Our Family Christmas

So we know that everyone has a lot to say and see, but we had three christmases so we want to post all of the christmases. Here is our own little family Christmas morning. We really enjoyed spending some quite time together. This was the first Christmas that Ethan seemed to be excited about. Here are some pictures of our little family!!Ethan coloring his first picture at our ward Christmas party!!! Ethan trying to be a big boy with the older kids listening to Santa telling a story! He really like his friend Preston, he's a little bit older.Daddy protecting Ethan from Santa! "HA HA HA!!!!"

Christmas Morning
Christmas morning; Ethan getting his toys out of his stocking!Ethan enjoying his toys from Santa!Daddy's turn to see what Santa put in his stocking!!Crazy daddy making a crazy face!!!
Mommy's turn to check out the cool things Santa gave to her!What is up with all the crazy faces?!!

"Look what Santa brought me!!!"

Ethan is enjoying what Santa brought him. He loves to ride his horse all the time now!!!

Ethan found another gift for him from Mommy and Daddy!!

Starting to unrap the present and see what's inside!!

"Ethan, can you tell what it is?"

"Yeah, Ethan got his own chair that he can relax in!!!!"

Some more stocking stuffers that wouldn't fit in Steve stocking with all his candy!!! Santa knows Steve really well!

Gifts from Sharifa and Ethan for their favorite daddy/husband!!!

"It's just what I wanted!!!!"

A Very McClaskey Christmas

Hey all we hope that you enjoyed the Christmas holiday. We really want to thank all of you for you friendship and kindness in the past and present. We love you all and wanted to show off all the pictures that we took when we went up to see Sharifa's side of the family. We went the week before Christmas so that Ethan, Steve, and Sharifa could see most of her family members. Joy, Dave and the Gallup kids were able to make it back to Idaho all the way from Indiana to spend the holidays with us, their family. Ethan had a lot of fun with both of his cousins and enjoyed spending time with them!!! They really were very nice to him and we appreciate that!!!!

Harley's birthday was only a few days away so we decided to give her her birthday present early since we wouldn't make it to her party. We think she enjoyed her gift.

Harley loved to sit in the stroller and Ethan loved pushing her around the house. They made such a perfect match!!!

Ethan and Daddy with his first gift from Uncle Dave, Aunt Joy, Harley, and Oakley!!
Harley loves to put pretty things on her lips, so for a present we gave her lots of lip gloss. We think she love that gift also!!

Oakley playing with his new truck holder that came with stickers, he loves stickers!!! We think we made a good choice with getting the truck holder and the truck for Oakley!Harley helping her brother out with his new toy.
Ethan is helping daddy open one of his gifts! What a little helper!!Continuing being a little helper, Ethan tries to help mommy with her gift!
Ethan is very happy with what he got from his Grandma and Grandpa McClaskey!!!!

Ethan's Grandparents(McClaskey) gave him a Dallas Cowboys sweat suit. He looks very cute, don't you think? Ethan and Oakley playing with each other.After all the gifts were open the kids went down stairs to play with each other!!!

While down stairs Oakley and Harley taught Ethan how to dance, so this next clip is of Ethan and his cousins dancing. We hope you laugh and enjoy this clip as much as we do!!!

Christmas Ready!!!

Hey all!! We hope that you're enjoying all the festivities of the season. Our little family is having lots of fun and are excited about Christmas. We thought that we should post pictures of us getting up all of our fun decorations out for the time of year!!!!! We hope that you all have a very merry Christmas!!!!! We love you all and hope you enjoy the pictures that we posted here for you!!

Ethan and Daddy putting up a tree of lights for all to see!!!Ethan helping daddy with the snowmen!!!!Ethan getting ready to put up the large Christmas tree, doing his best to stay calm!!!Ethan putting up his favorite ornament!

Daddy helping Ethan put up another ornament.

Ethan admiring his handy work.

Ethan found a candy-cane off the tree and decided he should eat it!!!

Ethan is getting the lights out to put on the tree!!Making sure that the lights are going to work right!Ethan checking out the tree and trying to see where he should put his lights!!!
"Getting ready to put the lights on the tree!!!"
"We found another place to put some lights on!!!"
"All done!!"

Thanks Giving

Okay ya' all!!! We know that it's been a while since our last post, it's just that time goes by so very fast and we can't get enough time to get all the things we need done, done. Here it goes for now. We'll try and be a little better about posting. Ethan is growing fast and is very healthy and strong for such a young age. He is now through the funniest tantrumps; if he's angery with you he will headbut you or if he is just frustrated he will hit his head on the wall or whatever is the closest. Well, let's get back to business. We had a great Thanks giving and enjoyed it with Sharifa's parents. We consider this thanks giving as Ethan's first because he didn't get to eat any real food last year. Here are some pictures of him eating the food. He really love every things that we gave him, even things that Steve and Sharifa would never eat like yams (YUCK!!). We guess he is just a regular litt boy who will eat anything you give him!!

Let's get started!!!!

Mommie and Ethan are greatful for pomagranits. Here is Ethan holding a pomagranits!!!!

Ethan is trying yams for the first time and decides that they're pretty taste!

Ethan eating all the other foods on his tray!

Ethan enjoying turkey!!
Ethan savouring the taste of turkey!!
Ethan trying stuffing and thinking about the taste!!!!
"Mommie, I'm all done with dinner!!!!"
Grandpa McClaskey and Ethan lettting dinner settle before going to bed. "Oh how tiring eating can be!"

SHARIFA'S BABLE

I just wanted to let you all know how greatful/thankful I am for all the many blessing that I have. First, all of you who are my friends/family and for a great and loving husband who would do anything for me and makes me a better person. I also greatful for Ethan and that he his here with me and is so healthy and happy. At this point in my life, and with the our economy, I just greatful that my family and I have a roof over our head, food on the table, and a lot of love from everyone we know and see!!!!!! Thank you all for being such great people and the love that you share with me every day!!!! Each one of you make a great difference in my life and I'm greatful to know all of you!!!!!!

Holloween

Hey all!!! We're sorry about being far behind, it's just that we've been busy with school, work and chasing the little munchkin around. We hope that you all had a safe and fun Holloween. Ethan really enjoyed Holloween this year, cause he got a lot more candy and didn't have to give it all to his daddy!!!! This year we got a really cool costume from his grandma and grandpa M; a sock monkey. He looked soo very cute and we were able to get some picture of him in it. Early that morning we went up to Idaho Falls to see grandma and grandpa M to show them his costume and how great he looks in it. We forgot to take the camera, but had phones with cameras and now we can't figure out how to upload the pictures that we took on the phone. Well, we hope that you enjoy the pictures as much as we did!!!!!

Here is Ethan trying on his monkey hat!!!!Ethan and daddy at their first house!!!Ethan with his monkey basket!!

Just waiting for some candy!!

Ethan sitting with his BIG monkey friend, Lenard.