Winter Sing

 The three oldest had their winter concert. The boys both had parts they got to sing in the mic. They all did wonderfully. AJ got to come with Grandma and watch them. I love their smiles in this picture.

This was their finale.

Dad missed it because Gracie was sick. They did such a wonderful job.

My Little Santa

Most of you know that my Tyler has loved to dress up. Any day of the year he has turned himself into someone else. He has always loved Christmas too!! I wanted to show you who we have in our house for the month of December. He has been wearing my sweater from when I was a girl almost every Christmas for the last couple of years. The sweater has Santa on it. He even wears the sweater and santa hat to school for part of the month of December. He had kids at school running after him calling him Santa. He didn't wear it as much this year as last year. That makes me sad that peer pressure is catching up to him a bit.I will be really sad when he doesn't dress up at all.

My Santa and me!!

 Everyone has to sit on Santa's lap.

 Ho ho Merry Christmas!

 These pictures were taken at Meema's neighborhood Christmas Party. The girls were my reindeers and my boys were my Santas.

 We had to wait in line to see Santa so we took lots of Pictures!!

Their faces show how long the wait was..

Gracie was so funny! She didn't want to take pictures. She told me she had to concentrate so she could tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas. The sad part was we were rushed through and didn't get a chance for any of the kids to tell Santa what they wanted.

Cubs

 We have all been having fun with my calling as Wolf Den Mother. We made Christmas trees out of rice krispies. The boys were mixing the green marshmallows and calling them Shrek boogers.  They are so silly sometimes. Of course the rest of my kids had to make some too!!

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we got to eat Turkey with Mema and Papa! Of course it was yummy and filling. The next day we woke up early and drove up the Flagstaff to play in the snow with Grandma and Grandpa and the rest of the family.
It was a white weekend.

 Thanks Uncle Sean for making this huge snowman!

 Here is Hunter's snow man he made!

 Lucy and Gracie were having fun making snow angels.

 We loved to snuggle on the couch at night and watch Christmas movies. The girls loved this night when we watched Santa Paws. The teenagers wouldn't tell you the same story. They tried to get rid of the movie.

 The pond froze. The kids loved walking around on it. It was fun to slide on the parts not covered with snow.

Hunter kept standing under these icicles and trying to knock them down. Travis had to knock them off so Hunter didn't kill himself.

It takes a while to get everything ready to go and the girls were antsy to leave. They kept trying to come out in their clothes.

Hunter had the perfect snowflake on his head. We tried to get a picture of it, but as you can see it didn't really work that well.

Hunter loved the snow. It was hard to keep inside. Well I guess it is always hard to keep inside. He is an outdoorsy guy!

Here is all of us that were up there except Candice's family. It was a fun weekend!!

Family Fun

 A couple of weekends ago we had a fun weekend. We went to Gracie's Hubbard swim school party. We watch Finding Nemo while swimming. It was fun! After that we walked over to Bass Pro Shop to meet Santa. I know a bit early, but we don't really make over there that often so we decided now or never! It is pretty neat there this time of year. Check it out if you haven't.

My kids stand in this order quite often. I love it. They stair step down!!

My Baby is 4

Gracie is now 4 years old. She is such a sweet girl. I love having her home all day long with me. I would be so lonely without her. She is so funny while I do just about anything she is there to talk and talk. She talks about anything and everything. She is my only child that likes to talk on the phone. She will talk a half an hour on the phone with her best friend and cousin AJ! We had a FHE Party at the park again like last year. She really wanted to do it again. We are so thankful to have our sweet girl!

FHE

 We had a fun FHE last night. We made pumpkin cookies. I won't post the link that I got them from because they didn't taste very good. The kids don't care, but I am all about how things taste. I am going to try again with a better recipe and if it turns out I will post that.

They even make Frankenstein!!

These are they pumpkins they made. They had a blast making them. They got to bring them in their lunches today.

10 years old on 10-10-10

My Tyler had his 10th birthday this month. His bday was 10/10/10! How cool is that. We went up the cabin to party! He help decorate his cake. In case you can't tell that is the death star and lots of other Star wars things on there.

Daddy's Bday Hike

 For Travis's Birthday we went Hiking! It was a really nice day. We only made it a mile into the hike before the kids were done.
We used the burb as camera stand to snap this picture so it is a bit off.

We got to play in a creek. The water was so cold, but a warm day needs that to cool off.

Happy Trails!

All of the kids swam in it except Tyler. He only get up to his knees. Gracie was the first to dive in. Hunter couldn't let his little sister show him up so him and Lucy jump all the way in next.

On into September

It is lonely here tonight. Travis is on his second long weekend of wood badge training. I miss talking to him after the kids go to bed. I should go to bed myself, but it is always hard when he is gone. I have to get up early and go to cub scout training in the morning. Yippy!!
On another note I have been wanting to tell you all about Gracie and her swim lessons. I won a free month for the Hubbard Family Swim School off of I Heart Mesa Blog It has been great. Gracie is now going across the pool on her back(Lucy can't even do that yet). She was swimming ok before she started, but they have really stepped her up to the next level. I would really recommend them. They have been great.

My new calling is keeping me busy in a fun way. I am really enjoy being Hunters Den Mother. He is such a fun guy. He is just eating up all this scouting stuff. There are only three boys in the group right now. I am liking those numbers. It will jump a lot next year. I think there are like 10 boys turning 8 next year. That should be interesting!!

Well another year of school has started! We now have a 4th, 2nd, and Kindergarten in the family. It seems crazy to have three go to school now.

Lucy's big day!! She was excited to start going to school with her brothers and even ride the bus home.

This picture was a couple of days before school started. Gracie sure misses her buddy everyday. Mom is not as good at playing with the toys as Lucy.

Another birthday has passed for me. This year was the big 30. I don't even know what to say about that milestone in my life. I just know that I wouldn't have changed anything about the last 30 years.

What a Month!

Hunter turned 8 on 7-11! He was baptized a few days later on the 17th. He is now a cub scout. I am the lucky one and get to be one of his den mothers. It has been a Hunter Month!!! We love our sweet boy and are so proud of him. He was able to be baptized by his Uncle Weston(my brother). It was Weston's first baptism.