Christmas Eve at Granny and Pa's

We had so much fun this Christmas Eve with all the little boys. We played games, ate a lot of food, and had a great time. Here are some highlights of the night.
Another picture without our mom... Christmas Eve dinner.

Making cookies with Granny.

Checking out where Santa is at on the computer.

Hank riding his stick horse all over- his pants keep falling down though!

Christmas Eve dinner at the kids' table.

Writing a letter and getting ready for Santa to come!

Santa wrote the boys a letter earlier and told them what him and his reindeer like to eat so they knew just what to leave out.

Jack on Christmas Eve 2010

Hank on Christmas Eve 2010

Cousins on Christmas Eve

Time for bed- we're pooped!

Christmas Eve Day

The month of December is always so busy! We sure love getting together with all our friends and family though and spending time with them. For Christmas Eve day we went to Coby and Steph's house for a little party with the Smith family who they grew up with in Holbrook.
The highlight of the day for Jack was shooting this gun. He is already asking for a gun for his birthday...

I even shot a few skeet, and I am not a bad shot either!

Jack and his buddy Ruger- these two could be trouble together!

All the guys shooting their guns.

It has been so much fun watching the twins grow up. They are so dang cute with the cutest personalities!

Jones Christmas Party

My camera was being stupid so I didn't get very many good pictures but we went to Staci's house for a Christmas party with Rod, Coby and Steph, and Riley and Sunee. Staci made a delicious Christmas dinner and the kids got spoiled rotten! We always have a great time hanging out with all these guys and love to spend time with family at Christmas.
Hank, Rod, and Staci

Grandpa Rod, Jack, and Hank- I love this picture! Can't you see the resemblance of Rod in Jack and Hank?

Jack, Hank, and Pyke on some cool rocking horses. Hank pretty much hung out here the whole night.

Merry Christmas!

Since I am so far behind on this year's blog I decided to go ahead and post our Christmas wishes. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and are so thankful that we have so many friends and family.
This year has been just as crazy and fun as the rest for us. We have been in our house for a little over a year now and are excited to finish our basement this winter and have a little extra space. We also hope to get in a yard/sprinkler system this spring also so Jack doesn't keep asking if we can move back to our green apartment because it has grass. We still love living in the country and have had the opportunity to see a lot of wildlife out our back door. We have a herd of 65 Elk living in our backyard right now and it is so neat to listen to them and watch them graze our pasture.
Jack and Hank are growing like little weeds. Jack will be 4 in March and Hank just turned 2 in October. They are such good buddies and love to wrestle and be cowboys. Jack is in preschool and loves to go and play with his best friends. Hank eats, breathes, and lives horses. You don't see Hank without a cowboy hat, his spurs on his cowboy boots, and a rope very often. We are so excited for Christmas to spoil the heck out of our boys, I don't know who is more excited Cort and I or Jack and Hank for Christmas. We love this time of year and being able to spend time with our friends and families. Merry Christmas- we love you ALL!

All Aboard...

The Polar Express! We took a drive to Heber city to go on the Polar Express. Jack and Hank have been so fun this year for Christmas and are both so excited for Santa. They had a lot of fun on the train while they sang Christmas songs, ate cookies, drank hot chocolate, and even had a surprise visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause.
Granny and Pa

Our family

Crane family

Cousins

Santa Clause!

Utah State- AGGIES!

We love to go to the Aggie games! We invited Riley, Sunee, and Pyke to come with us and had such a fun time. Jack saw this tattoo on another kid and insisted that he get one so Cort walked all around with him to find one.

