MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS!

Nutcracker Performance & A Family Party

This week and weekend continued the craziness of the wonderful season. I think some people think all of the busyness takes away from the spirit of Christmas, and I agree somewhat, but I also love all of the great things we can be part of. Spending time with family, watching our children truly enjoy life, giving to others, etc. I do love reflecting on the real reason we celebrate this wonderful season.

Friday the girls both had parties at school and they are very happy to be on a break for awhile. Ellie's class had a Happy Birthday Jesus party, and Bailey's played games, made crafts and decorated cookies

On Saturday the girls dance studio put on their own version of the Nutcracker. Ellie was one of the soldiers and Bailey one of the angels. They were so excited and really loved being a part of it.

Their costumes turned out really cute

After the performance we headed straight to Oakley for a family party with Ryan's family. We had a great time hanging out and watching the kids with their gifts. Santa stopped by and was of course the star of the show. The girls LOVE their cousins and I think it is awesome that they are already have such great relationships with the them.

Ryan lovin Santa a little more than Logan did :)

but he does Love his new Baby Einstein DVD

New Barbie Movies

The girls got some stylin new hats and pink Razor scooters, look out here they come!!

The weather was a little scary getting home last night. It took us twice as long as it normally does. The snow is kind of fun this time of year. We are definitely going to enjoy a white Christmas, which always adds to the wonderful spirit of Christmas. We hope everyone drives safe and has a very Merry Christmas!!

Poop on Santa, Missing Tooth, and A Christmas Program

Last night we went to the mall so the kids could see Santa. It was crazy and hectic to get out the door, why is doing something fun not easy?, the mall wasn't to busy which was nice and we only waited for Santa for a few minutes. As our turn was drawing near I was holding Logan and I felt a little rumble in his pants. He pooped right before we left so I figured it was just a little gas. The girls ran into to Santa and I went to sit Logan on his lap too. As I was passing him over I caught a wiff of him, not pleasant, oh well snap a quick photo. Photo turns out pretty cute, wish they would have worn more Christmasy clothes but whatever, pick up Logan so the girls can talk to Santa. Notice that Santa has a little orangish greenish "stuff" on his suit, oh that can't be, oh but it is, poo leaking out of the bottom of Logan's pants. What to do, what to do?? Do nothing, let girls talk to Santa, tell Ryan that Logan pooped on Santa, run for bathroom holding Logan out in front of me. Take Logan into nasty public restroom, pants and one sock are dirty, shirt and onsie are okay. Hum...what do I have in the diaper bag oh good pants, navy same as what he was wearing, oh wait they are 0-3 months, okay so shorts, coldest day of the year, whatever. No socks in diaper bag but brown sandals, been wondering where those were.... Wrap Logan in my coat, go find family at McDonald's, put Logan back in car seat wrap blanket and jacket around him, no one can see he has no socks on and shorts...aka white trash. Remind myself to restock diaper bag with season appropriate and proper fitting clothing. Good news..... girls loved seeing Santa, Ellie asked for a Webkin and Bailey told him to surprise her. Yes, I did look back on this and feel sad for the next kids that see Santa and may possibly walk away with a small amount of a orangish greenish substance on them, but I did not think of this at the time. The only reaction was to get out and get out now. Poor Santa, poor kids who saw Santa later. I am sorry. Merry Christmas!!

In other news, Bailey FINALLY lost her first tooth. Her two bottom permanent teeth were growing in behind her baby teeth, making the baby teeth only kind of loose and looking like they were never going to come out. I was planning on taking her to see Ryan next week and just have him yank them out. Which totally made her freak out. We were going to see some Christmas lights with some friends from our ward, when we got there Bailey got out of her seat belt and Ryan was still pulling up, he hit the brakes and she went flying. Result, face slammed against the center console .......lots of crying....... then tears of joy........ the tooth got knocked out. Yea! We really are white trash. Hopefully the other one comes out soon. Maybe she will still need to get that one pulled. The tooth fairy did visit and she is one dollar richer.

On Monday Ellie had her preschool Christmas program. They did a good job. Since she goes to a Christan preschool most of the songs were focused on Jesus. It was pretty cute. There was one little girl in Ellie's class that was pretty much screaming the songs the whole time. It was funny, but I am glad that it wasn't my kid doing the screaming. Her class sang 12 Little Angels, Away in A Manger, and Christmas Morning. Ellie was a little shy at first but warmed up a little towards the end.

This time of year is crazy but it is filled with lots of great memories!! I do love Christmas!

Little Elves

Last night we had our ward party. I thought the kids looked cute all dressed in red so I snapped a photo. Notice the red tights on the girls. You can sort of see the cut down tree in the background, it actually turned out really well. I was happy with it, especially for 5 bucks. After the ward party the girls were getting ready for bed and Ellie took off her skirt and started doing a little dance. I told her she looked like an elf. Well they both of course thought this was hilarious and did little dances and pretend to make toys for the next 20 minutes.

