Christmas Lights and Little Elves

I LOVE Christmas--the lights, the decorations, all the parties and get togethers and most importantly, remembering the birth of Jesus. We have been so busy but have had a lot of fun enjoying the season! Our kids are so excited for Christmas to come and love every aspect of it! Oh, to be a kid again...

We went downtown to see the lights at Temple Square with our good friends, the Foxes. The lights were all SO beautiful but it was cold and Easton was exhausted so the kids didn't last too long. Such a fun night though!

Easton, Ava and Elle

Foxes with us in front of the temple


Tanna and me with our cute babies, Mia and Jayne, that are only 2 months apart

Jayne looked so cute all bundled up

We went to Gardner Village to see the Elves with Jill and Drake. Easton remembered the witches and asked to go back. When I told him that now there were Elves instead, he was so excited!!!

Easton and Drake

The kids and me at Gardner Village

Jill and Drake

Gingerbread Houses and Holiday fun

Don's brother, Ken, and cute Mitchell came over one night to decorate Gingerbread houses. The kids had so much fun!

Elle did hers all by herself and did a great job!

Easton put as much candy as possible on his house



Elle and Mitch were being funny and wanted to take pictures doing basketball and dance poses. Mitchell set up this photo for he and Elle. He is all boy and Elle is all girl! They are so cute together.


The dance pose Elle set up for Mitch

A huge Gingerbread house at Little America

Easton and Jayne love to watch the train go around the tree

Our sweet baby

Easton with his candy tree he made in preschool

Easton and Drake with their Christmas countdown chains

Sometimes Easton gets his head in the wrong hole when he dresses himself. So funny!

Elle was "Star of the Week" the first week of December. She was so excited to make her board and explain it to the class.

Easton's favorite stuffed animal, Coco (Named after the shitsu dog we had for 12 days last year)

Thanksgiving!!!

This post is a little late but things have been crazy busy! We drove to Sacramento to spend Thanksgiving with some of my family. Both of my brothers, Scott and Josh, live there, my sister, Sena, flew up from Southern California and my dad came in from Vegas. It was so fun to be with everyone! We stayed with my brother Scott and my cute sister-in-law, Heidi, who is 7 months pregnant. They have a Beagle, named Cali, and I was a little worried how the kids would do since they aren't around dogs much, but they loved it! (I think poor Cali was ready for a break when we left.)

We had a great weekend! We ate amazing food, played games, watched movies, went Bowling, went to see "A Christmas Carol" and did a little shopping! The best part was just laughing and being together! The kids loved all the attention they got too, being the only kids there.

Josh, my dad, Sena, Scott and me

Thanksgiving Dinner-Sena, Heidi, Scott, Josh

My dad, Don, Easton, Elle and me

Elle being silly with her spoon

Of course, Easton loves to be like Elle

Jayne's 1st Thanksgiving dinner

Sharing a little food with Cali (Jayne and Cali became buddies because Cali doesn't usually get people food)

Easton loved Cali and always wanted to pet her and play fetch

Elle and Easton with their new vest and fleece they got from Gpa Mike and Connie

My sister and me

Aunt Sena and Jayne

Uncle Josh playing with the kids

An intense game of Monopoly (It was Heidi's first time playing and she won!)

Playing Skeeball at the Bowling alley arcade with Aunt Sena

Jayne at the arcade

Josh and Scott at the arcade

Neither of us had ever done Dance, Dance Revolution but Sena and I laughed so hard trying it!

Bowling was so much fun!

Elle is very competitive so she was thrilled that she bowled two strikes

Easton was just thrilled to knock any pins over and got so excited

Don bowling

I love to bowl! I don't know why because I am not good but I think it is so fun!

We were still in Sacramento for the BYU-Utah game. We have taught Elle well and she is a die-hard BYU fan. Both my brothers went to Utah so Elle insisted on making crowns and decorations for the game. It was pretty cute. She was so thrilled when BYU won. What a game!

Driving home from Sacramento, we stopped at Saltair to show the kids the white sand from the salt. They thought it was pretty neat. We had a great weekend!

Girls Night Out--Vampire or Werewolf?

We had a fun Girls Night Out and went to a screening of the movie, "New Moon" the night before it opened in the theatre. It was so much fun to be out with friends without our little ones. I am not a die hard fan but was excited to see it after reading the books and had to get in on the Twilight craze! We got together the night before and made our own "Team Edward/Jacob" shirts although most of us were torn between liking Edward in the book and Jacob in the movie. The writing on my shirt didn't stick very well but I decided on the sparkly vampire...

Angie, Jill, Molly, Somer, Tanna, Summer at the movie screening

What a fun night! Can't wait to do it again for Eclipse!!!