I had a chance this past week to try out having five kids! My sister Cristeen, was hitting her ten year anniversary and her husband planned an amazing cruise so i agreed to watch their four children while they would be gone! She has Spencer, 7, Jenna, 6, Breanna, 3, and Benjamin, 18 months, so with Coleton, 18 months, it was quite the adventure!
They left on a thursday and return a wednesday and with no way to get a hold of them or talk to them through out the week we had some interesting moments.
Along with the normal daily activities of breakfast, getting ready for school, homework, dinner, naps, bedtime(with practically twin 18 months olds)
and keeping things cleaned up, we had alot of fun. We went to chuckie cheese one of the days, Mcdonalds one day,
they had their primary program(which was adorable), had Spencer home sick one day, played some games, played the wii, watched cartoons,
and played outside (when the weather was nice). Though i absolutely love my neices and nephews there were moments during the week when i wondered to myself "what have i gotten my self into" but in the end everything turned out great. Cristeen and Brian came home to four safe kids, not really so healthy (just barely missed them all getting sick when i left), they were glad to have both parents back.
The week went great and i decided that having five wouldnt be bad if they were as good as these ones are!!
We then headed up to Cedar so that Brandon could get some help designing a life size tetris game and then headed back home.
For our dinner, we made a foot and a half foot sandwich, with BBQ chicken/Sweet teryaki chicken/ chicken bacon ranch. After dinner we opened a few presents..
Coleton didnt really understand wrapping paper but thought it was entertaining!
We got some really fun and amazing gifts and so did Coleton..
He got a new sports blanket from grandma cheney and also a new pair of PJS (there the brown stripes) which are adorable!!
We also got some family books that are really nice! There is a cookbook, family history of my grandparents, and a family book of pictures!
The day turned out great and we had alot of fun spending time together! 
After reading The Night Before Christmas it was time for bed!! Time for Santa to come!!
Coleton loved opening a bag each night and would carry around the different gifts for days.
It was so fun to watch him get so excited for each ornament and i cant wait to see him on christmas!! Thanks mom and dad!
so for family home evening we had Coleton put it together and boy was he excited!
Him and his elmo doll!!
I told Coleton that elmo would get sick if he ate all the candy and Coleton was so disappointed!
Brandon was just so excited for him and it was the first student that he has taught that has been baptized. After the baptism we came home and had family come over for a little party. Before the little family party, Brandon and I went to Olive Garden for dinner by ourselves! After dinner, Brandons grandparents and parents had cake waiting for us. I got a extra large gate for the house to keep the kids from touching our couches and getting them dirty so i was pretty excited. Other than that it was a pretty simple day but it was good non the less!!
The elf watches us through out the day and keeps note of what we are doing and periodically reports to santa at the north pole at nights while we sleep. When we wake up in the mornings he is often in a different place in the house. We were able to name him and since Coleton would have named him choo or elmo we let Brandon decided what we would call him...first he wanted buddy, but i vetoed that. Then he wanted kebler and again i vetoed that! Then he decided Heber would be good so i agreed and our elf in named Heber Comstock!! Coleton does not really understand why the elf is around yet but we hope through out the next few years he will grow to love Heber when santa drops him off!!
We were able to have thanksgiving dinner with my parents, my brother Curtis and his family, Caralee, and my aunt Crystal and uncle Danny. 
It was a lot of fun just chatting and doing the normal thanksgiving stuff. We had cinnamon rolls, regular rolls, turkey, potatos and gravy, jellos, green bean casserole and of course pies and my moms famous christmas candy. We had a chance to watch he parade, which is one of my favorite things to do. e went up to salt lake to watch the lighting of temple square
on Friday night with my sister caralee. It was pretty cold and really packed so we didnt stay long but it was sure fun to head up and see them. 
Saturday we went window shopping, like we love to do, and just had a ton of fun spending time with my parents. Sunday came to fast and we had to headed home. Thanksgiving was so much fun and we were so lucky to be able to spend it with family! Happy Thanksgiving!
I know it might not look like it but he is a sorter! He has a way of organizing his toys and setting them up that is just so cute! He likes to line up all of his cars, separate things by color and organize by kind of animals.
He loves pancakes and eats them in stacks of fives. Here he was trying to make his own pancakes out of syrup and boy did it make a mess!
He loves to cook!
He likes to take my lip gloss and chap stick and break into them!
This is something we like to not tell daddy:(
and having coleton using a knife is not such a good idea but markers are his favorite..
but i love carving pumpkins though i never finished mine : (
Here is Coletons finished pumpkin!
Here is Brandons finished pumpkin... looks pretty good!
Mine not so done but i did get some help with it! On the night before Halloween Coleton came down with a bad case of the flu so we were not able to go trick-or treating or to pass out candy so i was so disappointed that we were not able to go out of the house for the holiday but there is always next year!!
Upstairs in the nursery he put up some greenery, made the pictures on the wall (from scratch may i add!)
Hung the monkey back on the wall, found the rocker glider on craigs list for a sweet deal...
and hung the clock and shelf. I love it! It was just what i wanted it to look like! Though i love the nursery, Brandon is most proud of Coletons room....He wanted to make it have a car theme so once again he found a great deal on craigs list and got the car bed..
Found a car mat at Target and went online to find some real street signs.. 
He also redid some of our old furniture to make some really cute bool shelves along with getting some old license plates to hang up!
This one i am trying to convince my self that we enjoy them...
We have been spending most 
