Basketball

Matt started basketball this year. He is obsessed. He loves it. For a few weeks he was asking everyday if I would go to the store and buy him a ball so he could practice. I actually got him a youth hoop and ball for Christmas, but it was broken the day after Christmas so apparently that wasn't the best idea. But I finally did get him a ball and he loves to go practice at the neighbors that have a hoop. He is doing really good for his first year and trying to figure out how the whole thing works. His team is the Stealers, Cause they are good at stealing the ball! It is really fun to go to his games and watch him get into the game!

Sledding

We went on our annual Cardon family sledding trip. Matt was at his mom's so sadly he didn't get to come, but we had lots of cousins, aunts and uncles and a hardworking Grandpa come play. We try to go sledding in Brigham City at least once a year. We always say we are going to do it more but it never seems to happen. Chase was very protective of his little sled. He didn't want anyone else to touch it so we had to trick him into lettting some of his cousins use it a few times. Kamron loved every minute of sledding, he even tried to slide down on his stomach by himself at one point because we weren't getting him on a sled fast enough. He did have a hard time walking in all his snow clothes though.

Christmas Nativity

For Christmas Eve we had a party at my parent's house. My sister wanted to act out the nativity since there would be a bunch of kids. This was new to me, I have never had my kids do this. Luckily Debbie is a pro and found all the costumes and had the whole story printed out. The kids had fun dressing up and acting out the story of Christ's birth. It was nice to teach the kids a little more about the real reason we celebrate Christmas and focus on something besides all the presents.

Kamron was really interested in that baby.

A Train Ride and Temple Square

I went out to dinner in Salt Lake with a couple of my sisters and a friend. I took Chase and Kamron cause Tim was hunting and Matt was at his mom's. You could see the Trax train from the window of our restaurant and Chase was enthralled. He wanted to ride that train. He kept asking all through dinner so after dinner, My sister took Kamron with her to go drive around and look at Christmas lights while I took Chase on the train. We ended up taking the train to Temple Square where we got off and walked around a little. He was so excited to see all the lights and even got a surprise when he saw a man dressed like Santa riding the train. It was a fun little one on one trip with my little guy.

Christmas 2009

We had a great Christmas this year. The kids were all at such fun ages. Chase learned a lot of Christmas carols and was singing all the time and talking about Santa. Our tree only lasted about 15 minutes before all the ornaments on the bottom half had to be removed, but at least we got a picture right away. Kamron and Chase fought constantly over the lights. Chase would plug them in and Kamron would unplug them till we had to hide the end of the lights in the tree. We even got Christmas lights put up on the outside of our house for the first time which the kids loved.

The boys had a ton of fun opening up all their gifts. There wasn't a single fight! Of course the highlight this year was that I finally broke down and let Tim get a video game system (which has always been banned in our house). We got a Wii with the wii fit and rock band!

Tim's mom got a wagon so she can pull the kids on walks. The boys had fun riding it around the house since it was too cold outside.

Santa

We had a Cardon Christmas Party last weekend. My parents had a Santa Claus come to pass out presents. All the kids loved it. Well Kamron didn't love sitting on Santa's lap so much but he liked staring at him.

All the kids staring enraptured by Santa

Making Candy Canes

Our kids are at such a fun age right now. Matt is a great brother and friend and still likes to play with his little brothers (which I know won't always be the case), Chase mentions his birthday and Christmas multiple times a day and is so excited about them, and Kamron is walking all over wanting to be involved in whatever his brothers are doing. So this year, we decided to get a little more organized for Christmas and to do a lot of fun things with the kids. Tim used to make candy canes at a friend's house when he was younger, so he wanted to try it out with the kids. We got Strawberry, butterscotch, and watermelon flavoring.

The boys with all of their finished candy canes

Kamron eating a watermlon candy cane

Rolling the candy into canes look at those faces of concentration!


getting ready to make the candy into canes, I know the pictures aren't in order, sorry

It was a lot of fun and the kids had a blast, even if the candy didn't turn out the prettiest.