Merry Christmas

A busy couple of weeks!

I've been so busy, I haven't taken the time to update our blog.

Here are some misc. pictures of what we've been doing.

Mallory dressing up as a bride. Courtney dressed her up.

The kids have been making some fun block creations.

One night the kids were seeing how high they could hold
the broom & still jump over it. Good effort Courtney!


Spencer had a birthday party!

A picture with his friends at his party

And here's a silly one

We had a great Thanksgiving, all together with family.
We had so much delicious food & it was so fun to be together!
Spencer & Jess even made me a pecan pie that had no sugar! How nice is that?
The next morning I dragged Aliysa and Nan out of bed at 3:30, and made them
go shopping on Black Friday! We were at JCPenney by 4:00 am.
Here is Bob's sister Nan, Aliysa, & I. We had a lot of fun.
Then we went over to WalMart, walked in, and turned around and walked out.
It was pure chaos. Then we went back to JCPenney & shopped some more.
Even Aliysa, who hates shopping put up with it.
She almost collapsed a few times with fatigue,
but after getting a breakfast burrito she revived.
We'll see if I can talk her into it next year.
Later that day, a lot of the adults in Bob's family went target shooting.
Bob has been wanting me to go shooting for a long time with him.
I had a lot of fun, and even hit the target a few times!
Then we got back together at Anne & Dan's for more good food,
playing the Wii, and just having fun together.





We've been making gingerbread cookies.

Typical one-track mind.

Bob has been reading "A Christmas Carol" to us in the evenings. We all love it!

Abby learned to crawl on 12/4/08. It is so exciting to see these little milestones.

It never grows old. The whole family was so excited for her!

Spencer was baptized on December 6th

It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining through

the clouds as we drove to the Stake Center.

Do you like the cracks in our windshield?

Thank goodness Idaho doesn't have vehicle inspections!

We are so happy that Spencer made this decision,

and I'm so glad that I have a wonderful

husband who is worthy to perform this ordinance.

Here are the men who were in the circle

for his confirmation. Gumby, The Spencer,

Bob, Dan, Brother French (in our bishopric),

Dave, and little Spencer.

It just is amazing to me that he is already eight years old. Wow.

Sarah making Abby laugh

Abby all bundled up

We took a few family pictures recently.

It was quite an ordeal to get everyone looking at the camera,

plus we're still using our crummy camera,

so the pictures are a bit grainy. At least

we got a few shots recorded for history.

Here is one of the kids while Bob was getting them posed.

He had Aliysa read out loud so they'd all hold still.

Oh, I sure love these kiddos!

Zach & Andrew were getting tired of smiling, I guess

We wish you all a Merry Christmas!

Spencer is 8!

Spencer turned 8 this last week! He will be starting cub scouts on Wednesday, and getting baptized this Saturday! I'll post his birthday pictures later, but I wanted to at least post something today. We love you Spencer!

Abby's happy face

Abby has such a fun little personality. She always gives us these big open mouth smiles, and then she tries to laugh and says "Ha! Ha! Ha!" over and over again. It is so adorable. Aliysa took these cute pictures of her.

Some fun projects

Last Sunday, our kids and their friend Taylor had fun with some domino creations.

Jace taught our little kiddos about volcanos this week in preschool. Here is the volcano he created. (It's a short clip, the battery died on the camera)

Lamoreauxs can sleep anywhere...

We brought Andrew, and these pizzas into the house. I guess he got tired, and climbed up on the counter to find a good place to fall asleep for the night. Like father, like son...

Football season winds up

These two great pictures were taken by Bob's brother-in-law, Dave. http://summphoto.blogspot.com/

We've had some great memories the past 8 weeks, with Bob playing football. The games are a lot of fun, and the kids can run around the stands with their cousins. Bob's family have been really supportive and come to his games, which has made it really fun.

Here are some pictures from last week's game: Jace was the one to tackle the "nacho guy" this week, and get free nachos

Bob's quarterback broke his leg during this game, so last week they played

without a quarterback. Bob injured his foot, but today it is feeling a lot better.

Hopefully he'll be back to 100% by this week's bowl game.

Courtney's Birthday

Courtney turned 10 on October 28th.

I let her have a friend party this year. She invited 12 girls!
It was "crazy hair day" at the local elementary school, so that is why the two friends

in front have green hair, and crazy hair do's. The rest of the girls all do home school.

We let them do a Thanksgiving tole painting project, then they opened presents,
had cake & ice cream, and played our kids' favorite game, "Capture the Flag."

We love you Courtney!

A two-year old trying to figure out this language...

A couple of days ago Andrew came up to me, looking sad and whimpering.

He informed me: "Mom, my foot is hungwey"

I replied: "Your foot is hungry?"

He answered sadly, "Yes"

I thought for a minute...

"Do you mean your foot is asleep?"

"Yes! my foot is ASLEEP" he whined.

Football, etc.

Bob was defensive player of the week last week.

That was while he was playing both defense & offense,

Center & nose-guard, no less!

Good job, Bob!

Here's some pictures from today's game.

Bob's team (the Spartans) played the Wildcats, and won 6 to 3, yeay!

Bob is the one on the left, in the picture below (green jersey)
There was a contest for all the children to chase the "nacho" guy, and try to tackle him.

Spencer won! He chased the guy down and tackled him!
He got free nachos.
Here he is with Mr. Nacho.
Some of Bob's fans, Kimberly, Amber, Makayla, Aliysa, her friend, Taylor, and Courtney.

Andrew & Zach enjoying the game.

This week Mallory went to a dress-up birthday party for her friend, Lili.

Aliysa dressed her up and did her hair.

Abby making funny faces.

One of Aliysa's quirky creations, titled "merrily, merrily"

Bob spearheaded a day on the BYU-Idaho campus where the college Republicans & Democrats handed out copies of the Constitution, and the DVD "A More Perfect Union". They handed out 3,400 copies of the Constitution in two and a half days.