Christmas Time

It seems like last the year flew by so quickly and now January is almost over.  I guess I had better finish blogging about Christmas soon!  The kids saw Santa at our ward Christmas party this year.  It was a lot of fun and Brylie had a little speaking part in the program.  Sadie cried on Santa's lap until he handed her a candy cane.  Then all was good!

Cody made a gingerbread house at preschool that he was pretty proud of.  As soon as I was done taking the picture he ate it!

One of the nice things about living in St. George is the winter weather.  This was the weekend before Christmas.  I think it was about 60 degrees that day. 

Of course we had to make our own gingerbread house at home.  So much fun.

We always enjoy going to the live nativity at Tuacahn each Christmas.  We went on the night that it started to get cold.  My poor kids don't handle the cold very well.  Brylie sat on my lap during the nativity and froze.  But they did get to see Santa again - just in case they forgot to tell him something last time.

The week leading up to Christmas my whole family came into town.  Two sisters from New Mexico, one sister from Salt Lake and a brother from Las Vegas.  It was a fun, busy, crowded week.  We took the kids to Jumpin Jacks one of the days.  Brylie always has so much fun with her cousin, Gillian.

Poor Michael's birthday is on the 22nd, so he usually gets jipped for his birthday!  I did manage to take him out to a nice dinner and then all my family sang him happy birthday.

The kids waiting to open presents from Grandma and Grandpa.

It was so nice to be able to spend time with my whole family at Chritmas time.

Pictures

My amazing neighbor took the kids' pictures in November.  We think she did an amazing job.  Check out her photography blog at  http://rdlens.blogspot.com

Halloween and Thriller

Last week my blog book I had made came in the mail.  I absolutely love it!  That is why I am really trying to update my blog and be current on it as much as possible.  It is so fun to look back at the begining of 2008 when I first started my blog and see what we were doing and how cute and little my kids were!  I would highly recommend to anyone to get your blog made into a book.

Halloween and Thriller

Michael's Dad, the Klunkers and the Nolands all came down for Halloween this year.  We went to Thriller at Tuacahn on Friday and it was so much fun. (Forgot my camera)  This was the first year we let Brylie go and she loved it, though she did sit on my lap the whole second half.  You forget how scary it can be!  We had so much fun.  I can't count how many times I have seen Thriller over the years, but I never get tired of it.  I have seen it many times in Salt Lake and in Saint George, and I have to say that Tuacahn really makes the show.  It is so much better here!!

Picking out our pumpkins to carve.

Our ward's trunk or treat was the night of Thriller, so we did it really fast, dropped the younger kids off at my parent's house and then ran over to Tuacahn.

Carving our pumpkins on Halloweeen.

Heiko was supposed to be helping the kids carve.  Instead we caught him on the wiggle car.

See, now he's helping Cody carve his pumpkin!

Cody and Wesley were so cute with their tiny little pumpkins they chose to carve.

Showing off the finished products.

Sadie finally woke up from her nap in time to come out and eat a cookie!

Aunt Cammie did a good job on Cody's face for Halloween.  He was so excited!

This is the only picture of Sadie with her penguin hat on.  Don't think she liked it.

The girl cousins.

All the trick or treaters.

Cammie will probably kill me for posting this picture, but she was trying to get Sadie to wear her hat by showing her it wasn't so bad.  Sadie still didn't buy it!

And of course, you always have to sort, count and trade your candy when you get home.

The next day Heiko made us a really good dinner.  Michael helped a little too.

We had so much fun on Halloween.  It is so nice to share holidays with family.  Thanks for coming everyone!