Pizza, Friends and Hats

December is here!  It is one of my favorite months. 

We have fun doing a little something every day until the 25th.

It helps us to get in the spirit of Christmas. 

I love all the memories we make.

On the 2nd we had pizza for dinner and ate it in our Santa hats. 

It was tons of fun!

We also had a guest that night, Cole's friend Brady.

Izzy's dance recital

If I can get a video to ever load, it will go here:)

The party after the recital.

Izzy and Miss Becca, her teacher.  She was such a fun teacher and Izzy just loved her!

Fall Soccer...

Soccer just ended last Saturday! The weather was great, in the low 70's. 

It was a perfect ending to the season.  

We enjoyed watching the boys in their games, and they had lots of fun too.

Ethan

He had a great season and a lot of fun running around the field.

Ethan and his friend Mckay

Cole



Cole also had a fun season and learned lots.  It was hard for him to understand that he couldn't run all around the field freely, but he was getting better at it by the end.

 Cole and his friend Seth



Cole's awards

We are at a new school this year, Challenge Charter school.  We couldn't be happier with the success Cole and Ethan are having.  Especially Cole.  His teacher this year absolutely loves him and he loves her.  It is a recipe for success and he is as happy a 4th grader as he could be.  Which after the horrible year we had last year at the other school, I am now a very happy, stress free mom!

Back on October, Cole was awarded 100% Homework award.

Cole also made Honor roll this last trimester.

He hopes to improve his grades even more, his goal next trimester is to get on the "Principal List".





Thanksgiving in Utah

We broke out the coats and headed north to Utah.

We spent couple of days in St. George, then went were it was super cold...Logan;)

The Mountains were so beautiful all covered in snow.

We had lots of fun seeing everyone on the Bodily side.

Ashton with Abby.  Getting two, two year olds to smile at the same time is a real challenge.

I didn't get either to smile, but still cute. 

Thanksgiving dinner:



Dig in! 

 

The newest member to join the Bodily family.  James, Kevin's brothers son.  He is such a cute baby, and so easy going.  I held he as much as I could to get my baby fix. 

Izzy loved her pie!

And....

Karaoke 

Here she is singing her little heart out with Aarron as her back up.

Kevin and the guys had fun with it too.

Family and ice cream. 

We really wanted/needed Aggie ice cream, but they weren't open. 

So we headed to Charlie's.  Still a good time.

 

So when everyone is together, get a family picture.

The whole Bodily Fam:

Zoo in November

Kevin and I took Izzy and Ashton to the zoo back in November.  Kevin was off of school for Thanksgiving break.  It was great with the two little ones.  It was like back when I would take Cole and Ethan when they were little.  I was amazed how easy it was with just two kids and two parents.  Such a fun day, the weather was great and so were the kids!

Kevin, Isabel and Ashton in front of the giraffes.  Always a favorite. 

Izzy, my pearl.



This zoo is so huge, we have been there many times but we still haven't seen it all.  This time our goal was to go to a side we had never been.  They have a petting zoo where you can pet goats and brush them.  Izzy was all about this.  Ashton loved the horses and baby cows.

The height of different types of horse like animals. 



The "Little People" play area.  Ashton fond his favorite Little People toy, but life size, the horse.

Halloween 2011

Carving pumpkins!

Cole carved his own this year...it turned out great for the first time with the knife.

Ashton wasn't so sure about the gooey insides. 

Izzy wanted hers to be sick...she is so fun!

I love this Halloween tradition, we all love it.  The older the kids get the better it gets.  They have some great ideas and creativity.  We had so many compliments from our Trick-or-Treater's.

Costumes: 

Isabel, our sweet little devil. 

Ashton, was a fireman/construction worker in this picture. 

Later he was just a construction worker. 

Ethan was a ghost. 

Cole, a scary hobo.  He really just loves to wear the mask and scare the little kids;) 

Midwestern U. Halloween Party:

The kids on campus 

Walking the halls and getting lots of candy!

Kevin went as a veterinarian, but everyone thought he was going as a fourth year dental student (we wish).  Every year has a different scrub color.  Kevin's dental class wears navy and the fourth years wear this light blue.  These scrubs were my Dad's old scrubs he gave us a long time ago to use for Halloween.  It was fun getting the puzzeled looks from his classmates.

Cake walk, one of the many games.

The bounce slides are always a huge hit with my kids.