January

 This pretty much sums up Jodi! She is a little wild and crazy. This is at my parents house the kids love to sit on this saddle as you can see.

 We were in Twin visiting family for Christmas and new years. The kids had fun helping Gpa and Uncle Andy out on the farm but got distracted by the fun cattails!

 Grandpa Flint made the kids a treasure box and they love them. They are really awesome looking. Here are all the kids posing with them and Gpa!

 Jodi loves my parents dog tina!

 Tys parents were closing out the Greenhouses and here are the kids taking a last walk through. It was such a wonderful place.

 The kids just hangin out!

 All the grand kids in Gpas boat!

 Calvin loves to watch Gpas train. It is hard for the kids to just sit and watch it they are always wanting to trade out the cars and put things on the cars.

 The kids eating nuts with Gpa. Jodi came upstairs and said Gma we ran out of crack! That is what she called the nuts "crack"!

 Calvin playing on the tractors.

 Jodi giving calvi a hair cut! They do well playing with each other most of the time.

 The kids saw these giant icicles on the side of the house and Ty went to get them for them. They were so excited.

 Calvi started sunbeams in church this year and he was so excited and has loved it.

 Here are some of the legos that calvi has. He has since then collected more they make him so happy!

 Gma Rainsdon came to visit and we went sledding at the park and the kids made a snowman.

 Claras birthday pinita!

 Jodi painting her nails with her lip gloss!

 Jodi trying to ride a bike. She is actually pretty persistent and is doing well.

  Calvi loves to climb on all the snow hills he can find. He could play on them all day!

 We started a new thing in the family, Friday Fun Night. This is where the kids can stay up a little late and sleep where ever they want to sleep. This night Calvi chose to sleep in the tub! It was crazy but we let him do it and he thought it was super awesome.

Here is Calvi on a normal day dressed up as a ninja fighter with 2 swords in his pants!

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!