It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I love, love, love, December! I love everything about it! The shopping, the secret gifting of those in need, yummy treats,  10 nights of staying up all night watching or going down to the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas, the lights, smells, and sounds of Christmas, and so many fun traditions that keep us busy all month long.  We had FHE on Sunday, but decided last night was perfect to go walk around the temple and listen to the Nativity.  We are so blessed to live so close to the temple and enjoy the spirit we feel there.



Our kids know this as "the bench".  This very bench that made these cute little kids possible, is where I answered "YES!"



Happy Thanksgiving 2012

 Since this Thanksgiving was my holiday to be on call, and work the weekend we weren't planning on going anywhere for dinner so I was very happy and excited when I heard my family was all coming to St. George! YAY! I was able to arrange a few hours off with my co-worker who I was splitting the day with so I could eat and spend some time with my family and it worked out great! We ate at my sister's house, let the kids decorate their gingerbread houses that my mom bakes and assembles every year, and had just enough time to run up to a cousin's house to have pie and visit with them and their family before the ER beckoned me back. I am truly thankful for this time of year for all the blessings me and my family enjoy. We have so much and so much to be grateful for. Here's a little peek at some of our fun...

Kason entertaining us! He'd put a little ball up his pant leg and was trying to figure out how to get it out.  At one point in time he had his head on the floor with one leg in the air trying with all his might! Thanks Carson for stepping in to lend a hand!



Cute little napkin holders



Gingerbread houses

  

My mom makes the best gingerbread! She makes bigger houses for the older kids and the younger ones get graham cracker houses to decorate.  And of course she brought down the 'scraps' of gingerbread from cutting out all the shapes, so we could snack on them...who needs pie right?

Camrie working on her house



Braxton and Tanner's house.  Tanner was so excited to get graduate up to a real house and not a graham cracker one!

 

The finish products.  So much fun!

 

Camrie was so proud of her head band that she made in her Dragonfly class at school



HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 2012

The kids and our pumpkin! Camrie loved scooping out all the guts! I especially love my chalked up porch!!

We always look forward to the DRMC daycare carnival every year! The kids love to see their teachers dressed up too!

Trunk or treat! Braxton's face was painted by the husband of a home health patient of Troy's.  He did a great job and even made his a little nose. 



For breakfast Halloween morning I made these cute little cinnamon roll bats, they were tasty and the kids loved them!





We had our annual Halloween dinner a few nights before Halloween and invited our niece Renae over.  This year we had mummy dogs, frog eyes, scrambled brains, and witch's brew.  Lots of fun!