Good Times with Aunt Beth

So Aunt Beth invited Jeremy, Riley and Deanna to come play, and then for Riley and Deanna to spend the night at her home, but first they had to stop at the grocery store to pick up pizza and junk food (neccessities of all good slumber parties).

At the store:

Aunt Beth:  Someone has to watch Jeremy.

Deanna and Riley in unison:  Not it!

All three children ran is separate directions.

So they put Jeremy in on of those race car shopping carts and Riley wants to ride in the car too!  Which was fine until they were in the checkout line and Riley was stuck!  Aunt Beth needed Jeremy to get out first so Riley would have room to negotiate himself out.

Aunt Beth:  Jeremy get out of the car so Riley can get out.

Jeremy:  NOOOOO!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aunt Beth got Jermy out and put him in the shopping cart. 
Jeremy climbed on top of the car part of the cart.

Beth asked me later, "Is this what its like everytime you go shopping?"
My reply, "No, I also have a 6 month old."

On the car ride home the children wanted to play slug bug.  Aunt Beth said OK, but no hitting the driver.  Riley thought that wasn't a good rule, but Deanna understood that it was for safety reasons.

Aunt Beth:  You could hit me and break the knobby thing off my arm bone like Aunt Margaret.

Riley:  Oh yeah, I am pretty strong.

Deanna:  Yeah, and Aunt Beth is pretty old.

Poor Aunt Beth.  I wonder if she will be inviting the children over again any time soon.

All Aboard!

“Well, are you coming?” asks the conductor.

“Where?” I asked.

“Why, to the North Pole, of course,” was his answer.

“This is the Polar Express!”

Last Saturday was our ward's Christmas Party! It was so much fun, the kids loved it and so did we!
The theme, if you couldn't already tell was "The Polar Express."


Here are two of my boys on the train! Jeremy loved, loved, loved it. I had such a hard time getting him out of there. Bryan and I are on the activity committee so they were amoung a select few children allowed behind the scenes.




We even had a conductor take us on a journey through the mountains and snow. You know where he was taking us, don't you?

To see Santa of course!

Here is Riley with Mr. and Mrs. Claus. I think he may be getting to the age where he is too cool for santa. Why, you ask? Well, when we told him to go get in line to see Santa, he replied, "do I have to?" However, I think he is still a believer!

Here is our little Cody and his first visit with Santa. He didn't mind at all, in fact he was so interested in the bell Santa gave him I'm not sure he even noticed I was gone.

This was also Jeremy's first experience with Santa. He was so excited to see him and he wanted to go meet him! But when it was our turn he cried and clung to me. Big surprise for a two year old huh?

Cody and B, having fun! And just in case you haven't figured it out by now, we were in our pjs because that is what you wear when you ride the Polar Express!

Riley and his buddies. It was nice that they paused for one picture. I'm so happy that he has made friends so easily in our new ward.

Jeremy with his doughnut. The best part of the night for him and a fantastic reward for meeting Santa!

Merry Christmas!