Rough Ridin' Boys

This year for the boys' Christmas presents we decided to just do a few big ones for them to share. We (santa) gave Kohl and Kaden the Razor Quad and Brady got a lil' cruiser. Then, since Kohl's bday is only 2 days later we figured for our own sanity we'd better get them another thing to ride to avoid fighting over turns. So Kohl got the Razor Dune Buggy. They have turned into riding machines. All these kids ever want to do is ride, and they will ride until the last drop of their battery is done. Kaden loves to give his mommy a heart-attack by doing his now infamous trick of doing donuts on only 2 wheels!
I think these were the best gifts ever, they love them!

Kohl getting his bday present (a day early because Jason had to work in morning)
Riding together and it was FREEZING
Christmas morning
Yes, we were all out in the rain Christmas morning while they road their new toys!
My daredevil child!!!
He'll do this forever!

Utah Part II: Sledding!

This had to be, by far, the boys favorite thing! Given the fact that my kids (and husband) are totally adrenalin junkies and love anything that goes fast, how could they not love it. Even Brady was hooked after his first hill, he was a broken record " my tee, my tee, my tee"(my turn)
The first sledding experience was right in Chris and Laura's neighborhood. We walked down to the little park which had a little hill with a bunny hop at the end where the kids would catch some air. By the end they were even trying to go down standing on their sleds.
Ally and I made a snowman together and sent of Kaden and Kohl to find all the body parts, it turned out pretty cute :)
It was a work in progress
Ta-da

The hill

Lovin' it!


Pure heaven!!!

You can you see the excitement on his face!!! Go daddy, Go!

Ya, we got a work out that day pulling him around and up the hill


Kaden taking Brady down


Justin and Kohl's air off the bunny jump!


And of course we all took turns crashing!


So much fun, good thing for lots of layers of pants! lol


Our next sledding fun was a little bit more extreme. One of the days we all headed to Capellas (I probably got that one wrong too! lol) Which is any outdoors mans DREAM store. It is probably 2 or 3 times bigger than Costco and has everything from hunting, fishing, guns, aquariums, laser shooting arcade for the kids, and it is filled with life like (used to be live) animals all over the place. It is made to look like you are out in the wilderness. (I forgot my camera that day so I don't have any pics of the store or sledding)
After we left there we headed down a frontage road to a local sledding spot. This hill was HUGE!!! Big enough that there was a guy on a quad that would drive people back up to the top after they made it down. Because it was so compacted from being sled on, you hauled butt and if you crashed it was like hitting concrete. Kohl went down first, I almost couldn't watch, since he is so light he just bounced around like crazy. You probably sled for about as long as a football field! Jason took Brady for his first ride. I wasn't sure what to expect, if it was going to be too much for him....ya right! Jason said he laughed the entire way down, lost a boot and his pacifire but was cracking up the whole ride and of course right when they got to the bottom is was " my tee, my tee" lol. I think Laura might have gotten pics of the hill, if she did whenever I see them I'll put them up.

Still to come: More Utah pics of scenery, Kohl's bday, little bit of xmas and my bday...it might be Valentines day before all that happens! haha

Utah part I: "New Years Eve"

The day after Kohl's bday we hit the road at 3am, it was Utah or bust! We were so lucky to have the Means family welcome us into their home and give us the great Utah experience. With 7 kids in the house it was always entertaining and a bit chaotic, but SO much fun! I'll start with this post, well because it's the first bunch of pics I've gotten off the camera lol! New Years Eve, which was also my 29th (tear, tear) Birthday was a blast! Laura, Jay, myself and all 7 kids (Chris had to work part of the day) went to venture out and go ice skating. My boys had never gone before and for Jason and I it had been well over 10 years, so we were very anxious to see how it would go. Luckily Brady fell asleep on the way so we were able to get the boys situated and even get out on the ice together! They caught on so fast, and did not want to get off when we were done. Kaden and Kohl had so much fun with Justin and Allison!...oh ya, it was about 16 degrees when we got there!

The Ice Rink

Woohoo Kohlie!

Jay and the kids

My handsome boys!

Chris is lucky enough to get to go hunting and had just recently got a doe elk (hope I said that right Laura lol) So I had the best birthday dinner! Fresh Elk Steaks!!! They were dee-lish!!!!

umm, umm

And thanks to Laura's great idea, we even had all 7 kids in bed by 10, well maybe asleep by 10:30! Yep, we had them watch the ball drop in real east coast time!! So once it fell in NY it was Happy New Year lol!!!

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.....Happy New Year!!!

updates coming soon....

I have so much to post I don't even know where to start. I am STILL getting all the pics from Utah, Christmas and Kohl's bday off my camera. Hopefully in the next few days I'll have a smorgasbord of stuff up!!!