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!!