Christmas 2011

Christmas was so much fun this year! We had the Olson Christmas party first this year. Grandma Olson made all the kids minky pillow cases. They also got a movie and pajamas. We also got a basket full of books from Alicia's family. We love books and now we have a ton. It's great!

We then had the Custer Christmas party. Porter, Ryker and Kyler got fishing poles from their cousins which were a huge hit. That is probably one of their favorite presents. Bridger got a fun steering wheel from his cousin.

Then we had Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Lowry's with Charlie. We always love going to their house. We love seeing Charlie. It was Bridger's first time meeting Charlie. He wasn't sure what to think.

Then Christmas Day was the best. I was so excited. Bridger woke up at 5 so I woke Mike up and asked if we could open presents. He told me no. Then I was up again at 6 and asked him again. He told me no again. Then I was up and fed Bridger at 6:30. After I asked Mike again. He said, "What are you going to do? Wake the boys up?" So, I had to wait for them to wake up. They got up about 7 or 7:30. We went and opened presents. Then the boys exchanged their gifts to each other. They got pajamas, critter hats, movies, cars and toothbrushes.

I got my Kindle Fire. That's all I wanted. I was so excited!

Mike got some shirts, scrubs, remote control helicopter and stuff for his Kindle Fire.

Then we were asking the boys where Santa's presents were. They checked and the cookies were gone and so was their note to Santa so they knew he came. They were looking all over. They kept looking outside to see if the raindeer ate the raindeer food but they didn't see the presents anywhere. Kyler kept saying, "there are big presents outside." Porter and Ryker didn't see them. Kyler had to tell them and show them. This is what Santa left.

They were so funny when they opened them. They just looked at them not sure what to think. They acted like they didn't know if they were real or not. Then we went and rode them and the boys had a ball. They love these little wheelers. We had a blast watching them too.

They were a little cautious at first when they started riding. Now they are kind of crazy on them. It's great watching them.

Grandma and Grandpa Custer stopped by on Christmas to see what we got and to give us our presents. They gave Porter, Ryker and Kyler Quillows, slippers and books. Bridger got a blanket, books and outfits. The boys have wanted their own quillows for months. They are so excited for them. Every morning they bring their pillows and quillows out to watch TV with.

We were very spoiled this year and had a blast!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Crazy Boys!!!

We seriously have the craziest boys! They are always up to something. Making a big mess or something. Here are a few pictures that we have captured of them doing funny crazy things!

Porter and Ryker were playing in their room one day. Ryker comes walking out and he has every shirt in his drawer on. He only had 2 clean pair of pants which he had on as well. Probably would have had more on but that was all that was in his drawer. He came out just giggling. Mike and I couldn't help but laugh. Here he has 10 shirts on.

The picture doesn't do much justice but he looked like a marshmallow!

There was one week that the boys did something pretty much everyday. One morning I was getting ready for work and Mike walks in the living room and I hear him yell, "Ugh, what are you guys doing?" I walk out to see our living room completely covered in styrofoam. They had gotten some styrofoam and broken it apart so we had tiny styrofoam balls all over our house. Mike goes and gets the shop vac as I laugh and say have fun and walk out the door for work. We unfortunately didn't get a picture of that.

Well, that night I come home from work and I hear Ryker and Kyler in the other room crying. Porter grabs my hand and says, "Mom, come see." I kept asking what's wrong. He would just say, come see. I walk in Kyler and Bridger's room and I was speechless. They had totally emptied the closet out in a big pile in the middle of the floor. All the books, clothes, sheets, everything was thrown on the floor. They had climbed up the shelves and even got the very top shelves. I couldn't believe it. Not sure why but they decided to take their clothes off and add to the pile. That's why they don't have any clothes on. Dad sent them in there to clean up their mess. We realized that the mess wasn't really getting cleaned up though it was just getting worse with them in there so we had to take over. This one wasn't so funny to me because I had to clean it up which took Mike and me 2 days to get it all clean. As we were cleaning up we noticed that they had taken games that we had in there and opened the boxes and thrown all the pieces of the games everywhere too. I don't know if we even found all the pieces for the games either. Not very fun cleaning it all up.