Ward Party

For our ward party this year we had a talent show. Since Cort and I have so much talent we decided to have the boys sing a song. Jack sang the whole song in front of about 100 people. They sang "Billie the Bull" The punch line says "silly billy your just a cow" and we dropped the blanket and they were wearing cow costumes. Jack and Hank did such a great job! We were practicing before the party and Jack said "after the song I am going to say MOOOO ry Christmas!" He came up with that by himself!Santa came to the party and he knew an awful lot about Jack and Hank already... Jack was super excited to tell him he wants a robot butterfly! Santa might have a hard time finding this!
Hank was really unsure about sitting on Santa's lap. He kept saying "Santa get me." He finally decided he needed to tell Santa he wanted a horsey for Christmas so he sat on his lap- oh and he had candy so that helped!

Accident Prone Jack

I promise I don't beat my kids! Jack has always been a little accident prone like when he broke his leg at 16 months old. This time he was running at Granny and Pa's while carrying a toy and slipped on the hardwood floor and hit his eye square on the toy he was holding for a black eye. Not even two days later Shannon was taking him to preschool and he took his seat belt off
too soon and went flying into the dashboard for a bloody nose.

Egbert Family Christmas Party

The Egbert family Christmas party usually gets a little crazy. We have it in a big gymnastics gym so the kids can run and play.

Cort won this beautiful red shoulder vest thing for the white elephant gift. He was so excited because he needed something to match his Christmas turtle neck someone made him wear...


Tis the season for ugly sweaters! Me, Cort and Aunt Trea Trea

Jack and Cort climbing the rope to the top.

Jack is a pretty competitive little kid and saw other kids that were a lot bigger than him jumping off so he didn't even think about it and just jumped about 15 feet into the foam square pit.

And of course fearless Hank wanted to jump off but looks like Cort had to drop him.

Double G Christmas

We were able to stop and see Great Grandpa and Grandma at the Veteran's Home to bring them Christmas presents. The boys are quite entertaining to them and we love to be able to go and spend some time with them. This picture was taken before we went to the Egbert Christmas party so we all have ugly sweaters (except Grannies isn't ugly because she still wears them everyday).

Viva Las Vegas

Cort had to go to Las Vegas for work so we decided to make a vacation out of it. Chelsie took our boys and we had such a great time. We did a lot of shopping at all the Cowboy Christmases, went to the show Ka- which was awesome, and watched the National Finals Rodeo. We stayed at MGM and walked all over to see the sights. We didn't get many pictures but it was great to get away and spend the weekend together.

Ugly Sweater

Victor and Shelly just remodeled their house so they had an ugly sweater party to celebrate. We always have so much fun getting together with these guys and Trevor and Hayden. We missed Shane and Katie but having a baby was a good excuse!

Vic just got lasik surgery so he got to wear the awesome goggles to go along with his sweet sweater.

Girls day to Oz

My mom planned a girls day out to go shopping and go to the broadway play Wizard of Oz. Well my dad and Scotty ended up crashing our party and came with us somehow. The play was awesome and we had a great time with the original Egbert clan.

The original Egbert kids.

Eating at Bucca Di Beppo

Thanks mom for the fun girls/Dad/Scotty day! I am so thankful for my family and the fun things we get to do together.

Countdown to Christmas

The countdown in on! The boys are so excited for Christmas this year. They got their Christmas blanket out already watching Christmas movies.

The finished Gingerbread sleigh.

Jack and Hank were so excited to make Santa's sleigh and take it to our ward party.

Jack wakes up every morning to do his advent tree.

Well the chocolate advent calendar was a good idea if two little boys would have eaten all of it on the second day! Mom of the year I know...

I need this Christopher the elf to hang out at our house all year long. Whenever I wanted the boys to do something I would tell the Christopher was watching and it was like magic! We are so excited for this busy fun season and can't wait to spend it with friends and family!

Oh Christmas Tree

We love the day we finally put up the Christmas tree. It just seems like the Christmas season starts when the tree goes up. The boys love putting on the ornaments and looking at all of them.

Hank was only interested in the horsey saddle/horse ornaments and wanted to play with them all night.

Jack was so funny about where every ornament went on the tree. He had to be able to see everyone at his eye level and be able to push the electronic buttons.