December Happenings

December has been a very busy and fun month!!! As many of you know, I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!! I LOVE everything about this time of year! We try to do as many fun things with the kids as we can to celebrate Christmas. Here are just a few of our activities that I actually got pics of.

Lainie's cute do for one of our days out.

Posing by the tree.

Logan's preschool Christmas program.
He was so cute and very shy - he kept hiding behind the boy next to him so I didn't get many pics of him.


We took the kids to Temple Square in Salt Lake City for one of our Family Home Evenings during December. It was so amazing and beautiful!!! After, we went for dinner and ice cream. It was such a memorable family night with our kiddos!

Our family (freezing)

The trees behind us were so pretty - pic doesn't do it justice.

Loved this one.

Kids by a light tree.

Ragan and the kids!

So Beautiful!!!

Ragan and Lainie (our Diva)

Look at that girl pose for the pictures.

Another one I love!

I just love these kiddos of ours!!!

We had so much FUN!!!!

Some of the other things we like to do for Christmas:

• Drive and look at Christmas lights
• Bake cookies and yummy treats to share
• Christmas movie nights (this year was "The Christmas Carol" and "A Christmas Story")
• Decorate our whole house for Christmas, not just the tree
• Advent calendar with candy for each day
• Decorate a gingerbread house
• Set out ALL of our Nativity sets throughout the house to remind us of the TRUE meaning of Christmas.

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Boy did it ever too!!! On our way back from Thanksgiving in Arizona, it started snowing in Kanab and kept on snowing for the entire trip home. Six plus hours of driving in snow, seeing people off in the shoulder, and wondering whether to stop somewhere for the night or not. Let me tell you how grateful we were for our Beast of a Suburban and 4-wheel drive. So glad to get home safely!!!! This is what we awoke to the next day!

Our backyard before the kids found the untouched snow!

Look at the patio table and how much snow we got!
Insane!

They are all geared up and ready for some snow time!

Jacob making a snow angel.

Nash digging out a fort.

Logan eating the snow -licking it right off the top.

Just a little snow burn on the face.

Lainie loved the snow!

My four little snow monsters!

Brrr...is all I can say! I shoveled snow for over three hours just doing our walks and driveway. Why did we get a house with such a big driveway anyway?! Seriously a good workout!!!!

Our Cutie Pie

Here are just a few cute pics of our girl,

who is growing up way too fast!!!

Love her long hair!
It's long to us, since it's taken 2-1/2 years to get here.

Such a sweetie!!!

Love her pose!!!

We found these cute skirts at Costco.

Love 'em!!!!