Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas!

It was Preston's birthday on Christmas Eve and this is the cake that we picked for him.
Christmas morning was really fun. Zach was so excited to see his tent that Santa brought him.

Santa also brought him a cowboy costume.

This is how excited he was to see all of his presents from santa. I hope everybody had as good as Christmas as we did.

Christmas Program

We went to watch my nephew at his church Christmas program. When we were waiting to start this old lady told Zach that he should go sit with the rest of the kids. Before I knew it he was at the top sitting by Scott. He didn't really know what was going on or any of the songs, but that's what made it funny. In the middle of the program Scott had to go on stage because he was a shepard so Zach followed him and just stood there front and center staring at baby Jesus. It was really funny.

Let it Snow!

It snowed! We let the boys play out in my mom's yard while we took pictures. I love Zach's little snow suit. We bought it 3-4 months ago for dirt cheap so it doesn't get better than that.

This is a picture of a snowball that Preston threw from the porch that landed on Zach's head.

It was very cold so we only played for a little bit, but Zach loved it.

Super seniors and first dates

The foreign language club at Canyon View held their annual Sadie Hawkins dance. It was a Halloween dance which I thought was crazy since it was a week after Halloween. Anyway Preston had to chaperon the dance and his teacher that he student teaches with told him to bring Zach and me. Zach was so excited he got to wear his dinosaur costume again. Mrs. Duncan's little girl said she would be Zach's date so she dressed up as Wilma Flinstone. Preston's little sister came to stay the weekend and asked Mrs. Duncan's son to the dance. Maybe I should have stayed home so Preston could have gone with Mrs. Duncan. The decorations were impressive and I told Mrs. Duncan that it was decorated better then my prom. Zach got very tired around 10:30. Let's hope he is like this when he is in high school.

Malory and Braxton dressed up as a 50's couple.

Zach on his first date!

Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween this year. I only had to work the last half of the shift so I was able to celebrate. Zach was so excited for about a week before. He even woke up from his nap saying "boo" over and over.
We went to Paragonah to go with Scott. We first went trunk or treating at their ward and then we decided to take the boys door to door. Zach had a great time and every time someone would open the door he would just walk right into their house. Preston even dressed up as Edward Scissorhands which scared a little princess but other than that it was a hit. Zach only got scared at two houses which I thought was a success since there were some pretty scary decorations.

Family Pictures

Last week we had my friend Alisha's little sister take our family pictures. I absolutly dread doing this. It takes so much work just to have Zach hold still for two seconds to take pictures and very rarely do we get a good picture especially a family picture. Anyway I think she did a great job and we really love these pictures. All the pictures on the side of the blog and these are the ones she did. Her blog for her photography is http://allsnappedup.blogspot.com check it out because she does the cutest pictures. Sorry there are a ton of pictures, but they are mostly for Preston's brother Pace since we are terrible and never write letters. By the way Zach is holding a pear in most the pictures because that is the only way he wouldn't be a dork. He called it his parrott. Don't tell the Stowell's because he stole it off of their tree!

Was it worth it?

Ever since I met Preston I knew that he loved baseball. I have never seen him play so I always pictured him very awkward, but to my surprise he is actually pretty good. We go to our ward's men's softball every Tuesday night. It has been really fun to get out and Zach loves to watch his daddy and play in the dirt. Anyway last Tuesday Preston was running to home, but someone was also throwing the ball to the catcher. Everyone held their breaths and just hoped that the catcher would drop the ball. Me being sceptical just figured my husband was out, but to my surprise he slid into home and the next thing I knew the catcher was on top of Preston and the umpire was yelling safe! Well everybody cheered and all the elders quorum was saying how cool it was but they wouldn't have done it. Preston definitely proved me wrong about being awkward because it was very cool to watch. Next thing I knew Preston was in the outfield and I looked over and he was emptying sand from his shoes. A quick three outs happened and my husband hobbled to the bleachers asking my to get a wipe for the blood that was dripping to his socks. We cleaned hip up and he headed back out like a true baseball player. Anyway that was a really long play by play but since you didn't watch it somebody had to fill you in.
P.S. This is not as gruesome as your post Megan so I didn't need a warning and if any of you needed a warning I'm very sorry.