Santa and the kids at the ward Christmas Party

Mom and Dad Packer's visit

Mom and Dad Packer came up to visit today. We always have a good time when they come.

Me, my mom and my sister, JaNae.

Hunter and his cousins

Hunter's cousin's, Gracie, Tyler and Chase, came over today and they had so much fun playing outside, drinking hot cocoa and making this cool "horse" out of blocks.

Putting up the Christmas tree

Jon looks like he knows what he's doing.

Hunter has recently become glued to the TV. I got a Thomas the train movie from the library and he wants to watch it non stop. (I don't get what is so fascinating about a little train.)I decided to give him these blocks, that were a Christmas present, just to get his mind off that annoying train movie.

Hunter discovered that he can have all sorts of fun inside a drawer.

Locked out

So the funniest thing happened this week. Hunter has an obsession with shutting doors, he can't leave the hallway until all the bedroom doors are closed...yeah, it's wierd! I was going out into the garage earlier last week to put a box away and all of a sudden the door shuts behind me. Of course it had to be locked and Jon wasn't home, so I knocked on the door patiently to have Hunter open it. I don't know what I was hoping for because he doesn't know how to open doors. Well we didn't have a spare key hidden outside so I ran next door to the neighbors to use their phone to call Jon. I was crying and all upset because my two babies were locked in the house all by themselves, but my neighbors were great to comfort me. I dialed Jon's phone, but he wasn't answering, ahhh! Of course I forgot that I could just climb through a window.(It would have been very awkward to watch me hop up throught the window and slide into the front room.) I felt like such a horrible mom. I was crying and Hunter came up to me and gave me a hug. I don't know why I was crying over being locked out for only 10 minutes. The funniest thing about this story is that only a few days after that, Hunter did the same thing to Jon and I wasn't home and of course I forgot to put a spare key out and I had locked all the windows and didn't have my phone with me. Luckily, I came home only 10 minutes after that. Well now we have a spare key hidden and we are trying to teach Hunter not to be so obsessive about shutting doors.