Christmas Card

Santa's Coming!

 We had one of our favorite annual Christmas traditions at the first of the month. We love going to Aunt LarRene's house. This year instead of decorating Gingerbread houses we made Christmas trains out of candy. They loved this and came up with some great creations. They were easier to eat afterwards too. Chloe had a great time bossing Laramie around decorating hers.

 Then we had one of our favorite visitors come. Hayden is looking a lot older sitting on Santa's lap this year. He was excited to tell him what he wanted for Christmas. We liked it that Santa told him to make sure he was nice to his parents all month.

 Hannah told us on the way over that she was too old to sit on Santa's lap but when the time came she just counldn't pass it up. She surprised us by changing what she wanted. We are glad the magic of Christmas is still alive.

 Chloe wanted nothing to do with Santa. She cried if she even got close. She was happy to get the treat and toy. She did blow him a kiss goodbye. She has been talking about him ever since though. She sings "Santa Clause is coming to my House" and then she tells me she won't cry this time. She seems really excited about Christmas and has loved everything from decorating, wrapping presents and looking at lights. I'm sure she will love it when the actual day comes.

Thanksgiving!

 We started the week out with Cody's wedding. We were so excited for the big event.

 What a cute family.

 It was so nice to have the whole week off for Thanksgiving. We went shopping, to a movie and then the Huls family came and stayed with us. On the actual day, we went to my sister Laura's house. My kids love going there. We had a delicious meal and lots of fun games. They were so excited when they got to spend the night. They had a great time.

 Both of the kids tables.

 Decorating sugar cookies later that weekend before we watched our first christmas movie. We are so lucky to have so much to be thankful for.

 I got a white elephant gift at a party that Hayden had too much fun with. He looks pretty handsome with a "stache". Then he had to try them all on. Let's hope his facial hair doesn't grow in this way in the future.

Kate's Wedding

My neice Katie got married at the first of the month. We were so excited for her. Here she is with her new husband, Adam, my brother and his wife. We were so glad to be able to be there for the festivities. She is such a good example to my kids.

 While we were there we snuck in some shopping and other fun activities. We went to "Wreck it Ralph" and then my sister took us to a park near her house in Saratoga. They had the funnest pyramid to play on. My kids loved it!

 Chloe loving the park because her older cousins would take the time to play with her.

 We moved Chloe into her new room in anticipation of giving her old room to the baby. We are working on decorating it now. She loves it and has slept great in her big girl bed. yah! One more milestone accomplished for this sweet little girl.

Halloween 2012

 Halloween has become quite the event aorund here lasting up to a week of fun! Here they are on the big day - Hayden the BYU football player, Chloe the pink poodle, and Hannah the Chinese girl.

We started out the week with Hannah's halloween piano recital. She played Grim Grinning Ghosts. She decided to dress up as a witch for this night. It was really fun to see everyone's costumes and see all the decorations. Her teacher did a great job.

 
 Here is the pumpkin she carved just for that night.

 We can't have a year without carving pumpkins grown from Grandma and Grandpa's garden.

 All the creations at our house.

 A picture of the brain fruit dip we brought to an adult costume party we went to. I dressed up like a bun in the oven and Heath wore an apron and hat being the bun maker. It was a lot of fun.

 They started out the night before Halloween going trunk or treating with Grandma and Grandpa Jackson. They had a lot of fun.  On Halloween Day we went to the school to see the parade.

 Then we got to help in Hayden's classroom's party. We had so much fun!

 We ended the day with trick or treating! Here we are visiting grandma's and then their dad took them around the neighborhood that night. They ended up with plenty of memories and candy to last for awhile.