Christmas Eve!

We spend Christmas Eve with Jason's family (grandpa & grandma Allen, grandma Green, Shawn, Jen & Cole, Mom & Dad and us). We had a nice dinner, did the Nativity with puppets and watched the Nativity put out by the Church. It was a great night.

(by the way this is the lamb not a polar bear.)

Nativity

The Nativity

December 23rd we went to my parents house for a Nativity Family Home Evening. Since this was our first year home for Christmas in 2 years Savannah got to be Mary, she loved every minute of it. The other cast consisted of my sister, Katie, the narrator, Jason as Joseph, my dad as the donkey, Madilynn, Spencer(my brother-in law), and Paige were the Wisemen, Jeff and Brandon (my brothers) the shepherds, Riley the Angel, and Josh as baby Jesus, the rest of us were the audience.

It was a really nice night. We had dinner, did the nativity, watched a part of "The Nativity", and sang songs while the girls played the bells. It was great to be home for Christmas and see the traditions that I had as a child carried on.

Happy Birthday Savannah!

Happy Birthday Savannah!

Today our Savannah turns 4 years old. She is such a sweet little girl. She loves princesses, dress-ups, high heels, make-up and doing hair. She likes to help mom cook and dust. She loves going to Primary and Preschool and loves the friends she has there, (every week after church she comes home and does her own primary lesson). She loves having Family Home Evening and learning new things. She is getting good at writting her name and recognizing letters. She likes to boss her sisters around and at times forgets she is not the mom. She loves hugs and kisses, we love giving them to her and getting them back.

We are so glad Savannah is in our family and cannot imagine it without her.

We Love You, Our Sweet Savannah!

8's Tag

Okay so a long time ago my sister-in-law tagged me, sorry it took me so long but here it goes.

8's Tag

8 places I would like to eat
1-my moms
2-my mother-in-laws
3-any Mexican food
4-Cool Basil (Thai Restaurant)
5-Chili's
6-Pizza
7-Flemming's Steak House
8-my own kitchen as long as I didn't have to clean up

8 show I like to watch on TV
1-The Office
2-Flip that House
3-Little Einsteins
4-Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
5-Jazz Games
6- College Football
7-?
8-as you can tell I don't have any control over the remote.

8 things that happened yesterday
1-Showered
2-got all of us ready
3-Primary Party with Breakfast and Santa
4-grocery shopping
5-cleaned my bathroom
6-Savannah's Preschool Christmas Program
7-Ward Christmas Party
8-Read some of my book

8 things I love about Fall
1-opening my windows
2-the colors
3-college football
4-Thanksgiving
5-blankets
6-decorations
7-the smells
8-getting ready for winter

8 things on my wish list
1-to be a better mom
2-to have a house and a fenced yard
3-storage
4-to have time to read, study, and clean
5-for my kids and husband to be happy
6-a vacation
7-Safety
8-Health

8 people I tag
anyone who has not done this one yet, I know it has been going around.

Thanks for tagging me Rachael, this really made me stop and think.

SANTA!

Today I decided to take my kids to the Valley West Mall to ride the train and hopefully sit on Santa's lap. Madilynn was so excited to ride the train all morning she kept saying, "Madi train, Madi, train."

The train is so much fun for the kids and it is only $1. If you haven't done it, your kids will love it. (It is only there during Christmas and Easter.) After the train ride Madi says, "that was fun!" and Savannah said that she laughed the whole time.

Then we headed over to see Santa, we waited behind only one family and when it was our turn it was only smilies (mostly thanks to Madi). Madi went right up to him and sat on his lap and that forced Savannah to do it too, then we put Olivia in the middle, took a quick picture, told Santa what they wanted, got crayons and a coloring book and we where off. I was so surprised!

We then went a wrote a letter to Santa and mailed it in the mailbox. The kids loved it and it was fun for me to watch them get excited for Christmas.

Last but not least we went to Costco and filled up for $1.48/gallon.

Happy Birthday Olivia!

Happy Birthday Olivia!

Today my baby turns 1 year old. What a joy she is in our family. She is such a good little girl. She is getting lots of teeth, she pulls herself up to furniture and walks around it, she stood yesterday all on her own, we loves to play chase with her sister, she love peek-a-boo and to read books. She loves to be held. She loves talking baths (until water is dumped on her head). She doesn't say much but she tries, she loves to make noise. She can clap, wave, and dance. She loves to give hugs and kisses and we love to give them back.

We love you!

Thanks for being a part of our Family.

November News

This is just a journal post to note a few more things that we did in the month of November.

I took Savannah and Madilynn to the tree lighting at the Jordan Creek Mall. It was fun but I am glad Jason and Olivia stayed home, it was really cold. The girls had fun seeing the tree light up and the fireworks.

Tree Decorating. I am ususally anti-Christmas before Thanksgiving but this year we went against everything. Bought a real tree and put it up the week of Thanksgiving. Savannah asked why we had Thanksgiving decorations and a Christmas tree up at the same time.

Our Ford Focus got a hole in the engine at 90,000 miles. So instead of paying $5000.00 to fix it and possibly have more problems with it...

we bought a 1998 Honda Civic, with 87,000 miles on it that will hopefully last a long long time, at least until we are making real money.

Then on Saturday we took the girls to Disney on Ice.

They had a Wonderful time.

Dad let them each pick out a toy. Savannah chose Arial and Madi chose Snow White.

There favorite part was the princesses...

and my favorite part was watching their faces as they watched.