The festivities of December...

This month to say the least has always been busy for us. We have three birthdays, so lots of parties to plan on top of all the Christmas parties, dance recitals and then we had a my grandpa's funeral right before Christmas which made the last week a little tough but we got through it all and I have to say this year it was just a very fun and special time for us all. We were able to do a Sub for Santa family, give to Toys for Tots, and help out family. That is what this season is all about, giving to others.
Giving of our time, money(if able) and our love. Doing what our Savior does for us every single day. How blessed we our!! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will enjoy the beginning of a new year.
Here is a wrap up of the past month for us!
Christmas morning...
Don't you just love the excitement on two of three faces. They first woke up at four, sent them back to bed and then again at six but couldn't make them wait any longer...Addison had to be woken up, which as you can see she was thrilled:)

Christmas eve..
We get together with Ryan's family Christmas eve and this year we had a big surprise for Ryan's parents. He has eight kids in his family so it's fun to plan things for his parents because they're so many that can pinch in and make it that much better and more special. This year we re-did their living room by getting new couches, some new decor and then we will paint the room as well. It was lots of fun working together as a family and putting it all together...and they loved it!!

The kids are on the look out for when Grandma and Grandpa will be home..(we sent them away to a movie) Loving their new room. I wish I had a good picture of their surprised faces..that was the best.
Think it turned out really nice.

then we go home and the kids can unwrap a present from us, which is always PJs and a then also a build a bear gift card which they are so excited about.


Neighborhood party...
Our neighborhood has a very fun tradition for Christmas. Instead of giving neighbor gifts they decided it would be better to spend the money and put it to good. So someone will hosts at their house a Toys for Tots party and have Santa there to greet the kids and roast marshmallows. It was so much fun to be apart of that and to have the kids go to the store and pick out a toy knowing it will be giving to another boy or girl that doesn't have much.



Festival of Trees.
Mckaela performed at the Festival of trees this year and it was so fun to have everyone there to support her and to support Primary children's hospital. Can I just say she was awesome:)




Temple Square.
We love going and looking at the lights at temple square each year. Sometimes the kid only last about 15 min of walking around in the freezing cold weather, it was soo cold that night!! But at least we can go for a little bit, take it all in and enjoy beautiful temple square.



It has been a great December and now looking forward to bring in a good New Year:)

Happy and sad day...

Happy birthday my big 8 year old. We sure love you!!



on a sad note:
my dear grandpa passed away this morning after living a wonderful life of 95 years. He really has been such an incredible person to look up to and to have in our lives.
He is going to be missed but never forgotten. The memories will alway be in our hearts and we will all be together again someday. We love you grandpa and we will take very good care of grandma.

The Birthday boy.

Happy Birthday to my big 6 year old. We love you buddy!!

Cutest kids ever...

So this year with being in the new neighborhood we decided to go around for a little bit around here and try and meet some neighbors but the kids really wanted friends to go with so we headed to my sisters for most of the night. They had a fun night and they all looked so cute but I must say that our little lady bug stole the show.
Our Ninja

Super cute 50's diva.

My friend Bryn (thanks) made the little tutu and then I made wings and found these red and black striped tights to complete the outfit. Addison just looked so dang cute!! (the ones with all three together got deleted I'm so mad!!)

Seriously!!!

Home Sweet Home

So we are finally in our beautiful new home and we are so excited to be here. For how long we have been talking about moving, looking for a house and now to actually be in it....its about time is all I can say!!! We love the area and are looking forward to making new friends. The kids have been off track this week so its been a little rough not knowing anyone really yet so we have had to be creative and think of some fun stuff to do. But it wont be long before the house is full with kids again.

We moved in last weekend, hired some movers to move all the big stuff which I have to say was sooooo worth it. Then we moved all the other stuff with the help of family and friends. Thank you all!! I was able to get everything pretty much put away over the weekend too which was nice to have it all done and now just enjoy being here. We sold a lot of are old stuff on KSL (love ksl) So we were able to get some new stuff, so thats been fun to redecrate:) Also got some stuff on KSL.
So here a few pic of the new digs.




Love it!!



Entry way (got the little table on ksl)








My favorite room!! I was able to redo the master bedroom.

Kitchen and I am loving the red. (kitchen table from ksl and its new!!)

Mckaela's room. My mom and I painted it the same as her old room, its just to cute to not use it all again. Addisons room is not done because we will be making changes soon when she get into a big bed, which wont be long:(

Brendan loves his room mostly because he gets the biggest room out of all of them. The colors were perfect too with what he had. The whole house is just perfect for us. We really feel lucky to be here.

Looking doing to the family room.
Anyway thats it...

Starting off to a good start

Ok so I have been told that I don't up date this enough. So for those three people that actually read this, here ya go:)


Well the kids were off for UEA Thursday and Friday, so I decided we needed to go have ourselves some fun. Now that October is here...(crazy) We decided to go pick out our pumpkins, and than head over to Gardner Village for a day of fun. They have all the witches out now and there were lots of fun activities, food and things to do. The kids really had fun just walking around, of course getting their faces painted and picking out treats. It turned out to be such a fun day and it was warm:) One day its 80 the next it was 55. So not ready for this!!


With cousins, Kaitlin, Kolby and Abby.

hangin with the witches..
after they got their face painted.

Sweet girls:)

Since we will be moving in the next few weeks we really wont be getting all the Halloween decorations out, so I thought we could at least put our pumpkins on the porch for now and that might make it seem like Halloween is on it's way.

Well Brendan is officially a big boy!! He has lost his first tooth, and let me tell you he was sooooooooo excited about it. One day last week we discovered that one of his teeth were just a little loose, he would play with it, wiggle it and check it every five minutes to see if it was ready to come out. Than he was so scared that if he ate anything that is would fall out or he would swallow it, and this was all in just one day....well day two...he was open a wrapper and out it came right on to the carpet, which we never could find, (good thing the tooth fairy still comes) but he could have cared less about the tooth he just loved the big hole it had made. Needless to say he was one happy boy and $2 dollars richer:)

So last weekend I had a good friend from high school get married. It was so good to see her and see how happy she is. There was also several friends that I have not seen since our high school reunion and that was so fun to catch up and hear all about their cute families and how their lives are out side of Utah. It was just a really fun day hanging out and remembering the good ol days.