Jr Jazz Begins

Kade started basketball today with jr. Jazz it's an instructional league where they teach fundamentals during practice then ref on those during the game Saturday.

For the 1st practice, Paul had to work late so I brought all four kids. They entertained themselves with practicing dribbling.

Reflections winners

This morning was the Parents and Pastries at the elementary school. Both Paul and I went to read stories and eat donuts with Kylie, Bailey & Kade (Jaxon was along for the ride).

Then we stayed for the reflections awards ceremony. Kylie won 1st place in Photography and Kade won honorable mention for 3d art. We are so proud of them and their hard work.

Big Wheels

Jaxons very most favorite thing is to be outside riding his big wheel. I came home to this adorable face on a warm sunny November afternoon. ❤

It's beginning to look like Christmas

This year we decorated for Christmas on Saturday in our jammies listening to Christmas music. There were 6 boxes, two trees and we spent hours putting it all up. But we loved every minute. It's really beginning to look like Christmas around our home!

Happy Thanksgiving

This year we hosted Thanksgiving for 24 people at our house. Pauls brothers(scott, Kent and Keith) and their families, his sister Kims family and Ken and Rick(his sister Jenni's boys) were all there. It was craziness but so much fun!

Silly Putty+Kade=Disaster

I love technology especially on days like today when Kade got silly putty in his hair and eyebrows. How does that even happen? I don't even think he knows. Obviously this has happened to other people (glad we're not the only ones) and we now know the answer to getting it out is nail polish remover. Poor Kade, he thought he was going to be in big trouble, hence the sad face.

So much snow

Our first real snow storm came this weekend. It came after more than a week of weather in the 70s. 

The kids were DYING to play in it but had outgrown their boots (except Jaxon) so this morning I went and searched for some. There wasn't much to choose from but luckily I was able to find them each some and Kylie some gloves (which were lost last winter at school). They had a blast! Then we made some hot chocolate. This is the best part of living where there's snow. 

Bahamas Getaway

We are very fortunate for Paul to have the job he does. He's a hard worker and recently earned a Super Start Vacation in the Bahamas for the two of us. He was in the top three sales people in his division for hte first quarter. We left on Wednesday night and came home Sunday night. With Hurricane Sandy, our original flight was cancelled (the layover was in NYC) but luckily his company travel agent was quick and found us another flight. Some others had much longer flights. Ours wasn't too bad. We left at 1am MST and got there at 1pm EST.

The resort, Atlantis, was amazing. We had access to the Atlantis water park with 11 swimming areas, 11 water slides, two Lazy River Rides, our protected Paradise Lagoon, The Dig, the Predator's Lagoon, all of our marine life habitats, and the ocean beach area. We also got to swim with the dolphins (hands down my favorite) and go on a catamaran and snorkel.

It was a great vacation that was much needed for the both of us.