We wish you a Merry Christmas!

Here are the kids sitting on santa's lap giving their list of Christmas wishes.

Keegan just wanted a candy cane. Kallie wished for pet shops. Shantels asks for Barbies.

Christmas wouldn't be complete without some Christmas outfits (Thanks Grams!)

Look at all that loot Santa left! Spoiled rotten kids!



Keegan loved Christmas this year. Just the perfect age for opening gifts. After a few good gifts he got bored and wanted to play with what he already opened. Silly guy!

Shantel the pro passing out presents and reading the tags. She got tons of Barbies and a cupcake froster.

Kallie got all her Littlest Pet Shop animals and a giant Pet Shop Fitness Center. She was so excited!

As you can see there are no pictures of Me or Gary.... for some reason the camera brain fell out of my head, but we did get it All on Video, so it is not all lost! Here are some of the surprises that we got. Gary got a picture hanging level...dorky, but we just got a great family picture framed and need to hang it! He also got clothes and shoes (boring adult gifts!). I got cloethes, shoes and an awesome new camera case that will hold everything (my camera, zoom lense and video camera) all together! The big family gift was a bunch of Wii stuff. New games, more controllers etc. It was a Great Christmas, and went by too fast...as always!

Happy 6th Birthday Shantel !!!

We wanted to do a carnival themed birthday, but it turned out to be more polka dots and fun. This was my first experience with a friend part and it turned out well. I only had a few friends come (not knowing how to handle a house full of 5 year olds). We played pin the nose on the clown and had cake and ice cream and then just let the kids run wild. They had such a blast. Thanks to my friend Laura who brought her two boys, who were such troopers playing with a bunch of girls, and for hanging out and playing games with us!

MMMM polka dot cake! Present time! Ella pinning the nose on!

Birthday morning presents before school...it was a High School musical Birthday!
Happy Birthday Shantel, I cannot believe you are 6!

Ice Princess

Having a hockey player in the family, you would think that we were regulars at the ice rink (besides Sunday night games). Well, wrong. Gary's work had an Ice Skating party at the Gallivan Center. We decided that it would be a great time to get Shantel skating for the first time. We left the other two at home so we could skate and be cold without 2 other wild children.

The first trip around the ice, Gary pretty much held Shantel up on her skates. The second time around Gary told her to act like she was "walking" and that was the end of it. She was a natural. I joined them on the ice and we all held hands and skated around. That was enough for that Ice Princess, after that she wanted to skate by herself. She did great skating around the bumpy ice by herself. I can't wait to take her in some real ice. I guess this is a new family activity we will take part of!

Enlarge the picture and look at Shantel's face...classic.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! This was too cute not to share. In Kindergarten Shantel was a pilgrim for her feast; In preschool Kallie was an Indian for hers. How perfect that they each

were something so different.

The day after we had to get the tree and decorations up. Of course it was after I woke up from my nap after the Midnight Black Friday Shopping. Great deals! The kids had a great time pulling all the decorations out and looking at them. You would think they had never seen the stuff before. They did great decorating the tree, not one ornament broke (yet!). We did, however, put the kid friendly ones on the bottom.

BoYs and their ToYs!!

As some of you may know Gary has been wishing and begging for his black on black Ford F150. Well today, he finally got it. You may say Christmas came early for this guy, but I say..Finally, now we can talk about other things besides what a great truck this is, and what a great deal he can get and so on and so forth. Don't get me wrong, it IS a beautiful..oh I mean Handsome Truck! And I will definitely look good driving it! Oh yes my friends, I will be driving it!

Winter Wonderland

So the first official real snow of the year hit... and boy did it hit. At least Mother Nature waited until after Halloween! We got over 3 inches at out house. Gary was excited to pull out the snow blower and all the winter clothes. A few hours later you couldn't tell he even cleared the driveway....Ahhh Utah weather.

Shantel was dying to get outside and build a snowman, so the next day I bundled up the girls, We still needed to buy Keegan a coat that fit, and let them out!

So you may be asking what was Keegan doing while the girls were outside enjoying the freshly fallen snow?

Why getting into chocolate milk of course. I was sitting at the computer and heard the kitchen chair slide across the floor. I thought to myself, oh he is just pulling it up to the counter. A minute later I walk up to see what he has gotten into ....... And this is what I find. A whole thing of chocolate powder on the floor (and everywhere else) and Keegan laying in the middle of it licking it up. I couldn't resist, I snapped a fed pictures and told him to enjoy it while I went to get the vacuum. Wouldn't you?

Happy Halloween!

This year Halloween was a lot of FUN. We all actually dressed up and got into the spirit!

What do you get when you put together a spider witch and a pirate?

A Little Pirate, a Little Witch , a football player and don't forget the pumpkin wiener!!

The kids had a great time Trick or Treating. We couldn't have asked for better weather. We went all over the neighborhood and saw lots of cute costumes. Keeg enjoyed saying "Trick or Peat" and was very polite with a "Thank You" to follow up. Kallie loved all the attention as a witch and Shantel just thought the whole thing was cool and ran from house to house. After Trick or Treat Street, Gary's work and the neighborhood, they each have 3 huge bags of candy. I think that should last until next year!

We can't for get Kallie's Halloween parade at school. This was her first time doing something with a group and she loved it. The class had a little parade up the street to show off all the great costumes. Here are some pictures.

The Class My Little Witch

The 2 batmans are the little boys Chase and Riley that we carpool to preschool with!