Who's on the "naughty" list?

 Cole is! That naughty boy snuck into my room last week (after we had already put him back in his bed several times) messed up my sewing machine, took my scissors and cut up Aubrey's Christmas dress that I was making her. I was sooo ticked off! I've had a ton of things on my plate and the last thing I needed was a ruined dress. I had to go to the fabric store the next day and buy more fabric to fix his mistakes.

 This is what Cole looks like Sunday evenings. We've had late church which = no naps, so he usually falls asleep during dinner. Only one more week of that though and then we switch to 9-12 church. I like that sooo much better!

And because we think it's so awesome - the Subaru hit a fun milestone! I bought that car after my first year of college and it's still running. Cody loves being the Doctor in the office and driving the crappiest car in the parking lot!

Ski Days

We signed Tucker up for his first ski school lesson at Brighton a couple weeks ago. It was the cheapest place to go for a lesson and where Cody and I could buy day passes. Tucker has been so excited to go skiing!

 We spied on him a little bit during his lesson. As you can tell it was a "snow" day, but it didn't bother Tucker one bit. I bought him a neck gator and Brighton let us borrow a helmet for him so he was nice and warm.

 Here he is on the left on the lift. He's getting ready to pull the safety bar down.

 After his lesson we bought some hot chocolate and nachos and ate and warmed up in the lodge. We went back out for a few runs afterward. He does great with the clamps to keep his skis together, but when we take them off they are usually crossed. I think we'll do one more session of ski school and see if that helps.

 We took Tucker skiing on a Friday and the next Monday Cody and went and skied Park City Mountain Resort. It was awesome because hardly anyone was there. We are all about midweek skiing. We scored these passes for $25 a piece through a local sporting goods store.

Thanksgiving

We hosted Thanksgiving for Cody's family at our house this year. I just counted and Cody and I have actually hosted Thanksgiving 4 of the 7 Thanksgiving's we've been married. Our house is perfect for hosting though and we had a great time with the Calderwoods. Aubrey is excited to get her turkey on!

 We fit 2 banquet sized tables besides our own kitchen table in our "kitchen" space. We had Cody's parents, his brother Carson and family, his uncle Rees, 2 cousins + their families, Kristin's boyfriend Chris, his parents and his sister-in-law over for dinner. I think there were 24 people total. It's great being the hostess because all I had to do was clean my house, which really isn't so bad and then we popped a turkey in the oven in the morning. I delegated everything else out!

 We attempted to take a big family picture before dinner. The day was too perfect though. The kids have eyes closed and are crying because the sun is too bright. Oh well, at least it's updated with Aspen and Blake.

 We have the most annoying fire alarm in our kitchen area. It went off every 10 minutes. I think we were all deaf by the end of dinner. If you could bash them and have them turn off I'm sure Cody would have done that.

 Here Cody is making fun of his uncle Rees's oxygen tank. There is always humor in the Calderwood family.

 We had a blast and had fun with Carson and Marisa's family. Later that night Carson, Marisa and I went to the outlets and did some midnight shopping. It was fun and much better than going to sleep and waking up early. We just went to bed at 4:30 instead!

Swiss Christmas

I participated in Swiss Christmas this year with some good friends. This is a picture of our table setup. We all did better than last year and made some Christmas moolah! I have a new craft blog that might get converted to my old craft blog, but if you want to check out my new towels, crayon rolls and other things we sold, head over to www.littlelisalulu.blogspot.com. My old blog of www.piecesbylisa.blogspot.com is still out there as well.

 Father and Mother Christmas come on Saturday and Tucker was so proud of himself that he didn't cry. He's our tough guy this year! I'm pretty sure he's telling Santa that he wants something dinosaur related in this picture.

 And Aubrey is telling Santa that she doesn't have any Barbies. Wouldn't Aubrey look so cute as one of those Swiss Miss girls? Someday... (But don't worry, I won't make her live my dreams of winning a beauty pageant!)

 Tucker's preschool made the gingerbread house in the background. He was so excited to show us that Santa was on the chimney.

 Tucker's teacher and a friend in our ward made this gingerbread house. She does amazing work every year!

 And how cool is this one! Someone even did the UP house complete with real balloons. I should've snapped a picture of that one.

the Birthday Boy

We celebrated Cody's 32rd birthday back on November 30th. We made yummy mint brownies for his cake.

 Here they are doing the birthday dance. There is usually dancing involved around our family activities.

 Once you have kids you will never blow out candles by yourself again. Cody got new snow boots, goggles and a life jacket. Now he's all prepped for winter and we have begun preparations to buy a boat in the spring!

 Oh and in case any of you were wondering, Squeaky is still alive.

Back to the Cabin

After we chopped down our tree and set it up we headed to the cabin. It was Blake's first time and we hadn't been since the 4th of July. Pretty pathetic since we live 30 minutes away.

Aubrey had fun throwing snowballs and playing in her new snow gear. I bought her snowpants and coat for $20 at Walmart. I LOVE sweet deals!

 Grandma Sue and the babies.

We also taught Tucker the beginning steps of skiing at the cabin. He loved going down the hill and is all prepared for ski school!

Cutting down of the tree

We headed up to the Soapstone Basin the day after Thanksgiving to cut down our Christmas Tree. This is our second year doing this and we had a great time! The roads were much snowier than they were last year, so we didn't head up as far, but we got lucky and found a great tree right next to the road. Aubrey had fun making her way up the snowy hill.

 Cody has the chainsaw to the trunk and is waiting for the "timber".

 Tucker and Aubrey thought it would be best to watch from the top of the car. As you can tell it was a bright beautiful day!

 Cody snapped this picture with his new Droid. The tree takes up our entire front window space. I love it!