Gardner Village

We've never done the whole Gardner Village thing but decided to try it out. Apparently they have a list of elves to find, once you find them all you get a free sugar stick. My parents were visiting and it was a fun thing for all of us to do! The kids had tons of fun!

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Christmas Day!

Merry Christmas!

 Everyone got just what they wanted! I think the pictures tell it all :) Love all these guys!

 The only smile Kade gives when all he wants to do is open more presents and not take any pictures...

 Kylie really wanted a pillow pet. Her brother and sister already had one... She was so excited!

 Showing off her fun presents from Chey (her babysitter since she was 18 months)

 Jaxon finally got the hang of presents and loved it...

 until he got a drum. After that he was done and only wanted to play with the drum. Next year we open clothes first then toys!

 We had a great Christmas!

Christmas Eve

 On Christmas Eve, we love our traditions. We always open new pajamas.  The kids exchange their gifts they chose for each other.

 

Then we feed the reindeer food (Kade got from preschool) and put out our cookies (Nana helps the kids make them earlier in the day) and milk for Santa. 

(Jaxon fell asleep right after we put jammies on, hence why he isn't in the later pics)

Santa Baby

 

Merry Christmas!

Funny Kid

Jaxon l.o.v.e.s. all things electronic especially my mac book. This is what we find all the time... funny right?

Dance Christmas Performance

 Aren't these the two prettiest dancers? Kylie and Bailey have decided they wanted to do dance again this year (they did not want to at all last year). They were with a lot of the same girls as before and love it.

 Posing...

 

 Their Class performing the Hippopotamus song. They were right in the middle.

Watch it here. This is a new camera and we couldn't figure out how to zoom out.

Congrats girls, you did a great job!

Preschool Christmas Program

Today was a crazy day that started out with Kade's preschool program. His teachers make such a fun, cute little program. They sing songs and play little instruments.  Its fun to watch.

 With his wonderful teachers. He loves them both!

This is my favorite part of the program. We've seen it 5 times now and it never gets old! They are supposed to be imitating their parents. Who do you think it is, Paul or me? I'm going with Paul LOL.

O' Christmas Tree

We decorated the Christmas Tree for Family Home Evening. The kids loved it but didn't want to take pictures. This is how I "convinced" them...

This is how we take pictures around here... 

First the mad faces...

Then the funny ones...

and finally the sweet one...

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving Point Lights

Christmas lights are awesome, especially to 4 little kids who were going a bit stir crazy. We took them to see the lights at Thanksgiving point. Kade fell asleep on the way there and had a hard time waking up but once he did, he was in heaven. The whole thing was cute, cheap and we got to stay in the warm car, so definitely a success.

 Afterward, we got to see a couple real reindeer. Only two more weeks til Santa Comes!

 Sorry, these pictures aren't the best. I forgot my camera and only had my cell phone.

Primary Activity

The kids went to a primary activity where they dressed up as people of the time of Jesus and learned about the Savior's birth. It was right after school (for me) and I had almost forgotten about it so we were throwing something togehter. It didn't turn out half bad and all three kids had fun and learned about the real meaning of Christmas.

1st Grade Projects

Bailey had a project due for school and did a great job. She had to make a poster-board all about herself. I think it turned out great! Some things she likes: Christmas, math, add-a-frog, Guffy the Goofy Gobbler is her favorite song, dress up, going to her great grandparents house (they have a spa), jump rope, Cracker Barrel (we eat out way too much!), her sister, Saturdays and she's a daddy's girl.

At Paretnt Teacher Conferences, Kylie showed me her picture displayed at school. She did a great job and is doing so well at school.

We are so proud of both our girls and their accomplishments at school.

Snow Snow...

When we got back from Idaho, the real blizzard hit on Sunday. We got a ton of snow and the kids only made it about 20 minutes before they were freezing. It was much colder than I ever remember Utah being.

Happy Thanksgiving!

November was crazy for us with vinyls that I hardly took any pictures (sad right?).  The most exciting part of the month was Thanksgiving weekend. The kids and I had Wednesday off this year. On Tuesday Utah put out a Blizzard warning (I've never seen one of those in the 9 years we've lived here) and were told to stay inside. It wasn't near as crazy as any other storm but it was FREEZING! While holed up inside, we got a delivery from UPS of all our packaging tubes (for vinyls).

The kids and I decided to make a fort. They had so much fun. The girls even slept in it that night.

On Wednesday, we headed up to Idaho.  We got some new TVs (the girls share two and the boys share two) and Jaxon was finally old enough to watch and loved it!

The roads were icy and we had a little scare (spinning out on the black ice... S.C.A.R.Y,) but made it to Paul's brother's place in Rexburg safely. Kent and Stacy were nice enough to host our family, the Myers and Scott's Family. It was cozy but so much fun! The boys went shooting.

We had trash can cooked turkey. 

The cousins wrestled...

Poor Paige tried to stay out of the way...

We went shopping on Black Friday. Idaho black Friday is nothing like Utah. Everyone was nice. We did make overs. Bailey loved that Aunt Jenni made her hair look so pretty!

 We went sledding.  Poor Andi got knocked over by the girls but she was one tough girl!

Jaxon liked the snow until it went through his gloves...

We had so much fun!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was a crazy day. We went to our ward (church) carnival in the morning (10-12) and had tons of fun. Most of my pictures of the kids in their costume were from then (at least the best ones). Once again my super awesome amazing mom made the girls their costumes. They both wanted to be Tianna from Princess and the frog but luckily, Kylie wanted to be the princess version and Bailey wanted to be the frog. The costumes were beautiful as usual.

The boys were a pirate and a parrot. Cute right? These I bought, I'm sure my mom's would have been much better but my boys still looked awfully cute :) The one where Jaxon is on Kade's shoulders is the parrot on the shoulder. I don't know if that comes through in the picture but Paul and I were very amused.

I only got one of all the kids. Jaxon was over taking pictures, all he wanted was some milk. These are their pumpkins I never got pictures of. A two for one I suppose.

After the carnival, Kylie and Bailey had a birthday party for a friend from school who they adore from 1-3. Afterward, we had our ward trunk or treat. It was F.R.E.E.Z.I.N.G. Last year the kids didn't even need jackets. This year they were super bundled up.

Afterward, our friends/neighbors the Barons came over. We ate Chili, lots of candy, and the kids trick or treated in the freezing cold rain. It was a busy but very fun day!

Happy Halloween!

Jaxon's 1st Haircut

We've decided to grow out Jaxon's hair but it was all uneven and weird. So I took him to get his hair cut at the super cute Cookie Cutter Hair Cutting place. He sat in a car and watched Curious George. He sat stiller than I've ever seen. The lady gave him a wierd Shag (like teenagers) style that I'm not such a fan of but was able to restyle it more acceptable for an 18 month old boy.

 Isn't he studly?