Christmas Parties

Every year my aunt and uncle cut down a 20 foot tree and decorate it. What a feat!!!! We love going to their house for our annual family Christmas party! Our other annual Christmas party tradition with the neighbors, boy do they know how to through a party. Games and treats galore!







We are so blessed to have such wonderful people in our lives!

Happy 13th Birthday!

Wow, officially a teenager! She loves life and is doing way more than I did at 13. She has so many " likes".....hanging with friends, singing, playing the piano and of coarse the violin, she likes to run and play volleyball. She loves her school newspaper class and right now wants to go into journalism. So far, she's a 4.0 student (but we've only had one quarter:)) What a fun kid to watch grow up!She started her B-day going out to breakfast with a friend, followed by the mall with more friends, then her grandma took her on a shopping spree to the gateway, next was cheesecake with the fam and a late night movie with another friend. She really packed it in.

Happy Birthday Bree!!!!

Happy Birthday Saydi

I can't believe it's been 11 years. I feel like the luckiest person in the world to be this girl's mother! She is the funnest kid to have around. My favorite thing about Saydi is that she always thinks about others before herself. Even today, when I took her to breakfast and asked her where she wanted to go, she said "wherever is the least expensive". And then she ended up bringing half of her food home to share with her siblings. Then when we went to Walmart to pick out a class treat, she decided on card games because someone in her class has a peanut allergy (and because Abby was looking for games to take to school today for her "game day".)She is constantly thinking of others.

What a gift! She loves doing hair! (I haven't had to do hers for years now) she LOVES GYMNASTICS AND CHEERLEADING and sometimes loves playing the piano.



She loves her cousins!

Happy Birthday SAYD!!!

Piano Recital

I am so proud of these girls!
Abby played "March of the Clones"


Saydi played "Ding Dong Merrily on High"

And we couldn't ask for a better piano teacher in the world!!!!!!

Moments

Bath time.....Kates favorite time of the day! "Love notes" out of Legos.

Happy Birthday Carter

Yes, this was nearly a month ago. I can't seem to get ahead enough to journal (blog). Carter had a fun Birthday. I can't believe he is 6. Some highlights were..... a Lego Creationary game, and a Star Wars Lego Wii game. Grandpa and Grandma joined us and so did the Hugies.

His sisters decorated for the party.
He just wanted cupcakes. (yea) I can't make cakes very well!

Happy Birthday Carter!

Things we learned in October

Kate likes to play with play-dohbut not as much as finger painting in cream of wheat

Carter is motivated by donuts. ( He scored 3 goals)Painting pumpkins can be just as much fun as carving them

(and less messy)Our neighbors are better at making carmeled apples, (ours up)
these (below) are the carmeled apples we made at the neighbors- who ended up with 180 neighbors coming over to make carmeled apples.You don't have to spend a lot on Halloween. I spent all of 2 dollars this year!Kate likes to hand out candy more than trick-or-treating. Happy October!

Indian Summer

We had the BEST weekend and I'm posting a lot of pictures because I don't want to forget a single minute of it.

The weather has been so fabulous, so we decided t0 watch Conference at Bear Lake. We even took the kids out of school Friday and spent the day at the beach. Now, I have been to Bear Lake more times in my life than I can count, but never have I spent October 1st on the Beach. We were in HEAVEN! I think that was the best day we've seen all summer. No, I KNOW that was the best day we've seen in years. It was warm, the lake was glass ALL DAY LONG (that never happens) and we were the only boat on the lake (at least that we could see). The beach was full of sandbars and SAND, we haven't had very much lately. All in all it was the perfect day!

The girls were giving Daddy a spa foot treatment.

We haven't seen this much sand in a while.

This is my 66 year old, cancer and open-heart-surgery surviving, mother.

She beats us all.

My parents remodeled the front of the cabin this year.I don't know why but this kid LOVES Bear Lake dirt!!!!

We tried out the Garden City Pool with our neighbors.