I know, I know....it's been 2 months!!!!! Well, apparently a lot happens in 2 months! To save a whole lot of time and space I am going to try to keep it short! After Clayton deployed we got on a hop to the best place in the world! Fairchild, WA. Wow! I loved it there. We were able to fly out on Nov. 2nd to WA, and then stayed there for 5 days with my good friend Cassie and her family. Above is Weston ready to land the plane in the cockpit with the pilots. He was beyond excited!
Below is Kaiden. Oh this kid.....he is ALWAYS cold! As we flew he mostly sat here attached to this heater. These tubes stream down throughout the plane and blow nice, hot air. Most people might keep it on their feet to warm up their toes. Not Kaiden.....he still wonders why we have to live in Alaska?! My poor Guam baby. If only he knew how much we love it there!!!!

Here is Hannah looking out the window for her daddy. She is positive that since he got on a plane the last time she saw him, he would be on this plane. It took her a while to figure out that he wasn't on our flight so then she began to look out the windows. She wasn't all that happy to see clouds. Go figure.

I don't have any pictures with my friend Cassie or her kids :( so now we move on to New Mexico at my parents house. This is all the kids with my dad just happy to watch "old man" tv. My dad was pretty happy to have them all right there!

We stayed in NM all the way thru Thanksgiving and had an awesome time. My older sister and her family of 8 came down from Utah to pig out with us. I left on December 1st to go and see 2 more of my most favorite people alive. First I went to Colorado Springs to see my friends Toni from Guam. i got to spend 4 days with her beautiful family. We had so much fun just being together! I loved it. Oh, did I mention I didn't have any of my kids with me???? Oh yes! I was a single and irresponsible person!! It was SO weird!

After Toni's I went to see my best friend from Jr. High and up, Melissa. Oh we had a blast too. Here are 2 pictures of us just being dorks.

After I spent 4 more days in Wyoming with Melissa, I flew back to reality and got to be a mom again. Believe it or not, I totally missed it. When I flew into the airport my parents, sister and kids picked me up at the airport and we drove straight from there to Utah. While we were there we had a birthday party for my recent 4 year old, kaiden. He was so happy to have a party with is cousins!

In Utah we also went to our extended families Christmas parties, we went sledding, did lots of Christmas shopping,.....and many other fabulous things!

Not too long after we got home Weston lost his first tooth! What the heck?!?!?! I was so excited for him, but at the same time so sad. he is just a baby.....

Kaiden and Grandpa Bodkin at the ward Christmas party.

Grandma Bodkin and Aunt Lilly (Clayton's beautiful baby sister!)-0Kaiden got a Birthday present in the mail from daddy! It was a remote control dune buggy! He thought it was the coolest thing EVER!!!!Claire helping to put up Christmas decorations. She was awfuly proud of herself can you tell??

And last but not least....Kaiden is just SO excited for Santa to come he can hardly stand it!!! I just love ths picture.

So this is almost everything leading up to our wonderful Christmas, I am going to have to make that a whole different post! We did have an awesome Christmas though. We got to Skype with Clayton so he was able to be apart of our morning. That meant a lot to me and the kids and I am sure it meant the world to him.