Butterfly museum

We went to Denver to visit Grandma & Grandpa Clayton for Thanksgiving. The kids always enjoy going to the butterfly museum there.

They have a room you can walk through and see butterflies up close. Usually they tell you not to touch them, but the lady doing the presentation put that large butterfly onto Abby's hand.

This is a bird eating tarantula. ICK! Some of the kids wanted to hold the tarantula. I don't think Abby will ever do it. But then again neither will I. Haylee wanted to watch everyone else do it. Carter was fasinated by the spiders and bugs in their cages but when it came to holding it he wanted to but I think Mindi was the one actually holding the spider.

All they want for Christmas is their two front teeth!

Megan and Haylee are both missing their two bottom teeth!

Christmas

Well, I haven't posted in almost 3 months so I will have to do some catching up. I'll start with the pictures from Christmas.

Christmas jammies

Christmas presents

Abby's big present was a guitar. She has really taken as interest in music and is excited to learn any instrument. Jordan's big gift was the big roller coaster from KNex. It was well worth the $50! It is one of the coolest toys I have ever seen. However, I took a nap while Ben put it together. It took 5 hours. Still cool though. Meg got a lot of little things, mostly disney stuff. She got a disney princess trace and draw and a disney princess oven. It "cooks" with ice instead of a light bulb. Yes, no batteries, no power, ice. I was surprised that it actually "cooked" the cake that came with it. Tomorrow we are going to try a real cake mix and see if it still works.

Sad Puppy!

We didn't get anything for Yogi. He was sad and pouted all day. He even had to spend time in his crate because he was so jealous that the kids were getting so much attention that he kept biting them! I guess I better put him on my list next year.

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a good holiday!