Christmas Clothes

I love Christmas dresses, especially the big fluffy ones! We bought these Beautiful purple dresses about 3 months ago! I couldn't resist and Lexi and Maddie thought they were Perfect! It has LOTS of sparkles (I think most of those got left at church) and so we got matching silver sparkly shoes and even a silver sparkly headband! So cute!
And definately check out my handsome son! He is too cute! I love my kids! What a GREAT blessing!

Pictures of the Trolly!

Treats Trolly

Thursday night we all met at my Mom's house (all the kids call her Grandma Treats) and Olly the Trolly picked us up. We then stopped at my brothers house to get snacks, and outfits. My sister-in-law, Jenn, organized it all and is amazing! She doesn't miss a detail. Then we hopped back in the trolly and went looking at Christmas lights. We had so much fun! After the lights we went back to my brother's house and Santa met us there. Each child got to sit on his lap then they had big presents sitting out on the lawn and all the kids got to open them. It was so fun! I hope we do it again next year! Thanks, Jenn, and Grandma Treats for all the FUN!

Christmas happenings!!

I know it has been a long time since I last blogged, but this is the season for LOTS of family parties and affairs! Here are 2 of the parties from Sun. night and Mon. night. I will post more party excitement later!

Sunday was the Cox party. The kids all dress up and act out the nativity, then we have a little talent show.

One of my Dad's sheep had babies the week before, so we used them as real props. They were a big hit.

Here are the kids singing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" as their talent.

Here is Lexi in her brand new Christmas dress, complete with Sparkly shoes!

Not to be Outdone!

So as soon as Maddie lost her first top tooth, Payton was devastated! He decided that the wiggly tooth (that had been wiggly for almost 6 months) was just about ready to come out. He wiggled it faithfully every day. Then Maddie lost her other top tooth, and Payton was bound and determined to get at least one of his top teeth out! Sure enough, whether it was ready or not, it came out a couple days ago! He was SO happy!! Now he has a huge gap, and I don't think his other tooth will come in for a while!

This morning Payton and Maddie discovered that Payton is strong enough to give Maddie a piggy back ride! They both thought that was pretty neat!

Apparently Maddie and Payton want to go into modeling! No, I did NOT take these pictures! One must have been the photographer while the other modeled, and vice verse!! Apparently, they both like the Tooshie pose!

All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth!

About a week and a half ago I pulled out one of Maddie's front teeth. It looked kind of funny, but we were excited to finally get it out!!

Today, Maddie pulled out her other front tooth! I am working on teaching her the song "All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth!" She thinks it will be super fun to sing that for show and tell next week!! :)

Elf Mail!

I began a new tradition this year called Elf Mail. My friend, Debbie, made it up! (Thanks Debbie!). On Dec. 1st a mailbox (thanks for the Vinyl lettering Shelley!) appeared at our house accompanied by 2 elves. Inside was a letter that said they were there to watch the kids and everyday they were good they would get a suprise in the mailbox.

The first day we were told to go out and look at Christmas lights and come home and drink hot chocolate with marshmallows. The mailbox had the instructions, mugs, hot cocoa packets and a packet of miniature marshmallows! The kids loved it! These are some of the photos of us checking out Christmas lights!

These are some of the deer in front of our house. The kids love to "pet" them and Lexi kisses them goodnight almost every night. They love our reindeer!

We've been Elfed!

I Elfed my kids! check it out!
They couldn't stop watching this and laughing!
Very Cute!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1143671285

Nutcracker

I have made it a tradition
to go to the Ballet Etudes "The Nutcracker"
with Maddie.
She is getting bigger and bigger
and can hardly wait to try out
for it next year.
I love this production of
it because everyone in it is under 18, and mostly because I was in it YEARS ago. I can still do some of the dances! I love it!
We went with my mom, sisters, my niece Haylee, and my friend Chrissy and her daughters, Kaeli and Paige















After it was over, my Uncle Kent let the girls come up on the stage and meet Clara. They were in Heaven!

Happy Turkey Day!!

I made rolls for the Dennison family dinner, so the kids all got aprons on and helped! I think they made more of a mess than anything, but I think they had fun! Check out Lexi! She thought the flour was better than a sand box!!

No Training Wheels!!

