We went down to Niagria Springs for an afternoon with Ryan and his family. You and Cache are good buddies and loved exploring everything.

Guess who can ride his bike without training wheels?? Dad was fixing your training wheels and said lets try it without them. So you did and you took off! You have been practicing on Taylor's stride bike so I think that helped you with your balance. You now go all the time and its about time for a bigger bike!

Christmas

Our Christmas started at 6:30. You woke up and came into our room. We coached you the night before that you had to come and get us before you went into the living room. Being the obedient child you are:) you did just that. We then got Taylor up and then the teasing started:) I was teased ( sometimes to tears:) growing up so it's only justice that I get to do it to my kids:) We then let you come out to see what Santa brought you. It was pretty funny because you noticed Taylor's shopping cart for her before you noticed you new shiny red wagon. You went through your stocking and loved all the candy, the new transformers brush and toothpaste, and the star wars cup filled with gum balls.

After a while we decided to open presents. We decided to start the tradition of giving three gifts. 1. Something you need ( you got a star wars shirt and sweat bottoms) 2. Something you want ( a polar express train set) This was my absolute favorite part of Christmas. You tore off the wrapping paper and when you saw it was a polar express train you ran over to me, jumped in my arms and said " thank you thank you mom! I love it" It was so sweet. 3. Something from the heart( an illustrated book of mormon book done in fun ways) You have read this book many times and really like it. Now I always ask you, are you like Ammon, are you like Nephi or are you being like Laman and Lemuel:)




That was Christmas. It was so great. That was the perfect amount of gifts. It wasn't overwhelming at all and you appreciated each gift. I'm excited to do this tradition every year now.I love you

Later that night we skyped with Grandma Williams and she watched you open her gifts from you. You got some star wars figures, legos, and some coloring pads.

Palmer Christmas Party

We had our annual Palmer Christmas party at Staci's house. We all met at Zach's grave and decorated the tree and sang some songs. You are really starting to question things and asked about my brother Zach. It was a special spirit felt as we remembered him. We then went to Staci's, ate and opened presents. For the cousin exchange you picked a random gift and it was a princess coloring pad. I knew that it was not going to be good and you said this isn't for me this is a girls for Taylor! I felt bad for you. Luckily Staci had an extra Cars coloring pad and we were able to switch her. Whew crisis adverted!! You also got some awesome jet fighter pj's and a drawing glow board from Grandma.

Gingerbread houses

We had some of your favorite people over for a weekend and had so much fun with them! We made our own gingerbread houses and even got into a frosting war:) You love your cousins.

Summer Recap

You did swimming lessons the first of June. It went better than I thought it would. You are starting to become more comfortable in the water, you are still not to sure about putting your head completely under though:)


We went to Grandma and Grandpa Palmers house for the fourth of July. You always like going to visit. You thought the fireworks were a little too loud but you liked the black snakes. You are into ropes lately and tie them to everything.


We got a trampoline this summer and it was a lot of fun for you guys. Your favorite thing to do was put a sprinkler on underneath it and jump jump jump! You especially like it when Dad or I come and jump with you.

Just a sweet picture of the cutest kids ever:)

For my birthday we went to Bear Lake. This is our second time going as a family and it is such a fun place to go. The water is warm and the beach is great. This year Staci's family went with us and that added to the fun. You just love those girls. We went on a hike, went to the caves and of course spent time at the beach. Grandma and Grandpa Palmer even came down for a day.

South Hills

A week before Thanksgiving we went to Fairfield and got our Christmas tree. There was a ton of snow. You loved the snow and didn't complain one bit!Our finished product! We had lots of fun decorating the tree and you even got to put the star on top.
You sure love that brother of yours:)



This Saturday we went to the South Hills to see the Christmas lights. This has become a tradition we have done now for a couple of years. Lucas liked looking at the lights but kept on wanting to race on to see the next thing. Taylor liked looking at everything and loved the animal lights. Cade was a trooper and didn't make a peep. It was pretty chilly but there was no snow and it wasn't raining like last year! Lucas even fed the camel a carrot. Taylor was intent just looking at it from a safe distance.:) We went with a big group of friends and the kids loved it. Afterwards we went to Golden Corral to eat. Lucas ate some noodles and then headed straight for the cotton candy with Taylor right behind him. It was fun to eat with friends. Lucas and Taylor had fun running around with Lydia and MaKatie.

Halloween

This year for Halloween you were Luke Skywalker. Dad introduced you to Star Wars and you have pretty much been obsessed since:) I think dad is enjoying it as much as you are. We dressed up a ton this year. We first kicked it off doing Storytime trick or treating. That weekend we went down to the Williams and went to a family Halloween party there. Monday you dressed up for preschool and then again that night for actual Halloween! You had a blast and I think we will do more door to door trick or treating next year now that you are getting older and you seemed to enjoy that the most. Although I told you and dad since Taylor and I did the whole Star Wars thing for you guys this year you were going to have to be princes next year. You did not think that was such a good idea.

You are loving preschool. It is at our house tomorrow and you are so excited to have everyone come here. You are really smart and learn things quickly. It is sad to think you are going to go to Kindergarten next year. I know you will love it but I will miss you. I still feel like I have control over the kind of people you are influenced by but I know once you start going to school that changes and it scares me a little bit.



We went down to the Palmer Grandparents before Halloween and had lots of fun carving this ginormous pumpkin. You always enjoy going there and visiting them.