Christmas and 2015 New Year

What a great year 2015 was! We are so blessed to have these 3 little boogers in our lives and have had a great year over all. We went out of 2015 with a bang and a lot of good memories. 

I think the highlight of the Christmas break was having Marilyn and Ben home! My boys have been anticipating their return home for months and months. When Uncle Ben finally arrived my boys were pretty excited. They woke up super early and waited for Uncle Ben to come out of his room. Every morning they were like little puppies waiting for their Uncle Ben to walk out of his room. 

Christmas morning! Soooooo much fun! I am so glad that Christmas has become so magical for them!

Super cute ornament from the Jamie!

Here we are New Year's Eve. The boys were so excited that we were going to let them stay up until midnight! Unfortunately Rylan passed out at 10 on the couch. Nenji and Spencer stayed up until about 11:00ish. Nenji was tired but also determined to stay up. So he said, "Mom, Spencer and I are just going to go rest in the room, but we're not going to go to sleep." About 10 minutes later they were out cold. 

Can't wait to see what 2016 has in store for us!

My little Performer

My Little Rylan is such a performer! If you put him in front of a crowd, he goes into performance mode. He just has a good old time. I just love watching him! :)

Here he is with his kinder class getting ready to do a Christmas performance. 

After his cute little performance we went to his class to have a little class party.

As you can see Spencer is really enjoying his food. And there's my handsome Ry. 

Gingerbread man & Meeting Santa

This is Rylan's gingerbread man. So cute. He was really proud of it. :)

This is Spencer and his class going to meet Santa. 

Santa read them a book. 

He is such a brave little man. Walked right up Santa got his candy and smiled at the camera. 

Spencer's class with Santa.

What a cutie!

Nong Shala 2015 Christmas Party

I love our annual ward Christmas party! This year did we did a celebration of of the Hmong people here being here for 50 years & a Christmas theme. Each auxiliary group did a decades dance. Primary did the 80s and danced to YMCA. They had a lot of fun and really enjoyed performing.

The Relief society and Priesthood had the 70s decades. I think the highlight was seeing the older people ( my parents in particular) dressed up in 70s clothes and dancing around on stage. Loved it! 

We had a pretty good time. 

Christmas Selfie

Spencer just LOVES Santa! He thinks every Santa that he meets is the real Santa.

My Rylan however, is starting to notice the difference. Rylan saw our ward Santa and just stared at him. I asked if he wanted to go take a picture with Santa, and he said, "No, it's ok. That's not the real Santa. That's my teacher's husband. Uncle Nephi". LOL, I couldn't help but laugh. Too smart!

Below is a recording of the 70s and 80s decade dance! Enjoy!

3 Blessed Years!

This is my little guy. He just turned 3 years old. Sometimes it feels like he was just born yesterday and sometimes it feels like he has been in my life for years and years. 

This little boy is such a blessing to our family. He brings us so much joy. 

He loves to be independent and gets so proud of himself when he is able to do something by himself. He LOVES mov nplaum and sausages. He can be a little punk sometimes to certain people, but he is such a cutie. He loves school and he loves to read. He also loves to watch kids youtube. He likes to follow his big brothers around and take things way from them. At night he likes to sneak into his grandma and grandpa's room. There he demands to watch netflix. When he is ready for bed he'll come find me and slyly ask me to put him to bed. He hates giving kisses, except for his mama. :)

I love this little boy so much!

Thanksgiving 2015

This year was a special year for us! Fi Dan left to Florida at the beginning of November for school. He was able to fly back home the night before Thanksgiving. It was the best feeling in the world to give him a hug and kiss and tell him how grateful I am for him! 

He was here for only a few short days but it was the best Thanksgiving because our family was together. 

Together as a family. 

I love, love, love, this man. 

Thanksgiving memories! Making lemonade with Aunty Kashia. 

Um... yum. And I was thankful for this sweet baby!

So yummy!

My little Preschooler

When Nenji and Rylan were preschool age, I was so excited for them to start preschool! I was a little sad to let them go but I was also excited to get a few hours of peace and quietness too!

This year I had been really debating on whether or not Spencer should go to school. I put it off for a long time because I knew I would miss him terribly, he is just such a good little boy and I enjoyed him being home with me....plus he's the baby! But I started to see that he wasn't doing and learning much. And I tried so hard to be good and teach him at home, but he would get so bored so easily.

So I asked him one day if he wanted to go to school, and he just beamed and had a huge grin from ear to ear and said, "YES, mama!"

So I enrolled him. Even after I enrolled him and he started his first 2 days, I tried to convince him to just stay home with me. He said, "No mama, I go to school and you pick me up. It's just 5 minutes." Meaning that he'll be at school for only 5 minutes and I'll be ok. I just laughed. 

This week was his first full week of preschool, and he LOVED it! Everyday when I would pick him up he would say, "I had fun, I love school, mama!" 

It's been an adjustment for me having the house so quiet, but it's also been pretty nice too. :) 

I can't believe my baby is so grown up!

Spencer at home with me....bored. 

His first day of school. Look how little he is!