Party!!!

For Bridger's birthday he again got trains. Natually, he had a train party

Temple Square

Bridger had one request for his birthday: to ride a train. So we took Trax to Temple Square with cousin Kaitlyn

We stayed way past bedtime, but the train home was still fun for our little guy

Christmas Morning

For Christmas the kids had some very specific things they wanted. Natalynn wanted a Nintendo DS or "DPS" and Bridger really wanted a GeoTrax train set. Santa hid their special gifts on the other side of the couch, and when we had opened the last gift under the tree Bridger was about to cry. Then...

December

Dear Jesus, I love you

What's better than trains? Christmas candy trains!!!

Gingerbread house made at preschool

Bridger Boy!

My baby has been saying the funniest things!

When the ink ran out in a marker he said it needed new batteries.

and

"My muscles are hungry."

Bridger's buddy Taylin had an awesome birthday party at a gymnastics place. Brigham and I decided we have to have a foam pit in our dream house.

smile

I got tired of Natalynn shouting out in public "I need to go POOP!" so I explained to her to use "number 1" and "number 2". She decided that flatulence should be Number Zero.

Natalynn: Bridger, do you want to buy a pillowpet?
Bridger (word for word): I love pillowpets but I want to buy a train because I love trains too.

Mom: Isaiah and Marie are getting married.
Bridger: Oh! Do they have a car?

Natalynn is 5

We kept things simple for Natalynn's 5th. We had small celebrations with each side of the family, then on Nov 11th, because we scored free tickets, we took a few friends to Disney On Ice and had a little party

"Chinnie Chinnie Bang Bang"

Grammy comes to visit

Today we went to my parents house because Grammy was visiting from Vermont. We stopped by Stetson's school, because they had some free pumpkins that were going to get thrown out (which I spent a week canning and dehydrating), then we went to somebody's house that had a halloween train ride. We waited in line for a couple hours, but it was worth it. Grammy was a good sport about it. She and Natalynn really hit it off. Bridger is an absolute train fanatic.

Yellowstone

Yellowstone was so much fun. We went with Nana, John, Breanna, Dakota and Stetson. The first day we were just driving around when we saw this out our window and slammed on the brakes to look and listen. We were close enough to hear it chewing!

Both the kids loved using the "bee-nocklee-ars" to find the wildlife.

It was nice weather during the day. Through the night the freezing temperatures would make the gyser mist freeze on the trees. It was beautiful.

The kids were given a work sheet to help them keep track of the wildlife they found. We saw a bald eagle, a squirrel, plenty of birds, bison, elk, and otters.

One of my favorite things was driving through a little town/tourist trap and seeing the elk enjoying the lawn