Oue eventful weekend

We started the day out looking for places to do our family photo reshoot. Our other family picture gets a little blurry if you go any bigger than a 5x7. Our photographer is so great, she let us pick out the place and came out in the cold for the reshoot. Chris has such an artistic view; he picked out great spot. When our photographer arrived she was also in love with the spots he had chosen. I’m very excited to see the picture - it will be a long two week wait.

Next we were off to see Santa. We told the boys if they were good for the pictures we would take them to see Santa. They were both perfect little angles and gave some great smiles. Jerin was so excited all the way to the mall. He told us, “we have to see Santa or he won’t know what I want”. Of course, how could we have not known this fact? And to think we almost let that precious moment pass us by. Jerin jumped up on Santa’s lap and started naming off all the toys he wanted, even as his brother was sitting on the other side screaming. Unfortunately we could not get Cayson to stay there long enough to get all three kids in the picture.

Later that night was my Granddad’s 90^th birthday party. My sister and I (mostly my sister) put together a book about his life. It was amazing to see all the old pictures and to watch him and his brothers go through the book and reminisce about their youth.

Sunday was Jerin’s reward day. For those that don’t know, he has rules and chores charts. He earns (and has taken away) reward sticks throughout the week. If he is able to get 7 sticks he gets to pick what he wants to do for his reward. This Sunday he wanted to go crystal (rock) hunting. We ended up driving to the small town of Springdale (just outside of Zion National Park) to the rock store. He was overwhelmed by all the choices. We were at this small rock shop for about 45 min looking at all the different rocks. He finally picked out one and now it is his prized possession.