eastonfamily: December 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Christmas Evening At The Millerberg's

For those of you that might not know my mother REALLY LIKES the DI! She has even been invited to go to the Grand Opening of some stores because she spends so much money there (not really :) it was just because my dad was the bishop at the time but that's the family joke) Each year we get "DI gifts" We love all of the treasures that she finds there throughout the whole year.

Carter got a T-Shrit that said "I watch ESPN with my Daddy" This shirt could not have been more perfect for Carter and Mitch. Mitch really loves it. I find him looking for it now to put on Carter!

Every year Mitch gets a Utah shirt.....my mom says that she is not going to buy him anything else until he wears one of them. I don't think that is going to happen.

Dad with his Napoleon shirt.

I got the cutest sewing pin cushion. It is Mary Engelbrite and is just so cute! I love it. I also got two bunt pans that I used to make sticky buns in Christmas morning. I love them because they are about 1/2 the size of a normal pan so each roll gets extra sticky!

Not sure who Andy is going to marry yet but....my mom wants him to be prepared!

Sonia and Cordell both got dolls. Cordell's was Mrs. Perfect who said things like, "Don't worry about mowing the lawn, I will do it for you. You sit on the couch and watch sports." Sonia got Mr. Perfect who said thing like, "I love the things that you bought at the store. Next time you need to spend more money!"

There were many other fun presents but once again I have a hard time taking pictures of everything.

We had to do the Money Grab that night because my parents were leaving the next morning to go visit Spencer and his family in Arkansas.

Carter even gave it a try! Ellie had to do it for him because his little had would not reach to the bottom.

My dad has to do it every year. He even rigs it so that he wins the most money! He just likes to win.

Sonia did great! I think that she was a little bit surprised by this family tradition. She did have to do it twice because she tipped over the whole thing on her first try.

I did a lot better this year. Last year I think that I got 24 dollars. This year I got almost 200!! Yea for me!!

Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpa Easton's

Kauren, Bradley, Jessica. Ellie, Emily, Brooklyn,Tyler, Megan, MaKenzie and Allison

Christmas afternoon we headed over to Mitch's parents house for more presents and lunch. We had a great time visiting with everyone. We missed the "Annual Family Picture" in front of the Christmas tree this year because Carter decided to take a much needed three hour nap while we were there!

Saturday, December 25, 2010

What Christmas Morning Looked Like At Our House

Ellie really wanted a doll house that all of her Barbies would fit in. Santa brought one for Ellie that will definitely do just that. She also got the Princess Barbie pack! She has been in heaven ever since she received these two things. The only bad thing is that she ALWAYS wants ME to play Barbies with her! If anyone has a little girl that would like to come over and play Barbies with Ellie, I would REALLY love it!

When I asked Ellie what her favorite gift was, the movie that Grandma Kris gave her was her answer! She loves the Wizard of Oz.

I think that these two needed to get a little bit more sleep before they came over!

A daddy and grandpa who are the BEST! They were both looking a little tired from staying up a little bit too late the two nights before Christmas being "Santa's Helpers" They put a new TV up on our wall one night and built the doll house the other!

Gifts from Grandma Pat, who we missed so much! She is in Arkansas visiting Spencer and Amanda's family.

Mellisa and Doug pretend food! I love this brand, I have to stop myself from buying all of it. It is really the cutest stuff.

Picture plates that I designed in Photoshop.

An apron that Ellie picked the material and I made for my mom. My mom pretty much lives in her kitchen.

Carter's "All In One Trike"

Just remember that these are the "GOOD" pictures! I think that we should out law some pictures that are taken on Christmas morning.

We had sticky buns, fruit, and both sets of grandparents out to visit. I am finding that I don't have enough hands to take pictures of everything that I want to. Mitchell took most of these pictures which I am so grateful for! Thanks Little Mitch.

Friday, December 24, 2010

The Night Before Christmas Eve

Mitch's brother's family started a new tradition last year. They decided to have a party the day before Christmas Eve. This is so great because we all have something to do with the other families on Christmas Eve. This gives us the chance to all get together visit, and not be stressed about trying to be at more than one house or party in one night! Ellie loves parties at Jeff and Camille's house because there are always so many fun kids and toys to play with. We hardly ever see her when we are over there because all of the kids go into the basement and play. We love it and so does she :)

There was a big "TO DO" about who would be Mary this year! Brooklyn was in tears because she wanted to be it and Emily said that she would not be in the Nativity if she was not Mary. (Such wonderful Christmas Spirit, huh?) We finally talked Brooklyn into being an angle with Ellie. There were not many angle clothes left for Brooklyn to wear but she was happy because I let her wear my pearl bracelet.

