Ode to Logan!

Logan, Logan, Logan.
Where do I begin!
I love your big blue eyes!
I love your wicked grin!
I love to give you big fat hugs!
I love it when you listen.
I love it when you help!
I love to watch you play Wii!
I love to hear about your Sunday lesson!
I love to go to church with just you!
I love to lay in bed with you and talk in the mornings!

Today was the big day - the 100th day of school! Logan was so excited. I'm sure the buildup was tremendous. Each kindergarten student brought home a newspaper hat and had to decorate it with 100 items. Logan picked Mario.

Today my Hayden is 4 years old! Wow! The day we went to the hospital was a beautiful day like today. Warm (for February) and blue skies! We love you Hayden! Happy Birthday!

I got home from vacation just in time for all of the boys to be sick. Brian wasn't feeling well so he stayed home too. With so many people in my space upstairs, I decided to defrost the big freezer downstairs. I will post pictures. In fact, I will go take a picture right now. It literally took me all day! We get another 1/2 beef this week so it had to get done. After spending all day in the storage room, I now have the itch to organize and clean that room. It really needs done. We'll see how much energy I have.

These are the boys that I missed and I was so glad to get home to see. I am lucky to have a mom and dad who could take the time to come and stay with the boys. Thanks! These are the bears I brought them (via Lindon Walmart, not San Francisco, I didn't leave the hotel). They were excited to have us back... I think. They sure enjoyed Grandma and Grandpa.

I had the opportunity to go to San Francisco on Thursday with Brian. All I'm going to say is that I am not a traveler. Brian will probably elaborate on this when you see him with all the eloquence he can muster. It was foggy, rainy and my room was very small after two days. I would love to say I had a great time but I really could care less if I traveled again. Here are some pictures from my hotel room. We did have a great view. Good thing. This is my take on San Francisco.
The bottom picture is my view Friday, the top is my view of the same buildings on Saturday. On the third picture, if you follow the street on the right up to the top of the picture, you can get a glimpse of a section of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Yesterday was a fun day! The boys didn't have school so we started on their new Jedi robes. They are pretty excited! I just got them cut out and after school I'm going to have each one help me sew the straight seams. We also went out to lunch to Pizza Hut. They were very disappointed that they couldn't eat it right there but Pizza Hut is take-out, not sit-in!

Today was my doctor's appointment. We are at 17 weeks and counting! Yeah! The boys love to talk about the new baby, when it's coming, what it will be and where it will sleep. I'm afraid that Zach is set on the name Bob -- Good thing he doesn't have a say. When you ask Hayden about the new baby he say, "You mean Sarah?" Everyone has a name opinion. Logan originally wanted a girl baby because they are so much cuter, but has since recanted and wants a boy. I'm with Logan. Give us another son. Parenting is hard enough, let's not throw estrogen into the mix! Our ultrasound will be our next appointment -- everything is already decided -- what's done is done -- so do we really want to find out.......

I have to post the pictures of the snow we got last week. Monday and Tuesday is snowed and snowed and snowed. Finally, Wednesday morning we could see across the valley and had blue skies. I just couldn't believe the amounts! We had well over a foot of snow on the bench areas. We shoveled and shoveled and really just couldn't stay on top of things.

Brrrr! It is so cold!

This was the favorite of the two older boys. Zach and Logan had a blast playing in the snow and riding snow mobiles! Thanks Uncle Marc and Grandpa!

Surprise Christmas Gift

So the boys received an extra special gift this Christmas. They had a hard time figuring it out. We actually just had to tell them. They have talked about the gift ever since and are soooo excited.

