Merry Christmas

We drove to Denver for Thanksgiving. The ride there was great, but coming home there was tons of snow! But we made it. Grandpa Whiting gave Lincoln some deer horns that he uses as a hat rack. We love them.
We enjoyed visiting with everyone and had yummy food.

We love this smile on Dallin's face. It has been so fun decorating for Christmas and looking at lights and making treats (not that I don't make treats all the time anyway) but now I feel like "oh it's for Christmas". The kids are doing the usual sorting presents into their piles and saying, "hey, Lincoln has more than me!" in a grumpy voice. Then I remind them of all that we do have and how blessed we are!

Always something fun

Is this a common thing for kids to pull all the toilet paper off of the roll? I know my other 3 have.

The girls put on a "blueberry & strawberry" ballerina show for us.The boys had fun watching.

Throughout this year I have been putting together a family photobook. I love it. There is a great page with all the pictures of Anna sleeping. I don't even plan these--they just happen so I have to take a picture.

Todd and I at the Springs Preserve.

Dressing up

Every year for Halloween we pull out our wigs, Todd wears his polyester pants and I wear my pink ones (sorry there's no full body shot for this pic) I love these different hair styles I get to try. We had our Ward party last night. It was fun. Dallin wouldn't stop crying for almost the first hour. It was crazy. Maybe he was scared of us, I don't know.This one is before we had any kids in our BYU basement apartment.

School Fall Festival!!! The kids each got a goldfish. They are still alive. We put them in a punch bowl on our kitchen table. Kaylee named hers Goldie (I wonder how many other fish from the Fall Festival got named Goldie?)

Kaylee and I enjoyed our Beauty and the Beast play.

Happy 32nd Birthday Todd. We love you lots! Thanks for being a super daddy and husband.

Visiting the farm

There's a little farm down the road with some fun animals at it. We love when Dallin squats. Anna wore a bunch of brown eye shadow that day.

This one's for you honey!! I love you. You are definitely blogworthy.

Birthday party weekend

Kaylee just turned 7. We're going to a Beauty and the Beast play together next week. She looks very cute in her new shirt- the long sleeves were perfect for how cold it has been! She's having lots of fun with her new webkinz on the computer.
In the evening we watched Princess Diaries 2. It was so fun. Anna fell asleep early though while I was finishing my sweet pinata.I made a spider pinata (just put paper mache over a balloon)! Todd thought I should buy one at the store. No way--growing up my family always made our own for the 4th of July. It was unique! My cool brother Jeff and his totally cool and cute wife Nichole came for the weekend. We carved pumpkins. The kids totally love playing with them. Anna wanted Jeff to do everything for her. I loved having someone to play games with- Bohnanza and Pirates Cove. We made some good memories.

Dallin's getting to be a big boy now.