-THE SKINNERS-

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Pirate Island

While we were in Utah we met up with a bunch of friends at the coolest restaurant called Pirate Island. Everyone is dressed as pirates, there is a huge pirate ship themed play area, tons of token games everywhere. Dane loved it all since he thinks he is a real pirate.

The waiting area. I felt like we were at Disneyland waiting to get on a ride.


Straight off the bat Dane went and took control of the ship

Dane and his buddy Cade



Christmas Overload

I'm preparing you now that there are many posts and pictures from Christmas.

Christmas Eve
Lots of pictures of the boys in their matching pajamas. BYU of course-(can you guess who picked them out?? ;)







Christmas Morning
Ready to see what Santa brought...
Johnny's presents
Dane's presents

The week of Christmas

We went to Utah for Christmas this year and spent it with the Skinner side of the family. We spent the first day playing and sledding at Ryan's sister, Linsey's home in Bountiful. It was so much fun to have a bunch of the kids together and watching Dane enjoy the snow so much. They have little snowmobiles that we got to ride on through their property and pull people on sleds that were attached to the back.

Dane and Cru ready to play
My niece, Ashlyn, took the boys on a sled ride behind the snowmobile and it had to be one of the cutest things I have ever seen.
Dane standing next to the BYU sign and so proud to be at his dad's FAVORITE school!
Had to get a picture next to the cougar:)
One of the days my parents called and said they wanted to come down and take us to breakfast. It was fun to get together with both of my parents, my sister, Lara, and my cute grandma.
Johnny with my mom and grandma.
Right when we got home from breakfast, Dane was walking up to the front porch at Ryan's house and slipped on a piece of ice and his face met the corner of the porch's tile step. Everything was COVERED in blood. He had a couple of huge gashes in the outside of his lip from the step and a huge gash on the inside of his lip from his teeth. It was so sad. This picture was taken after we cleaned it off for a while and he had a little while to calm down. His bottom and top lip were swollen and bruised too. So sad:(
Family picture right before everyone started showing up for the big family Christmas Party. Dane had so much fun running around with all of his cousins and was NOT happy that we made him stop for 2 minutes so we could take a picture. He has such a hard life...

Pre-Christmas

For Christmas all Dane wanted was a candy cane from Santa and a Christmas Tree to decorate. Well Santa gave him is candy cane and we decided to FINALLY get a tree:) Look at Dane's huge smile.
This picture makes me want to go on a diet:)

Dane always has this nasty cough. I swear he gets it at least once a month. Here he is during his breathing treatment. I convinced him that it was a robot mask and that he looks like the coolest robot when he wears it:) Poor kid has to do it twice a day to see if it helps with his cough at all. THe Dr. said he did not want to label it as asthma but used the term "Reactive Airway" which I am guessing has to do with his allergies.

"Surprise" party!

Our friends invited us out to Surprise a couple of weeks ago to attend the "Surprise" Party:) It takes place at a park in Surprise every year around Christmas and includes: wolves, mini horses/ride, elephant rides, every kind of reptile you can think of, rides, carnival games, lots of food, and of course Jolly Old St. Nick:)

Dane decided to catch a ride with Presten instead of walking.
This snake was just hanging out on the ground for anyone to walk up to and touch. The owner then put the snakes head in the cage and the snake slowly made its way into the cage. THis thing was HUGE!!
Never thought I would see this happen...EVER!
Never thought I would see this happen either...No one is crying/screaming while on Santa's lap;)
Dane enjoyed the little petting zoo and holding all of the mini animals.


Saturday, December 5, 2009

Thanksgiving in Gilbert

This year most of my family met in Gilbert at my sister's house for Thanksgiving. It was a blast to spend time with family...especially for all of the little cousins to play. They spent most of the week playing/wrestling/ biting/ giggling/ eating/playing rockband/driving us crazy/ swimming/ cracking us up/making best friends/ making enemies/running around/ going on rhino rides/....


Johnny and Scotty
SOMEHOW we talked my dad into taking all the 2 year olds for a ride on the Rhino. Dane wasn't so sure about what he had gotten himself into. After the ride Dane knew he did not want to ride it again while Grandpa was driving bc my dad took them off roading and on some big jumps. I talked him into going on it again and told him that he could sit on my lap. Now I understand why Dane didn't want to go for a ride again. My dad had that thing going so high in the air that even I was scared. Each ride was filled with non-stop screaming.
My boys with Grandma and Grandpa Weston








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