Bringhurst Family Christmas Party!

This years Christmas party was . . . well, perfect in my book! Being with my family makes me happier than anything in this world and when you top it off with lots of yummy food, a little Christmas bingo, sledding, sugar cookie decorating, a nativity scene and of course Santa Clause and presents. . . really life doesn’t get much better. I don’t think we could of packed one more activity into one day, Ginka and Papa sure know how to entertain there nine grandkids. . . feed them lots of candy, give them whatever they want and plain old spoil them!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . and I can’t wait!

Family Pictures again. . Oh, boy!

The whole gang! We started out as 5 of us and now there's a whoppen 17 of us!
 

Check out Coles purple lips, they were purple for hours after pictures, that's how cold it was!!


Now that's alot of really cute kids!!

Although we wanted snow to sled, we didn’t expect Mother Nature to bring winter wonderland again for this year’s party and pictures. This year’s storm was a little more relentless which made family pictures kind of a drag and bitterly cold.

You think we would have smartened up after lasts year’s family pictures and done this year's pictures in July. Doing family pictures in the middle of December with 9 little kids is not so ideal, but that doesn’t stop the Bringhurst’s.


However, before this gets to depressing, despite the harsh conditions the photographer (Greg Anderson . . . a little plug for you Greg) was able to make it and we were able to find a spot with some shelter from the snow and wind.

Willie wiping the snot from Coley's face. This pretty much sums up family pictures doesn't it?

Next year I think we'll shoot for pictues in July, better yet maybe we won't do family pictures next year!

Mr. Man

1. Jumping off his chair at Smith’s Marketplace, Cole says “ I’m Super-Fred”. Too cute… meaning Fred from Scooby doo.
2. Cole’s in the shower and I’m washing his hair and he say’s “Mom, guess what? When you close your eyes, you can’t see!! Cool, huh?”
3. We were just about to put in a Christmas movie for the kids to watch, and I had been saying for a while, we can’t watch Christmas movies until it’s Christmas time. So. . . the next thing I know Cole walks out the front door, and he’s looking up at the roof, and he’s looking pretty hard. Then he comes running inside saying, yep Mom, we can watch a Christmas movie, cause we have Christmas lights on our house!!
4. We were walking through the music Dept. at Wal-Mart, and I said to Willie “Look it’s Carrie Underwood’s new CD, I wonder if it’s any good, or something like that”. Next thing we hear Cole saying “Carrie Underwear?... Mom” (long drawn out Maaaaaaaam as if she was crazy).
5. At night Coley just got out of the tub, and Coley and Daddy were getting him dressed for night-night…. Coley said, out of the blue: “Dad, I have a we-we and two bellies” flabbergasted and somewhat confused (because Coley slurres his speech) I said what? He then replied “ I have a we-we and two bummies” Ok… so I said Coley, are you saying bummies as in your bummy? He said “no dad, berries” thinking he did not know what he was saying, I said… “cool Coley, where are your berries?” he then looked at me for a second, then made his best guess, and then opened his mouth wide as he could and pointed in his mouth… laughing and now curious, I say “good Coley, and do you know where your we-we is?” then he looked down and got that question right… so I said again.. “Good, you are my smart boy”
6. Right before bed… Daddy was trying to give Coley some good thoughts for him to dream of, so daddy said… Coley, you can dream that you are a Kung-Fu master and you protect people. He got all happy and smiled and said… “Yeah and I can throw a frog up in the air, catch butterflies with my net and kiss them” made me laugh, maybe he is a lover not a fighter.
7. Same night as above, Daddy was giving hugs and kisses night-night, and Coley looked at Daddy and said “Daddy, I love you” so I said, I love you to Coley, he then said “I love going to the ball games with you” (Note: we went to a BYU Basketball game a week prior) so I said “me too, we should go again sometime” he then said “yeah, and maybe Tarzan will be there”

Time for Bed!

If you think the hour long Finch Kid Bedtime routine of getting pajamas on, going potty, brushing teeth, taking vitamin and fluoride, medicine, reading books, saying prayers, drink of water, kisses, tucking and retucking in is enough. . .try getting all three of them out from under their bunk beds!

Worth the Wait!

It might have taken Ginka Extra Long to get Tyler her baby blanket . . . but it was well worth the wait. We know it was made with Extra love and lots of hard work. We are so lucky to have a special Ginka like you!


Ginka giving Ty-Ty her new blanket she made!


Special buddies for life!


Tyler took a liken-too her new blanket right away and has been sleeping with it ever since.

Re-Run Scooby Doo: Halloween

The gang was at it again. Kazzy dressed up in her costume for preschool and then the gang headed for the hospital to see Jamie, M.A. and mommies fellow co-workers on mother baby. The highlight of trick or treating at the hospital was getting money instead of candy when a little old couple stopped to check out the gang. The kids loved to tell everyone who they were and they never forgot Daddy. They'd say to everyone "Shaggy, he's at work!

We visited Ginka at work and then Nana and Papa Houtz, where she fed us her traditional Halloween dinner or lunch (Grandma slaved away to have it ready early so we could have some of her famous Chili) of...Homemade Chili,Bread,Jello,Pickles and Donuts off the Black cats tale. It sure was yummy. Grandma was worried it was going to give me gas at work and I'd have the farts all night. Grandma I assure you, my patients survived the night. Nana teased Cole about his green hair, she'd say "Cole I just love your green hair!" Cole's response was "It's not green hair, it's yellow!" Check out the pictures, you can decide, green or yellow? After lunch at Nana and Papa's we rushed to get on the road so Mommy wouldn't be late for work. Grandpa Bringhurst went out of his way to meet us at the gas station in Mapleton after we ran out of time to come see him. What an awesome Grandpa he his, we love him so much! Traffic was a disaster when I got into American Fork and Willie forgot his wig so we could take a family photo, so we bagged trunk or treat and the family picture and I made it to work 1 minute late. My first day as an official nurse and I clock in late, I am a joke! About 8:30 I was sitting down to do some charting, feeling kind of sad, wishing I was home with my family, so I decided to call home and see how Halloween night was going. Well, no answer, but to no prevail it wasn't 1 minute later my whole gang walked through the hospital doors. I just about cried I was so excited and it was all hugs and kisses from there. I loved showing off my kids to all my coworkers, cause there the cutest. In fact all night, people kept on commenting on how cute my kids and family was! I love my family so much and can't wait to spend eternity with all of them!!

Kazzy says "I love Halloween! We get lots of candy!! We went to see my Mamma at work, she was so excited to see us at her work.
P.S The pictures are a little scarce, because I left the battery to my camera charging at home. Nice work MOM!

Scooby-Doo Gang!

Can you say Scooby, Doooby Doo!! There's always an adventure when the Scooby gang Shaggy (aka Willie, Scooby-Doo (aka Tyler), Velma (aka Candace), Daphne (aka Kazzy), and Fred (aka Coleman) is around and this party was no exception. Kazzy and Mr. Man love Scooby-Doo and would watch every episode 14 million times if we let them- Jeipers! What a fun way to celebrate Kazzy's turning 5 and Mr. Man turning 3.