Christmas Catch Up

I finally have found some blogging motivation so now that its almost two months past Christmas I thought I better record before I forget.

We flew to Idaho five days before Christmas, the kids, well Kallon did awesome on the plane. Kate lost it the last fifteen minutes when I had to buckle her in for landing. The flight attendant made me wake her up to buckle her in her seat and Kate was not happy about it. She was screaming, crying, trying to bite me, kicking the seat in front of us etc... It was not pretty and I was so embarrassed I wanted to cry myself. When we finally got to the gate I apologized to the people around us and the lady in front of me said well its not the kicking of my seat that bothered me it was the screaming and crying. WHAT?? Well excuse me for not being able to force my child to be quiet. I love people and the dumb things they say sometimes. Honestly I was more surprised by her remark than I was mad. She was this sweet older lady wearing an awesome Christmas sweater with a necklace of lights that actually lit up. I thought for sure she would be the sweet understanding grandmother type but apparently not. haha So our vacation got started off right. Its always so fun to go to Idaho and see our families and friends we always have so much fun. One of the highlights of the trip was having the whole Spicer family together again. Cory's youngest brother Daniel had just got back from his mission a week before we arrived. It was fun to hang with everyone together again. We ate out, played in the snow, visited friends, met new babies, hung out with sisters, celebrated birthdays, and went skiing. Kate got to hang out with my mom and brother a lot while we went skiing and has come to love my brother Jonathan. Everyday she talks about jonsheen and his kitty and about how she wants to see him. Its pretty funny. We took Kallon skiing again this year and this time his cousin Bentli got to come too. They both did really well and seemed to have a good time. It was so cold the day we took them up so they didn't last too long but were good sports about it. Kallon did so good skiing and really seemed to have a good time. Cory and I actually let go of the harness a few times and Kallon went by himself. He likes to go fast so when we would let go Kallon would take off and when he decided he was done he would fall over to stop himself. It was pretty cool to watch him just go, I love that he loves it as much as we do. Thanks everyone for spending time with us and making our trip so much fun!

Kallon and Cousin Stratton playing in the snow


Christmas Eve Dinner



Dad and Jonathan


Cory and Aaron


My cute sisters


Kate licking the beaters


Christmas morning with Spicers and Grandpa Great


Strat's Birthday


Kallon getting his ski boots on...so excited!