Judd Cousins

My brother David and his four kids came and stayed the night with us! His wife Lisa and baby Mason went to St. George to stay with her family and see her new nephew. The kids had so much fun playing together! We don't get to spend much time together just his family and mine so it was fun to hang out! Dave is such a great dad and he even helped me out with the dishes! Lisa you are so lucky! I got some cute photos of them all snuggled down watching a movie, until we started to blow up the air mattress for the older kids to sleep on - and then they all came to jump on the mattress! They were so much fun!

 

 

Valentines Weekend!

Over Valentines weekend we went up north to my parents cabin to snowmobile and hang out! There was tons of snow and we had so much fun playing in the snow and riding around on the snowmobile! We had to snowmobile in and haul all our stuff in. It was quite an adventure! It was a white wonderland that was absolutely beautiful!

 

These two were having so much fun! (once they got their machines running!)They were headed to get my brother David and his family who came up for the day! The kids all had so much fun together!

 

 

The twins along with the other kids loved to look out the window and watch the snowmobile drive by. But it wasn't too long before they wanted to go out there themselves!

 

Here's Daxton all bundled up for the first time! He wasn't so sure he really liked it, until he actually got to go out and ride on the sled!

 

 

All day Saturday it snowed and snowed! But we all still went out and sleded, snowboarded, built snow forts and had snowball fights. My nephews Cade and Jake came up with my sister Emily from Vegas and they just lived in the snow! We had to drag them inside to eat and warm up.

 

 

I was bringing him in to get warm! Blake took him on a quick snowmobile ride without evening putting on his coat, or gloves, or hat, or boots - nothing! He is so crazy sometimes! Daxton LOVED it though!

 

On Valentines we frosted heart shaped sugar cookies. The kids piled on the frosting and candy! We even made some valentines! They "loved" it!

 

We spent alot of time just hanging out in the cabin watching movies and playing games! We even got to see my new baby nephew Mason!

 

Because of the cold weather we weren't able to turn on the water in the cabin so we had to haul it in from the creek and warm it on the stove! Blake got real good at fishing it out as clean as he could! This is Blake and my sister Sarah's boyfriend Brent fetching the water!

 

 

Every night the kids would turn on some music and dance around and play! Their favorite was doing the limbo! They even had talent shows where MaKelle danced, Corbin and Daxton boxed, and Brock did a knife dance! So creative! They also made a bunch of Valentines decorations and decorated their stage!

 

Blake would hook up all the sleds to the back of his snowmobile and haul the kids around for hours! It was their favorite thing to do! There were a few crashes and times when the sleds would roll, but little tears were shed and then they would get right back on and do it again!

 

Blake and I took a ride up to the Smith and Morehouse resevoir which was frozen over, but of course Blake had to ride right out onto the middle of it! I was seriously freaked out that the ice would break beneath us at any minute! It was really pretty though! Then he tried to climb this steep hill with us both on the snowmobile and of course we got stuck! We had fun riding way up the road and I just enjoyed watching Blake play around by himself on the snowmobile!

 

 

Getting some air!

 

Playing around! What a Hottie!

 

Christmas 2009

Since we returned home from Hawaii on Christmas day, we celebrated Christmas on the 26th. It was so great! It was so nice to have something to look forward to when we got home. On Christmas night (our Christmas Eve) the kids opened one gift and, of course, it was jammies! They were all so excited about their new pajamias and were even more eager to leave out the cookies and milk and go to bed so Santa could come. Brock was sure that he was going to stay awake and spy on Santa. But after all the traveling they were all out as soon as their heads hit the pillows.

 

This is the loot after Santa had come. What a haul!

 

And boy was Santa tuckered out!



Anxiously waiting on the stairs for Grandma and Grandpa to come so they can see what Santa brought. They were so excited, even Daxton and MaKelle were getting into the excitement (once they got their sippy's)!



Daxton got all sorts of Elmo toys. He was in heaven. He loved his Elmo trike and didn't get off it forever! He also got this bowling set that he loves to play with! I love this age when everything is so neat to them! He was even into unwrapping the presents!

 

MaKelle got a doll house, a tea set, a barbie, a tutu, and all sorts of new hair accessories. Can you tell she's the only girl, and somewhat spoiled! She loves it though and anything girlie she knows is hers! She wanted to help everyone unwrap their presents!

 

Corbin got a dinosaur set, a candy maker (easy bake oven) cuz he "LOVES" candy! He also got a Superman punching bag and lots of guns! This kid loves toys and he is so easy to please! I think he was more into Christmas than anyone else. And of course he and Brock got a Wii! Corbin loves to box and bowl - he is a die hard!

 

Brock got a new Hot Wheels set, games, a Star Wars blanket, a gun, new snow pants, and of course the Wii. I think he was more excited about the Wii than anyone else! He is growing up so fast and is starting to want all the big and expensive toys now. He is so fun to watch though!

 

It was such a great Christmas! The kids got all sorts of toys! Lots of clothes and books from Nana and Opa, and everything in between!

 

The next day we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's after church to open the presents they got for the kids. WOW! They sure made a haul there too. All sorts of hunting sets for the boys, a construction set for Dax, and all the doll stuff MaKelle could ever want! Can you say spoiled!

 

This is what we gave Grandma! She loved it! We also made one for Nana and Opa and for our house! They turned out so nice and I loved them!

 

Merry Christmas and Happy new Year!