Snow Day

Maddison and Tami here for a vacation and Maddison wanted to play in the snow. So luckily Mother Nature was kind enough to oblige her. We bought Maddison some snow clothes, bundled them up and sent them out.

The kids were trying to build a snowman by themselves, but they couldn't get them to stack so Aunt Tami went out to help and fell on her backside, unfortunately that's not on camera.

Derek wanted to play.

A decent snowman for a 7, 6 and 4 year old.

They tried sledding but there wasn't enough snow, and it was too wet.

My baby is 11 months old

Not quite. He's still got a week, but isn't he cute. I can't believe it's been almost a year!

Watching the BYU basketbal game.

Christmas Crafts

I'm not an crafty, artsy person at all, but something about Christmas brings it out. I've been keeping the kids quite busy with Christmas crafts. The first thing we made was Santa Claus advent calendars. Yesterday Haley and Logan made paper chains and today we made stockings.

More Christmas Crafts to come.

Heber City North Pole Express

Tuesday night we took the kids to the Heber City North Pole Express. We left to go up to Heber as soon as Haley got out of school. Unfortunately we got stuck on the freeway and missed our 5:00 ride. So Kevin called and changed our tickets to 7:30. We picked Kevin up and went to the Riverwoods to walk around and see the lights and then to dinner. We then headed up to Heber.

They decorated the train for Christmas and in each coach they had an elf, who read a story, walked around with a microphone and talked to people and led everyone in Christmas Carols. Some other elves passed out hot chocolate and cookies. We took the train to the "North Pole" where we picked up Santa Claus. He walked through and talked to all the kids. The ride was 90 min long. It was a very long night, but the kids really enjoyed it. They loved riding on a "choo choo train."

Isaac thought I was the cookie.

Haley asked for a Disney Princess art set

Logan asked for an airplane, a truck, and a car.

Isaac said "my eyes are closed I can't see him."

Towards the end of the ride all the kids gathered together so they could take turns singing in the microphone.

Decorating the Christmas tree

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year we had Dan, Melinda, Amanda, Lauri, Jenna, Jordan, and Amanda's boyfriend Tyler. This is the coldest Thanksgiving I remember. Wednesday the high was supposed to be 17. We usually don't get that kind of weather until January. On Wednesday Kevin, Melinda, and Logan went to the Jazz game. Logan watched every play and yelled defense. He even did math by basketball trying to figure out the score, they said free throws kind of screwed him up. . The jazz won and he had a great time. Thursday was Thanksgiving. Friday we went and saw Tangled and then went to Cafe Rio for Jordan's birthday. That night the girls went out for Jordan's birthday to get dessert. Saturday Dan, Melinda, Kevin and I went out to lunch. It was a great time!