Christmas Eve

We let everyone open one gift before we headed up the the Ulrich Family party. This was Jace's favorite part of his:)

The cousin's gift exchange - this year we decided to coordinate and got them all transformers - made for a more peaceful evening!

Carson and his cheesy smile

This was Uncle Ryan's last Christmas before he leaves on his mission - he got a great camera to capture Singapore!

Grandpa Ulrich watching everyone open presents

The Ulrich Siblings

Christmas Day!!

Christmas morning was so fun this year! Carson finally got the whole Santa thing (unfortunately now he is wanting EVERYTHING from Santa) This is his Mr. Potato Head, no joke the first thing he said was "Mr. Tato Head in a Handbag!" I have no idea where he even heard the term - I call mine a purse.

Dad helping him load his nerf gun

I was surprised that he was even way excited about getting clothes.

Jace sat up by himself for the first time in this pic, i don't really think he knows what is going on!

Happy Boy!

We went to the Chipmunk movie with the Browns. It was Carson's first time in a movie theater, I have never seen his eyes so big! Definitely something we want to make a tradition of!

These are all the animals Grandpa Ulrich gave him (he was lining them up so he could shoot them with his nerf gun:)

What a great day!!

New Years!

We were able to celebrate Christmas and New Year's up in Idaho with all of Brad's family. We hadn't all been to together in a really long time so it was really good to be together!

Grammy & Grandpa Bowen got Carson a fireman kit that he loves!

"Santa" got this for the kids to play with at Grammy's house

Ya... so Brad bought his first pair of sweats EVER and they were HUGE. That is Jace's hat on his head, don't ask me what he is doing with his face!

Playing games with the fam

The whole fam at Craigos Pizza

Carson has figured out that if he eats like this he doesn't get his hands dirty:)

Sledding at the Park

Carson LOVED it

Grammy & Grandpa on Jace Duty:)

Thanksgiving in Idaho

Thanksgiving was great this year, we got to spend 5 days in Idaho with the Bowen's and it was awesome!

Carson was Uncle Dain's little buddy the whole time.

Red Robin in Idaho - which by the way does not have the California club, crazy!!!!

I found one of Kate's barrettes and couldn't resist, sorry Jace!

Grammy Bowen with the Kiddos

Watching football

Go Broncos!!!!!!
(Thanks Cassie for the great find:)

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!!!!

So, Carson and Ben (his cousin) had been playing together at my mom's house for hours with no incident. No joke 5 minutes before we left we hear a scream from the guest bedroom. Ben comes running in and says something like "Carson is bleeding!" (I can't quite remember because of the panic that set it.) Brad got to him first and there was a TON of blood. Brad thought the cut went all the way through but thankfully it didn't. Apparently Carson jumped off the bed and landed on a toy car that split his lip.

Of course this had to happen on a Sunday night after hours so we had to go to the emergency room. We were so proud of Carson they didn't have to sedate him to give him the shots for numbing the area. He seriously didn't move a muscle when they shoved the needle up his mouth into his cheek.

I think he was bothered more by the numbness than anything else. He kept saying "Get this off my cheek!"

4 stitches (strings as carson called them) and he was all fixed.

And of course the $50 dollar Popsicle from the ER to make it all better:)

Ulrich St. George Trip

Last weekend we headed down to st. george with my fam. We had a great time hanging out & getting to know each other better. (Some might wish they could unlearn some things:) We stayed an awesome house that allowed us to maximize our time together. It was fun to be able to have the kids in bed and just hang out, play games, and pig out!!!!

The boys in the middle of a serious game of ping pong.

Grandpa got lots of bonding time with Jace

The first morning the boys watched all the kids while the sisters and Ryan went shopping - it was AWESOME!!! We kept finding cute earrings and my two sisters didn't have their ears pierced and were bummed about it. Throwing caution to the wind they both decided to get them pierced!

All the ladies, and yes I do have a bald spot that i didn't notice until I saw this pic!

Ryan and his "creepy guy stare"

The moment of truth...

Ta Da!!

Denise was a little more relaxed than Nanci:)

Ryan was a little TOO comfortable:)

That night we decided to head out for a night on the town! It doesn't get any better than Jumping Jacks!

Just Chillin...

Don't ask

My dad has this amazing ability to fall asleep ANYWHERE.

This was seriously one of the funnest nights I have ever had. We didn't get that many pictures because we were too busy playing! I think the adults had more fun than the kids. The best part was when they busted out the music and disco ball and Nanci started the dancing! I felt like i was in Jr. High again as we danced to some good old Jock Jam tunes with 11 & 12 year old girls.