The kids are finally enjoying the snow in Idaho. This is the field we have out back. They love the snow! not the COLD





Brevan reminds me of the little boy in A Christmas Story. He can atleast get up if he falls down!





Brevan loves to mimick the dog. He spilled his milk just so he could lick it up like the dog!






Brendan is such a good sport to let the boys paint on him for art time. The boys really like to paint.





the boys snuck into the brownies. I had to take a picture so I wouldn't beat them:) They both said Cheese.





I am so happy to be a mom. We all went sledding yesterday. It was SOO much fun. It gave me a glimpse into eternity. Watching Brendan playing with our kids and his nephews, gave me a view of how important a family is. I once heard a statement that the only thing that is iportant are those things that last...an ETERNAL family. We love you all! We had a great christmas. The kids all loved what they recieved. I have to thank our SECRET!! santa for the LOVE he gave our family. Without you there would have been no Christmas this year. You know who you are and WE LOVE YOU!!! Have a great day and we hope to have Christmas pictures up soon.

Well It's been 2 weeks since I have updated our family blog. A lot has been going on. Brendan and I finished out couples counseling with LDS family services this last week after 6 sessions. OUr counselor said he couldn't do anymore for us and reminded us of the things we learned through counseling. I have to say I think every married couple could at some time or another benefit from counseling. Especially if you are a family with any amount of distance separation. I learned a lot from counseling about myself and how to better communicate with my wonderful husband. I love him so dearly and pray for him evreryday that he can overcome the obstacles that are coming his way!

Okay now for the other updates. There are pictures here of the children at brendan's NG unit's Christmas party with santa. It was lots of fun, but it made me REALLY miss active duty. We hope you all have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year. Oh btw brendan is FINALLY registered fir classes next semester at ISU in Pocatello. He is getting his masters in counseling(go figure). I guess we all need to help others after we get helped!




Kyle and santa-He really did get his cars from "SANTA"



Mackenzie and Santa





Brevan and Santa--"okay mom and dad who is this hairy guy?"

















Brevan and mommy posing for a fun picture while daddy and kyle make cookies!















Daddy and Kyle after making som YUMMY chocolate chip cookies. They sure dudn't last very long! Darnit



Once again Merry Christmas from the Cox's

I can't believe that it is December and only 15 days until Christmas! Last weekend we went to Wilder, Id for Brendan's National Guard unit's Christmas party and Santa came. Kyle got up on Santa's lap and said he wanted a race car track and a race car for Christmas(that's all he's been talking about for a month). Well Santa gave him his present and Kyle's first reaction was "IT"S NOT A RACE CAR!" before he even opened it up. After opening it up he found a 10 pack of hotwheels....and that MADE his day. He oes believe in SANTA.

Brevan was next to see santa and he was given a stuffed animal...he was not happy he wanted Kyle's cars. About 10 minutes later the Santa realized he had given brevan another real baby boy's gift to him. So Brevan ended up with hot wheels too. All Ican say is I really didn't want 20 more hotwheels added to our collection.

Mackenzie still believes and was excited to tell Santa what she wanted. She is so easy to please and doesn;t ask for a lot. She got some polly pockets there and was completely happy to play with them all the way home 350 miles...ARGH!
I will post some holiday pictures this week.
Oh yea brendan and 2 of his family members sang in a double quartet last night at the stake Christmas music fireside. They has sang last week at the community music thing. They sound AWESOME. it was so cool and upbeat music. I can't remember the names of the songs...baby born in bethlehem and good news i think.
Have a great week, Jess