Hot Glue and a Wungie

I have decided that I think hot glue is one of the greatest inventions ever. I have been using it a lot the last couple days for various projects. Little Nativity's for our primary kids, hats for Ellie's dance class Nutcracker performance, to fix Bailey's shoe and to make her Christmas tree for school etc etc. Seriously what a handy invention. Yes, the tips of my fingers are a little burned but I have accomplished much.

Today Ellie said.....

"mom do you know what a wungie is"

Me: " a wungie

Ellie: "yeah a wuuuungie"

Me: "no Ellie I don't know what a wungie is"

Ellie:"its something you scrub your body with"

Me: "interesting I haven't heard of that"

Ellie: "yeah its like a squeegee but for your body"

Me: "laughing, quite hard"

So if your sick of the everyday towel after a shower, look for a wungie it may be on the market soon. Silly girl! She can be kind of naughty sometimes, but she does crack me up!

6 Months

Logan has been 6 months for a couple of weeks, but he just had his doctors appointment today. He is growing up, here are his 1/2 year stats:

• Weight: 16 pounds


• Length: 27 inches


• Head: 17 inches

He wasn't busting off the charts, and she was actually a little concerned about his head circumference percentage. So we are going to boost up his milk a little and take him back in 6 weeks just to make sure he is following his growth curve. I am not to worried, he seems very healthy. He loves to eat cereal, oatmeal is his favorite, he loves squash and bananas. He has mastered the army crawl and loves to get in the yoga down dog position. He gets up on all fours like he wants to crawl but hasn't quite done it yet. He makes this piratey growling sound that we all think is hilarious, and has recently discovered the "d" sound. He kind of says da da, but I think he is just babbling. We are so happy he is part of our family!

Thanksgiving

We had a good Thanksgiving, it was great hanging out with everyone and taking a break from the day to day stuff. We had dinner with Ryan's family at his Dad's house. The kids loved playing with their cousins and we all enjoyed some great food. The next day my sister in laws and I hit the Black Friday craziness on only 3 hours of sleep. It was so worth it, we found great deals but more than anything we had a great time. I need to get the picture from Mindy of all of our stuff crammed in the back of Julie's Yukon. Good times!! Saturday we thought it would be fun to head into the mountains to cut down a Christmas tree. Aaron was a great sport and came with us to show us where to go and help Ryan cut it down. The guys had fun pushing our car to its limits, Bailey loved running around looking for the perfect tree, Ellie stayed in the car with Logan continually asking if we could just buy a tree at the store. We did find a tree I don't think it is the most perfect tree out there, but it turned out great now that it is all decorated. The kids love it so that is all that matters, oh and the fact that it cost 5 bucks (just for the permit)! I am excited for the Christmas season and to finish getting all of the decorations up.

On Logan's First Thanksgiving he didn't want any of the food, just this back massage thing

that made him laugh and laugh

Some of the kids with their yum-o food

This is the tree but we only ended up without about half of it because there was really two trees growing together. I will post a finished photo of it later. There is still to much junk on the floor around it that I can't take a picture. I wouldn't want to give you a glimpse of how I really live most of the time :)

We are Thankful !

Last night for family night we talked about Thanksgiving and about all of the things that we are Thankful for. Everyone had a piece of paper divided into 6 squares and we all had to draw or write things we were thankful for. Even Logan. Here are the things everyone came up with......

Logan is grateful for...

1. Bottles
2. Family
3. Diapers
4. Binki's
5. His crib
6. His bath

Ellie is grateful for...

1. Mom and Dad
2. Sister and Brother
3. Rainbows
4. Flowers
5. Food
6. Stuff

Bailey is grateful for...

1. Her Toys
2. Family
3. Her Room
4. Her Bed
5. Food
6. Drink

I am Thankful for...

1. My Family
2. The Gospel
3. Our Home
4. Ryan's Job
5. Good Food & Healthy Body
6. Books

Ryan is Thankful for...

1. Family
2. Book of Mormon
3. Teeth
4. Food
5. House
6. Clothes

We have much much more to be thankful for but I love that the girls came up with them all by themselves. The list could go on and on and I am grateful for this season, so we can all realize they many blessings that we have been given.

Bailey's Turkey Day Projects

Bay came home from school today with all of these super cute Thanksgiving crafts that she made at school. I thought they were worth taking pictures of.

Ellie's Feast

Yesterday Ellie had a Thanksgiving Feast at her school. All of the kids dressed up as either Pilgrims or Indians. Ellie's class was Pilgrims. It was very cute and they went all out with the food, it really was a feast. She was able to sit by her friends Brinley and Rex. She loved all the food and is excited for Thanksgiving, we were in charge of bringing some Jell-O jigglers. Ellie wanted to take purple and blue ones, not the most Thanksgivingish colors, but fun colors. I was glad I was able to be there with her.

