Christmas 2015

We had a wonderful Christmas vacation. We are so blessed to have jobs that we can be home for the two weeks all together. We had a blessed time spending lots of time together and with family. Highlights were playing lots of games, doing the 12 days of Christmas for a family, reading Christmas stories and scriptures each night, our annual drive around town and look at Christmas light. This year we ended up with a milkshake instead of hot chocolate to break tradition. We baked and cleaned. We went to Aunt Laura's for Christmas Eve. It was fun to have soup and celebrate with them. Hayden went skiing with the Sargents to Targhee. Mom took Hannah and Hayden skiing to Kelley's. The dad's took us night sledding up on Lincoln Hill. We love seeing what Fred our Elf would do each night. We were able to spend the night at Aunt Laura's one night with Alexis while my parents went to Logan for their anniversary.

We loved our Christmas eve jammies from dad this year. We have lived in them.

We celebrated Christmas downstairs for the first time. We were able to set up a kid tree downstairs this year. It was fun to spread out a little.

 
 
 
Harley is always right in the excitement!

We loved having prime rib dinner with the Jackson side the next day. It is fun to hang out with cousins and have sleepovers.

At the end of vacation, we had the Huls come stay with us and we celebrated with the Thornton side. Brianne and Hannah ended up with the same jammies.

 

We had a great time bowling!

We were excited to have a ham dinner and see what Grandpa Thornton had created for us this year.

We are so blessed with great family, our faith, food, and time together.
Merry Christmas!

Winter 2015

We have had a great start to the Winter with lots of fun activities.  We then have had a lot of snow storms and lots of time to shovel the walk.

Chloe had 50's day at school. She loved dressing up. 

Kinley has been working hard on being a big girl and getting potty trained. She got to enjoy an orange leaf after a good week with no mistakes. We are happy to not have diapers at our house anymore!

Hayden receiving an award at cub scouts. His days are limited until he moves on. He has been blessed with great leaders. 

We had a great Thanksgiving break. We went to Jackson and went swimming with the Beck's. We played games, watched movies, shopped, hung out with family, went ice skating, and to a movie. Heath had a great time cooking on his Traeger grill for the first time. The turkey turned out great. Hannah had fun making a fruit turkey for our dinner. We had the Jackson's over this year. The Huls stayed with us for a few days too. It was fun to decorate for Christmas and celebrate my mom's birthday.

It all made Kinley a little tired. She loved seeing all of the decorations come out and playing with them.

Hannah had to make a model of a cell. She chose to make a cake and label it. 

We got to go to Aunt Larene's for our annual train decorating and visiting with Santa. We love this tradition. We ate lots of candy and were so excited to tell Santa our wish for the year.

 
 
 
 
 

Chloe had a Christmas dance recital. She was nervous to get up there, but did a great job when the day came. She looked like a beautiful ballerina. 

 

Chloe has loved her music class with Ms. Tandee. 

Chloe was so excited to finish her skills book at school right before Christmas! 

Hannah decided to cut her hair. This is the before and after shot. Beautiful either way!

Hayden's Trip to Denver

 Hayden had one of dreams come true when he received Denver Bronco tickets for Christmas! He was able to go the weekend after with his dad, grandpa, Uncle Cody, Cody and Tylee to a Broncos game. It was a quick trip. They drove down one day, went to the game, and then drove home the next day. I asked him if it was worth it  - his answer heck ya!  They had a great time being together, the weather was great, and the Broncos won!