Since Brandon and I have been married we have gotten a real tree for Christmas. We have always loved picking out our tree and bringing it home. We enjoy it even more now with Tyson and Lily! Tyson goes yelling thru the lot... "we found the perfect tree!" We usually take our time finding the perfect tree, but this year it was only in the teens for the temp so pretty much the first tree we saw we took! The kids still loved it!
Isn't she just the cutest pink marshmallow you have ever seen!?!
Tyson was telling me he was freezing in this picture!
They were a ton of help decorating the tree! They poured everything out! 
Lily loves "necklaces!"
Tyson wanted me to take a picture of him holding up each ornament! We picked a good one!
Tyson set the mood with the fireplace!
Our finished product! I used to make sure that everything was in it's perfect spot...now I could care less. The whole back of our tree is pretty much empty and a lot of the ornaments are on the bottom left side...that was were Tyson was standing each time he picked up an ornament!
We enjoy going to the ward party every year because they have Santa come and we don't have to fight long lines at the Mall to see him. Although, the Santa they have gotten for the past few years has been a really grump...same with Mrs. Claus. They barely even crack a smile! Tyson could care less!
Oh...Santa was also on a time crunch, so they really pushed the kids through really fast. This is Tyson and his buddy Zander. They got to go together (since they happened to be standing by each other!)
Today Tyson got an email from Santa. Santa called him by name, knew what he had asked for and even had a picture of him and knew he was 4. Tyson was more than excited!
Tyson at 1 week old! He has always been our awesome sleeper! To this day he still takes the occasional nap and very rarely complains about going to bed!
Tyson has always been our TV kid! It was heaven sent when he was really little so I could get things done....now on the other hand if he gets too much TV he gets rather grumpy with us! The above picture is when we used to swaddle him and he still managed to watch TV upside down! Below we used to have to put the ottoman in front of the TV to keep him back a little and so he didn't push buttons!
Another thing about Tyson is that he has always loved to be outside and especially play in the dirt. We have multiple pictures of him "swimming" in the dirt (like above). The more mud and dirt the better!
Tyson has been and always will be CRAZY!!!
He is also one of the happiest and most friendly kids you will ever meet! He loves to talk to random people and he always makes new "friends" everywhere we go! (We were at Home Depot today and he came and told me a cute little blond girl was his new friend!)
Tyson loves to dress up and pretend he is someone else!
Tyson loves to be silly...at preschool he likes to make everyone laugh!
Tyson loves to wiggle his naked bum! Like father like son! Brandon's Mom still remembers when Brandon mooned her YW! Tyson just started a bit younger!
Tyson is an amazing big brother! He loves to wrestle with Lily and gives her hugs all the time! They are so cute together!
Tyson is so sweet and tells me quite often that I look beautiful! He loves when I have my toenails painted and loves to help paint them!
He also loves to dress up his sister!
So happy in the dirt!
He is the silliest kid! He loves to run and jump! (He has gotten in trouble at other preschool houses for jumping on the couch...I guess I taught him a bad habit!)
Tyson loves to take pictures of everything!
He loves to be silly!
Happy Birthday Tyson!!! We love you!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I am thankful for...
My Kids
My Husband
Mine and Brandon's Family
The Gospel
My Health
My Home
My Friends
My ability to stay home
My Blog (so I can remember my life)
Brandon's Job
Fast Food(I am a fast food junkie...good thing I like to run)
The ability to run
Life
Thanksgiving so that we take time to think about what we are thankful for!
This year we decided to brave our first friend birthday party!
All the kids had to become Superhero's by lifting a heavy weight to prove their strength, crawl through a tunnel to prove their agility, and knock down a tower just because that is what superhero's do to save someone!
Each kid got a cape with their initial on it! (Thanks to my Mom in law for sewing all of these for me! You are the best!!!!!!)
Playing pin the web on Spiderman. Brandon had them all do the Spiderman web slinging!
They all colored their web to play the game!
This picture didn't turn, but these are my homemade cake walk pictures! I am not artistic, so I was really proud of myself. Can you tell who each symbol represents???
The party animals!
One friend was missing in the other picture...so here are all the kids patiently waiting for the Phineas and Ferb soundtrack!
Doing the Freeze dance!
This was our youngest friend Bella. She will be two in a month. She loved showing how strong she is! Too cute!
Opening presents. (Can you see Bella in the background still lifting the weight!?)
Superheros helping with presents!
At the end the "Villain" stole the cake so the Superhero's had to save the day by capturing the Villain and tickling him until he talked so they could save the party and the cake!
Brandon showing how strong he is while the kids were enjoying their pizza and cake!
Tyson thinks it is pretty funny to blow out the candles before we are done singing!
Can't forget cute Lily! She slept for half of the party!
She is a little climber! I turned around and she had climbed from a stool onto the chair!
What a great Superhero party!
Got to love those eyes!
Silly kid! 
This is my fav of Lily!
Lip tucked in...cute!
I love this one of Tyson!
Such good buddies!
Love her face!
Doing Karate! (Love It!!)
Check out the double chin!
So Happy!
A really grainy picture, but I love her pointing!
Love that face!
Another fav of Lily!
Where's Tyson?!?
Mr. Cool! 
