Picture Frenzy!

Here is the Holiday/Winter Break in Pictures

The first thing Thad crawled to on the Monsen Christmas morning (12/23/09)

He didn't want to get a family pic in front of the presents because he had already seen the table

All my presents from Brian...I love the purse I'm holding!

All of Brian's presents from me...I gave him a key to the car cuz I lost mine in September.

Thad with his stuff...we only bought him the Echo Microphone to the left of him for $1, the rest of the stuff was given to us from my wonderful sis Haley and my friend Haley...weird;-)

Our little fam on our little Christmas in Logan

That night we had the Millers and the Hills over for dinner...WAY FUN!

At that dinner Thad was attacking Breanne (that's him going in trying to bite her). I think he was jealous that we were paying a lot of attention to her new beautiful baby, Brielle.

This is the boys in their Christmas jammies from Gma and Gpa Whitehouse

All the girls. We kind of look like jailbirds...pretty ones, though;-)

Christmas morning at Gma and Gpa Whitehouse's. We woke Thad up at 5:45am. We were excited!

Thaddies with all his fun stuff from Gma and Gpa Whitehouse. They gave Brian and I a sweet video camera!

At my sister Haley's house on Christmas evening. We always get together with the Wilson fam that night.

Cute kiddles on Christmas night.

Collins family party...the kids are eating the Candy Bra my Aunt Peggy got for a white elephant...Weird!

WJHS Ugly Sweater Party! We are still hot mommas!

Hailey felt left out at her own party at her own house. Boo hoo;-)

We spent New Years with....The Madsen's, OF COURSE! We had Wok on Wheels, played some way fun games and watched Dick Clarks Rockin' New Years Eve w/ Ryan Seacrest.

We get to drag the holidays out at my house so my brother from Boise can be there, so Jan 2 we had Christmas with my side of the family.

All the kiddles with their toys. My parents got us some great luggage, emergency preparedness and Thad some really fun stuff. Thanks!

Sorry about the pic overload. I promise to be better!

So Far, So Good

Well it's only been 12 days since my last post, so I think I can say that I am keeping up with my goal pretty good. We have done a lot of fun Christmas things over the past couple of weeks so I thought it would be good to document things before Christmas.
Anyways, things are still good at the Monsen household. It has been so much fun to have Brian around a little more with school being out for the holidays. It has also been nice that the college kids are home for the holidays because that means an empty parking lot and less people to worry about. Thad is of course doing well and just keeps us happy all the time! We have had so much fun through the holiday season and can't wait to have Christmas Day with him.

So Brian got really excited about my Christmas present on the 13th and me harassing him about losing our 80 GB gave him a little more push to give me my gift early. He got me and 8 GB iPod Touch! I love it a lot and we have been enjoying it a lot the past couple weeks.

Brigitte and Leah came up to see us last week and it was a lot of fun! We went shopping and went and saw Breanne and Brielle and it was just too much fun. Sometimes we just can't wait to live close to cousins:-)

Thad's new favorite thing is the bathtub! Until last Saturday we still put him in his infant tub cuz he still fit (and I have seen Sadie in the tub before and she is wild and I wasn't quite ready to deal with that;-), but now he just LOVES splashing and playing and he cries every time I get him out.

We had a party with our institute/Mom friends and it was SOOO much fun! This is Thad w/ Kate.

Sarah and Jason, Kate's mommy and daddy

Lindsay and Stephen (Thanks for the yummy Oreo balls...I ate them all on Monday when I was done with Biggest Loser)

Erin and Justin Wilson

Scott, Kelsey and Halley

Cohen, Preston and Shawnee

Sadie and Thad just hanging out...Sadie was really tired, but when her dad took her clothes off she got a second wind and just went wild in her undies. Thad was hot, so we ditched the pants!

White Elephants. Teresa got these sick hotpads when she lived in Delta and we have taken them to a white elephant before and ended up with them. I showed Heidi a while ago and she just loved them...so here she is with her holiday hot pads. Oh, and we got a sweet Sponge Bob backpack.

Heidi and Jason were so sweet to let us have the party at their house. Love the sweater, Jason!

Us at the party.

So it's no secret that Heidi just absolutely loves Thad's cheeks. She kisses them any chance she gets so I had to catch it on camera!

So we had a party with just the Madsens last night (at their house again) and it was a lot of fun!

Thad is scared of the light up Santa.

We had a little FHE and sang a song and watched Joy to the World.

Then we dressed Sadie and Thad up. Isn't that sweet! Thad cried for a really long time before we got this picture because he hates having stuff on his head, but hey, it was worth it!

Sadie gave Thad a Christmas book and Heidi and Jason gave us a sweet ice scraper with a mit! Thanks guys!

Sadie and Thad in their jammies. They are just such a joy to us and I'm so glad they have brought our two families together...I don't think it would be the same without these two little sweeties.

New Goal

I just thought of it as I have been looking at other peoples blogs, but I am going to be a better blogger. Heidi and Taryn's blogs are so great cuz they are actually updated and so people enjoy looking at them. I know, Heidi you were right!

Well, the holidays are going great and we had so much fun for Thanksgiving. We went to Kanosh with Brian's side of the family and it was FABULOUS! We love Kanosh so much and are so sad that we can't go to the Christmas party this weekend:-( It is one of the highlights of the Christmas season for us with the yummy food, awesome Yankee swap, and of course ANIMAL! We are really going to miss out. It makes me sad thinking about it!

This is Thad with Great Grandpa Christensen in Kanosh...Do you think they look alike? We LOVE Grandpa C and he was so nice to let us stay with him during Thanksgiving.

On Saturday night after Thanksgiving, we had dinner with  my family (after the U lost:-( and it was a lot of fun!

Macie is 5 months older than Thad...She weighs 3 pounds less and they are the same height.

Aren't these hams adorable!

You just gotta love this kid!

So I promise to be better about my blogging. I even changed my background for the season...that's a major improvement for me!