Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

1.06.2009

In Review

Although Christmas has come and gone, decorations are taken down, and life is back to normal...Bridger is still talking about Christmas. Every day I hear, "Merry Christmas, Mom" or "It's Christmas Eve, Mom" or "Open a present, Mom". So even though we are months away from celebrating the holiday again, I guess I know that Bridger totally understood Christmas this year, eh? So here are a couple of highlights to help me remember my little man on, what I would say, was his favorite day of his life thus far.


Christmas Eve bonfire at the Live Nativity, courtesy of the Noble family.





Opening his Christmas eve PJ's.



Finally noticing his Thomas trains that Santa left.





Enjoying his stocking stuffers.




Too busy looking at Thomas pictures to eat mom's homemade cinnamon rolls.



Falling asleep on the snowy drive to Grandma & Grandpa's, but wouldn't let go of his trains.



So excited for his Thomas movie from Grandma and Grandpa.



Taking TRAX with the Prescott clan to have dinner and see the lights at Temple Square.




All in all, I'd have to say this was a great Christmas for our little family. Hope yours was great too!
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10.31.2008

Making A Choice

I am a huge fan of Halloween! I've always loved it...I mean who doesn't enjoy dressing up for a night of fun?! Ok, Rusty doesn't, but I LOVE it!! So I'm trying to pass this love of Halloween down to Bridger boy and one of the ways I am doing this is helping him choose a great costume. Earlier this year he was obsessed with The Incredibles. I really wanted him to be Dash for Halloween, but his love of The Incredibles has faded away. So, why make the kid dress up in something he doesn't care about anymore, right? This month his obsessions have been Sesame Street, Ratatouille, and Thomas the Train. Bridger's sensory overloads helped me easily cross off any Sesame Street character...too much fur and he would have a melt down! My mother-in-law bought a James costume for him at a garage sale, and I thought that would be the ticket. Unfortunately, it was too much for him also. So, in honor of Ratatouille and chef Linguini, Bridger is a little chef for Halloween this year. I have to give a shout out to my mom who made the chef apron by combining 2 different patterns (heck I can barely follow one!!). And the hat just makes the costume...hopefully he'll wear it again tonight! I just love seeing my little man enjoy my favorite holiday.
I hope you guys all have a great Halloween, enjoy the madness for one night!!
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2.20.2008

Birthday Bash

Bridger had a fun little gathering for his birthday. His cousins, Aunt Amy, Uncle Casey, and Grandma Laurie came for the day. We packed in as much fun as we could in the time they were here. The boys watched a little Shrek when they first got here.








Then we headed off for the new Aquatic Center here in Pinedale. They have a great little leisure area that couldn't be better for kids. There is a 3-story water slide, a lazy river run, and lots of little gadgets that dump, spray, and splash water. The boys had a great time!



After a hard afternoon at the swimming pool we came home and had waffles for dinner. Bridger loves breakfast, so this made a great dinner for his special day! Grandma brought her cool Mickey Mouse waffle iron and sprinkles to put on the waffles. The kids were in heaven with their special treats piled high with peanut butter, syrup, and sprinkles. After dinner we enjoyed Bridger's cake. He had no idea that he was supposed to blow out the candles, and was more interested with the Cars toys on his cake than anything else.



Bridger loved all of his presents from family and friends. He was definitely spoiled! I think his favs were the the miniature Cars, animal sounds puzzle, singing Pablo, and the Cars mitt. He was so thrilled with each toy, that it took quite a while to open up his presents.



After family left late that night, Bridger just enjoyed laying on the floor in the middle of the toys and paper. I think he was in heaven at this moment, just thinking about his family and all his new toys...what a lucky boy!




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1.09.2008

Wrapping It Up

So, I'm finally back and ready to blog again. I have been home from our little holiday travel for over a week, but I am just barely getting back into my routine, which includes blogging. :) Here's a quick update on the holidays for the Kaiser clan.

We spent a few days before Christmas, Christmas Eve, and Christmas morning in Utah with the Prescott family. It was so much fun to spend time with my mom and the rest of my family...it made me realize how much I really miss them. Thanks to Dean, Maddy, and the kids for traveling to Salt Lake so much just to hangout with us...it really meant a lot to me.




Christmas morning was good with Bridger, except that he wasn't interested in anything that Santa had brought him. All he wanted was the 30 year old Disney dominoes that my mom has in her toys drawers.




We then headed to Kemmerer for the Kaiser family celebration. This always includes lots of wrapping paper, tons of food, and games of all sorts. Bridger was thrilled with the gifts Grandma and Grandpa got him, especially his Elmo Pillow Book. I was so excited to open one of my presents and find a crepe maker, thanks Laurie!! We even tricked Rusty with one of his gifts. Now let me explain this...Rusty has this intuition, or gift some may call it, that he can always guess what gifts he is getting for Christmas. Well, me and Laurie went in on this together and tricked him this year...it was really fun to see his face!!




