Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Should We Be Worried?

Jacob's little friend Madi was in a dance recital and invited Jacob to come. He was so excited and loved watching his little friend dance. The whole time he just kept saying, "Mommy! Look at Madi! She looks so beautiful!" It was so sweet. After her dances, we went backstage to get a picture with her. I just told Jacob to stand by her and he immediately put his arm around her and she cuddled up to him. THEY ARE ONLY 4! Honestly! Where do kids pick this stuff up?

Look at his face! He was so happy!
She just cuddled right up on him!

He rarely smiles this big!

Madi and Jacob.
Aren't they so cute?
Should we be worried?

Fighting Fires

Vernal is honestly one of the coldest places I have ever been. Freezing. To help with the heating bill we burn wood in our wood burning stove. It can get really hot sometimes. The other night we were awakened by our fire alarm at midnight. We rush out of our bedroom and our living room is full of smoke. I start freaking out, but we realize that the pot that we put on our stove with water has started to melt and is cooking on top of the stove. It was the worst burning plastic smell ever. It took Clay about 3 hours to get rid of all the smoke and get the fire put out. Our house was so smelly for the next 24 hours, but we were so blessed that our house didn't burn down, especially right before Christmas. It was just another reminder that Heavenly Father is watching over our family. When we have family prayer, we usually ask for a safe sleep and to be warned of any danger that may befall our family. I usually don't think too much about it but now, I do. I know that our home was spared from a fire and we were protected. What a wonderful blessing to have a loving Heavenly Father to watch over us. We are currently being more careful!
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On the lighter side, this is a picture of Caleb playing "Fighter Fire"
He dresses up in the gloves and hat his Grandma Dianne made for him and runs around the house putting out fires and saving the day! Our little hero!
This is Caleb after he rescued a cat from a tree

Jacob's Gingerbread House

Jacob made this wonderful gingerbread house at preschool. He is so proud of it and has to show it to everyone that comes into our house. He was looking at the blog and saw that I didn't put this picture on so here it is. The beautiful masterpiece!


Ho Ho Ho

Jacob has made some really cool stuff at preschool for Christmas.

Here is Jacob with his Santa hat and his Rudolph bag
Here is Caleb being Santa...scary Santa

Here is our friend Madi being Mrs. Clause

Here is our friend Eli. He looks like a cute little elf.

All Abord!

As one of Caleb's potty training rewards, we got to go to Salt Lake and ride the Front Runner and Trax to Temple Square to see the lights. It was really fun! Grandpa John and Grandma Jan can along with the Dalls. Caleb was so excited he was yelling on the train. It was a blast!

Grandpa John
Carter, Caleb, Jacob and Will
at the station
Grandma Jan, Jacob, Caleb and Grandpa John at Temple Square

Jacob

Caleb

Me, Jacob, Caleb, Grandpa John and Will on the train

Carter, Jeremy and Becca

The boys and Grandpa John in front of the Front Runner

Caleb and Will
Nice smile boys!

Grandpa John and Caleb on the train

Jacob and Grandma Jan

Batty Christmas Party

We had the Batty Christmas Party on Saturday. It's always fun to get together with the crazy Batty's. They had some fun games for the kids to play. The best game was with balloons. They got big huge shirts and pants to put on the kids and then had a race to see how many balloons the other kids could shove into the big clothes. Kamren and Jacob got to be the balloon kids. It was so funny.

Kamren, not quite sure what just happened to him.
Jacob

Jacob getting stuffed.
This was a really easy and really fun game for the kids (and adults)

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Let It Snow, Let It Snow...

While at my sisters house we spent some time sledding down her little hill in her back yard. The kids, especially Caleb, had a blast!!

Caleb
Caleb, laughing his head off!
Caleb sliding down on his tummy

Caleb and Will
Carter and Jacob

Austin, (my cousin) with the dogs
Will very much not with the dogs
Will and his mommy
Thanks for a fun time Becca!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Buddy The Elf, What's Your Favorite Color?

This is Buddy the Elf. He is our new friend. He comes to our house at Christmas time and watches us to make sure we are being good. Every night he goes back to the North Pole to tell Santa if we were naughty or nice. Then he comes back every morning and finds a new place to hide so he can watch us. We have been trying very hard to be good so that Buddy can give a good report.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Thanksgiving, Barker Style

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
I know it's a little late. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Ours was awesome. We were able to go up to Fruit Heights and have Thanksgiving with the Barkers. We were able to stay for 4 whole days. Here are a few of the highlights.
The little boys had their own table for dinner

Caleb
Jacob

Will, Carter, Jacob and Caleb

The Larsens
Grandpa John and Burdette

Cute Grandma Jan
The Dalls
The Battys
After dinner we went and spent the rest of the weekend in a cabin up by Snow Basin. We had so much fun just doing nothing!
Carter, Jacob and Grandpa John playing Risk


Clay, Carter, Burdette and Jacob playing "Uno Batack"
Jeremy and Caleb

Caleb and Will

Clay after he won in Risk

Jacob, Carter, Will and Caleb

Katrina, Me and Becca
Mommy with all her little chicks
Thanks so much mom and dad for a totally awesome weekend. Thanks for watching Davy Crockett with the boys and for all the yummyness. This weekend helped me remember why one of my greatest blessings is my family.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Ahoy Maytey

Jacob was bored and wanted to look like a pirate. Arrr Me Hearty.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Trick-Or-Treat

I don't know if it's because our last name is Batty but I love Halloween. We had so much fun this year. The boys dressed up like a lion and a monkey and Clay and I were explorers or on a safari. I looks like we found what we were hunting for!




This my friend Kyla and her kids Madi and Breker. I thought they were so cute, I just had to take a picture :)

Kamren, Me, Jacob and Caleb at the Vernal city mayors Halloween walk.
My grumpy monkey

My sweet lion

Madi and Jacob

grumpy

Jacob
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My mother always throws a Witchie Poo party but this year we weren't able to make it out so she brought her party to us!! It was so much fun. We did fun things on Friday night and on Saturday morning.
Here is Caleb stirring the witches brew
Jacob giving it a stir

Grandpa John and Jacob decorating cookies

Caleb decorating cookies

This was our Halloween oatmeal breakfast

Carving pumpkins. Clay made his throwing up. Gross.

Me and Clay carving our pumpkins.

We hope that everyone had a totally batty Halloween!