Christmas!

This year was very quiet. We were not able to go home for Christmas so we had a quiet dinner and watched movies. The kids loved the homemade gifts from the family. We missed being around everybody this time of year. Playing games, eating good food, laughing at the ugly gifts Kizzie and Josiah think of to give eachother!


Here is a little glimpse into our Christmas Eve. Enjoy.

Ava in her beautiful Christmas Dress! She hated it. She wasn't able to crawl very well so she ended up walking and falling all day!



This was our Christmas Dinner. I made stove top roast with onions and red potatoes, Mashed potatoes, Green bean casserole with Fried onions, Gravy from the Roast, canned mandarin oranges and then as a snack for the evening Chili cheese dip. It was all really good.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Happy New Year!

Let it Snow!!!

Here are some pictures I forgot to blog. These are from the boys first time playing in the snow here in Colorado.

I told them not to eat any of the snow because there are alot of dogs around and you never know, but they didn't listen.

Morgan loves to copy Phil. He was trying to do everything that Phil did. The only problem was that he wanted to write on Phil's prints too!



The boys in their snow suits!

Pictures with Santa

This was the first time any of the kids have seen Santa. Morgan of course went straight for the candy they had in a very accessible bucket and could care less about sitting on Santa's lap! Before Santa had a chance to ask the boys what they wanted for Christmas they has already eaten half the candy cane! The boys weren't too interested in the whole Santa thing. Ava however did not want Santa's white beard to touch her! At first she stared at it then she burst into tears and tried to get away, as you can see from the pictures.

Holiday Giveaways!!

Check out all the cool giveaways at Sherbet Blossom! Several of them are still open for entering!

Keeping Christ in Christmas!

This post is in response to a challenge on Tip Junkie. Read mine and then go to Tip Junkie to take the challenge yourself.


I try to carry on some of the traditions from my family. I make sure that my nativity set is out in plain sight. We don't glorify Santa Clause, my kids don't even know exactly who he is yet. On Christmas Eve we sing all the Christmas songs in the LDS Hymn book. On Christmas day before we open any gifts we read the story of Christ's birth out of the bible. If we were home for Christmas we would head over to Far West and stand inside the gates of the dedicated temple grounds and sing Christmas Hymns along with all our friends and family! That will be one of the things I will miss most.

I am amazed every year how Christ is taken out of Christmas. I make it a point to wish everyone a Merry CHRISTMAS, instead of Happy Holidays or some other such phrase.

May we all remember the TRUE meaning of CHRISTmas.

Our Thanksgiving trip to Missouri. We had lots of fun. So much fun we forgot to take a ton of pictures. We did get a few so here they are. Enjoy!

We got to see Rachel for the first time! She is so cute! I love her smiles!


Ava had fun with the mashed potatoes!

Derek loves Kisses!


Ava had a nice nap with Uncle Keenan!



Breakfast at Grandmas! Apparently I wasn't fast enough!

Me and my Daddy!

Part of the crowd

Emma, Jolie, Aliyah and Isobel

One of our christmas pictures.

Ava and Grandpa chillin'

Pictures I didn't get were of Mom, Sasha, Ava and I in one car and Mable and Tessa in another going shopping on Black Friday! We got up at 4am and headed down to Independence! We went to Joann's first and spent about 4 hours, most of it standing in line to get our fabric cut! Next we went to Kohl's. I am so glad I missed the mad dash there. There were all sorts of items all over the floor from people in a hurry. We got there at about 10am and we still had to stand in line atleast 1/2 an hour! I don't really remember it was all a blur! Afterwards we all went to Chili's in Liberty where we met Ann Marie Scahill for lunch. We were all zombies by then. I don't think I got to bed until around 11pm! I know, We're crazy! We had alot of fun together though.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!