Color Guard / Bloody Nose / and the Missing Pants

Last week for Girl Scouts they had a birthday party for their founder with all of the troops in our area. Bailey's leader was in charge of it so our troop was able to do the color guard for the ceremony. Bailey was in charge of reading and bringing in the troop to do the color guard. She did a great job. I was proud of her for doing it, there were a lot of people there.

Ms. Joanne is such an awesome troop leader!

Ellie is a wild child as usual, she has gotten two bloody noses in the past week. The first time I was partly to blame, she was climbing on my legs and the slipped and she fell flat on her face. Sad! It bled a little, but on Sat. she was running into her room and tripped and slammed her nose onto Bailey's bed frame. It bled a lot! That poor girl and her nose, she is seriously going to need reconstructive surgery when she gets older. She has hit it, smashed, slammed it, quite a few times. Anyway it wasn't funny but looking at these pictures of her make me laugh. She was fine after a few minutes and was back running around. Ryan is also very prone to bloody noses so I figure it could be in the genes a little.

Logan loves undressing his lower half these days. It started with his shoes, then his socks, he seriously ALWAYS has cold feet. I have tried 5 or 6 different kinds of socks, he can get them all off. He has now moved on to his pants. If his pants are even at all lose he can get them off. Once he does he is so proud of himself and just laughs and rolls and rolls. These pictures are of his jammies that he took off about 5 min. after I put them on. He started army crawling a little this week and loves to roll under the couches or beds. He is a busy boy!

Church Baby ?

The past few Sunday's Logan has really found his voice at church. He is definitely not a newborn anymore. He loves to squeal, laugh, scream and he never stops moving. Kicking and head banging are some of his favorites. I have kind of forgotten how crazy church can be with babies. Do I already have to start counting down to nursery?? I guess the hall roaming will begin shortly. Oh well, he is worth it. It is fun and sad to watch him growing up, it is going so fast he rolls and scoots on his back everywhere and he got himself out of his Bumbo today. I thought he was going to be the mellow one, but I am beginning to think differently.

Not too much more has been going on. Bailey had a few days off from school last week for parent teacher conference. Her teacher said she is doing really well, in some things I can tell she is one of the youngest kids in her class, but in others she does really well. It is hard as a parent to know what else you need to be doing to help your child in their school work. I feel like I work with her a lot I just hope it is enough.

We finally went to see High School Musical 3, the girls loved it. I also found it enjoyable to watch. It was fun to just take the girls and see how excited they were. I am sure we will be adding 10 more HSM songs to our memories soon.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

We had a great Halloween, it seems like we have been celebrating it for over a week. With the trunk R treat, school parties and the actual day, we have gotten a lot of use out of our costumes and more candy than we will ever need. Bailey didn't' have school on Halloween so once Ellie got home, and after we took this cute picture in their Halloween shirts, we spent the rest of the day at the corn maize doing all of the fun activities there. It wasn't very busy so we were able to just play and hang out at our own pace. Thanks to my friend Hill and her great operation out there. It worked out perfect because, I needed to do something to keep the kids busy until it was finally time for trick or treating. When the time finally arrived there was plenty of fun to be had.

2 Angels and a

Handsome Little Devil

were the costumes of choice this year

I joked that the costumes should have been reversed seeing that Logan really is an angel but I think they turned out pretty cute and the kids loved it.

Logan just enjoyed being able to be outside for most of the day. He LOVES being outside.

The weather was great, it was a perfect fall day. It was excellent trick or treating weather, no jackets to cover up the costumes were necessary, the kids went until the couldn't fit any more candy in their buckets. Bailey actually came home and dumped some out and then went back out for a few more houses. They loved running around with their friends. It was fun watching them, Ellie actually said "trick or treat smell my feet" to a few people........I swear that girl..... at least she said Thank You afterwards.

Ellie and her friend Ali picking out a treat

Before trick or treating we had dinner at one of our friends house, she always makes an amazing meal in a pumpkin which the kids think is a lot of fun. It was a perfect way to start of the Halloween night.

There were some great costumes out there.

Hope you all had a very

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Here are a few more photos from some of the weeks activities. Ellie's school did a fall festival where they played games and won some cute prizes. Bailey's class had a party on Thursday, she was in charge of bringing drinks, so we made homemade root beer with dry ice. The kids thought it was pretty cool. It was fun being able to be a part of both of their parties. We decided that we would paint pumpkins this year instead of carve them. They turned out pretty cute and the kids thought it was great time.This is the table and game I was in charge of, throwing balls into the pumpkins mouth

Bailey with my witches brew

THE PAINTED PUMPKINS

I didn't make the black one, someone made it for me but isn't so cute, would totally do them like that next year I loved it.