The Glover Family: December 2007

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

So hopefully you had a Merry Christmas!

Our family did!!!

Gracie had so much fun going to all of the parties.

She definately kept everyone busy and informed!

Sunday night was Christmas party at my mom's.

T R O U B L E !

After the gift exchange, my dad carried on his Christmas tradition of reading us some very inspirational Christmas stories!

Scott was able to "steal" the Sacred Grove picture from Holli & I got Tressa's gift of smell good oils and candles! (thanks Tress!)

*Christmas Eve pictures coming later...(forgot my camera and have to borrow pic.'s from Missy & Kylie!)

Christmas Eve...my 3 boys!

Ethan, Noah, Ryal

Noah

Kaylee

Ethan

Ryal

(Gracie fell asleep)

What did Kaylee get from Santa?!?

Hannah Montana tickets!!!

She also made out with Juicy jewelry, Bebe clothes, & Hannah Montana everything (blanket, jewelry, watch, underwear, etc.) And lots of other stuff...she got spoiled this year!

Highlights for Ryal: a couple of awesome Hot Wheel race tracks, a Spiderman bike, a remote Spiderman, a remote control Cars car, the game Hungry Hippos, which was Scott's favorite growing up!

Ethan made out with Spiderman everything! Highlights: Spiderman training studio, remote control Spider truck, remote Spiderman, Sandman tower, Spiderman bike

Gracie starts dance in January, so she got some fun new dance clothes, tap & ballet shoes, Dora kitchen, Dora skee ball, make-up, jewelry, lots of dress up shoes!!!, and lots of other fun Dora things. However, she enjoyed Ryal's cars just as much as anything else!

Gracie gave my mom a makeover!

Strawberry waffles for breakfast...with Whipped Cream of course!

Grandpa Hale helped Ethan learn to ride his new bike!

But it was freezing, so we bailed on the bike and went inside to play Star Wars!

TJ had more fun with this then the kids did!

This was Gracie's favorite gift...the Dora dance mat! What she likes best is the Dora outfit, but the DVD is cool too because it's fun to watch even without the dance mat. And of course, she loves annoying us with her maracas!

(she played the DVD over & over all afternoon!)

And this is something that I didn't get to do Christmas Day! I was up wrapping presents until 5am! It was fun at first because a lot of my family members were over hangin', but when they left at 2am, those last 3 hours were soooo long!

We did have a wonderful Christmas! Lots of yummy food, which I did indulge in, and am paying for now! But good times! Thanks everyone for all of the yummy treats!

And I do want to say that we went and saw Enchanted yesterday & it was awesome! Highly recommend it!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Our week of Christmas!

So how embarrassing is this? Scott & I have had a goal to clean out our garage for the past year. 5 kids, lots of junk + us keeping EVERYTHING = THIS GARAGE!

Finally on Thursday, Scott got a trailer and hauled our crap away!

The kids helped too, of course!

Scott did good, considering he only took half the day. It could still use a lot of help, but it works for now!

We are trying to turn it into a game room. The boys are getting a basketball game to put in there for Christmas!

Scott bought me this air hockey table the first year we were married! Every date we went on when we were courting, we had to stop and play air hockey...because I was the air hockey champ of course! Anyway, it's an awesome table...just like the arcades! The kids LOVE it!

Noah had fun watching!

So this is my sad story...

I LOVE this little dress of Gracie's and this is the last picture I will ever take of her in it because the dry cleaners ruined it. I went to pick it up on Friday and they charged me for it and sent me home with it. When I got home, all of the polka dots had been removed. I was steamin' mad of course, but, mostly now I am sad because she will never be able to wear it again:(

Cousin fun!

Lilly & Haley came in from CA on Friday and we had a Christmas gift exchange!

These Transformers helmets are awesome!

Football practice...they let Ryal on the team!

Both of the boys are loving it!

Ryal ALWAYS has to wear blue & Ethan ALWAYS has to wear green!

The boys even have their own cheering section!

For those who don't believe me when I say that my kids LOVE to sleep...

I decided to document a week of them sleeping in. (in my bed, on my side, mostly!) Sometimes Ethan will still be in bed at 11:30am!

And yes, that is Ryal in his football clothes!

It goes like this:

1. Sleep in late.

2. Refuse to take a nap.

3. Fall asleep at 5 or 6 in the evening.

4. Wake up at 7 or 8pm and stay up until midnight.

5. Climb in my side of the bed in the middle of the night.

6. Kick, hit & roll all over me + steal the covers.

7. Wake up Noah numerous times throughout the night.

8. Sleep in the following morning.

9. Refuse to take the nap that I desperately need.

10. Refuse to break the cycle.

And that's why I am sleep deprived!

This is Ethan at the foot of the bed.

And finally, I feel like such a horrible blogger because we had so many wonderful events going on these past few days and I didn't take ANY pictures!!! My mom's family was in from CA & Singapore! We threw a baby shower for my aunt Nancy, we took family pictures at Freestone Park, we had a Ferrin family Christmas party at Carolei Phelps house yesterday, we celebrated Sam & Holli's b-day & we had a family Christmas party at my mom's house last night! So fun! I did video tape a lot of stuff, but I had kids in my hands nonstop and just didn't get the pictures I would've liked! Sorry guys!