Sunbeam

Jesus wants me for a sunbeam!

No more nursery for this handsome devil. He is now in primary with the big kids. He has been very anxious to "get away from the babies" as he puts it.  He is now a Sunbeam! His teacher is Sister Howell and she has her hands fulls with this new class of 5 or 6 very active and not too timid group. 

I hope primary is everything he thinks it to be.  And I pray for all the Primary leaders  in this ward who get to teach, lead, play, and love him.  They'll need it! 

Nice Mator tattoo Ethen!

Snow Day

The kids went back to School on January 5th only to have School Canceled on the 6th, a 2 hour delay on the 7th, and  canceled again on the 8th. And we may even have another cancellation tomorrow.

We were foretasted  for  1-3 inches of snow. We ended up with about 4-5 inches. Because they don't get much snow here, they cancel school over the smallest little flurry. So the kids have had a great time being out in the snow and sledding down our neighbors hill the last few days. Which is just right of the tree in the first picture.  Today the temperatures are frigid. We woke up to -6 degrees. I think our high is only 14 degrees, but yet my kids are still willing to go out and play in it.

I am not a fan of the cold, but I do like the snow. It just looks to pretty to me Seeing everything all blanketed in the  

fluffy white stuff. 

Here's to our new year, a cold blast of air and snow.  Kids out of school enjoying the semi- winter break . . . . still.

Happy New Year

NOEL

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!

We had a wonderful Christmas, like always, and the kids enjoyed a two week break off from school.

We were so blessed to receive numerous boxes from family back in Utah filled with presents for our family.  Every year we are spoiled by great grandparents, grandparents, and others. We really miss being able to spend our Christmas with family, but all the awesome surprises they sent let us know they love and miss us just as much.  They were more than generous this year. The kids got far more than they should have. 

 

As every year, we don't dare put out any presents until the kids go to sleep Christmas Eve. Not a single present to be found until they get up in the morning to see if Santa came.  We had so many gifts this year we had to pile them over to one side and under the new piano Santa brought. Yes Santa brought us a new Digital piano! He even brought a huge power wheel truck for Ethen.

Had to get at least one pictures before they started taring into presents. We  video recorded our Christmas so that our families could watch our joyous encounter. Therefore, I didn't take any pictures of them actually opening their gifts and the great things they found. Wish I had taken a few more.  But at least I  snapped a few of them that morning.

Ethen was so excited when he saw this and the girls where just as excited.  Later in the afternoon, Scott took the kids out to test drive the truck. Since we didn't have snow and the temperature was  in the 50's it was a perfect opportunity to play with it. We found that it works better when there is more weight in the car. Which is great news for the girls because now they can ride with him.  whereas  before going out, we were not going to let them ride because  we thought they were too heavy.

 The kids spent the rest of the day playing with their new toys and trying on new clothes. I spent the rest of the afternoon preparing dinner for us. We enjoyed a wonderful early dinner of ham, potatoes, rolls, green bean  casserole, jello salad, spinach dip and veggies. We ate leftovers for a good 2 or 3 days. I was great.
Thank you to all of our wonderful families! You have out done yourselves in making our Christmas a joyous and wonderful day! WE love you!

Santa at the library

A few weeks before Christmas, the library had a family night to celebrate.  The kids and I had a wonderful time.  They read several stories and we sang lots of Christmas songs.  Then we got a visit from Santa and the mouse from "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie".  While most of the families jumped in line to see Santa, we headed over to the craft table to make  some fun things and then had refreshments.  Each child had the chance to sit on Santa's lap and talk with him for a few minutes. Each child was also given a  book and a candy cane. It was a nice evening to spend together. Ethen  really enjoyed seeing Santa and telling him all the things we wanted for Christmas.

 Jingling those  J-I-N-G-L-E Bells

 Santa's Coming to Town

 Who knew old CD's could be so much fun?!

 We love this series of Books. We have almost all of them

Merry Christmas Jocelyn
You're on the nice list

Merry Christmas Elizabeth 

You're on the nice list

Merry Christmas Ethen

You're on the naughty list. 

But we still love you!