The Phillips Family

On January 5th we celebrated Aiden's 8th birthday as a family with some requested meatballs and ramen noodles for dinner followed by strawberry sheet cake for dessert.  Aiden kept saying over and over how this was the best dinner EVER.  Love that kid! Cade beat Aiden to blowing out the candle on the first go, and I was very happy to see that I captured the moment perfectly on camera for once! Aiden had his friend party the following Saturday. Pizza + Nerf Guns = Happy Boys! Aiden got his first Pokeman collection of cards from Grandma Jeanie and was completely stoked about it.  I had no idea 8 year olds were into Pokeman.  I need to get with it! hehehe Cade totally photo bombed this pic! After presents and cake, the boys geared up for battle, which Cade took to heart.  He was crushed when he realized he couldn't go because he was too little.  :-( Just two more years, Cade, and we will take you, I PRO...

I love that my boys are old enough to play card games!!  Well, Cade isn't really, but he sure tries.  I'm so excited to have more board game nights with them that are NOT Candy Land. Rex fried up some delicious donuts for New Years We spent an afternoon at the park trying out the boys' new remote control devices.  We discovered something incredible that day.  Did you know that remote control toys are (or mostly are) wired for the same channel?  This meant that if the boys got too close to each other, their cars would go crazy and not do what they wanted.  HOWEVER, Rex had the billiant idea to see what would happen if we lined up all the cars and used one controller's commands - they all moved in unison!  SO COOL! This puppy dog hat of Cade's just makes me want to die of cuteness overload.  It's especially lethal when he acts insta-puppy when you put it on him.  Cade had Rex trained to retrieve his RC car a...

The boys got to sit on Santa's lap at the ward Christmas Breakfast.   On Christmas Eve, the boys opened their Christmas Jammies and we headed over to Grandma Dixie's house for brinner and early presents with the cousins.   Then we came home and did the usual traditions. The boys woke up EARLY (5:30) - which meant that Rex and I got approximately 3 hours of sleep - and dug into their presents.  Cade's big present from Santa was a slide and Aiden and Sam's was the Skylanders XBox game with a bunch of action figures.  Rex and I got a new TV and entertainment center.  Thank you, Santa. :-) "Foddle" our Elf on the Shelf left Aiden an ornament made out of the Christmas tree stump, per Aiden's request.  I wish I had taken a picture of the letter Aiden wrote to the elf, but it was something along the lines of, "Hey, you're an elf.  You're better at woodwork than I am so turn this tree stump into s...