December

 We had a lot of fun through the holidays. How can you resist those sweet rosy cheeks!!

 Calvin really wanted to build a snowman but it was always super cold and so the snow was never  good snowman making snow. This is the best we could do. He was still proud

 One of the winter activities that the kids enjoy is going to the college and running on the track. They have a great indoor track that the kids love to run around. It is funny to see them running next to everyone else and the college kids are usually entertained by them and will talk with them. It is fun to watch them run "super fast " They like to wait for us at the end and hang on the bars.

 Calvin is super into legos this is one of the things he was proud of building. I think it is an airplane.

 Rexburg has a lot of fun community activities. For  Christmas this year we were able to see a couple of camels, visit santa, the grinch and his dog max, and get a sleigh ride.

 Calvin loves the Grinch and was so excited to see him. He also has 2 stuffed animal dogs he named max after the Grinches dog Max. Jodi was so afraid to take a pict with them.

 We just went for a visit to see Gma and Gpa Rainsdon.

 Jodi got her first hair cut. Really we just evened out the mullet but she was so excited that she was able to have a hair cut from our friend Natalee.

 Calvin made these candy trains for some friends for christmas. He was super excited about them as you can see.

 We went sledding with some friends the kids had a lot of fun. Jodi wanted to go all by herself and she loved it!

 The kids and their friends.

 We had fun playing on the giant hill in the church parking lot with Tysen. Calvin pretend that he was the Grinch and he was at the top of Mt. Krumpit.

 There was a local group of people who put on a live nativity. It was a really fun experience and great way to have out kids understand what Chirstmas is about. They also had homemade doughnuts and hot chocolate as a treat for everyone.

 Here are the kids dressing up for the nativity. They love to dress up and had fun acting out the story.

 Christmas morning Santa was nice this year. It was so fun that both kids understood Santa and they were both so excited to watch during the holidays.

 Calvin got his first real sets of legos and was so excited!

 Jodi and Calvin opening their presents from each other.  It was so sweet to watch them get and wrap a present for each other and then to open them they were so excited.

We are so thankful to have such a wonderful family and friends to be able to share the holiday season with.  We are so blessed to have these 2 children to help us celebrate the true meaning of Christmas and to teach them all the wonderful things that this season brings.

November

 The kids were excited about the snow they tried to eat it off of everything!  Calvin loves this hat, that is a little to small for him, but he doesn't want to wear anything else.

 We still love to go swimming. My mom came to visit and we all had fun in the pool.

 The girls just relaxing

 Jodi was so excited for her birthday. She got lots of babies and had lots of fun with friends and family who came to visit.

 Jodi wanted to have a Mini Mouse/ Princess/ Kitty cat cake. So this little girl gets what she wants and she got a Mini Mouse Princess cake with Kitty cat cupcakes. We love her so much she is our little princess. She has grown up so much and acts way older than 2!  She is such a girl, she loves to get her hair done, nails painted and pink everything.

 Just another day with my kids finding whatever to wear or dress up in for the day. They have great imaginations and it is fun to see what they come up with.

 I am a Webelow scout leader and Calvin wants to be a scout so bad. I was sewing some patches on my shirt and Calvin said he really wanted a scout shirt so here is what we came up with. He is so cute when he wears it to scout meetings. He tries to act and do exactly what the other boys do. It is so fun to have a boy and girl and get both worlds.

 My little pirate? He loves to dress up and be different things every day.

 Jodi was suppose to be in bed and knew she would get in trouble if she came downstairs so she just stayed on the stairs.

 The kids were excited to get Christmas lights on the house.

 Since Thanksgiving was so late we decided to get a tree the weekend before. We had a fun time going to the mountains to find a tree. It has been a few years since we have done this and the kids had a great time.

 Calvin really wanted to use the saw so he was helping dad cut a branch.

 We went to see Santa at the college. It was awesome they took this great pict of the kids and had treats. The kids were so excited and it was a great start to the whole Christmas season.

 Here is our wonderful tree. I think we did pretty good. Every year we add another string of lights to the tree and it gets lighter and brighter every year!

 Of course we had to have a train.

 The kids go to go to the fire station for story time at the library. Calvin was so excited that he had to dress up for the part. He is pretty creative to come up with these outfits.

 Here they are with the fire trucks.

 For Thanksgiving we went to Twin Falls. Here is Jodi and Gma Flint as you can tell Jodi got plenty of food and treats!

 We went to this awesome light show while we were there. It was super pretty and they had so many different lights the kids had fun walking around looking for their favorites.

 Calvin with a train.

The kids had fun running up and down the isles of the greenhouse. The poinsettias were to pretty and it felt like Christmas. We had a great time visiting family and doing fun things for the holidays!

October

 A big thing that happened this month was that Calvi got some more dental work done. The last time we did this he was to little and had to be put under cause he was scared. This time around he was a little older so we took him in one time to see how he would do. He did great!  It was awesome and he was so excited that he did so well and that he got 2 "robot teeth" out of it. He thought the dentist was pretty cool and was excited to go back!

 I don't know how this happened but we sometimes find the kids in weird places after we put them to bed.

 Calvin really wanted vampire teeth for Halloween and we had to dig in this huge pile of Halloween stuff to find the WHITE ones, not color ones cause teeth are white.

 The kids love to hang on their dad it is funny to watch what they come up with.  Jodi wearing one of her Halloween costumes.

 We took a fun night time adventure. Cavlin was so excited to be able to ride his bike in the dark a few blocks down to go look at the spooky Halloween house. He loved it and said he was not even scared by the music and spooky lights.

 The kids earned a little Halloween craft they had fun putting together.

 Once a month the library has a movie night for anyone to come see.  The kids love to go and get a little treat and watch a movie at the library movie theater.

 Just going out to run some errands.

 Calvi wanted to be so many things for Halloween it was a good thing we had a few times he could dress up. This time he wanted to be a robot. Jodi saw her kitty cat costume from last year and that was the only thing she wanted to wear. Luckily she could still squeeze into it.

 Calvi loves to hang out with his Uncle Tysen. He will copy anything he does it is fun to watch them.

 The kids learned that they could push the stool up to the window and they were tall enough to see out.

 Here are the kids ready to go Trick or Treating. Calvin is now a pirate and Jodi still a kitty cat.

We ended Halloween night at Gma Gpa Tysens house. The kids had a lot of fun.  Calvin got a bunch of candy and decided he had enough and was to cold so he went back to the house to help Gpa hand out candy.  Jodi thought the whole getting candy thing was so awesome, she kept right up with Tysen and got a whole bunch of candy. It was funny to watch her she kept saying "wait Tyseee" and she was so excited when people would give her candy. It was super fun to watch the kids and see how different they were.