Christmas…

Baylee helping me make chocolate pies..

The kids were more than thrilled with what Santa left for them. Connor’s favorite gift was Halo Reach, Carson & Brynlee’s favorite gift was the IPod Touch, and Baylee just loved everything!

Our family has been so blessed this year, I am truly thankful for all the wonderful blessings that we receive. This has been a busy and hectic year but we have so much to be grateful for. This year in primary the theme has been “I know my Savior lives” and this I truly know with out a doubt. I am so grateful for my membership in his church and for his love for me. It’s so comforting to know that I will be with my family for Eternity. I love them more than I can say. I have the most loving husband and the sweetest children and the best family & friends. Thank you to each of you for touching my life and making me a better person! I hope each of you are filled with the love of Christ this Christmas Season!         

Girls Dance Recital…

This was Baylee’s first dance recital and she loved it! She is in Ballet and she did a cute dance to Frosty the Snowman! She did such a great job, even remembering  the entire dance. I thought for sure she would get on stage and just stand there in fear. When it was over she asked if she could do it again.

Then we have our little pro Brynlee. She is in Hip Hop this year and did an excellent job with her routine. She always lights up the stage with those big blue eyes! This year was even better because her cousin Kamille was in her class.

Family Portraits

In October we had some pictures taken of our beautiful family, here are a few of our favorites…

Spoiled!

 

Connor spent last weekend with his grandparents for a fun late birthday weekend. They promised him that for his 12th birthday and all the grandchildren’s 12 birthdays that they would take them to do something special for a weekend. Connor was given a choice to either spend money on a hotel or take the money and buy a gun. Well you can see the choice that he made was to buy a gun. He was so excited to get his very first gun. They bought a scope for it and took it out to the shooting range where Connor broke it in. Everyone was worried for my reaction thinking that it would be bad but honestly I was excited for him. He is a very responsible kid and knows that this gun is not  a toy. He had a blast with his grandparents and will always remember this exciting weekend. Thanks Dad & Jana!

Black Friday All-Nighters!

We had a great Thanksgiving this year spent with family and loved ones. We are so blessed! We had a delicious dinner at my mom’s and then played games with my siblings. Then our night really began. For the second year in a row my children asked for things for Christmas that were on the Wal-Mart black Friday ad that I could not pass up. So Warren dropped me off at Wal-Mart at 11:00pm on Thanksgiving night and I went and got in line for the item that we needed. It officially went on sale at 5:00am so we had to stay in line all night. We were the 8th and 9th person in line and they only had 23 total to sale. Warren tucked the kids in bed and then met me in line where we camped out all night. We both had to be there because we needed two of the item. We made lots of friends around us and the time went by rather quickly until we got a call from Connor telling us that Baylee was awake and freaking out for us. So Warren went home to try to put her back to bed but she would not go. So the only thing to do was to bring her to Wal-Mart in the middle of the night to hang out with us. We finally checked out of Wal-Mart around 6:15am and headed home for bed. The things we do for our kids, now that’s true love! I took a 2hr. nap and then headed out shopping with my mom & friend Sarah until 5:00pm. Long 24hrs but the good thing is that my holiday shopping is about done!