A Wonderful Christmas!

Christmas was wonderful this year! We stayed in Utah and didn't do the drive to California. We had just done it at Thanksgiving so that was a nice break! Jeff's brother's came into town and we all spent Christmas Eve together with the kids so hyper and excited for Santa to come! My niece is just the cutest thing and Jake and her decided to entertain us all with princess christmas music, ballet dancing and Jake's breakdancing. It was so funny and I have really good blackmail pictures for when he gets older!! The boys woke up (REALLY EARLY!!) to find what Santa left. Tyler got an IPOD Nano, and Ryan and Jacob got new bikes. We opened a bunch of gifts at our house before heading over to grandma's. Then we opened even more! I was surprised we could even see each other under all the wrapping paper! The boys got some really nice gifts from everyone. One gift was left in an envelope hidden in the tree. It was from my dad in California. So, thanks to grandpa, we are heading up north on Friday to play in the snow, shop a little in SLC, stay in a hotel and then wake up Saturday and go to the Steel Thunder Jam. It is a show full of Monster Trucks and Motocross. My boys dream! Then, to top it off, he included a pit pass for us to spend two hours before the show with the drivers and motocross riders. The boys were literally screaming when they heard this! We can't wait to on Friday! Although we just heard it is supposed to snow Saturday so we might be staying Saturday night too if the weather is too bad! Friday morning one of my sister in laws and I headed out early to find all the good deals at the sales. The boys and the kids all headed up to Pine Valley to play in the snow. What a great holiday we had! I hope everyone has a good New's Year's Eve! We are heading to First Night, if you haven't gone before, it's alot of fun, full of entertainment, fun things for the kids and good food! I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year!

Chargers! AFC West Champions!

Chargers Won! 52 to 21!! Way to go! Our house is full of a bunchof happy football fans tonight! Sorry for any of you Denver fans!! :) Now we're off to the playoffs next weekend. The first game is against Indianapolis Colts. Way to go tonight San Diego Chargers!! You were so on your game! We love ya!

Go Chargers!

We LOVE the San Diego Chargers! They play Denver today at 6:15pm! If they win, they go on to the playoffs! Go Chargers!!! We got to see the players this summer at their fanfest and it was a blast! We can't wait to go back again next summer!

Christmas Programs

All three boys were in some kind of Christmas program. Tyler is in the school choir and they had a performance last night, Ryan's 2nd grade did a program and Jacob's Kindergarten did a program as well. They all did great and it was alot of fun going to watch them! I love the holidays but especially when you get to see your kids in programs! Good job boys!

Finally!!! Wahoo!!

Well, It's official, Jeff has completed the necessary courses and assignments towards his Bachelor of Science with an emphasis in Natural Resources!! It took 6 years to complete this. I was pregnant with Jacob during his first class (his class even brought me balloons in the hospital because they had class that day and Jeff missed!) and now six years later, after lots of happenings in the Warner household, kids turning 6 years older, and life just going on, he has finished! During the last 6 years there have been lots of times when we sat down and thought "Is this worth it?" A year ago he lost his dad and that had to have been the very worst semester of all but he stuck through it. He had to miss some things with the boys, but very few of them I might add! But, now today, we know why we stuck with it and why we made some sacrifices that we did throughout the way. We are a stronger family because of this 6 year ordeal! I am so proud of Jeff for being an example to our boys that no matter what, if you stick your mind to it and have the support of your family you can do anything you set your mind too! The boys are so excited for him as well. Most of Ryan's and all of Jacob's memorable life dad has been in school. One of them even said, "You mean your not going to work anymore dad?" I think they thought that school was his work! Which alot of times, it was! His senior project was on a study of a lake that was part of his responsibility for his job with the state, so really it all went hand in hand. So, because of me being so proud of him (and excited too that he doesn't have to go to another class and that he won't have to have all nighters on the computer, because I always felt guilty going to bed and leaving him out there so I slept on the couch until he went to bed!!!!) I had a dinner planned with some friends of ours. It was all a surprise to him (he says he knew, but don't believe him!) Red Robin just opened in our area so I had everyone go there and told Jeff that he and I were going to dinner. We got there and 10 of our friends were there to surprise him! All 12 of us had a fun dinner and then afterwards Jeff and I ran to get some Christmas shopping done while we had a babysitter!! Overall, it was a great night and one that Jeff will remember. Thanks to you guys who all went out with us! I know there were a few more that wanted to be there but were gone for the weekend, so thanks to everyone and way to go babe! P.S Here you go, those of you who thought I would have this up tonight!!!hahaha

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I hope everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving! We are headed, in just a few hours, to California for the holiday, and we'll be back Sunday night. It will be a little warmer than home but I heard it is supposed to be raining there too. We are going to be at the beach and it is always hard to be near the beach when it is raining because my boys still want to go out to the water! I'm packing their wetsuits (just in case) I know, I'm such a sucker!! :) Well, I hope everyone has a great weekend and eats lots of good food! Happy Thanksgiving!

Football Banquets

Football is officially over. Saturday night Ryan's team had a party at Jump N' Jaxs (I forgot my camera! oops) then last night Tyler's 4th grade team had a really nice banquet at a hotel. We had a full dinner, slideshow, autograph time for the boys and awards. Each boy got a trophy, a framed action picture of themselves, a cd of the slideshow, and an autographed picture of an NFL player from the Houston Texans. Our coach is friends with him and the player personalized each picture with his autograph. It was really cool! Tyler's team took second in the league and they can't wait and are already pumped to be 1st next year! All three boys did such an awesome job this year in football and were great teamates! We can't wait until next year! Way to go Warner Boyz!

