Christmas 2010

Christmas is such a wonderful time of year. It is really sweet and magical. It has been fun with our kids getting older, they understand things and get more excited. We loved reading Christmas stories about our Savior's birth. It is fun to hear their little testimonies and thirst for understanding and knowledge as we study the gospel as a family. Every year we track Santa online through NORAD. We click on the different world cities he has visited throughout the day and learn about the countries. Lily in particular loves that. Christmas Eve we spent with my extended family eating dinner and exchanging gifts. Then we came home to read the Christmas story from Luke. The girls got to open their presents from mom and dad that had their Christmas pjs and pose for a picture. The week before Christmas Lily got obsessed with Pillow Pets. She talked about them all the time. So I found a tutorial online and made her one Christmas Eve day. I was pretty proud of that hippo! I made Cloey a bunny that night so they could each have one and I am going to make Autumn a dog soon. Christmas morning was awesome. The looks on their faces were priceless when they came out to see the gifts Santa had brought. Not to mention the plate that still had crumbs from the cookies and the empty mug of egg nog. We went and stayed with Brian's family for the day and had a lot of fun playing games and spending time with each other. I am bad though and didn't get any pics!! I was just enjoying the time with our family. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Family

We took some pictures after Matt's homecoming talk, no idea what is up with my camera making us all stretchy. For some reason Lily was not wanting any of it, so this time Cloey and Autumn are the smilers! We love our family!

Here Comes Santa Claus...

Our ward Christmas Party is always a blast. Yummy dinner, and great company. There is always great songs, and the crowning exictement for the kids is singing Jingle Bells and then hearing the bells coming into the gym with Santa ringing them! This is the first year none of the girls were scared, even Autumn was great!

Preschool Field Trip!

We love the preschool group we have, some other mom's in our ward and I formed a preschool and hold it twice a week. Once a month we do a field trip. December we went to the Paramedic Dept. where Hunter's dad works. They all had fun buckling up int he seats in the ambulance and seeing all the different things they had in there and the lights! They even got a goody bag with sticker badges, bandaids, and a pencil.

Matt's Home From Georgia!

My brother, Matt, has been on a mission for our church for the last 2 years to Atlanta Georgia. Autumn was born days before he left. It has been fun to write to him and hear how he was doing. The day he flew in to return home Brian had school at BSU until 3 and Mat was flying in at 4:50 so we hit the Discovery Center for some scientific fun! It was fun to see the different things that intersted them. The biggest hit was the grocery store just their size. After that we went to the airport for a great reunion with Matt! So glad he is home!

Cheesers!

Autumn just loves her Nanny, I loved this picture, so them!!!! Look at those cuties!

Snow Day!!

Lily's first year in school and she gets a snow day! Brian stayed home for the morning to play in the snow with the girls. Not mention Rhino was having a blast in the deep snow! Autumn hated the sled, the other girls love it, she just screams! So she stayed next to me while I took pictures.