Christmas

Christmas was very fun this year because now Kohlton is getting more excited about things and can actually open his own presents... well, when he's not distracted by the ones he's already opened. Nevaeh was very conscience of Santa this year and knew what she wanted to ask him for and was very excited when she got a few things from him that she asked for. Here are some pictures of Christmas morning.

Here is Nevaeh looking in her stocking. She is wearing her Christmas PJ's that Grandma Roth made for her and sent before Christmas. She LOVES them and wants to wear them all the time.

Kohlton is also wearing the PJ's that Grandma Roth sent him... they are his "car car" pajamas. He loves anything that has anything to do with Cars the movie. Most mornings when I am getting him ready he doesn't want to take off his Cars pajamas and cries, screams, and fights me when I am taking them off of him.

I absolutely love this picture. This is Nevaeh opening one of her gifts from Santa that she asked for. I love her face.

While we were opening gifts, Kohlton found one of Nilda's rolls of wrapping paper and decided that it was much more fun to play with than all the toys that he got for Christmas! I could have saved myself a lot of money and just got him a roll for $2.99... Even cheaper if I went to the dollar store!

Nevaeh, Hunter and Kohlton playing Connect Four later in the morning...

After presents were all open, we went over to the Belnaps for lunch. The Belnap siblings all filled out papers about another one of their siblings and then they sat around and read what they wrote. Heidi and Monica were not able to make it so they were doing it over speaker phone. 3-way calling wasn't working well, so they had each of them on a separate phone. Well in order to hear what each other had written, we put the phones up to each other so that they could hear! It was quite funny and fun to listen to. Well done to whoever thought of that activity!!!

In the last picture I want everyone to note Jason's (Roth, not Needler) FABULOUS sweater. In fact, if you see him you may want to mention it to him and even ask him why he is not wearing it. He loves to talk about said sweater and will have a lengthy conversation about it also. Just ask him about it sometime, I promise it will be REALLY funny!!!!

New Year's in Montana

Well, so maybe I haven't been so good at keeping up at this blog thing yet either. But to throw some excuses out there, I have been busy. I have a student teacher and so have been busy getting everything ready for her to take over my classes. It is fabulous though having her there... It is amazing how much I have been getting done that I have been putting off at school!

So anyway, here is what we have been up to...

Over Christmas break, we headed up to Montana the weekend after Christmas. We went to Bozeman to visit Jason's family. It was very fun... AND COLD!!!! Oh my goodness!!!! I guess my blood has thinned out a bit since living down here in AZ. There was quite a bit of snow and it was really fun to play in but I forget how bundled up the kids have to get just to go outside. Here are some pictures of us all outside sledding and having fun.

Poor Kohlton really wasn't a fan of the cold weather.

They finally convinced me to go down once. I, like Kohlton am not a fan of the cold either!!! It was fun though, I have to admit :-)

Erica has this snowman kit that she found somewhere and it has all the parts for a snowman except for the snow :-)... a scarf, eyes, mouth, nose, pipe, buttons, and hat... all in a cute little box. So she and Jason took the kids outside to build a snowman. The snow really wasn't snowman-making snow but they still managed to get a cute snowman built.

We had a wonderful time and miss everyone there. Wish we lived closer... however, it is warmer down here so if anyone wants to get out of the cold... :-)