Stilson Family

Elly's birthday

My little girl has turned one. Yes, that makes me sad because it just went to fast, like it has with each one of my kids. We had birthday cake for her with my family since we were visiting them on her birthday. She ofcourse didn't blow out the candle, she has no clue how to do that. She was actually kind of scared of the candle. It took her a minute before she dared to touch it but she did.

The little piece of cake that is missing is because of my sister trying to show Elly how it is done, not because of Elly. She did get into it a little.

We also had her birthday with Jay's family when we got back.

And we had it with just us. Tyler wanted to give her another doll because she loved the other one so much.

Christmas with my family

We spent New Years with my family and while we were there we had a little Christmas with them. My mother made a blanket for each of our kids. They loved them and have slept with them every night since we got back. Mason doesn't like to sleep with a blanket but he has liked the one Grandma made him.

The pictures of the boys aren't very good. It all happens so fast and they won't go back and do it again for you so this is the best that I have.

Elly and her new blanket.

Thanks for the cute blankets mom and all the work and time that went in to them. It is always nice to have something special that is hand made from you parents and Grandparents.
My brother made us some really cool presents for Christmas which I will take pictures of and post later.

Christmas Day

Christmas morning at about 7:45 Mason came into our room to get in bed with us, but after a minute decided that he needed to go to the batheroom, which meant that we had to get up because then he would see that Santa had been to our house. It was pretty cute when he stepped out of our room he came back and said, "Mom there is a big horse in our house." I asked him what he was talking about and he told me to come with him so he could show me. He forgot all about needing to use the bathroom so he could get down to that big horse. He was pretty excited about it.

Tyler was up, as soon as her heard Mason's horse making noises, and down checking out what he got. He has had a very hard time pulling himself away from that Big Buck Hunter Pro game that he got. He loves it and it is pretty fun. I finally played it with him and Mason the other day. Tyler had to tell Jay that I played it and that I wasn't very good at it.

In everyones sock there was silly string. When Jay found his he had to surprise the boys with it. Neither one was expecting it, they were both busy looking at presents. Tyler thought that it was funny but Mason was in tears instantly. He wouldn't stop until Jay showed him that he had some and let Mason get him with it, then everything was fine.

One of Elly's favorite things she got was her toothbrush. She carried that all over the house.

Tyler was very excited about this present, a pack of copy paper. When he opened it he said, "Yes! I can do whatever I want with my paper." It was pretty funny. He goes through so much paper. Jay though that I was weird getting that for him but I knew that he would love it.

Mason is always telling me that he needs new basketball shoes so he was pretty excited when he got some for Christmas.

Jay got the kids these BYU shirts. Everyone that knows me knows that I would never buy these for my kids. I don't cheer for them.

Elly got a baby for Christmas. When she opened it she was so excited about it but then she was mad too because I couldn't get it out of the package fast enough.

The little boys got the cartoon Transformers, the one that was around when we were kids, for Christmas. Once they turned it on none of the boys could leave it, that is including Jay.

My cute little boys have had a lot of fun on this horse already. They just look like trouble riding with their guns and laughing.

We had a great Christmas. It was fun to have Jay around for a few days and just get to hang out and do nothing.

Christmas Eve

When we got home from Jay's parents house the kid got to open their Christmas Eve present from us, which was new PJ's too. As you can see they were all tired and didn't really care about it.

They did look pretty cute in their new PJ's though.

Christmas Eve at Stilson's

This year for Christmas Eve we were with Jay's family. We had dinner and then the kids sang a song for Jay's dad, "I want a Hippo for Christmas." My boys listened to that song in the car for a couple of weeks and they would sing it in the car, but Mason wouldn't sing it when other people were watching him. Tyler sang a little but not to much. Elly just played with her cousins.

These are Tyler and Mason's cousins that sang the song with them.

After the kids acted out the Nativity while Jay's dad read it. I thought that Mason was a pretty cute little shepherd.

Tyler was a Wise man and he was pretty cute too. Elly wasn't in it but she did crawl up there to see what was going on. The kids all looked really cute.

After the kids got to open a present from Grandpa and Grandma. They all got new PJ's so we had to have pictures of that. We are missing one Grandchild who was sleeping during this.

Last the kids got to open their present from their cousin. Elly got a push toy that she loved once we got it together. She would scream at any of the kids that would touch it. Yes, she can be a stinker.

Mason and Tyler got a Transformer, which is all they have talked about for weeks, so they loved it.

Last minute trip

Since Tyler didn't have school on Tuesday we went with Jay down to where he works on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We brought my sister home with us, so she came with us too. While we were waiting to check into the hotel we took Brittny to see the sights down there. It was a snowy day, but the kids had fun. The boys hiked with Brittny while I stayed in the car with Elly,

The boys are taking Brittny to see the Indian writings. They aer still in ther PJ's because we had to get up early so Jay could be to work on time and I didn't want to dig in the trunk to get their clothes out until we were at the hotel.

While we were waiting Tyler played outside and the rest of us sat in the car. I had plenty of time to do some word searches, I love those. Mason looked at books and Elly climbed all over me.

Tyler had to show me his finished product. He sat outside and played for atleast an hour. The finished product is the hole that he dug in the dirt.

This hotel has the best pool. The water is always warm so the kids will play in it for hours. I love it because then I will even dare to get in. We had a lot of fun.

We had to take Brittny to our favorite place to eat too. This place has old video games. They boys love to play them. It was funny to watch Brittny play these games because she would make the same sounds that Tyler makes while he playes them too. It was pretty funny. If my camera recorded sound then you could see for yourselves how funny it was.

Sledding

We had to get the kids out and go sledding while the snow last here. We took the kids cousins with us. We had a lot of fun. We brought hot chocholate to have when we got cold. The kids lasted for a couple of hours.

Tyler and Mason are in the blue coats and their cousins are the other two.

While their cousins were getting some hot chocholate Jay took our kids and I for a ride. The boys loved it. Mason loved falling out. Elly was happy to be out with us. Her favorite part was riding on the four wheeler with Jay. Tyler could ride forever, he wants to ride even if he is cold.

Jay and Elly

This was just a pretty picture of the place where we were sledding.

The kids had a great time. We went out sledding again on Christmas Eve day too.

Seeing Santa

At our ward Christmas party Santa was there. I didn't take the kids to Santa last year because kids always cry when they see Santa. I figured they were old enough not to cry this year. The boys were good.