenty of the cold for us. We stopped and had pizza first with some of Mark's family. Then we hit the slopes. Trey, my little dare devil was on the big hills speeding down. Coby, not so much. After a few times down the hill with Mark I asked him if he wanted to go with me. His response was, "I don't wike it". HA! HA!
After the slopes closed we went over to the NAU campus and played a little more and then headed home.
Christmas Eve Mark grilled steak and halibut (the fish courtesy of Chuck) yummy!
After dinner every year we head out to see Christmas lights. We go to a house in north Phoenix that you can walk through. I have been going there since I was young. My grandparents used to live in that area. We also go to one in our area that must have 75 inflatable decorations and the homeowners dress up and hand out popcorn and candy.
The boys were able to open 1 present from mom and dad...new pj's.
Christmas morning was exciting as always. The boys are so good about taking turns and sharing. Trey was excited about all the presents he bought for us at his school santa store.
I read Marley & Me when it first came out, so I wanted to go see it after the present opening. Not a good movie to see when you have had to put 2 dogs down recently, especially when 1 of them was a Labrador.
So after we cried our eyes out, we went over to Juli's house (Mark's sister's sister in law). We had dinner and a gift exchange.
Late Friday afternoon we went over to Mesa to see my grandparents and uncle Chuck. We were all supposed to go to dinner and see the temple lights, but my grandma got sick. So we went out with Chuck for pizza. We stopped at a huge camping/hunting store on the way back. They had a inside aquarium and some shooting games for the boys.
On Saturday Mark, Trey, Coby and all the boys from his family went to a hockey game and us girls went to dinner.
Mark took the boys hiking at Thunderbird park and tomorrow I will be taking them to the zoo.
2008 was a year of ups and downs, but we are grateful to have each other and look forward to another year of watching our kiddos grow!