Hold me please...

My Sweet Sweet Pax reminded me of something really important tonight. Coop and Sam were off to bed and Pax and I were just sitting at the kitchen table looking through the Primary songbook. He kept pointing to the pictures of the children and saying "baby"!! We turned to a page where Jesus was surrounded by children and Pax stopped and said "Hesus". I smiled and said "Yes, Jesus". I went to turn the page but Pax stopped me. He then said so sweetly and softly "Hesus, Hold me" and held his arms out to be picked up. I tried to pick him up and he wouldn't let me. Just repeated "Hesus, Hold me" with arms outreached. I closed my eyes and envisioned Pax with our Savior being held, and then me being held! It was a beautiful moment, and a reminder from my sweet little boy of how close our Savior is and how is arms are already held out to us, we just need to ask. Brittney, don't forget to ask.

WHO SAID YOU CAN'T HAVE CHRISTMAS IN MARCH?

So just real quickly I wanted to write about some fun things that we did in December!


We went to McCormick's Railroad one night for their big light show! We had never come here before during Christmas and we were pleasantly surprised. The line was close to a mile long but if you don't have to wait in it, it doesn't matter. (Thanks Steve:) The kids had a blast and besides that fact that we lost Cooper for a couple of minutes it was a great night! Fun train ride, beautiful lights, great friends!

Pax not sure if he should be afraid or enjoy it!

After McCormick's we drove straight to the Airport to pick up Grandma and Papa Flannery. They flew in to spend a little weekend Pre-Christmas with us! We had such a good time trying new restaurants, going to a movie, watching it snow at Tempe mall, and having a pre-Christmas party!

Thanks for making the trip G-ma and Papa! We love you!

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And finally Christmas!

We had an Awesome Christmas Eve! Our good friends the Finnleys invited us over to make homemade pizzas and let the kids do the Nativity and sing Christmas Carols! We had a great night and the kids loved doing the Nativity!

Paxton decided that he wanted to keep the gift for himself and give them a marshmallow instead!

Christmas morning was great! The kids didn't even get up until 7:30. I started banging around upstairs around 7 just to wake them up. I couldn't take waiting any longer! (Isn't it funny how the adults find just as much joy in Christmas morning as the kiddos do)

The first (and last) thing the nuggets saw was a train table that Papa and Grandma Siddoway and sent down from Utah for their Christmas present. I don't think Cooper even opened up his other gifts!

The kids got new stockings that I made this year but poor Coops wasn't finished so it was pinned together. Every time he would stick is hand in there to grab something he would get poked! Poor Kid! I will finish his by next Christmas! :)

For Christmas this year Nick got a guitar and a cowboy hat! Coop is sporting the look!

My Good Lookin' Cowboy!!

Christmas was wonderful and worth remembering the memories!!

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And of course two days after Christmas (well we pushed it back 5 days because he doesn't really know that his birthday is Dec 27th) we celebrated Coops 4Th Birthday.

I love my Coop like CRAZY! He is my loving, tender, crazy best bud!

His loves...

He-Man

Skeletor from He-Man

Batman

Spiderman

Disneyland! He asks me everyday when we get in the car if we are driving to Disneyland!

His new Transformer Bike

Chicken Nuggets

His mom (I had to put that in)

Coop is the greatest and I love him to death!

He wanted a He-Man Birthday Party so he got to have some little guy friends over and pretend to be the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!!! :)

They all had a lot of fun!

I HAVE THE POWER!!! This is what the boys were shouting when they would raise their swords!!

My attempt to make the Greyskull castle cake!

The boys had fun and Coop loved it! He is so lucky to have some good friends that live around here!

So long 2009, you've been checked off my list!!!

And On To JANUARY We Go.......