Merry Christmas 2012

Nailed It!

This might not seem impressive to Tyler, because he cooks all the time, no offense Shari, but Kurt smoked a chicken today and it was divine.  Kent gave us his old smoker forever ago and he finally gave it a test drive today.  Kurt doesn't cook and this was the first time smoking and it was awesome.  We were all impressed. 

The Widdison Posterity

Widdison Christmas

Each year Grandma makes matching pjs for the kids.  This year aunt Krystal helped by painting the kids initial on their tops.  My kids love gmas pjs and look forward to them every year.  Thanks gma.

This is what my kids did when I told them to smile for the picture.  Apparently, Bethany thought I said to fart and Sam smelled it.  HaHa.  I guess they really are fart sniffers!

Ward Party

Kids

One day last week Bethany came home and wanted to tell me about choir class. Their choir has been practicing You Lift Me Up by Josh Groban. She asked me if I was familiar with the song and I said yes and that I liked it. She said in class they talked about the song and about personal heroes that day. She said everybody who has choir came out of the class crying and everyone in the school was wondering what that was all about. She told me that she couldn't talk about her hero in class. She was already crying to hard just thinking about it. I asked her who her hero was, thinking she would reply Jesus or just maybe she would say her mom, but she didn't. Just then, Sam was coming in from school and she just looked at him and pointed and said it was him. Phew! I'm not a crier, but I still can't not leak tears a bit just thinking about it. She is a great girl and a wonderful sister to Sam. She is very protective of him and I know she loves him with all her heart. She realizes how hard things are for him and how easy things come to her and I know she admires how hard he has to try. Kurt and I have been truly blessed to have two such wonderful spirits in our home. If only know I can figure out how to get them to stop antagonizing each other. Haha.   

Slave Driver?

Grandpa sure drives a hard bargain, but we love him.  Milan even got her princess fingers dirty.

Thankful Tree

So in my effort to be a better crafty type mom, I put up this tree the 1st of November. Every day we each were supposed to write down on a leaf something that we were thankful for. I was going to take a picture at the end of the month but I had it half off the wall Saturday before I remembered I was going to document my effort at being a good mom. Luckily, I took this picture at the first of the month.  Here is a list of what was on the leaves.  Can you guess who wrote what?

car, shoes, living room, family, Dojo, I love my friends, Ricky Ricotta, Dojo, Boswell, Boswell is thankful for his astronaut coat, our ward, I voted, playing Uno with Sam, friends, cold medicine, Bethany, karate, solitaire, warm weather, bacon shirt, running, audio books, ability to work, Becky Wheelin, obedient children, my home, friends, mom, library, toilet, food, erasable highlighters, Bethany Ann Widdison, family, tape and erasers, babies, good food, Kari, Democracy, Star Wars Cars, favorite t-shirt, daddy, Bethany, Sam, school lunch, clothes, pajamas, robots, Saturdays, mommy laying by me at night, Sunday family dinners, my parents, my book Ricky Ricotta, Jacuzzi, Summer, war card game, fasting, Beth and Dad, 3 meals a day, the Grinch, priesthood blessings, Magic Tree House books, Lightening Cars, Karter Kolton and Broc, Kurtis, yoga ball, cousins, Billy Bob Joe, Ben Jake and Josh, Bad Dream library book, new babies, sunshine, car, house, food, house and Boswell.

Quite the list.

Peterson boys hard at work

Max loved visiting Papa Pete at work today :)

Our Little Princess

Named after an Amazing Woman...

Love you, mom!

 

Rebecca playing Wii

 

Touch Down! YEA!!!  nothing like playing NCAA football with my Big Brother

Guess Who?

Guess who slept all night long from 10pm to 7am?

That's right TWINKIE BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More Baby Talk

Baby Talk

The crew

Wassup?

I don't know why...

But when I see this picture all I can think of is "I'm Sinbad the pirate.  Arrgh!"

Max is trying to figure out what's so dang funny

Look at the 3 adorable babies.

Max Recents

loving tub time

happy screams

mouth sleeper

you are all familiar with this look...

more happy screams

morning smile

big smile :)

he's not sure how he feels about cuddling daddy with the big, poky beard...

Belt Test

6 & Squirrel warming up for the belt test.

Halloween 2012

Stein Time

The election is over and I can't sleep not in a good mood as I worry about the future so I thought that I would post some pictures of the future.  I like the bottom one he is kinda of saying hey good lookin.