I love you to Mars

Dear Grandma Becki,

I got some some planets to put on my wall by my bed!  We got them for Christmas.  They make me think of Grandma Becki just cause I love her all the way to Mars Mars Mars.  I got some  planets for you to put on your  wall on your bed so that it makes me happy forever.  When Grandma Becki looks at the planets she's gonna think of me.  Cause she loves me so much all the way past Mars.

I love Grandma Becki.  I got a Diego toothbrush and a bouncing thing that goes up and down, a Lightning McQueen thing that Brookie and Ryan gave to me.  Tyler and I got a kitchen and I got some food and I got a toaster.  And Ty Guy got a grinder thing but it doesn't work.  (It's a toy blender, and Nate is disappointed that it doesn't  really chop stuff up!)  Santa Claus came to our house to town.  "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake...." (he started singing the whole song here)  We wrapped our presents and Ty Guy got diggers and I got a sword and a gun.  

I want to talk to you on the phone right now.  It makes me happy when I talk to Grandma Becki.  We're going to play with our new kitchen that we got for Christmas from Mommy and Daddy for me and Ty Guy.  

I hope you could get better forever so that you can play with me and we can go see her again.  I love you, Grandma Becki!  I want to talk on the phone to you forever!  I can't stop talking on the phone til you get better.  I love you all the way up to Mars all the way up to the planets.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

nathan

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Grandma Becki! We love you!!! We missed you SOOO much this year. We want to give you a little taste of our Christmas celebration:

Mary and Joseph

"the little Lord Jesus no crying he makes"!

Excitement on Christmas morning

Who's the center of attention?

Stockings

Jake has a new friend

Ty loves the new kitchen

Nate loves his race cars from Grandma and Grandpa

Opening presents with Gma Jones

Reading books with Aunt Brookie

Since you didn't get to be here for the opening of presents, we took a short video of Ty opening his present from you:

We love you, Grandma!  Hang in there- we'll see you soon.  Lots and lots of hugs and kisses!

Your boys

Look who's walking!

So Ty finally decided he was ready to walk. I know he's been able to do it for a while now, but he just preferred crawling or knee-walking. Well, on Friday, he decided to start walking and now he's a real walkin' man! We think he must have been practicing behind our backs, because all of a sudden, he's up and across the room- no problem at all!

Oh Christmas Tree!

We are probably the last family in Salt Lake to get our tree up and decorated, but here it is!  Nate loved hanging up the ornaments and Ty liked taking them off!

Nate especially likes the ornaments from when Daddy was a little boy

This was Ty's favorite- don't worry, it's plastic

I love these crazy boys!

Ty loves the bathtub even when there's no water in it!

I had fun visiting you too!

Here are some more pictures that we got when you came to see me. I sure liked your songs.

that's you singing.

and here's TY wondering, "what exactly are we doing?"

and here is Ty guy getting thrown up to the moon so he'd smile a big smile for me.

and here I am SO SO SO happy to see my boys.
oh how i love to see YOU, Nathan.

It just doesn't get much cuter than this.

I love you all the way to Jupiter and back and I blew you 10 more kisses!!

Grandma Becki

I had fun visiting you

Dear Grandma Becki,

I had ice cream for lunch. I love Grandma Becki! Yesterday I played in the snow forever at Grandma Becki's house. I singed songs to Grandma Becki. I love her all the way to Mars. I sang Rudolph and Up on the Housetop reindeer pause, and Away in the Manger. I talked to Grandma Becki through the window. It made me happy cause I saw Grandma Becki. We tried to make a snowman but it didn't work cause the snow was too dry. I saw Mooly. Ty Guy saw Mooly. I saw Maya. Ty saw Maya. We drinked hot chocolate. I liked it when I catched Grandma Becki's kisses. I love you, Grandma Becki! All the way to Mars. And all the way to yogurt man.

Love, nathannnnnnnnnnnnnnn

PS Nate didn't really have ice cream for lunch.  Wishful thinking I guess :)

Gingerbread house

Dear Grandma Becki,

We made a gingerbread house!  And we had fun.  Mommy and Daddy went on a trip to Mexico and they saw dolphins and they got us a shirt for Nathan and Ty Guy.  I'm going to make a gingerbread house all by myself when I get as big as Daddy or even taller than Daddy.  Or maybe I'll be the same size as Ryan or maybe as Daddy.  Tonight we are going to put our Christmas tree up!  We're making Christmas cookies today.  I am excited for Christmas.  I want a candy cane, a real candy cane that we can eat from Santa Claus.  I want my very own computer and my very own chopstick and my very own house and my very own movie.  I want my very own Christmas tree and my very own stocking.  That's what I want too.  I want to live with Grandma Becki forever.  I love Grandma Becki all around the whole world.  All the way to Mars, all the way to San Diego and Costa Rica and all the way home from those and all the way up to the sun and the moon and the sky.  That's how much I love her.  I want you to get all better forever and we'll give you a Christmas present when it's Christmas.  Love you Grandma Becki,  Bye!  I love you Grandma Becki.  Love you Grandma Becki!

nathan

(Nathan types his name all by himself for you)

Ty's getting so big!

Nate wanted to shovel Grandma's steps for her

Ninja Nate (at the restaurant with Brooke and Ryan)