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!

Happy Halloween!

We had a Girls Night Out with our cousins at 'Witches Night Out!' It was pretty fun, I let Katelyn get a little witch makeover. They made her face green and put fake eyebrows on. She had fun with it! Our little cowgirl!
Motorcross driver!

Diva girl!

Getting ready to go into daddys work for their Halloween party!

Deciding on whether to wait out the rain or just go for the candy anyway. It was pouring so hard when we tried to start. What a wet Halloween. Morgan didn't last too long so I just let the other kids run like crazy! They got lots of candy!

How many cavities do you think I'm going to get?

What should I eat first?

This is all mine, stay back!

Pumpkin Picking!

Everyones favorite fall activity is Pumpkin Picking of course! We have a fun pumpkin patch with a hay maze that we go to every year. The kids love running around and picking their very own pumpkins. Walking along with dad, there are just way too many to pick from!
Sorry it's a bit blurry. Katelyns pumpkin was even bigger than mine!

The had to be able to carry their own pumpkins!

Even Morgan could handle hers!

Our Pumpkin Family!

(Henrys, Mommys, Daddys, Morgans, and Katelyns)

Heading to the hay maze!

You can barely see Henry on the left, Katelyn is a great sister to help Morgan through the maze!

Fall Time!

What a wonderful time of year! We have had the best weather to, although I just hope that it doesn't mean that winter is going to be wicked cold. Although I don't think that it will be near as bad as it gets in Canada where we grew up! Sorry you canadians, I love Utah weather!
We went to Wheeler Farm with some other wives whose husbands work with Jason and their kids. The kids love looking at the animals and running around the place. And hey, it's free so we love it even more! My kids sure love visiting Grandma and Grandpas house because there are lots of animals, especially cows. But they were so fascinated with the guy milking the cows by hand. Here they are all staring at the cow. I told them next time we go to Canada they can milk a cow by hand!

Of course they couldn't resist climbing on the old tractors, and they all wanted tons of pictures taken of them! We also got to go on the hay ride around the farm!

Our little model!

Our little farm boy, he has a huge black eye in all these pictures from falling into the couch. Poor kid, he has actually been such a good boy and helper lately, so he really didn't deserve to get hurt this time(surprise, I know)!

Her hair blends into the barn and she is looking pretty dazed and confused!