Santa Claus!

We had our 'Ward Christmas Party', and of course we had a great visitor at the end whom all the kids enjoyed very much! Santa Claus!

He came in and read a great story to the kids, they got to do actions to it and were so involved. Then they got to take turns sitting on his knee. I can't remember a year that at least one of my kids didn't cry or sit on his knee. This year, they were ALL excited to sit on his knee and tell him what they wanted for Christmas! It was fun watching all of them wait their turn! Then Morgan ran up infront of the kid ahead of her and gave him a big hug, it was way too cute! They were all so into the storytime with Santa!

Morgy and Santa!

I loved this picture of Henry telling Santa what he wanted(a garage for his toy cars)!

Katelyn and Santa deep in conversation!

My little gang, they were pretty excited about their candycanes!

Winter Fun!!!

I can't tell you how excited my kids were when they woke up one morning and everything outside was covered in fluffy snow! Henry couldn't stop asking when we were going to go make a snowman. So he was pretty excited to go help dad build one. Although he tackled it when it was all done(thanks to dad demonstrating that last year), so we had to fix it because Katelyn didn't appreciate that very much. Here is our 'Canadian' frosty!
All Morgan wanted to do was eat the snow, so we just made sure that there was no yellow snow around her.

When it's cold outside what can we find to do inside? Why not have a spa afternoon. I pulled out the footspa and face masks, the kids had a blast with them. We made smoothies and snacks. Henry is officially a fan of the spa, Jason wasn't too excited about his boy doing that though!

I got to help out with Katelyns class Thanksgiving party. We did a fish pond and game with them at our booth. Henry was so excited to come along and hangout with his big sister. He talks about going to school all the time(but it has to be Katelyns school). Not until next year I tell him.

Thanksgiving!

So yeah, I'm a bit slow at the blogging thing lately. I'm sure that many of you can relate that it is kind of a busy time of year. Well I just wanted to catch up on a few things. We headed down to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving this year. We ended up leaving a day early and only had about an hour to pack the family. There was a huge storm coming and we wanted to beat it. We headed out of the driveway and it had already started, but we managed to get ahead of it and had good roads the whole way. Although Morgan threw up all over herself on the way down, as well as Thanksgiving day too. She was so cuddly and docile the whole day. Poor girl.

I brought my camera and managed to take '0' pictures the whole time. Probably because I was constintly taking care of sick kids.

We all managed to have a blast with the cousins and my two sisters and brother. It was fun, although we didn't have everyone there. The kids loved the nice weather and going to the park everyday. We got to do some black Friday shopping in the middle of the night. Good times.

We had a great time and a nice little vacation. Thanks Lani for being such a great hostess!

SICK

I manage to get the flu during most of my pregnancies and it isn't very fun. I started feeling sick on the way back from Vegas, then we got stuck in a snow storm and had to spend the night in Cedar City at a cool condo with Tanya and Jesse and families. It wasn't too bad after all. Although I really was sick the next 3 days and couldn't do much of anything. Its even harder when you are pregnant because I have to eat and I just couldn't keep anything down. So my life saver was 'Gatorade,' which I normally don't drink, but it saved me. My poor kids were great to help out and understand. I called my sweet mother-in-law one day and started crying and told her 'I need help!' She is always so willing to help out, I just need to ask. It's hard for us moms to realize that we can't do it all sometimes. So thank you so much Nancy. Oh, and great friends to watch my kids while I go to the Dr. You are the best!

I was very glad to be feeling a lot better, and my kids were as well. So I took them to Kangaroo Zoo to tell them how much I appreciated them helping out!

Tumbling!

We started Katelyn at a new gym this year. She is now at USA Gymnastics, and they had a little show off day where the parents could come and see what the girls have learned so far. It's been a great place for her, she has learned so much more in such a short period of time this year. She absolutely loves it.

Here she is doing a bunch of cartwheels in a row on the trampoline. I took more pictures but didn't need to post them all on here. She was so proud of herself, and she should be, she has improved soooo much. She loves to show us her stuff at home all the time, and she has two little shadows trying to mimic her every move. It is really cute trying to watch Henry and Morgan copy her. Don't worry, I haven't been trying to copy anyone, especially with this huge tummy in the way.
Here she is with a few of her friends that are also in the class with her. Audrey and Alexis. They all did such a great job!