MaKenzie was such a good sport. She was Joseph when none of the boys wanted to be!

Lauren as a shepherd

Tyler and Jessica as wise men

After we ate tons of treats! Camille is a great cook. Everyone loved her caramel and chocolate covered pretzels.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Fun Chirstmas Parties

This weekend we had some very fun and entertaining Christmas Parties! Saturday night we drove up to Ogden where my dad's sister Julie lives. She always has some fun games and great food in store for us when we arrive. This year we divided into teams and had to make one person from each group a reindeer with the contents that were in the bag. Then we vote on which one is the best. No one really wins but if someone did, I think that this year it would have been Mitchell or Ellie. Mitchell because he is out of control and Ellie because she wanted to sing a solo rendition of Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer just so that she could win!

Only with the Millerberg family would EVERY reindeer have balloon boobs!

Then of course we have to do White Elephant Gifts

Grandma Pat was so excited about the Barbie that she won until she looked at it a little bit closer. Someone had opened the Barbie up, glued hair all over the legs and armpits, put a razor in the box with it and renamed it "Shave With Me Barbie"! We had so much fun at this party! We can't wait for it next year.

Saturday morning we woke up and headed over to Incredible Pizza, in Draper for Breakfast with Santa. We went with all of the Easton Family that lives here in Utah. We had so much fun. We were actually there so long that we ate both breakfast and lunch there. Santa gave each kid a 5 dollar game card and so did Grandma Nancy luckily Carter got given the gift cards as well so Mitch enjoyed using them for him! Ellie will forever love her cousin Allison for winning a giant HOT PINK bear for her. She now wants to take it in the car with us and have it ride next to her buckled into it's own seat belt. I think that this bear might disappear soon :)

Sunday night the Torp party was held at my mom's house. She had everything decorated so nice and her new kitchen is just perfect for having so many people over. It was so good to have so many cousins there. Kirstin and her family are visiting from Arizona which is always so fun. Ellie really loves playing with Savannah. We really wish that Spencer, Brady, and Cordell's families could have made it. This year for the game we played Bingo. Each person brought something that they "loved" in a tin lunch box for the prizes. Some of the favorite gifts that were given were STAMPS (That's what I got!!) A massage and Mentholatum (My family is obsessed with this stuff!) and lots of other great stuff. Mitch and Ellie both left with the gifts that they brought. Ellie a My Little pony and Mitch, Coke, Mt. Dew, and a movie pass. He said that he had to open his because he really needed a drink! Pop is contraband in my parent's house. I thought bringing gifts like this was a really fun change from White Elephants and random gifts. It gave you a chance to get to know people a little bit better and leave with a treasure.

Kirstin's husband Bruce brought a big candy snake because he loves snakes. This was great when my dad opened it because he loves to tease Bruce and Kirstin about their pet snake.

Chrissy and Crew

The three of us all had babies really close together. Carter is the oldest, then Marcus, then Crew. Which is really funny because in size it is just the opposite. Mitch and I feel so blessed to have such great families on both sides. I loved the time that we had this weekend to catch up and spend some quality time with all of our families.

Amusing Happenings

Ellie:
On accident Ellie put my mom's boots on instead of hers. We were on our way to dinner at Mitch's parents house. When she walked in my brother in-law Cory said to Ellie, "Wow Ellie those are some big boots!" In response to him Ellie looked down her shirt and said, "No... I don't really have have any!".

1.20.10
Ellie put on a new pink outfit. The outfit was complete with pink socks and "farkly shoes" (sparkle shoes). She was so proud of her self that she looked at me and said, "Daddy is going to think that I am such a pretty princess when he gets home from work."

1.23.10
We were driving in the car and I got a piece of gum out of the center conceal. Ellie was in the backseat and responded with the comment, "I am hungry too mom, do you have any toast in there?"

1.25.10
The power was out this morning when we woke up. Ellie came and climbed in bed with me and told me to tell her stories about her and Ethan. We were just laying in bed when the power came on. The light in my bedroom turned on and Ellie looked at me and said, "Grandpa Mont must be here, he fixed the lights!" You can tell who does a lot of the "handy work" around our house!