Then later that week I get this picture sent to me at work.

It's Ryker with permanent marker all over his face. This is even after he had tried washing it off. Yes, him and his little accomplice, Kyler had drawn all over their faces. Kyler wasn't nearly as bad. Their poor faces were scrubbed raw trying to get it all off.

They also do the cutest things. Ryker loves little Bridger. He totes that kid around everywhere with him. One morning I was getting ready for work. Bridger was in his swing and the other boys were just watching cartoons. I came out to find this.

Ryker had to get Bridger out of his swing to watch TV with him and Kyler. It was just too cute!

Another funny picture of them when we were doing family pictures!

I LOVE MY BOYS!!!!

Graduation

WAAAHOOOOO!!!!!!! Mike graduated from Weber State University with a Bachelor Degree in Respiratory Therapy on December 9th! He graduated with high honors too. A GPA of 3.98! It was such a great day! Everybody is so proud of Mike! Such a big accomplishment. All the hard work has finally paid off. We took all the boys up to the graduation too. We wanted to get pictures with them and to share the day with them. It made it a really long day for them but they were troopers. They were pretty much done by the end of the ceremony, as you can see from the picture! Such a great family picture!

Mike and 2 friends that he went to school with, Garrett and Kassidy, had their picture taken and was in the newspaper too.

After the ceremony, Ryan and Andrea were nice enough to take Porter, Ryker and Kyler for a sleepover. Mike and I went to dinner with his parents and Alicia and Kirk. We went and ate at Texas Roadhouse! Yummy! Overall it was a great day! So proud of you, Mike!

Porter Turns 5

We celebrated Porter's 5th birthday last week. I can't believe that he's 5! He is growing up so much. We gave him a Nintendo DS and a game. We made all the boys eat breakfast and then gave Porter his presents before Mom went to work. He played the DS all day! He loved it! We asked him what he wanted to eat for dinner for his birthday. He said that he wanted to go out and eat tacos and rice and beans. So, we went to Mi Ranchito with Grandma and Grandpa Olson for dinner. He got some fried ice cream for his birthday, which his brothers helped him eat.

The Custer family party he got to celebrate his birthday with his cousin Adam. Aunt Andrea made a really cool fish cake. He got another game for the DS, some planes, a toy garbage truck and new bigger bike.

For the Olson party he wanted the white cake with strawberries on top again. Just like last year. Guess he really likes that cake! They gave him more games for the DS. He loves playing all of the games and is catching on so fast and getting pretty good at them.

Porter has been asking all year when he gets to go to the big school. I've been telling him that he has to be 5 to go to the big school. The morning after his birthday as we were getting ready for school he asked me if he got to go to the big school today? I was so surprised that he remembered that. It made me laugh! He is just so excited to go to the big school!

Fall

I love this time of year. The weather is great and the mountains are gorgous with the changing leaves. We wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather before it started getting cold. So a few weeks ago we went for a couple little hikes. We had a great time. We hiked up to the Grotto first. Then we went to Maple Lake and walked around it. It was a lot of fun!

We also made it up to the cabin one more time. It was cold!! There was actually snow on the ground too. We still had a lot of fun.

The boys helped Dad chop fire wood to keep us warm.

The boys had a great time shooting BB guns.

Bridger hanging out inside the warm cabin with mom.

Another great thing of Fall is FOOTBALL!!! The boys have really gotten into watching football with their mom and dad. Especially Kyler. Every time the TV is turned on, he thinks football should be on. Here are the boys decked out in their BYU attire for the big BYU Utah game. BYU got killed. A very big disappointment. But then again, they have been one big disappointment this year!