Friday, January 2, 2015

Christmas 2014

Coolest Salvation Army guy ever!

Ryan sleeping in the car after running Christmas errands

Making a ginger bread house



I'm still trying to find my favorite way to display our Christmas cards. 
This one is my favorite so far.

Hall Family Christmas Party
(Max and Spencer's first presents opened)




Afterwards we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Morrise

Christmas Eve

Jacob said his favorite part of Christmas was staying in your pajamas all day, so we decided to let them open their Christmas pj's in the morning and after their bath they could wear them all day.

Good brothers helping their little brothers



We then headed over to Jenny and DJ's house for a Morrise Christmas gathering.
First on the agenda was exchanging presents, which worked nicely since both who we had and who had us was there early.
Christopher was the cutest and happiest kid about everything he (or anyone) got
Ryan
William

Babies getting in on the action

Opening Marshall and Susan's presents 
Live Nativity


Mary, Joseph and Jesus with twin shepherds who have twin sheep (one who's being trampled by a Steven wise man) and another Christopher wise man looking on.  Oh and the angel is being held up but I just got the legs of her dad :)

Another look at the totally accurate account of the nativity

Max in his sheep costume aka hooded towel.
We go all out for costumes here.
Frosting cookies



Max 
And of course Christmas Eve should always end with
"It's a Wonderful Life"
Christmas Morning
Blurred picture shows there were a lot of action

Checking out there stockings
William

Spencer

Max

Max

Spencer

Max

Max

Grandma Balls' Jammies



Soda Springs Christmas
Spencer and Max playing while Grandma sews.
I love this picture

Ryan and William getting cozy in Grandpa's chair

I loved seeing Grandma playing with Max
 

Thanksgiving Point Curiosity Museum

For Christmas our family got a family pass to Thanksgiving Point, so a few days after Christmas we checked out the curiosity museum and loved it!  We will love using this pass!
Wind Corner

Blurry but it shows the joy in Steven's face


We tried to have William and Ryan contained but it didn't last too long.

William

Christopher, Ryan, and William
They really are almost the same size


Ryan
William and Ryan




Afterwards we ran some errands and while Jacob ran inside we played in the car with Pringles (luckily I had them in the car already!)
Steven

William

Ryan (and Steven's chip)

Christopher
Christmas Sweaters
Max and Spencer

Spencer, William, Max, and Ryan

William and Ryan

William, Max, Christopher, Steven, Spencer, and Ryan
This makes my heart so happy!
The after Christmas play is always the best!
Our Christmas morning was very loud and with a lot more fighting that I would have wanted, but in the end Jacob and I feel so blessed to have these boys in our lives and hopefully one day we'll have a nice peaceful Christmas.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Teamwork

Here at the Morrise home we believe in working together.  William and Ryan have seemed to take this teamwork to the next level recently.  Here are their "accomplishments."  Note:  most of these happened within a week or two.  It was a tough week.

Sharpie writing all over themselves, the couches, the walls, fireplace, shelves, and doors.
I was able to get some of this out, but there is still quite a lot of evidence of their teamwork here.





Raspberry vinigerette I wrote about earlier


The next day it was dawn dish soap all over the nice couches.  
This actually came out better than I would have thought.

Our poor Christmas tree.  Luckily we put a gate up and that solved that problem.

Standing on the table and drinking syrup from the bottle.


Cocoa Powder all over the table

Baby Formula dumped all over


Together they got the drawers out of the fridge and took them for rides in the living room


Right after I vaccumed they promptly dumped cereal all over and proceeded to eat off the floor.  
Because everything tastes better off the floor.


Baking Powder. This one was hard because I needed it for dinner that night.



Paint all over the carpet.  
(This was after I moved them all to the top of the filing cabinet.)


And tonight was more baby formula.  This time they were sneaky about it and moved to the baby's room to do it.  I'm very excited for when we will no longer have to buy these expensive toys for them!


We are learning there is no reason to have sharpies in the home.  Paint should be in the cold storage up on the highest shelf.  We need to have locks on the fridge, pantry, and every door  in the house except their rooms.  As long as we do these things the twin teamwork is kept to building Legos, melting our hearts, and trying to play with their older brothers.

Hereditary

In November, just shy of 7 months, we went into a pediatric dentist to have Spencer's tongue and lip tie clipped (or with laser in our case).  




They bound his arms down with a swaddling blanket and he was all smiles to the nurses.  



Until they had to put the light in his eyes and give him safety goggles.


It was really sad to watch, but he did great and recovered well!  It was hard for me to keep stretching it every day to make sure the skin didn't reconnect; he really didn't like that at all.  Just as a side note being tongue tied is hereditary, I am, and as far as we can tell none of the older boys are (or at least not as bad).  Once Spencer's appointment goes through the insurance Max will have the procedure done as well...and maybe me if I'm brave enough and we have some cash to kill I'll have it done too.

Tooth Fairy

Back in November Steven came to us and said his tooth was loose.  We wiggled it and it felt like it could come out at any time.  Jacob convinced Steven to tie a piece of floss around his tooth but then Steven got scared and told him to take it off.  Jacob refused but told him to just pull it off himself.  He gave a hard yank and away it came!  





And the parents we are we told him the tooth fairy wasn't real.  We could pretend she was real and leave the tooth under the pillow or we could just give him the money right then and there, he chose the second option.