Twilight! I can't wait!

Ok, so a few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to go to a showing of the movie Twilight. I had heard about the series and I love movies so of course I said, "Yeah I wanna go" Her sister in law rented out the whole movie theater this Saturday morning for this movie. I thought "it had to be good if she was doing that!!" I have quite a few friends that have been into this series but I never thought about picking it up and reading it...until...last week was the book fair at our school. I was working there and another friend of mine was there too and she kept picking this book up and reading it between sales. She told me she has been reading the whole series and can't put it down! I just laughed and thought how silly some of these women are about these books. So, Friday night I ran to the store and as I was passing the book aisle I thought, "I am going to just stop and look at these Twilight books since I am going to see the movie Saturday" Well, I bought the first one, started reading it Saturday and finished it yesterday! I could not put it down!!! The only reason it even took me that long to read it was because I was sick all weekend and slept most of the time! I finished it yesterday afternoon and was at the store last night, bought the second one and am about 200 pages into it! I love it! I am so excited to go see the movie Saturday! What I'm told is that there will be about 200 other Twilight fans at this private showing and lots of my friends will be there and I can't wait!!! Thanks to all of you who pushed me a little to start this series!!!

Veteran's Day Choir Concert

Last night was our school's Veteran's Day Choir Concert. They did a great job. We are so proud and thankful to all of our Veteran's!

Football comes to an end!

Our cute cheerleaders hold up the sign for the boys to run through after half time

There's Tyler (#42) helping his teamates tackle the green guy!

Tyler and grandma

He's such a stud!

Today was the last tackle football game. Tyler's team went as far as the playoffs and were one game shy of winning the whole thing! They lost by one touchdown today! Our team played awesome and the boys were so energetic as were the parents. We had noise makers, the cheerleaders were doing cheers and the parents were yelling right along with them. The boys (Tyler being one) even had friends from school come out and watch them play! Thanks Ang for coming and bringing Aspen and Abbie! It was so fun to be a parent at this game and watch your son play their little heart out. The boys were so upset after loosing that most were crying after the game. They wanted to win so bad! But, the whole season was so good that they should be proud of what they accomplished. We had such a great team of boys and the parents were great too. Next year the 5th grade team is going to rock!

Another 1 bites the Dust!

Last month, Jacob lost his very first tooth. It was one of the bottom middle ones. Well, today he lost the other bottom middle one! So, he has this big gap in the bottom of his teeth. He really looks cute! He likes to put his teeth together and stick his tongue through! For his first tooth, he got $5 - just because it was the first one! So, it was so funny today when he said "Cool, tomorrow morning I'm gonna have $10, when I get $5 for this tooth and add it to my money from my first tooth!" I laughed and said, well we will have to see what the tooth fairy leaves you, remember the first tooth is special and you might not get the same this time. And his response, "Mom (he said it like I had no knowledge what so ever about the tooth fairy) she's cool and thinks I'm cool too, so I'm thinking she's gonna leave me $5 again!" I just smiled.
After I took some pics of Jake with the hole in his teeth (as he calls it) the boys were playing around so cute together. Of course this was immediately after two of them got in trouble for scheming together and squirting Jeff's shaving cream in the bath water. Supposedly, they thought it would make bubbles. Note - shaving cream DOES NOT make bubbles in the bath!!

Halloween Night

This year for Halloween I let Tyler and Ryan go trick or treating by themselves. Although, they stayed in our neighborhood and the one next to ours. They walked with their friends Scott, Trevor, Zak and Zane and for the most part it all went well. They did have two cell phones between them so Heather and I felt much better about the whole thing!! Heather and I took the younger ones out and had alot of fun. We hit the whole neighborhood! Throughout the neighborhood there were houses that had activities. Jake and Zack had fun at those houses. Jake especially liked the MCArthurs who had hangars on their garage door and you had to eat a donut off without using your hands! It was fun and all three boys came home with TONS of candy! I think we might still have some left to hand out next year for Halloween! (just kidding!!!) I hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Halloween Fun at school!

The boys on their way to the bus on Halloween!

Ryan in his class during their classroom party

Jake at the parade

Tyler at the parade

Tyler pushing his friend Ethan in the parade. Ethan actually broke his knee and has been in a wheelchair but he added to his injury for his costume!

Ryan in the parade

Jacob in the parade at school

Tyler, Ryan, Jake and the Fuch kids on the way to the bus

Tyler as a zombie

Jake as a prison inmate

Ryan as an army guy

Here are some fun pics of the boys on the way to the bus, and at the parade at school.

Happy Halloween!!!

Family Night at Staheli Farm!

Jake and Sydney had so much fun together

These Star Wars characters were at the beginning of the corn maze, the kids loved it!

Our Halloween makeover! Thanks Amanda and McKenzie for talking us into it!

Jake and Syd having fun!

Tyler after his makeover!

Ryan thought this pig was so funny looking!

Notice the sign in the background!

We had a fun time with the Sandberg's and Fuchs tonight! We hung out in the farm and made our way through the corn maze. Thanks for a fun time guys!