December - Merry Christmas!

Getting ready for Christmas!

Decorating the tree and house.

 Real tree, of course! :)

The finished product.

 Silly kids!   This is one of my favorite pics!

Regan's 8 months old 

 Breakfast with Santa at the Academy.  

It was great!  We met Santa, had a yummy pancake breakfast, saw some reindeer, and visited Santa's workshop.  The best part - it was free!  

 The kids got balloon animals made.  Connor got a bow and arrow and Briella got a fish with a fishing pole.

 Visiting Santa's workshop.

The kids made pirate ships.

 Connor had 'Gallery night' at the end of the semester to shows us what he's been working on at school.

This is his teacher, Mrs. Campbell and that's his giant fish he painted (right above him).

 Christmas Eve with the missionaries.

We did the Nativity as usual.

Connor was an angel, Elder Miyamoto was a wiseman, Briella was Joseph, Regan was baby Jesus, I was Mary, Matt was the narrator and Elder Lewis was a shepard.

 Joseph decided to chill in the manger.  :)

 Christmas morning!

Regan's first Christmas!

 Connor and Briella helped Regan open her presents.

 Briella's turn

 Connor's turn

 LEGO police station - he was sooooo excited!

 Briella and Connor both got LEGOs.  She was excited to have some just like him. :)

 Connor and Briella got tents and sleeping bags from Grandma Jan and Papa Steve for Christmas.  They LOVE them!  :)

November - Happy Thanksgiving!

At the end of October we had family pictures taken by our good friend April Wahlquist. 

She did an AWESOME job!!! (Thanks April!)

That's the necklace Connor made me for my birthday.  

I love all their different expressions!  :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

My parents and brother, Tyler, came to visit for a week.  It was so much fun and lots of good food!

I miss them a lot.

 I have no idea why their tongues are blue.  :)

 So cute Papa Steve!  :)

 Yay, Uncle Tyler is here!

 Wrestle time with Uncle Tyler!

 Family Home Evening (FHE) with everyone.  This is playing 'red light, green light', different ways.  

So fun!!

 While they were here we went down to Pueblo to the Children's museum.  They had a lot of Christmas stuff to do. 

 Briella and Connor mailed letters to Santa.

 Matt was entertained by the origami station. 

 Connor and his new friend built this house together.

 Regan made a new friend to - the cute baby in the mirror!

 Matt and Tyler loved this contraption.  They watched it a lot.

 My mom and I made gingerbread houses at our Relief Society Christmas party.

 Thanksgiving afternoon watching football.

 Getting all the delicious food ready.

Yum, yum!

 Uncle Tyler's perfect bite!

This was our 'Gratitude Tree'.  Most days we wrote something we were grateful for on a leaf and put it in the tree.  It was fun and helped us realize all our wonderful blessings!

Breaking the wishbone.  It wasn't quite dry yet.  We keep forgetting to do it, it's still up on our windowsill.  :)