Shut the Door!

Leo talked about shutting the door for a week before I figured out what he was talking about... The gingerbread house's door is OPEN! Leo has heard "Close the door it is cold" enough that he is super concerned about the door being open on their home...




New this year to the nativity's at our house... From the trading post in Cameron. Closer to home than the one's from Scotland and Mexico but technically it is another country... :)

how we roll...

I was trying to catch Maeli doing her latest trick... ROLLING!! I didn't get it but got these instead...

Leo with his "shoot." My kids have bee playing with cardboard all week... cardboard boxes the Christmas presents were shipped in... cardboard rolls that held the wrapping paper the Christmas presents were wrapped in... who needs the presents?! :)




Johnny has a new addiction... Mario Kart Wii!!! He is always asking to play and has gotten pretty good!




You want me to roll over for the camera?!


That is what I have to say about that...

The Tiniest Snowman Family... in the world

School was delayed 2 hours this morning so we tried to finish up our to do list from yesterday... Snowman, check... kind of. We have 2 feet of gorgeous powder... not really snowman making snow, so we made these from the chunks of snow shoveled off the driveway.




The kids were happy with our tiny snowman family...



We are getting another storm this weekend, I'm sure we'll get a snowman made soon!

Leo Rockstar!

I just found this video of Leo and it made me laugh, so I thought I'd share... we all need a booty shakin' two year old to make us laugh sometimes!

"I rockstar, oh yea!!"

Snow Day

We had an awesome storm last night... It made for an awesome day today! Who stayed in their jammies until noon, played in the snow for hours, had Grandma Grover's hot chocolate, watched movies and ate popcorn? Yep, my kids and I!! We love snow days!!

I love that the sun comes out right after the storm, beautiful mountain snow!

Lots and lots of beautiful mountain snow!

4 little months!!

Our sweet Miss Mae is 4 months old today!! She is a fun little girl. She smiles and talks and blows bubbles. She has rolled over a couple times. Just onto her tummy but then she is stuck and mad about it, she does not like tummy time! Usually though her rolling is just onto her side. The kids all love her and want to hold her. She is pretty happy with all the attention.

Our pretty little Miss Mae Jo!

As usual, everyone is crowding around the Mae. Johnny calls Maeli, coochy coochy Mae Mae. It is pretty funny, especially when Steve calls her that... :)

I Buzz Lightyear!

Leo has decided he is Buzz Lightyear. At tithing settlement last week the bishop asked how he was doing, and Leo said, "Good, I Buzz Lightyear." We all laughed and you know what that means... our little comedian will do it again and again, he loves to make us laugh.

He had me tape the empty wrapping paper roll to his back for his wings... "And Beyond!"

Christmas is Coming...

And here it is, set up and decorated!

I love Christmas!!

Christmas is Coming...

We cut our Christmas tree this weekend. It was snowing and stressful driving but FUN to play in!

Cousins! Kyla Johnny, Ellie, Ian and Leo. Leo was in the middle of throwing a fit because he wanted me to help him make a snowman, not take a picture of him!

We got a juniper tree this year, it is the best shape and size we have ever had.



Paul and Sarah with their tree!


We love the tradition of cutting our own tree, this year was a bit crazy due to the snow and that we had to be back for the ballet... We made it though and had a wonderful time!

Christmas is Coming...

Kyla danced in the Nutcracker ballet last Saturday. They perform with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, it is pretty cool. Also cool is that the little girls only dance in one of the three performances AND Kyla was put in the matinee! Cool because it is only the 2nd act and the tickets are less than $10 instead of more than $50 per seat!

Kyla was a Marzipan sheep. Steve thinks it is funny that she has been animals in both her ballet performances, a poodle last spring, and now a sheep. Kyla liked this costume better, even though the last one was pink, because it has a tutu!

If you look close you can see she is right in the middle of the line of girls, one of the few actually dancing...

Middle back...



After the performance...



Silly dancing girl, with her tongue out! :)



My beautiful ballerina!