1.27.10

Today I did not feel very well. I was getting ready in my bathroom. As usual Ellie was right there with me trying to put on her "makeup". I was trying to tell her that she needed to put the lipstick on her lips and not all over her whole face when I had that, "I am going to be sick feeling." I quickly ran to the toilet and proceeded to throw up. It was a bad spell, I probably thew up about 5 or 6 times. Ellie quickly came over to see what was going on and then remarked, "Mommy, why are you doing that, we just cleaned the toilets!" Like I really meant to! Thanks Ellie!

2.3.10
Mitch was in a hurry to leave for work today. I was asking him what he wanted to take with him for breakfast. He said that he did not want anything because he was going to go to lunch early that day. After he left Ellie looked at me and said, "Mom that is just AWFUL that Dad did not eat breakfast."

2.18.10
I told Ellie that tomorrow she was going to have both Grandma Pat and Grandma Kris tend her. She was so happy and replied "It's My Lucky Day!!"

Ellie was having a little bit of a hard time waking up and going to Grandma Kris's house the other day. I told her that it was okay because as soon as the new baby comes I am not going to go to work and I am going to stay home and tend her everyday. She looked at me all seriously and said, "Mom, I don't need you to tend me everyday, I just want you some days!"

Today we were at the book fair at my schools parent teacher conferences. Ellie brought a book over to me and said, "Mommy you will really like reading this book, it does not have any pictures!" She thinks that the books that I read for "fun" are boring because they don't have any pictures!

3.2.2010
Ellie said, " Mom, I talk a lot but so does Grandma Nancy!"

3.23.10
Mom mom was tending Ellie while I was at work. We were leaving got St. George the next day. My mom was making some wheat bread. Ellie told her, "I really like your bread Grandma but Grandpa's bread is the best. I am going out of town tomorrow so just make some and then bring it to my house and put it in the mailbox. Don't bring it to St. George and put it in the mailbox there because we don't have on there."

12.09
My mom was asking Ellie about Mitch's and my trip to St. George. Ellie told her that she did not get to go with us because it was just a Mommy and Daddy trip. When my mom ask her what we were going to do in Hawaii without her she respond with, " They are going to play Mommy and Daddy games!"

3.27.10
Ellie talking to me, "The Holy Ghost is in your tummy mom." I asked her why she thought that and she said, "Right now it is in there keeping our baby safe."

3.27.10
One of Ellie's favorite movies is a Church movie that Grandma and Grandpa Easton gave to us. It is about a little pioneer boy and his sister. Their Dad told them to stay home, they did not listen and ended up getting caught in a rock slide. The little girl prayed and they were rescued by angles. While we were in St. George I forgot to take my purse with us somewhere. Ellie told me that I was in trouble and that the rocks were going to fall on me and Jesus was not going to love me anymore.

4.1.10
We were grocery shopping and I was trying to introduce Ellie to "different" kids of food. I picked up a kiwi and told her to smell it, then touch it.....she responded with "that feels like Daddy!" (Hairy and rough!)

4.2.10
Ellie was telling Cordell about her favorite movie, Snow White. She said, "It just has the best ending!"

4.21.10
Ellie's Wee-Sing teacher told me that she told her that he mommy was on bed rest but he daddy was okay!

4.21.10
Ellie was getting some fruit leather from the storage room with her dad. We were packing her lunch so that she could go to the Zoo with some neighbors. Ellie told Mitch that she really needed two fruit leathers. One for Mom and on for herself. Dad told Ellie that I could not go to the Zoo because I needed to stay home and "keep the baby safe"(bedrest) . Ellie told him that I needed to go because I was really board!

5.12.10
Ellie was shopping with my parents for new appliances. My dad was looking at a refrigerator when Ellie told him to "Open That Bad Boy Up!" When they asked her who she had heard say that phrase before she said Keaton's Dad.

5.10.10
We were driving in the car and Ellie was playing with one of her favorite toys, her "Tinkerbell Minis". When she looked at me all concerned and said, "Tinkerbell does not dress
modestly!"

5.12.10
"Mom, I don't like the raisin in Carter's belly button." She was talking about his umbilical cord.

6-14-10
"Mom, Carter's stink bugs are white!" Ellie meant taste buds not stink bugs and has been referring to them as stink buds ever since I tried to correct her.

6.29.10
"Mom why do you have goose bites all over your arms?" I think that she was talking all about the little goose bumps that I had because I was cold!

8.18.10
Today I told Ellie that her toy room was really messy and that she needed to clean it up. She responded, " Mom It is because of Carter I don't need to clean it up." (Right now Carter is three months old.)

8.18.10
Today Carter was crying. Ellie came over to where I was trying to rock him and calm him down and proceeded to tell me that he was crying because he wanted to be at Grandma Kris's house.

