Priscilla's Birthday party

Well I guess you would like to see the crazy family sing happy birthday to Priscilla. The kids had fun doing it. Enjoy the show. I think Pris really enjoyed it. James picked out a Birthday card of Star Wars and when you open it, it plays the Star Wars theme. The card said, "A long, long, Time ago" on the cover of the card, and when you open it, it plays the music and said "You Were Born". James laughed so hard when he found it.

Arizona Vacation

I thought this would be fun for everyone to see before I find time to post more. The kids got a little hot at the Zoo so we let them run in the water park that is there.

Phoenix Zoo

Holidays

Ok, so what can I say. We (I) have been slacking at updating the blog so I am going to throw a ton of stuff up here, so here it goes.....

In the beginning of December we had Kaleb's baby blessing. Pris and I decided that we would have a luncheon after the blessing. We were trying to decide on how much work we wanted to put into it. We decided to buy food from Sam's. When we went to Sam's to pick out the food we decided at first to get a deli tray and some croissants and let everyone build their own sandwiches. When we got to the meat section to order the meat tray, Pris saw the already-made sandwiches. She was sold on those and changed the order. The sandwiches were a hit and I could not get enough of them. Scott and Natalie brought chips, Derek and Kesley brought an awesome pasta salad with pecans in it (yummy!!), and Dad and Dixie brought jello. The pasta salad was a hit for our kids. Kelsey even made two bowls of it and we took the extra because it was so good. I love these special times we have to gather as family and friends. They bring us so much happiness and make the troubles of life easier.




Christmas was a special time. We had Julie and the girls with us. One tradition that we have always had is getting new pajamas on Christmas Eve. So Grandma Julie and Grandpa Randy sent all the kids pajamas. They had so much fun opening up and seeing what they had sent. We had some secret Santas come and drop off stuff for Julie and the girls. They even left us with a movie package with Kung Fu Panda as the movie. The kids loved watching that movie; of course there were parts that we fast forwarded. James really loved the part where Panda was fighting the bad guy and they were rolling down the steps and Panda landed on the leopard's hard. He laughed so hard. Pris and I laughed when they were walking up the mountain and Panda said "I know you're trying to be all mystical and kung fueee, but...". We laughed so hard. We also had a Finlayson family Christmas party. Eveyone had a great time. Here are some pics from it.


Scott and Jason. Of course Jason loves to be a ham when pictures are being taken.

Christmas with the chipmunks.

I thought everyone would like to see this. They love this music as much as mommy did when she listened to it growing up.

Halloween Continued

My guess is that you were waiting for pictures from Halloween. So now I am adding these in this morning. Alexandra wanted to be Minnie Mouse, Joshua a Dalmation, and James a Jedi Knight. They got all dress up and Pris brought them to work. Once again Novell made it really easy to get as much candy as possible in one single place. It was like Heaven for the kids. Julie and her girls came as well. As you can tell the girls were really cute in their costumes. Unfortunately the adults did not dress up! No Halloween spirit from them. We have a costume contest at work and there were some great costumes. A couple of the employees dressed up lik Sarah Palin and John McCain. It was pretty good. They also had a salsa contest. Work also had a drawing for the kids when they got to work. We won some bath toys for the kids.

You are all probably wondering what Kaleb was and so here he is. He was a beautiful bumblebee. I am not sure if I would have chosen that but at least we dressed him up. I think him and Joshua were the most miserable since those are very hot costumes and we did all the trick or treating indoors and not outside.

Halloween 2008

Doesn't Joshua look a little like Casper?

After Kaleb was born, Priscilla's parents decided to come and visit. It took them a couple of days, but they got is safely. They stayed with John and Tiffany, but drove back and forth between us. As you can see we decided to go Vineyard Nursery and pick out pumpkins and go through the corn maze. Grandpa Harman is always making silly faces when he gets to pose in pictures.

Grandma and Grandpa brought Maddy and Eve with them. Julie was out taking care of other business.As you can see we are a little bit behind. Time is flying by really fast having additional ones living in the house. Everyone had a great time there. It was very hard to try and get Joshua to look at the camera.



This corn maze also had a ton of blow up toys that the kids could play on. The had animals as well that the children could look at. They even saw little mice running around the rabbit pens, and drinking water from the rabbit's water trough. They really had a great time, and I think Grandpa had a ton of fun too.



Alexandra and Eve holding hands as they came out of a little blue barn.



James and Maddy coming out of the corn maze.

Kaleb has come!!

He has finally arrived at the Finlayson household. Kaleb Joseph was born on October 11, 2008 at 5:42 PM in the MT Timpanogeous Hospital in Orem Utah. He weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. It was a surprise for us since he came 4 days early which included an emergency c section. Both Pris and Kaleb are doing well. I will post some more pictures soon. He is definetely a miracle baby.