Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas!!

Our boys were soooo excited for this morning to come it was hard for them to get to sleep on Christmas Eve, but when they woke up this is what they found.

However they had to wait for everyone to wake up!!! Mom and dad and Lily decided to sleep in a bit because we were exhausted! After awhile this was slipped in under our door, and a little while after that Zachary realized we were sleeping and wouldn't see it so he came and put it on my chest......

So I got out of bed and started breakfast waiting for Lily and Dad to wake up. We had cinnamon rolls and bacon.....yummmmyyyy!!!! We finally started opening presents after 8am, you had thought we had made them wait a whole year. *smile*

Here is Lily enjoying her 1st Christmas......what a cutie

Mason enjoying his new presents...what a cute smile

Parker having a great time except when he opened up underwear and socks *wink* This picture is blurry, but I LOVED the excitement on his face *smile*

Zachary always had his 'jazz hands' on all his pictures. His favorite is his Notre Dame hat and football.

Oscar got some cool hunting stuff and a box that seemed to stump this smarty pants. It took him I kid-u-not 5 minutes to open it up. Ironically the present was pants *wink*

Here they are sportin their new thick warm jackets from Grandma and Grandpa Bullock. Parker wasn't that happy in this picture that he had a coat. But after showing him it was reversible he wouldn't take it off! We are also LOVIN the Old Testament DVD set and the new gospel art pictures. Thank you very much.

The Webbs (Oscar's sister Karen) gave the boys a ping pong table set, thank you.

Grandma and Grandpa Williamson gave gift cards, so they pooled their money and bought a Wii...thank you moose grandma and grandpa.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night. *smile*

Cougar Hunt

12/23/09

OTown and Dad were fortunate enough to go on a mountain lion aka cougar hunt today. Dad has a friend with dogs who invited him to go. Every time there is a fresh snow the hound hunters are itching to go, and since we received some fresh snow dad got a phone call. He has been hunting for a cougar for years now and just has not been able to get one. This year since OTown was old enough to go he brought him along. When they first spotted the tracks dad wasn't convinced it was a very big cat, but his friend said it was a pretty decent size, so the dogs were set loose. After tracking the dogs with a GPS they found the cat and were very surprised. It was bigger than they thought.

This is the cougar dad has been waiting for for years, but he made a decision.......let OTown take it. *smile* In Dad's words he said "I had an angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other and this time the angel won" So OTown was able to take this cougar.

This will give you a good idea at how big the cougar was.....

They were gone ALL day long, but came home with HUGE smiles on their faces. Dad was just as happy as if he got it himself. *smile* They had a great time and now all they talk about is how they are going to get it mounted.

Ward Christmas Party

12/09

This year the theme for our ward Christmas party was a Luau. We had hawiian haystacks and had a visitor from a special guest. Our family was the only ones who dressed up for the occasion but it was still a fun evening. The primary kids even sang some Christmas carols for us.

Daddy and Mason

Oscar and Lily

Zachary

Parker

Daddy and Parker

Parker and Santa

Mason and Santa

Lily and Santa

Zachary and Santa

Zachary's Gingerbread House

12/09

Zachary's 4th grade class made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers at their Christmas party. Here is his masterpiece.

Lily's 1st Lolipop

12/09

While going through pictures I found these of Lily. At first I didn't know what was in her hands but as I kept going.... low and behold she has sucker in her hand!!! This was one night when I left daddy in charge! He is always doing sneaky stuff like this when I leave. I'm sure you can tell from the pictures she enjoyed the sugar VERY much! *smile*

Cookie Decorating

12/09

For family night our activity was to decorate our own dessert. I made sugar cookies in the shape of snowmen or angels. They each got some frosting, sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, and sugar sprinkles. Of course they HAD to use all the goodies for their cookies. They all LOVED eating them in the end. *smile*

Mason and his angel



Parker and his angel



Zachary and his snowman



Oscar and his snowman



Eating their masterpieces *smile*

Oscar's Robotic Competition

12/14/09

Oscar has been participating in a robotics club at his middle school for the past 4 months. They had to build a special robot out of lego pieces and then program it to perform certain functions to be judged and earn points at a competition. Oscar was the programer for his team, he LOVED figuring out the codes and getting the robot to do what he programed. Once it was all put together their group went to the competition in Meridian. Schools from the around the northwest came to compete. Oscar was a little bummed because he wanted to have more time to make the robot better, but their team still went a competed. I think it was a great learning experience for him. He was able to watch a robotic demonstration put on by the high school and now he can't wait to be apart of that group. He was also able to meet the astronaut Barbara Morgan again. It was an all day event, and already he has plans for next year. *smile*