Happy Birthday Grandma Jocey!

Happy Birthday mom! We has so much fun celebrating with you! It's so nice to have something to celebrate in the middle of a long dreary winter! We should turn your birthday into a week long festival!

Not a day goes by that Jordan doesn't ask to go to Grandma Lee's or Grandma King's. Last night in her prayer she said "Heavenly Father, please bless that we can go to Grandma Lee's little house all the time, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." Her little house referring to their place at Silver Star. Short, simple, concise, to the point, I like it:)

Happy 75th Birthday Grandma Audrey!!!!

We went to Salmon Arm and went bowling for Grandma's 75th birthday with the Papworths! Grandma bowled and put us all to shame! Good job Grandma! We're so happy that she lives so close now so we can celebrate holidays with her. Not to mention Jorji loves having another Grandma around!

A little help from two of her grand-daughters

Jorji slowing down at the bottom of the hill, lovin' every minute of it. Jordan has always been independent
but continues to amaze us with what she can do! She can write several letters on her own and loves to play baseball
(were not sure where that came from...but she has great coordination), which usually consists of Jordan or I throwing some
type of ball at her and Jordan hitting it with a various long object that can range from a real toy bat to a marocco to a wooden spoon. Usually I'd say no baseball in the house but man this has been a long winter!

Mom is such a chicken! Look at her boot slowing them down! I'll snowboard down anything but put
me on a sled and man, I'm such a wimp!

Jorji liked it much better on her own.

There was so much snow that we dug a hole and propped Nathan inside. It was perfect while we worked on the snowcave because he couldn't move around. He did eventually start to panic probably when he realized that he couldn't move his legs, but he was pretty content for the most part! Just happy to be outside!

Daddy digging out the snow cave for our "picnic"

Jordan laughing hysterically as people are being thrown into the snow. Like most kids, other peoples misfortunes are her delight!

Jordan is about to give Nathan a friendly tap in this picture. Nathan has no idea what's coming , poor guy. Both kids have a need for speed when it comes to sledding.

Jared's home!!

Jordan at 3 Nathan at 1
New Year, new portraits! After a disastrous trip to the Walmart photo studio, I came home determined to take some better pics of the kids. Ahh, the power of editing and bribery....

Happy Birthday Nacer!Nathan turned 1 on December 28th! We celebrated with family in Caslegar. Jared and I took the kids sledding that day (pics to follow) and then we had a delicious spaghetti dinner and cake. Nathan's favourite part of the meal was the garlic bread. And he did love the cake! Congratulations little man on turning 1!The fam at the party! Jordan loves birthdays and we often have pretend parties at home where we pretend to blow out candles. So it's even better when it's a real party!
Playing with some of his gifts. He plays so well and is so busy all the time.
Here are some tidbits about Nathan in honour of his birthday: He has six teeth, with one more on the brink. He loves chasing balls around the house, almost like a little kitten. His favourite word is "hi" and we can say it back and forth all morning. He also love to say "boo!" and then I'll say it back and he laughs hysterically. He walks and loves to carry sharp objects when he walks. He loves to cuddle. He loves life cereal. He thinks Jordan is hilarious. He has the blondest hair and bluest eyes that attract attention everywhere we go. He is the sweetest little boy and we love him dearly. And most importantly, he slept through the night the past two nights!!! Hooray!

 

Men at Work. It's a King family Christmas tradition to have the men dress in their tool belts and hard hats and take provocative pictures of them. Not really. But it is a tradition that each of the men get a tool belt and hard hat with their name on it for Christmas. This year Rob got his, I guess he finally must have reached manhood.

The tradition started when Doug got his set for Christmas and he surprised everyone by coming out wearing his hard hat and tool belt with just boxer shorts. It sort of took off from there.

Christmas Morning!! Believe it or not but our kids actually slept in on Christmas morning. (well sorta, Nathan was up at 5 but went back down). Jared and I know a good thing when we see it so we stayed in bed as long as possible but were soon awaken by Rob, Jared's 23 year old married brother who couldn't take it any longer. Jordan got spoiled as usual and loved every minute of it! Since coming home, she's been so busy putting on puppet shows, using all her cook and bake wear and playing with her dolls.
 

The kids in their new Christmas PJ's Nathan actually enjoyed unwrapping presents. He even enjoyed what was inside! It was nice because he's pretty much as old as he could be for it being his first Christmas.
Doug made Jordan a beautiful baby cradle for her dolls. Thanks Doug!
Jared and Doug incredibly, bought eachother pruners and calipers for eachother for Christmas!! They think exactly the same. They even both thought it would be funny to wrap each other's presents like this!
 

Christmas Eve!
The whole fam. Bernice was desperate (kidding, sort of) for family pictures this Christmas, so before church on Christmas Eve we had a little photo shoot of the whole gang. I only wish someone had told me to wear red or black!
The grandkids. Bernice made the girls dresses and got Nathan his adorable duds. Jordan was getting pretty excited at this point for Christmas however she did make it very clear that we would not be seeing Santa because he'll come when we are sleeping. She's not too fond of the jolly old man.