Fun times

(FYI: the following pictures are not in chronological order)

On Saturday we went to the Post Office to see Santa. I've been prepping Hailee for a few days because she has not liked sitting on his lap in the past. This year she did great, she was quite excited to see Santa, and as you can see Spencer didn't mind either! Then Saturday night was our ward party and Santa came again. She didn't smile for the picture, but she will sure talk about sitting on his lap if she hears mention of the word Santa!

Spencer got tired of waiting for us to get ready and getting locked out of the bedroom/bathroom and decided to just take a nap before we went! I love that he will fall asleep anywhere!


I took Hailee with me to Young Womens last week. I told her we were going to decorate gingerbread houses. Man, I have never seen her talk so much, she was Soooo excited. She told everyone in the hall (at the church) what we were doing and loved that she got to help set up. She would hold onto a table as we pulled it out and set it up, and carried the bags of candy. Then during opening excercises I was talking (when i shouldn't have been) and she was shushing me-it was so funny! She was a great little froster and candy placer! She pretty much helped with the whole thing. BUT she did NOT want to eat any of the candy-from the bowl or from the house! When we were done she insisted on carrying it, and she didn't even drop it the whole ride home(which was all over town dropping off girls and such) Then she came home and showed Dad and had to do some serious protecting of the house so that he would not eat it. She almost took it to bed with her-she was pretty worried! We had a great night!




We've started going down to visit our cousins Addy (Heath's cousin) and her kids Rio and Krey. Rio and Hailee are 8 months apart. Our first visit wasn't the best, Hailee wasn't feeling great at all, but the next time we had a blast!
I had promised Rio we could have a jamma party next time we came, and she was sure to remind me right away! So Hailee and Rio picked out a pair of jammies and spent the afternoon in them!

The both found our cell phones and were having a good time with them.


They had to play with 'pretend phones' until they found ours. But they had a great time calling each other.


Addy might not think she's a good cook, but for not knowing what she was doing, she sure outdid herself this day. She made both of us dinner-which included homemade rolls and homemade au jus and roast for French dip and banana muffins-yum! Hailee loved them and everytime she ate one (at home) she told me that only her and Rio made the muffins-not mommy! (They got to mash the bananas)What a great way to spend the day (for me!) play all day and have dinner ready when you get home! Thanks Addy!



Spencer had a great time with all the balls-and all the food in the kitchen. Two of his favorites!


This is the fashion show/dance party that kicked off our jamma party. I know this one is blurry but it was too funny to see them strut their stuff! They were so cute!




Last week we met up with some college friends from USU and went to dinner and to see the lights at Temple Square. I forgot that my batteries were all but dead, so I didn't get many pictures and I had to be quick about it-turn it on, snap, watch the camera die, hope it turned out! (reminds me of film cameras! Thank goodness for digital!)
So the group picture is kindof dark, and then I just zoomed in to get our family one-not the greatest, but it shows we were there!
We almost ditched the whole idea-the weekend after Thanksgiving and parking was awful. I think we parked at least 2miles away and carried one of our kids the whole way. Spencer was crying on the way back so I held him-and he fell asleep-man that kid weighs a ton!-my arm was huring for a few days after!
But we were glad to be able to spend time with our friends-even if it was short lived with cranky and wild kids! Thanks Casey & Ashlee and Sean & Caroline for inviting us!