We spent from Christmas through New Year's Day with the Kaiser's. Rusty had a great time hanging out with his brothers, fishing their hearts out...and I had a great time AFTER I had a complete emotional melt down. I guess I had been away from home far too long, was tired, and emotional. Thanks to Amy for helping me out of the rut and having fun with me...and by the way, I am going to win Phase 10 one of these days!!

So, there's my holidays in a quick minute (or two)!! I hope you all had a memorable holiday. Happy New Year to you all, may 2008 be better than 2007 (even if 2007 was great)!!
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12.17.2007

The Nightmare Before Christmas

This weekend we ventured out and made gingerbread cookies. Many of you have been posting about gingerbread houses, but I just wasn't ready to make that commitment yet, so we did the next best thing. Like I said earlier, Bridger hasn't been thrilled about participating in my household duties, but I was able to get him up to the counter to try and roll out his own piece of dough. He thought it was cool for about a minute then left, then returned for a couple minutes, then left, repeat.



After the cookies were baked we tried to do a little decorating but Bridger just threw the sprinkles from one side of the kitchen to the other. Me and Rusty gave decorating a shot, but really our gingerbread men ended up looking like some kind of scaryHalloween creatures.


So, this may not turn into the holiday tradition I was hoping for, but at least I gave it a shot.
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12.11.2007

Is This Right?

Santa Claus visited the Sublette Co. Library last week. I didn't have my camera with me when I was there Thursday so we decided to make the visit on Friday, when I had a camera and most importantly, when dad could help contain the screaming. So we headed into the library and I was planning on the typical screaming fit Bridger has when I drop him off at nursery or when grandma wants to hold him. But this is what I got, take a look.







Is this normal? Is Bridger OK? Should I be worried that something is wrong with the kid? He'll go to Santa Claus, but won't go to his grandma...I think I should be worried!! Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas!!
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12.07.2007

Tis' the Season...

So I thought I should finally make some sort of holiday post. My nativities are up, the house is decorated, the tree is up, lights are on the house, presents are wrapped, and there are even delicious chocolate chip cookies made, but I haven't felt like making a post lately, am I a Scrooge or what?!

Last Saturday we had the hunt for the perfect Christmas tree. We loaded up the truck and headed to the Bridger-Teton National Forest. After driving to the forest and up and down the snow covered road, we decided to take a short hike to find THE ONE. To my dismay the hike was unsuccessful, we couldn't find anything good enough for my liking.

So we hopped in the truck again to make another drive, just in case we missed one. Well, I don't know how to explain it, but somehow while Rusty was driving he saw an amazing tree out of the corner of his eye. It was about 50 yards away, a lone pine tree in a bunch of Aspens, just waiting for someone to find it and fulfill it's Christmas tree dream. So we hiked up the hill, took a good look at it, and Rusty cut the masterpiece down. Here it is....



Bridger had a great time! He was in awe of all the trees and loved the snow.



So the story doesn't end as magical as it sounds. We put the tree up on Saturday night and wanted to decorate it on Sunday evening. Well, our plans quickly changed when Sunday morning we walked into the front room to find the tree laying on our loveseat and water all over my new carpet!! Oops! Needless to say, the tree spent Sunday and Monday on our porch until Rusty could fix our tree stand. But after all that, here is it, our PERFECT Christmas tree.









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11.30.2007

Already Over??

So, since today is the last day of November, I thought I better make at least one post about our Thanksgiving holiday. Colorado was cold, but it was nice to visit with family and do a little "Day After" shopping with the girls! Our feast was great especially the pies, bravo Janell!!
Here's a shot of my guy carving the bird!!
After traveling so far I was happy to be home and have Bridger back on schedule...too bad we ended up with the flu all week long!! Hopefully next week we'll be back to normal. Happy Thanksgiving!!
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11.01.2007

A Pirate Says Arrrr!!


Earlier this summer I found a great lion costume and bought it for Bridger for Halloween. Well as Halloween got closer I realized that Bridger wasn't really interested in lions, but he was very interested in pirates. It all started with the Backyardigans Pirate Adventure that we have on DVD. It was a favorite DVD that Bridger watched religiously while living in the camper trailer. Then he kept finding pirate things all over the place: a pirate balloon at the scrapbook expo, our Pirates of the Caribbean DVD, pirate costumes at the store...you get my drift. So, I quickly changed my mind and decided that Bridger would be happier as a pirate for Halloween. Here are some shots of me and my scurvy little pirate!!

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10.31.2007

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

For any of you who really know me, you know that holidays don't get any better than Halloween for me. I just love everything about it...candy, dressing up, carving pumpkins...you name it, I love it. So last night in all of our moving/unpacking madness we brought in the pumpkins and had a little carving party. I was a little worried about how Bridger would do, considering 1-he doesn't like to sit in one place for more than 30 seconds 2-he can't stand it when his hands get dirty 3-he hasn't seemed all that interested in the pumpkins that have been on our front porch for the past 2 weeks. But I guess he's a chip off the ol' shoulder and he took to carving pumpkins like he was a true artist. Here are some shots of our pumpkin fest!
Look at those eyebrows, now he means business!!
Rusty looks hauntingly similar to his mean jack o' lantern.


Me and my little skeleton boy.



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