Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone! We are all finally better over all the sickness for a while i hope. Even though we have been feeling awful we still have had our nice Christmas moments this year. Here is our Christmas tree. We usually go and cut one down but this year with all the snow and us not feeling to hot we decided to use a fake one. We were lucky enough to have this one down in the basement, it is one that the couple who lived in our house before just left down there. I thought it would be kinda scrawny but it ended up being perfect. Calvin loves the lights. he has been such a good boy with the tree. He knows not to touch it and tests his boundaries but he really had left it alone. I put little Christmas stuffed animals under the tree that he will go get to play with and his favorite is this little elf he carries it around in his mouth by its hat.
Here are our lights on the house. I did something different this year with the loops and i LOVE it. It looks so nice with our little tree in the window.
We have also been baking a little. Here is Calvin helping me make some Christmas candy. He thought it was pretty tasty!
Calvin has become pretty mobile. He can walk by pushing things around. He has a little wagon that he loves to push from one end of the room to the other. He also has become quite the champ on the stairs. He can climb up pretty fast. He still thinks it is much faster to crawl than walk.
And finish off with this look. this is the silly little look we get from our boy all the time. he gives us this face when he is happy or just whenever. it is so cute a smile that takes all the muscles in his face. We hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thanksgiving Week

It has been a while since Thanksgiving but we have all been taking turns getting sick. One of us gets sick then it just keeps going in a circle till we all have been sick and then sick again! Hopefully this week will be the end of it we are ready to celebrate Christmas. Here is Calvin at Gma Flints house he loved sitting in her little rocking chair. He is so cute.
It snowed all week in Twin Falls and so we took the 4 wheelers out at my parents house and went for rides on the sled. Here is tyler pulling us in the sled. Calvin just sat there and talked he loved it. I also had fun doing cookies on the pond.
After a while my dad took him for a ride on the 4 wheeler and he fell asleep it was so funny. He slept for a while after.
We got home and there was a lot of snow so we took him out for another sled ride. He really likes the rides in the snow he either falls asleep or just hangs out. We had PLENTY of food that week. It was really fun to hang out with all our family.

Last of a long fun trip

Here are the final pictures of so many that i have. Here i am playing a super old organ at kanesville tabernacle. One thing about this place is that one of my ancestors was in charge of building it.
We also went to this really crazy museum called pioneer village. It was 26 buildings full of old stuff. It was so awesoeme to see the progress of history they had everything from cars, planes, phones, farm equipment, school supplies. My favorite part was the kitchen stuff, they had washing machines, sewing machines, stoves, after seeing all of it it made me really appreciate what we have today. We spent the whole day there just looking at all the fun stuff.
Here is Calvin at Cabelas in Nebraska. Calvi liked looking at all the animals and he really likes relaxing in the cart!
On the last day of our trip we stopped at Martins Cove. My parents and i were the only ones who went on the 5 mile round trip walk into the cove. it was a super nice day a little chilly but so beautiful outside. Here is some deer we saw. there was so many of them they were so close it was really fun to walk around outside with them.
This is me right in the cove. it was super smart of those pioneers cause it was pretty nice back there.
Here is Clara. this is how she kept herself entertained for most of the trip. She is pretty smart and can read these books, not word for word but she knows what each one is about and she tells it in her own way. It was pretty cute!
Here is my Grandpa pushing Calvin around at Martins Cove, my grandparents watched him while i walked into the cove.
And our last and final stop was at the Willie Handcart site. there really was not much there except what you see here. The trip was so wonderful and i had such a great time and learned so much and appreciate all that the pepole who have lived before me have done for us today.

More on our trip!

After Nauvoo Ty headed back to Rexburg and we headed on back home. We stopped for the day in St. Louis to see the Gateway arch it was super awesome!
We rode up to the top of the arch 630 feet it was crazy we got into what was like a dryer drum and it only fit 5 people. It was all white and we sat there for like 10 min and the whole time it would tilt a little as we were getting higher and higher! when we were at the top they just had a bunch of these little windows to look out and there was never a flat plane it was a complete arch and there was not a lot of room up there. it was a pretty amazing building!
We also got to go to the St. Louis Zoo. it was really fun we got to see a lot of fun animals. Here it Calvi by the elephants.
He really loved all the animals but his favorite by far was the hippos! there were 5 of them and they kept swimming right in front of him and he just laughed and smiled it was so cute!
Here is Clara and calvi at winter quarters riding a wagon, they had fun playing in the pioneer stuff.
Here is liberty Jail, this was a really neat experience it was so small it fit inside of the building. Since it was November there was no one there and so it was nice to really take our time here, we heard lots of amazing stories that really made me appreciate the prophet and those who helped bring the gospel to us.
This is at Far West temple site there really was not much there but it was fun to just go be there.
This was one of my favorite places Adam-ondi-Ahman, it was so pretty there. We got there right as the sun was going down and it was so pretty to see all the fall colors and the land was so beautiful.
There really was not a lot to see here either but it was really nice piece of land.
Here is my mom just playin with her grand kids. It was nice to have my parents and grandparents on the trip cause they were a big help just entertaining the kids.
We stopped at the Pony Express museum it was really fun to see how it all started. We did see a lot of old stuff every where we went on the trip but it was neat to see what people had and used back in the day.
Here is Calvi who knows who his parents are i mean really he has this thing with putting his feet up on the table. We would go somewhere to eat and here he is just kickin back with his feet on the table. He also likes to take his socks off and i would have to keep putting them back on. He is a crazy boy but i love him!!

Nauvoo Trip

So last month we took a 2 week vacation across a few states to Nauvoo. Me, Calvi, Brooke, Clara, my parents, and my grandparents all went on the trip. Tyler was able to fly out and meet us for a few days while we were actually in Nauvoo. It was a long but exciting trip. Here we are at our first stop Custers last stand.
Next stop Mt Rushmore, this was pretty exciting to see although it is a little smaller than what i had imagined but it was still a huge sculpture on a mountain!! Going in November we were a little afraid of the weather but lucky for us it was awesome the whole time not to cold and not snowy!!
Here we are hangin out at Wall Drug with some local.
This is a really awesome building we saw along the way the Corn palace, the entire outside and some inside it decorated in only corn products like corn cobs and stalks and anything corn! It was pretty amazing.
Here we are in Nauvoo at the brick store, this was one of tys favorite places to go see he also like the blacksmith shop. Since we were there in November it was great cause there was hardly any people there. The people were so friendly and since we were there a few days they all could recognize you and we were able to have one on one time with them.
These are the graves of Joseph, Emma and Hyrum Smith.
Here we are at the Nauvoo temple. it was really pretty but closed for cleaning while we were there. The actual town of Nauvoo was pretty small there was not much else other than a lot of church sites.
Here we are at liberty Jail this is the room where Joseph Smith was shot. It was really neat there was no one else there so we could take time and look around it was a pretty neat place.
This is also one of tylers favorite parts the Mississippi River! it was so huge and since he loves water he loved this.
Here is ty showing calvi the huge barge out on the river it went right past us and it was really really big! The sun was going down and it was so pretty to just sit by the river and look out at the view.
And here is ty and Calvi just hangin out on the grass enjoying the sun! I do have more pictures to come it was a long trip and we saw a lot but that is enough posting for a day!