Christmas!!!

                                                              Christmas silliness!

                                                               Decorating the tree

                                         We didn't get too many pics because we were recording also.

                                                                 Troy & the Clauses
   We had Christmas Eve @ Grandpa & Grandma Boot's. We had a yummy dinner, a Nativity & presents! I am always super excited for this fun tradition. 

                                                                    my donkey & lamb

                                                        such a handsome Joseph!

                                                                   sweet little lambs

                                               our  Nativity livestock, sheep & donkeys

          Nativity Afton was Joseph, Laynee was Mary, Addy was the Angel, Lath, Andrew & Jayden were the wise men , Adam was the shepherd, Makayla was the inn keeper & all littles were animals

                                                                  wise men & angel

                                                                     Santa came!!

                                      New christmas jammies from Grandma & Grandpa Boot

 Jingle bells down the stairs! Linkin had already snuck down & was trying to tell all the kids what they got

                                                                 Sasha hiding

                                                The boys looking at what Santa brought!

                                                      Rylynn got a baby & stroller

                                                              Makayla & Addy

                                                         Christmas Church outfits!!

                                  We had another Nativity & Dinner with the Young/Alba family

                                                               Christina & Luis

                                                                      Brian & kiddies

Jenny was awesome & organized it all. Christina, Luis & Brian all had parts also & had us laughing the whole time.

    We are so blessed to have been able to spend Christmas & the week after with family. We love you all & had a great time. We have many happy new memories. We are happy to have everything back to normal again though. A fun but busy Christmas vacation.   



December crafts & snow

So I don't remember if this was November or December but Addy & Lath both graduated from Radd Kids & got to show off their moves at the graduation. Addy did peppers to get away.

 Her class with Deputy Moulder

  Lathan almost got away, he was super quick. But he got caught & fought bravely to get away.

I was crafting with Angie all month! We made these super cute & easy ribbon flowers for the girls. It was lots of fun! These are the ones I made & Angie made a bunch & so did Jackie. 

Me & Angie made these cute blocks with me Cricut. I have had it for 2 or 3 years now & only used it for book reports for the kids. So we got some vinyl & mod podge to make these. We even cut the wood ourselves. 

 We made Chocolate candy for the kids teachers & our neighbors. The kids loved this activity. Everyone got to help. Rylynn made a bit of a mess.

Linki was so proud of his candies! 

 the finished product.  

We had these empty hot chocolate containers because my kids are addicted, they love hot chocolate. So we just covered them in scrapbook paper & filled them with candy for the kids' teachers.  

I made  these tiles for everyone family, neighbors, VT sisters & friends.  

I also made these notebooks to hang on all of our families fridges. It was a fun & not to difficult project. We hope everyone likes them. 

over break we got a ton of snow. The kids were all excited to go play 

 Kyrie hated it because it was to high for her to walk .  

Everyone else loved it though. 

This was Rylynn & Kyries favorite thing to do. 

The kids made a bunch of snowballs & pushed them all together packed more snow on & made an icecave/ igloo. They were all so proud of it. Then it rained all night & it caved in. They were very disappointed they didn't get to play in it for more than one afternoon. 

 I made 2 of these for the little girls to wear in our Nativity. Angie made 2 donkey ears for Link & Cash. Everyone got to have a part! These were super easy to make they just got fur everywhere.

For Thanksgiving we made all these pies ! We made extra's & brought them around to random houses & called it pieing. The kids really got into it. They loved picking the house they thought needed it most. We may try to do this again, it really got us into the spirit of giving & sharing. I have really been wanting to teach my kids more about service so I am trying to come up with more projects for us like this one. 

Gabrielle's Birthday

      So yesterday was Gabrielle's 9th birthday, and I think the best one so far. I always struggle this time of year ( you think it would get easier  after 9 years) but I did manage to keep myself pretty busy with Thanksgiving & other things this month. I always feel like we should to something to celebrate this day so we always have a cake & let the kids blow out the candles, and since we have been back in Utah we go to the cemetary & visit. But I really wanted to feel closer to her this year so me & Troy went to the temple.We had my Mom & Dad come during school & watch the kids & do all of the dropping off & picking up that we do. I was really thinking it would be nice to do sealings & when we walked in they had the sign up saying they needed proxies for them so I was excited. I have to say, next to our sealing day, this was my best temple day. While we were there I just prayed that I would be able to feel her spirit. ( Troy always says he would like to see her, & looks for her )
I felt the most intense happiness, that I know was her. I feel so blessed to have the gospel in my life that I have the opportunity to help other people to have eternal families. It was the best to seal other families together on her day. We met a woman who goes there everyday, & is there most of the day, what a great example. I would love to be able to feel like that everyday. I am looking forward to be able to go back again & can't wait for the day that I am able to serve more.

Trick or treat!

Halloween 2010!

Toothless the Nightfury dragon, Cowgirl, princess, Woody the Cowboy, & Scarecrow ghost face!

Gothic mummy

                                  Halloween parade at the school. Addy the cowgirl with her class.

   A blury Afton the nightfury. Troy was off work this year & was able to go to the parade with us.                                                              Cute kindergarteners

Carving pumpkins!

Makayla & Linki working to get everything out.

Troy helping Addy with her witch pumpkin.

Lathan got to carve the yellow pumpkin from our garden! He made a zombie

being silly

They wanted to play & take pics more than work on their pumpkins.

eating trunk or treat candy.

just lookin cute

The finished pumpkins ! Makayla's , Linki & Rylynn's, Afton's , Lathan's, & Addy's.We had a fun halloween with just our family this year.

Potty Time!!

     We have started potty training this week! Linkin still has poo accidents & sometimes pee ones too. And Angie & Clint started training Kyrie last week, so we decided to train Rylynn too. We thought it would be best to get them all trained  at once. 

first attempt ! they all went!

Later in the day, still excited & happy about getting bigger.

Next day! still happy & liking going potty.

Rylynn has had about 3 -5 accidents a day, Kyrie has had 0 accidents while here, & Linkin has only had poopy accidents. And 0 accidents for today,  and it is already almost 11! They are all doing great & are excited to earn treats & a toy from their potty charts.

They all have the first row filled . Hopfully next week we can go to every 30 minutes, instead of 15-20. :)