New Years questions

Kyle
Favorite color: purple
Favorite food: bananas
Favorite pizza: hamburger from Pizza Hut
Best friend: "the gang" - Sam, Bryson, Jagger, Aaron, Jaydon, Kyler, Ethan, Jacob W, Kelan
Best memory from 2014: skiing
Ideal # of kids: 3
Their names: Boys: Trey, Nixon, Nash.  Girls: Sara, Lindsey, Julie
Three words to describe 2014: fun, awesome, epic
Your favorite thing to do when you have extra time: sports outside
Favorite sport: skiing, basketball,  football
Thoughts on girls? at my school, they're weird, but they all love me.
Best role model: God
If you could change your name, what would you pick? I like my name already
Wishes for next year? go skiing again, make more friends
Favorite school subject: hanging out with friends.  Or GT class.
Favorite holiday: Christmas 
why? it is Jesus' birthday
What do you love about each person in our family?
Dad- he teaches us.
Mom- she likes to cuddle with me.
Grant- there's a lot I like about him, like he is there for me.
Reid- he is so funny and he wants to be like me.
What else?  I really love my family! I am strong because I exercise.



Grant
Favorite color: medium green
Favorite food: breakfast foods
Favorite pizza: pineapple and tomato
Best friend: Barrett
Best memory from 2014: all of summer vacation
Ideal # of kids: 2
Their names: two boys: William and Henry
Three words to describe 2014: fun, exciting, joyful
Your favorite thing to do when you have extra time: play outside
Favorite sport: baseball
Thoughts on girls? not a good question but I don't like them
Best role model: Mom and Dad
If you could change your name, what would you pick?  I really love my name now.
Wishes for next year?  for it to be awesome. for skiing to be really fun.
Favorite school subject:  math
Favorite holiday: Christmas 
why? because Jesus was born and you get presents
What do you love about each person in our family?
Dad - we like the same things, he goes to work and makes money (no offense, Mom).
Mom - she takes care of the house and of us
Kyle - he loves to play with me
Reid - he loves to play with me and says "Grant, chase me!"


Reid
Favorite color: red
Favorite food: carrots and pineapple pizza
Favorite animal: hippo
Favorite book: dinosaur books - How Does a Dinosaur Count to Ten, etc
Favorite toy: Frozen stuff. Fire truck. Trucks.
Favorite sport:  Golf. 
Why do you like Kyle? play baseball
Why do you like Grant? cause I love him  
What else: Playing with sports and books and paint and eating carrots and pretzels and crackers.

Sienna

We just hit this milestone with the van!

It's been a great vehicle so far!

 

Our masonry expert!

Jason has become our rock wall masonry expert!  We have an acre of property, and the entire area of the backyard that is fenced in was covered with these huge rocks (I mean everywhere!) and loads of weeds when we bought it.  He has since moved every.single.rock/boulder.  Eeek! (and, I might add, lost 30 pounds in the process).

He has had two major rock projects. 

This is one: the path going to the back of the Koi pond and trampoline area.

Before:

 

After:

This flowerbed area is the second one. Our yard is sloped so these can now add some color and get some of the slope used efficiently.  

 Yea, Jason - they look great!  Here's hoping this coming year will be the year we can get grass to grow in the back yard!

Christmas Eve and traditions

We made our annual Christmas sugar cookies with GG this year. 

Bubba and Reid decorated a tray by themselves!

Christmas Eve has been spent with my family for years.  Dad had a creative certificate for Jason this year - in honor of his speeding ticket from September.

Chase decorated Reid with a ribbon and he left it on for quite a while... lovely!

 

This is as close as we got to a family picture that day - selfie in the driveway before we went to our Christmas Eve service at church!

Pastor John and the kids

Candlelight portion at the end.  Truly beautiful.

Grant in prayer...

Walker family Christmas

Our Christmas day tradition is to go to Jason's parents.  Papa isn't feeling too well with his treatments for liver and colon cancer.  We were glad to get some great pictures with him before an early bedtime!

The four originals to our big group.

tickles from Daddy...

all the grandsons!

Wayne and Edith

Uncle Don joined for the first time

  Chase, GG, and Bubba came to check out our Santa goods right when we got home. We took a quick family picture...

...and grandparent picture...

... and Chase shot Mom with a dart - hard...

Merry Christmas, y'all!  That's how we roll around here...

Christmas morning

Santa visited our house - they must have been good throughout the year!

Our wish lists this year went into these categories: Something you want, something you need, something to wear, and something to read.

I think we were hoping to only get four presents plus a few stocking items, and for the most part, that's how it went at Christmas. There were a few books, or a few pants, but all gifts had a category.

Grant and Kyle were both given a Samsung tablet.  They have kids mode and can be monitored so we're happy about that extra security.

Merry Christmas, my loves!

We had our Happy Birthday, Jesus, party at breakfast like usual before heading out to Vanoss for the rest of the day.