December 2015

As always here is our month in pictures!

Sleeping boys

 Steven got the Student of the Month, which we were proud of but when we got a postcard telling us why he did we were even more proud.  We want him to do his best and succeed academically but more than that we want him to be a good person and friend and that's just what he's been doing.  He got it for including everyone, helping others, and being a friend to everyone.  That's my boy.

Because there's nothing better than Christmas and babies

These two are really coming out of their shells and we love it!

Once again, babies and Christmas are magical

 Baking cookies with Grandma

Spencer loves this little tree

Sweet Angel Baby

Christopher sure loves Thomas

Ryan loves Thomas just as much!

 I wanted to put Thomas in a stocking but by the time I got around to it, he was already so big!

This picture makes me laugh!

Pulled him out a bit and that's better

 Max and Spencer are good about having Thomas around, they just love to point out all his cute features.  Which may or may not be a good thing...

 We got our pictures taken by my amazingly talented friend Jenn!

Out shopping afterwards

Spencer and his pretzel

 Steven has had a tooth that was loose for a long time and after going to the dentist he we found out his grown up tooth was coming in and way out of place because the tooth was still there so Jacob had to bribe him multiple multiple times to let him pull it out, but we did it!

Waiting in line to play with dad.

 Christopher lost his first tooth at church...during sacrament meeting.  Jacob didn't think it would hurt him so he bribed him with a big cookie with pink frosting.  It did hurt and Christopher cried.  He later told me, "Dad really shouldn't have pulled my tooth."

While trying to take a nap, Thomas threw up on me.  LOADS of milk came out.  But being the great tired mom I am I just went to sleep and changed my clothes when I woke up.

I noticed he wasn't a newborn anymore when I saw this cute double chin.

 Hall Family Party

Thomas with his first Christmas present from his Great Great Aunt Darce

 I wanted to take a picture of Spencer with Uncle Wayne since Spencer's middle name is after him, but Spencer wasn't having it!

 So Jacob stepped in to help out and they came up with this picture.

 Then a normal one.

Dentist visit for William, Ryan, and me and Christopher had his cavities filled.  William and Ryan did great and neither of them or me had cavities and Christopher was brave and was great until the end then he started crying we think just because he was tired of being there.

Max is a master at getting out of his clothes.  We are also now duct taping his diaper because he likes to take it off numerous times.

 Thomas's first time at church AND first smile for the camera. He's TOO cute!

We made the trek to Salt Lake City to see the Temple Square lights and had such a great time.  We stopped at Denny's first (kids eat free!) for dinner and the boys got the cutest reindeer pancakes and were pretty well behaved.  I LOVE when we can do things as a family that we would do with only a few kids.  Making memories with my family warms my heart. 

The water was the biggest hit

The boys loved watching dad pay for parking

A vendor that Jacob works with in China gave his this for Christmas;
we're told it's the symbol of fertility. Because we're blessed in that area.

 Gingerbread House Making

(boy's playing with frosting)

William

Ryan

William

Steven

Christopher

Christopher

Ryan

Ryan

Steven

Christmas Card Tree

 Christmas Eve

Cute Thomas

Stockings and Presents ready!

Three boys asleep and Steven awake.
He finished It's a Wonderful Life then watched part
of Elf and The Grinch before he fell asleep.

 Christmas Morning

Playing Connect 4 while waiting for brothers to wake up

Spencer made this face for a full minute

Max checking out his stocking

Steven, Christopher, and William looking into their stockings

Spencer hoarding other people's treats

Thomas with his loot.

We only bought him one of those.
The bear was from his Great Great Aunt Darce
and the lamb from Grandma Morrise

breakfast with their own cereal

Last year Christmas morning was a bust!  The boys stormed through their presents, throwing them aside and whining till they got to open another one.  Then instead of playing with their new things they fought with each other; Jacob and I were done with the day by 9:30.  This time the boys each got three presents; if it's good enough for Jesus it's good enough for them!  They each got a sweater, a lego set, and a nerf gun.  (well Spencer and Max didn't get a lego set, they got a ball instead).  And just like that the morning was pretty great!  We built legos together and played with our guns together, so much better than last year.

kind of blurry, Christopher working on his legos

Steven working on his aim

Christopher

 What was going on at 10:27 a.m.

Max playing at the batman house with some almonds

Spencer sitting and watching it all happen

Ryan, Christopher, and William playing with their nerf guns

Jacob teaching Steven how to play pool on his new little pool table.

Thomas sad his binky won't stay in his mouth

I was making cookies with my new cookie cutters Jacob gave me

Nerf Gun Wars!

I love Steven with his hands up here.

Spencer loved playing with Jacob

After lunch on Christmas we headed to Soda Springs for my family's Christmas Party.  We had a great time and even got pictures with our Great Grandma! (my pictures didn't turn out great on my phone but others did that I'll have to switch out later)

All the great grandkids with Grandma

We stayed in Soda over the weekend and played basketball, watched the free matinee, relaxed and chatted.  It was really great.

There was always someone willing to hold Thomas

Sunday morning I got up thinking I needed to hurry and get everyone ready for 9 a.m. church, but when the bishop got up that morning it was -24 degrees so he pushed back church an hour and canceled the other blocks. He hoping for the weather to warm up, and it did to -4.  It was perfect for us since I'm not sure how my boys would have reacted going to class.  I just love to see the boys in matching sweaters!

Max was great at putting the grandkid angels on and off the tree.

We left after lunch on Sunday and made a stop in Roy to see Jacob's grandparents and luckily his Uncle, Aunt, and Cousin who live in Korea were visiting so we got to spend time with them as well.  We always love to stop by and see Grandma and Grandpa Morrise.

I loved Ryan and William's sleeping position

A few days later my parents came to help out, my boys really love when they come.

Target practice for the boys.  Christopher came and said,
"MOM! Spencer's winning!"

Thomas is getting SO big!

New Years Eve the boys wanted to see if Jacob could win some stuffed animals for them.  He won one with his first dollar and all he had left was a five dollar bill so he had 20 tries and got 3 more, the boys were excited.  The best was when he got two on one round.

Spencer was being a pill in Walmart and would scream when we took things out of his hands he wanted to buy.  Here he thought it didn't matter that I said no to this big pink bike he was going to wheel it away anyway!  Sadly he couldn't move it himself and it made him SO frustrated.  I was half laughing half wanting to stick him in a sound proof room for the rest of his life.

Spencer, the keeper of the baby.