Christmas 2010

We had a fantastic Christmas this year. We snuck up to the cabin, just our family, and had very peaceful and quiet Christmas. It was heaven!
I almost got all of the pics in order, until the very last two which I realized I had missed, but they were so cute I couldn't leave them out. Don't you just love blogger.

Dan's parents came up Sunday to the cabin, we lazed around all day, and Evan our little snuggler couldn't resist snuggling with grandma in her little bed she made.



Christmas Eve we left bright and early in the morning. We were not even sure if we were going to make it up to the cabin so we wanted plenty of time to come back to Orem and reset up the Christmas tree and decorations if we had too. When we got there Dan took off on the 4 wheeler by himself to see if he could make it up. He came back 5 minutes later, and I thought because he was gone for such a short time we weren't going to be able to make it up, but the roads were great and cruised right on up and right back in record time. We loaded us and the kids onto the 4 wheeler and off we went!

Decorating the cabin Christmas Eve


Evan was our tree topper :)


All set up and ready for Santa


At about 4:30 in the morning Christian came into our room because he had had a bad dream. We pulled him to bed to help him settle down and once he had settled down her realized that there was a good possibility Santa had come! He sat up and saw the sheet hanging in the hall way (we hang a sheet in between doors in the hallway so you can't peek on Santa) and said "What's that" we told him it was for no peeking, "Let's go see if he came!" We told him it was still the middle of the night and we didn't want to check yet because he might not have made it to the cabin yet. He settled down for a second and then said "I have to go to the bathroom" sneaky little dude! Of course he made a courageous go for the sheet but Dan caught him before he could snatch it and took him to the bathroom. Dan brought him back to our bed because we knew that if we put him back in bed with Evan we would have 2 boys awake and very excited. So he stayed in our bed and practically vibrated with excitement until he finally fell asleep around 6:30 and then Evan woke up at...

Thankfully because we had no where to go, me and Dan snoozed on and off that morning while the kids played with their toys.

Oh I lied, I guess I have more pics out of order, these three are from Christmas Eve. Don't you love Evan's face, I can practically hear him saying "Cheese!"





Christmas morning and they were so excited to see what Santa had brought them!



Evan enjoying a little of his Christmas cereal


Christian got a remote control car from his cousins, and he loves it!


And of course even though there was tons of snow, the boys would not take no as answer when it came to the 4 wheeler. Evan broke out on tears every time Dan would go without him.


We had such a lazy Christmas day, so different then it usually is. This is us playing in the snow, do you love that huge piece of snow Christian is carrying around? The snow was pretty solid, and he would pick up pieces and chuck them out you and say "Snow Tag!"


Merry, Merry Christmas! :)

Christian's Movie

Christian LOVES watching youtube videos of people he knows and I (Dan) figured he would like one of his own. Also, this was the first movie I've made since high school, so it was good to break me in.

The Tree!

For those of you who didn't know, Dan did the show "The Scarlet Pimpernel" at the Hale Center Theater recently. There was a guy, Kyle, who he performed with who had a fake tree he wanted to get rid of. Now, me and Dan LOVE having a real tree but for many reasons this year we didn't think it was going to happen, so we lucked out when we offered Kyle $50 bucks for the tree and he said "how about $10" we really lucked out. It was fun too because when he brought it over it was late at night so the boys were already in bed. We set it up but didn't decorate it. The next morning Christian walked out of his bedroom and we heard " (audible gasp) It's our CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!!" It made us so very happy, great big thanks to Kyle for helping make such a fun magical moment.





On a side not, only the top half of the tree is decorated now, unlike this picture, because neither of them will leave it alone!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

This is what our Thanksgiving looked like this year:


The bird. We brined this baby and it was sooo tender!


The wild Turkeys out on Thanksgiving morning celebrating- there were tons of them


Wouldn't be a Duckwitz gathering without a couple of guitars and jam sessions


The adults braved the cold to take the little ones out on the 4 wheeler


Thanksgiving preparations in the cabin kitchen, I love this kitchen.


Just hanging out playing games


Kids playing in the loft


Evan's interpretation of a marshmallow, isn't he cute :)



And of course young Duckwitz grandchildren giving a little concert. They made up these songs on their own, they keep on talking about starting their own band. I think it's awesome they are so creative.

A Conversation with Christian

Right before bed today, Christian and I were watching Justice League (he's really big into super heroes right now, another post, I promise) and Christian turned and said to me:
Christian: Mom I don't like bad girls
Me: How come?
Christian: Because they are mean and they suck the blood out of your neck!
Me: (long speechless pause)... yep bud, they do.

Here's hoping that he still doesn't like bad girls when he's older ;)

I'm not worried that his favorite color is Pink

In love with Fall

It finally quit being so raining and cold yesterday and we ventured out to rake up our leave. I kid you not, there was about a foot of leaves that had fallen on the lawn and, *sigh*, quite a few more to come. But I tried to make the best of it with the kids and we had a good time. Evan was not to sure about playing in the leaves but he eventually warmed up to it. Christian dived in head first. He kept wanting me to cover he completely even his face. When I would he would giggle and say "It's so dark in here Mom!" We found many a leaf in his clothes later on that day.


Christian hiding in the leaves


Surprise!


Evan getting in on the action


Christian has a cute little rake my parents gave to him, he was actually very helpful