Maddie learned to ride her bike without training wheels! She did a GREAT job! She was scared at first, but got the hang of it pretty quickly!

She is still scared of the sidewalk, but we are working on that!






Look how cute she is!! Yeah Maddie!!!

My Missionary!

So, my little brother, Nate, left on his mission yesterday morning. He is my littlest brother, (also the biggest!) He is such a cutie and I will miss him TONS, but he is very excited to serve a mission. This is something he has been looking forward to his whole life, and also, after watching all his big brothers serve, it makes him even more anxious!!

He will be serving in the Ogden, Utah mission (yes, I'm being totally serious, I saw the call myself). He will FREEZE his little bootie off! It goes north of Ogden, to Idaho and Wyoming. COLD!!
Maddie and Payton and Lexi will miss him SO much! He is their favorite uncle to play with!
Isn't he the cutest guy you've ever seen! He has and will break LOTS of hearts!!

Halloween!!!!

The kids had so much fun Trick-or-treating this year! It was really fun for Lexi too, because she understood that all she had to say was "Twick tweet" and people would give her a handful of candy, then she would say "Sanks" (Thanks) and as she was walking away from the door, she would grab a piece of candy and hold it up and say, "TANDY!!!" as if she just won the world series! This happened at almost every house! It was TOO Cute! After about 6 houses (and 6 handfuls of candy) she was done carrying the pumpkin. It was too heavy! I have the Cutest kids ever!!

My Cute Kiddos! WE had Annakin, Tinkerbell, and Ariel! You can't tell, but they had lots of SPARKLES!!

This was my Mother-in-laws stash of candy that she was going to be giving out for Halloween. Lexi looked like she had died and gone to heaven!! The bowl (more like a bucket) was bigger than she was! It was adorable!

The Pumpkins! The kids had a blast carving the pumpkins (Ok, Lexi had a LOT of help, and didn't really carve anything, she just danced around looking cute and entertaining us). Maddie and Payton loved picking out the patterns and then poking the holes and then using the knives to carve. They did a GREAT job!

Tyler's office wanted everyone to dress up for Halloween, and Tyler wanted to go as a PA (Duh, so boring!) so, instead he chose to go as a surgeon. I still thought that a surgeon was pretty boring, so we borrowed this great fake screw and glued it to Tyler's head. This is the most he has been dressed up in our entire 9 years of marriage!! Thanks, Chad, for letting us borrow the screw. The kids thought it was pretty creepy too!!

Jacob or Edward?

Well, any of you who know me and my GREAT friends, we always have FUN girls parties. We recently had one for Halloween based on the Stephenie Meyers books! All of us have read them (at least once, most of us have read them 2 or more times). Shelley did an AMAZING job of creating the mood. We had dinner, Twilight trivia, and Theories of what the next book might do! We came up with some pretty interesting stuff! Very creative!

Below are some of the pictures of the party!

The Invite!!One of the games was to figure out which character you were from the book!

All of the DELICIOUS food!! We all needed to "feed!" The Menu included:
Lasagna - Grizzly
Bread Sticks - Newborn Vampire Fangs
CreamCheese Ball - Warewolf Grub
Red Vines - Victoria's Hair
Slush Punch - Blood
Salad and Veggie Plate - Vegetarian Vampire Food
Vampire Cookies
Apples Slices w/carmel

Shelley made these CUTE figurines of Jacob and Edward, of course!

Debbie won the Trivia with 25 questions right! Here she is with our Host, Shelley (By the way, I love the edward shirt! It says; What Addiction?)

Second place for Trivia went to Amanda, and she got this cute vinyl sticker to put wherever she pleases! (If you want one of these, let me know!)

Thanks, Shelley, for a GREAT party! So, the question remains; Jacob or Edward! You choose!

Glasses!

Apparently, Payton got my bad eyesight! He got glasses! Maddie was devastated that she didn't get any (she really wanted the pink with sparkles barbie brand). We think he looks super handsome, and very grown up!! So Cute!

Daddy/Daughter

Back in September, Tyler took Lexi and Maddie to our ward's Daddy/Daughter. They all slept in the back of the suburban because it was pretty chilly at night! Here is some of the fun!

Check out the HAIR!! Yikes!