Christmas 2008

Christmas was so fun this year! We had the chance to go to Grandma & Grandpa Crump's for Christmas. When I say chance, that is exactly what it was, the road to Idaho opened Wednesday morning at 8:30. We made it to Burley with great roads. Christmas Eve was spent with my mom's sisters at the Wrigley residence. We ate soup and had some awesome appetizers. It was nice to catch up and visit with everyone. Our little family left early and went back to Grandma's house. We talked about the Christmas story and everyone told what they knew. Then Brian told them really what happened. The wise men were very popular with the boys and had much more to do with the Christmas story according to them. They went to bed really well. It was very surprising. The surprise ended at 12:39 AM when Zac woked up and asked if Santa had come yet. The answer was "Nope. Go to bed." Over the next three hours he and Logan took turns coming in and asking. They were given the same answer, "Nope. Go to bed." Brian and I woke up Christmas morning around 7:00. No kids were stirring. My mom and dad were up, we had some hot chocolate, sat around and talked. No kids stirring. Around 8:00, I went down and woke the boys up. It was awesome to just watch them sleep. We had a great Christmas. We kept it small. The boys made each other gifts and I think that was the best of all. They were so excited for each to open theirs. They were so proud of their creations. Each was simple.

Zac, Zac The Baker Man

Zachary is having a wonderful year at school. I think that his teacher is just wonderful. We were invited to attend a Christmas play which was fantastic. They sang, danced and did a little acting. Everyone had a line and everyone did great. It was all centered around the gingerbread man who got lonely and ran away. So what could be done? They made gingerbread friends of course. It was cute!

Preschool Christmas Program

Hayden and his preschool class have been practicing the entire month of December for their Christmas program. It was great! Hayden sang and did all the actions. I was very, very impressed with his hula dancing. He was able to discuss his Christmas present with Santa again. Again he asked for a race car. When he got off of Santa's lap he asked him, "So where is it?" Hayden wanted his race car. He had talked to Santa 3 different times and obviously was ready for Santa to produce the race car.

Snowman! Sno,oh,oh man!

Logan participated in the annual kindergarten "Snowman Dance" He was awesome. Here are some pictures of my snowman and I will post the video later. Lookin' good Logan!

December has flown by, I really don't know where the time has gone. Thank Giving should have been given its due diligence... sorry that it was neglected. We had a great time at Grandma and Grandpa Andrew's house over Thanks Giving. Everyone was there and we all got to go to Ryan's baptism.

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Now this won't get me Mom of The Year. I forgot to tell about my Logan's birthday! Logan is finally six! Yeah!!!! He is loving kindergarten and can't seem to get enough of reading and doing his homework! I got to go to his class and read them his favorite book, "Cat in the Hat" and then he passed out some treats he picked out. It was fun to see him enjoying his special day! We actually celebrated his birthday on Thanksgiving Day. Why? Cuz that's his birthday! it was fun. Grandma bought the traditional ice cream cake from Dairy Queen and we put a great big # 6 candle on top.

These are just cute pictures!

After a round of haircuts today, we walked down the road and took some fun fall pictures. I do have pretty cute boys.

This was pretty funny to watch first hand. Hayden is supposed to hit the ball through the pictures on the floor. If you watch, he keeps kicking it with is foot. Grandpa Andrew, watch his form. He has a wicked backswing on one of the first shots. In the end he finally he putts it through--with his hand.

Our elementary school has a Halloween Parade. We got to watch Zach in the morning and Logan in the afternoon. Hayden's preschool party was too much fun! There were blowup toys, a spook alley, ghost golf and so much more fun stuff!

Halloween 2008 was so fun! I love having bigger boys. Their costumes were fun and they really played everything up! Zach was Red Yoshi, Logan was Green Yoshi, and Hayden was Mario!

We had the chance to go to Burley over UEA break. The boys had a ball and I was able to help my mom get ready for a craft show she was going to. Grandma Andrew took Logan and Zach to Boise and surprised the O'dell boys on Friday. I think they had a great time. I was really surprised at how much snow Burley had. The pictures are of Kelly, Nikolas, and Logan with the horses, Doc and Lucky.

We hiked to the waterfall in a canyon just above our neighborhood. We had a great time. This fall has been so nice! This is Hayden, Logan and our friend Nikki!

So, school has been going for over a month now. Every so far seems to love school. Zach is in third grade this year. He can tell that everything has stepped up a notch. More homework, more reading, more expectations. He is rising to meet everything thrown at him. Logan is in kindergarten. He attends the afternoon session with most of the kids in our ward. He loves school and he brings home something to show me everyday. Hayden is attending Funshine Early Learning Center. He really does love school. He is so excited to go everyday. He loves to wear his backpack!