8.29.10
I was standing up rocking Carter ( in one place, not moving) when Ellie rammed me with her doll stroller. She looked at me and said, "Mommy you need to watch where you are going!"

9.2.10
I went to Young Women's tonight. Right when I got home Mitch had to leave to go somewhere and we did not get the chance to talk about what had happened while I was gone so I asked Ellie if Carter had slept a lot while I was gone....she responded with, " No Mom, he slept the whole time you were gone." Then I asked, "What did Daddy do while I was gone then?" "Well Mommy....he watched TV!"

9.2.10
Mom do you know why they call it "Winco"? No Ellie why? Because it is always windy at WINco.

9.16.10
Ellie was listening to a Little Mermaid CD when she asked me how the music got to us and was The Little Mermaid in the CD player?

10.1.10
Daddy better stop eating chicken and vegetables because he is going to grow so big that his head is going to touch the roof!

10.13.10
Ellie went to a birthday party today. She asked me if I had fun while she was gone. I said "yes". She then asked me, "Mommy what did you do while I was gone, did you play?" I said, "kindof Mommy worked on her computer." Ellie then looked at me and said," Mom you can play with my toys if you want to they are a lot more fun than the computer is."

10.19.10
Tonight before bed after I was done reading to Ellie. She asked me.."Mommy do I know how to read." I said, " Not yet sweetie but soon!" She said, "Yea because I go to preschool at Learning Die Damn it!" (Her preschool is called Learning Dynamics) I had to try really hard not to laugh!

12.15.10
Today while Ellie was saying her prayers, she thanked Heavenly Father for her hair. She then said amen and looked at me with the biggest smile ever!

2.4.11
We were eating dinner and Ellie looked at Mitch and said, "Daddy what if you had a dream and someone was kickin' your butt?" and then started laughing really hard at herself. It was so funny!

8.18.11
Today Ethan came over to play. I told him that we really missed him. We have been out of town for a week. He replied with, "Ya I know!"

8.18.11
Ellie was helping me make dinner tonight. She asked me to pass her the "croutons" so that she could dip the chicken in the yogurt before we cooked it. She was referring the the "tongs!" It took me a minute to figure out what she was talking about!

8.18.11
Ellie informed Mitch's parents that she missed me while we had been on our trip but that she missed Mitch more. She said that she gets to spend a lot of time with me ALL the TIME and not as much with him.

8.18.11
Ellie told me that she would do "different" jobs today then her "normal" jobs. When I asked her what she wanted her "different" job to be she told me that she would watch Carter for me while I went to the store but that I could only be gone for a little while. (remember that she is 4 and Carter is 15 months) I did not let her do this "different" job!

8.20.11
Today Ellie asked me, "Mommy what do you do when you go to college....just go swimming all day?"

8.29.11
Ellie friend came to church with us today. When they started to pass the sacrament Ellie leaned over to Peyton and explained that they pass around "tiny snacks, first you get a tiny piece of bread, then you get a tiny drink in a tiny cup." I think that we need to have a Family Home Evening lesson on what the Sacrament really is.

8.29.11
Ellie's friend was borrowing a dress from her for church today. Ellie wanted to run it over to her house but all she had on was her underwear. When I told Ellie that she needed to put some clothes on before she went over to Peyton's house she told me. "Mommy it's okay we are pretty much family!"

Little Mitch:
Little Mitch was looking online for a destination for our next family vacation. We had decided that a cruise might be a fun idea. He looked up from his computer, totally serious, and said, "There are REALLY good deals for a cruse to Haiti!"

Big Mitch:
We were at my parents house for Sunday dinner. Mitch went to get something out of my parent's car. He accidentally left the door to the car open. When it was time for us to leave, I saw that the car door was still open and told him that he needed to shut it. He jumped out of our car, ran to my parent's car, shut the door jumped back in our car and drove home. Later that night my parents were wondering where the cat was. My mom went into the garage to find something and found Whinny locked in my Dad's car. Way to go Mitch!!

2.15.11
Mitch told Ellie that if she did not go to bed right now, he was going to take one of her build-a-bears and rip it's head of and then throw it in the garbage. She started crying and went to bed. I thought this was really funny because Mitch is the biggest softy and would NEVER do anything like this!

5.28.11
Ellie was wondering about Grandma Pat and how she had been married twice. She liked the idea of two Grandpa's but was wondering if Grandma Pat had to get a bigger bed so that she would be able to fit both of them in there with her! She knows that her daddy takes up most of our bed each night. I love the way that 4 year old minds work.