EPHRAIM'S BIRTHDAY!!

I put together a race car birthday cake for Ephraim per his request, this is the finished product! Happy 4th Birthday to Ephraim!!

Presents from Grandma, aunts and uncle.

A monster truck and some new clothes!

Family, friends, and presents!!

Ephraim got a lot of Sponge Bob things this year for some reason, haha.

Cake Time!!

On Monday I took Ephraim to spend his birthday money from Grandpa and Grandma James. He picked out a Captain America action figure, a water gun and some bubbles. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!!

WHAT'S NEW WITH US...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

The end of another year has come. We have been so blessed this year and are so thankful to have all of our families! We had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed a few days together and with friends and the Smith family here. We didn't get a good family picture for Christmas but hopefully we'll get a nice one this coming spring. We hope you all had a great Christmas too and hope you all have many blessings in the New Year!

Enoch's First Knock Knock Joke!

We had to share with you Enoch's first knock knock joke! He is doing very well at copying things and is already saying short sentences. We're happy to see that he already has a sense of humor too! We were eating dinner when he started to tell his Dad a joke. Before I could get the camera out the punch line was "I see you!" but it is very cute nonetheless!

The boys got some fun toys! Their Grandpa Smith and their uncles gave them a race track! The best part is it doesn't need batteries, you just wind it to make it go!

One of Ephraim's favorites is his remote controlled dump truck and Enoch loves his spinning car track! Elijah got a nice magic set, silly mom didn't get a picture of him with it but I'm sure he'll be doing some tricks for her again soon!

Ephraim outgrew his tricycle so he got a big boy bike to ride around, Enoch has inherited the tricycle. Ephraim is excited that he can keep up with his big brother now! One of the good parts about it not snowing yet is that we can all go out and ride for a few minutes!

The boys on Christmas Day after church. We had a wonderful musical program that we participated in that day, we combined with the other ward in the building so the choir sounded fantastic! The boys were very excited to get home and play though. As you can see, the last thing Ephraim wanted to do was pose for Mom.

I went to Elijah's parent day at school before Christmas break and the parents helped the kids make houses out of graham crackers, frosting and candy. If you look closely you will see Santa Bear (we used gummy bears) being pulled by his 9 reinbears.

It's toe sock time! Christmas marks the beginning of toe sock season. I tried to share with the boys but they're a little big still. I think Ephraim almost looks like he has hobbit feet. :)

At the beginning of December we set up our Christmas tree and decorations, and had some fun at our ward's Christmas party!

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FALL HAPPENINGS!

We are making the most of the nice weather because the snow is just around the corner! We had lots of fun this fall, more wood workshops...fun activities with family, and Halloween!! The boys got way too much candy (really, it was making me nauseous just looking at all that, people were very generous this year) so we decided to send some via a sister in our ward to some soldiers who are abroad. It felt good to teach the boys a little about appreciating our military and we made a candy letter which I haven't done in a long time so that was fun! We got a lot of compliments on our Halloween costumes and I have to thank my new mother in law for letting me borrow her nice sturdy old sewing machine to do it because my cheap one sadly is not working anymore. We hope everyone had a great Halloween just like us!

Happy Halloween from D'Arjoshua, Elijos, Ephros, Enochis, and Milady Pamela!

At our ward party...

At Josh's Dad's ward party...

Enochis

Ephros

Elijos

We did some rearranging this fall. The baby was old enough to be out of the crib and Elijah had outgrown the toddler size bunk bed so we got him a twin bed and he has his own room, for now. :) He's very happy about it!

Now Ephraim has the top of the bunk bed and Enoch has the bottom!

Elijah has done so well this year! His teacher loves him and he has mastery marks in every subject so far. He and two other classmates are being sent out of the 1st grade class a few times a week to work with some 2nd grade teachers on some more difficult work. So proud of our Elijah!