Merry Christmas

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas.  We have been busy around here.  This pictures was taken a few weeks ago when we pulled out our decorations. 

Our Christmas homemade photo shoot.

 Today has been good.  We finally got our Christmas cards sent.  We delivered neighbor gift.  They were simple and the kids got involved with putting them together and delivering them so it was a success.  We got white paper sacks put some Clementines (mini oranges), a handful of candy, and candy canes. We punched holes in the bag tied some ribbon on each bag and  they were well received. 

Awwww so cute. 

 In case you were wondering Chuck-a-rama is not opened on Christmas Day.  Yes I was making plans to take our family to Chuck a rama for Christmas dinner, until I called them and the guy was like heck no.  What was I thinking?  

OuR Latest

Hi!  I just love pictures.  I was going through the whole year of pictures we've taken and they are so fun.  I bought a frame on Black Friday that has 11 picture slots. I was trying to decide which pictures to put in the frame.  There are too many to choose.  These are the last of November's pictures.

Here Tally is doing the 5 month old balancing trick.  Our kids are so talented (wink, wink)

Happy 7th Birthday!  Birthday cake #1

Birthday cake #2

Our 5 gems

My dear friend from childhood - Becky.  She and her family drove from Texas to visit Utah.  It was so fun catching up.

Story Time:  Tuesday before Thanksgiving we left super early for our much anticipated trip to Montana.  I was dozing off, everyone else was listening to Roscoe Riley book on CD, suddenly SLAM, bump, bump - dead deer!  We had hit a good sized buck.  Our car was smoking and dripping fluid.  Our trip was over - in the middle of no where.  We were  by Downy, Idaho.  We were able to get off the freeway to a Truck stop.  There we stayed for several hours as we coordinated how to get home.  Long story short we stayed in Logan for Thanksgiving.  The bad situation turned out to be ok.  Some very nice people towed our Suburban home for a small charge.  I'm so thankful for the protective care of angels and that we were driving a Suburban.  If we would have been in something else that buck would've been through the windshield. That is why I now drive a red Suburban.

Cousin lovin - Sadie and Paige

Love her!

Life

I just want to post something!  It is half way through November already, what just happened here??  Time is flying.  Many times I go though my day and I'll have something happen or I'll think of something very creative and think I should blog that then it goes away by the time I have a minute to post and I'm completely lost for something to blog about when I get to blog.  Get it? 

I have been sorting and de-cluttering the children's rooms. I have pulled piles of stuff out of those rooms. It feels good to have clean and tidy closets and toy bins. 

We have an action packed next couple of days.  Family pictures, more cleaning, jr basketball game, service ptojects, slc, guest from out of town, dentists appt to name a few things.  We did just celebrate Seth's 7th bday.  I need to get the pictures off of Tom's phone.  In the mean time here are two cousins who love hanging out together.  Tally is 4 months and Isaiah is 3 months in this picture.  They are darlings!

Our Costumes

It was another successful Halloween. The weather was lovely and warm for Oct 31.         Tom takes the best pictures. 

We started trick or treating at 5:30, we had plenty of sunlight.

We have a darling butterfly, 2 karate masters, an angel and a cat more like a kitten

Jack o Lanterns

Creative little rascals we have.  Just look at these clever carvings.

Crazy Hair Day at School

Crazy hair and it's not even Halloween yet

Too Cute!

Love this girl!

The Beach

The beach is so fun!  Tom talked me into getting in the water and doing some body surfing and it was fun as always.  The beach is the best~

Disneyland

In St. George the girls are playing horsey in the hotel after swiming

Magical Disneyland.  I still love the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, a must see!

Autotopia

The Tea Cups

Goofy's Car

The best we did at getting Mini's picture.  Tom clicked the pic just in time to get Mini's back.  We did not wait in line for a picture with any of the characters, probably should have.

The classic Dumbo ride

We found Peter without a mob so we took advantage of the moment.

We loved the evening parade.  It was so amazing

Hi! We went to Disneyland last week.  Kids had a break from school so off we went. I have not been to Disneyland for 20 years so I was excited to share the magic that only Disneyland has with our children.  The major bummer part was that I got sick, sick, sick.  As we were driving down I started to feel a little achy in my lower back but just thought that it was from doing sit-ups for the first time in 3 years a couple of days earlier.  The further we drove from home the worst I was feeling.  By the time we hit St. George I was feverish and had the chills.  Of all times to be sick, and I hardly get sick, this was the absolute worst time.  I sat in the hot tub at the hotel but by morning I was achy, weak and wiped out.  With prayer, and a blessing I mustered up enough strength to get in the car and off we went on to California.  I don't need to give the lame details of being sick but it was a bummer. Nonetheless, we got to my lovely grama's house in Lakewood, she had a home cooked meal waiting for us and we enjoyed very much our stay.  Last sick note, that night I got the worlds worst sore throat I have ever had.  Also, when we drove into California the temperature gauge said 103.  It was crazy hot.  Thankfully the next day the temp dropped to 80 and we were very comfortable at Disneyland. The two tips I kept getting for Disneyland was arrive early and bring snacks.  We stopped by and loaded up with snacks at Trader Joe's and we arrived mostly early but so did everyone else.  The kids had a magnificent time and I'm ready to plan our trip back.  (Part 2 -Beach coming soon)