Home School Christmas Party

We went to a friends house for a home school Christmas party (gift exchange) back and Dec. 11. It was great. The kids had so much fun. There were a bunch of leaves all over so a group of the kids decided to make a huge pile and have everyone jump in all at once. The cool thing is, that they invited everyone to jump, not just the one's who built the pile. Very generous I thought. :)

Ready, Set, Go!

How fun to be a kid.

....More Holiday

This was our family night activity back on Dec. 10. It was a blast. Being the woman that I am this is how we do gingerbread :). The kids don't know any different so it works for us. We got this kits at Costco. We have tried others before, but these ones actually tasted pretty good. We had so much fun.

We separated into teams. Emma and Jake and I did the train.

David and Joelle and Ben did the House.

Katie helped on both which really meant that she just sat and ate every one's candy :). She was so happy.

If you look closely there is a little man inside the train. That was tricky.

Hurray for pre-made gingerbread kits! Maybe one year I'll learn how to make my own.

Our new house

I have had a couple people that don't live close by ask to see pictures of our new place. So here they are for anyone who is interested. I didn't take any pictures of the upstairs, because...... honestly it is to hard to get both floors cleaned at once.... and there is really nothing exciting up there :). Joelle wanted me to add one of our christmas tree, so I had to add that too.

As Usual, Better Late Than Never

Halloween was a blast this year. The weather was amazing (a little warm for my taste, but perfect for trick or treating). We carved 4 pumpkins. Joelle and Emma did their pumpkins by themselves. And of course, in my typical parenting fashion, I forgot to take pictures after they were done (lame :). Anyway, take my word for it, they were cute.

David loves Halloween. He makes it so fun for the kids. He keeps wanting to set up a haunted house in our garage for trick or treaters, but we keep going other places, so it hasn't happened yet. One of these years he'll do it. We went to our old ward for their trunk or treat the night before Halloween. David ended up winning the prize for best decorated trunk. He had a black light and a fog machine going and all these spiders and skulls and grave markers everywhere (all of which he grabbed last minute), it was pretty cool. I thought it was the best trunk (I might be a little biased though :).

Emma was a "Darling Devil" and Joelle was "Double Trouble". They thought that these costumes fit their personalities very well. I wasn't going to argue :).
Jacob loved his BumbleBee costume until we went to the trunk or treat the night before Halloween where he saw someone that was dressed up as Boba Fett. I had a hard time convincing him that his costume was good enough for Halloween. We'll see what happens next year.

Ben was just happy that it was finally Halloween so he could go trick or treating.

Katie loved trick or treating. David said she wanted to keep going even after all the other kids were done. That's my girl. We ended up with over 8lbs. of candy. Our kids don't really like the candy bars which makes David and I very happy. The starbursts are the first things to go in our house. Does that seem weird to anyone else? We all had a great Halloween. Thanks Mike and Amy for letting us hang out in front of your house. It was a great party.

Kids say the darndest things :)

I made Jacob breakfast this morning and asked him if he wanted a plum or grapes with his breakfast. He chose grapes. I rinsed them off and then gave them to him on a paper towel. I didn't really dry them off.... because...... who does really? Anyway, I gave him the grapes. He looked at them, then looked at me and said "not those ones, I don't want those grapes, I want the other ones." We only had this one kind, so I was a little confused. I said "we don't have any other ones, just these ones. What's wrong them?" He looked back at me very seriously and said "They're sweating."

lol. Sweating grapes..... really. He makes me laugh

Hooray for the Holidays!

I love the Holiday season! One thing I will say about where we live, it is fun to take your kids trick or treating and people can actually see their costume because you don't have to wear a jacket. We went to our new ward's "trunk or treat" this weekend. The kids had a blast. I love Halloween candy. David always says that one of his favorite smells is a bowl full of Halloween Candy. Why haven't they come up with that scent for a candle yet? :) Here comes the Holidays!

Laurel's little man

My little sister Laurel had her 4th baby boy! He is so cute! I just wanted to post the few pictures I got so everyone can ooohhh and aaaahhh over this cute little baby. I loved holding him. What a sweet baby!

He really didn't cry much. He just wanted to be wrapped up. I just had to add this one because I thought he looked so cute. I love the way little babies look so mad :) You just don't see a face like that on an adult (nor would you want to - cute on a baby, scary on an adult).