Putting Up Christmas

My Dad always put the angel on our tree, and so as tradition Mike always puts the star on our tree.


Aidan loves the Nutcrackers. Every year that is his thing to set up in front of the fireplace. Christmas Eve we have to move them to the sides so Santa can come in.


Madisyn and Aidan were really big helps, until Madisyn had to leave for school, and then...


I lost my Aidan helper to the Indiana Jones Lego Game and ...


Nicole just smiled and got into things. But she is super cute, not much of a help at 10 months.

Buckle Up 10 Times

Aidan refused to buckle up his own seat belt, and I was tried of reaching over and putting it on him, so we made a deal. If Aidan buckled his OWN seatbelt without any help 10 times then he could be a Playstation 2 Lego Game. Finally HE has done it and we raced to the store and got the only Lego game they had ... Indiana Jones.

Feliz Navidad

Madisyn's semi-annual gymnasics perfomance was a HUGE success.

Madisyn's song this year is Feliz Navidad. She completed multiple round off backhandsprings, standing backhandsprings, front and back walk overs, and side Aerials.

Aerials were her big accomplishment this year, she has been working really, really hard on them. After class she would always give the 401 on her Aerial progress. (Aerial is a cartwheel with no hands)



We love that Juli gets to come see the kids. Madisyn loves her Aunt Juli tons. For Christmas Madisyn wants a guitar and I think that's because Aunt Juli has one.


Aidan as you can see wasn't too thrilled about going, but he did have his ipod touch to keep him entertained. I think he watched the Incredibles, but for Madisyn's performance he had to turn it off, and watch his sister.


Juli's great too because she helped try to rodeo Nicole, who really didn't like sitting and watching her sister perform.

This is Great Weather Dad

On the drive home Mike commented on the weather and how bad it was. Aidan jumped right in and said "Dad this is GREAT weather, I love snow."

On our drive home we drove past two accidents and tons of cars going super slow. A 7 hour drive from LAS to SLC turned into a 10.5 hour drive of SNOW CRAZINESS!!

Family Rockets

Ever since we had our little rocket fun this past Summer, Grandpa has wanted to shoot off rockets. So for Thanksgiving weekend we all had to create our own rockets and the girls took Friday painting and decorating theirs. Madisyn loved her rocket.




This is Aidan's GQ pose. --Look how deolate the ground is. I always forget Vegas is a DESERT, with NO vegetation. We all commented on the fact that it felt like a CSI investigation, we even found some random items like book covers, cell phones, things you would find in a CSI investigation. We told the kids not to touch anything.


Keaton, McClayn and Madisyn.
Madisyn loves coming down and playing with her cousins.

Thanksgiving with Mike's Family

This year we had Thanksgiving with Grandma and Grandpa in beautiful Las Vegas. The drive to and from was a little scary though.

Here is Madisyn and Keaton putting the names on each of our plates so we know where to sit. This was very serious to the two of them.


Aidan didn't help much just played or watched his i-pod or i-touch, but he is not crying or whining.


This was the kids table, and the Cool Table, because Mike and I were there.


Here's everyone else at the Grown-Up table.


DeEtt out did her self again, with some beautiful wonderful pies.

MaSHed PoTAToeS

Nicole likes mashed potatoes and she likes smearing them all over her face!


We had to take a picture.

Juli's Birthday!!

Birthdays at our house mean BREAKFAST in BED and wonderful pictures without getting ready!! :)

Look how happy my little ones are. We got Juli a Date Night Board, so they can keep track of who does what for the date night.



Breakfast, made by Mike and look how much Nicole Loves Juli.


Madisyn and Nicole getting ready to go in and surprise Juli. We told the kids that it was Saturday and they needed to let Juli sleep at least until 9 am. If it was up to them we would have been down there at 7 bright and early.


YEAH!! Surprise, Juli's parents and sister came up to surprise her here at the house. It was a wonderful surprise for Juli and we'll never forget the Secret Admirer...

Pillows...

Which one is pretending?



Aidan's smile gives him away.

Madisyn had left her pillow out in the family room and when I came back in the room this is what I found. She was just too tired. Whenever a pillow is put in front of her she loves to just lay her head down, even in mid crawl, it's pretty cute, almost as if pillows have a power over her that she has to lay her head down. This time though she didn't just lay her head down she was out.

Madisyn Made Dinner

Madisyn made Supper Nachos Tonight for Dinner. Not only was her presentation beautiful they tasted great too.

Kimber Gets Baptized

Mike's cousin and Madiysn's friend Kimber got baptized on Saturday. We had brunch with the family, and then played on the church stage. There were over 8 kids getting baptized that day, so it was crazy. There were two in Kimber's ward getting baptized.

Carved Pumpkins and Trick or Treating

Here are our three pumpkins. Big Nose, Aidan, Smile, Madisyn, and the Mickey in the back is Mom's.


Trick or Treating this year was FREEZING. The kids already had tons of candy, and weren't too excited about going in the COLD, but with Dad they did it. I stayed home with Nicole and handed out candy, that's the best place to be anyways, you get to say hi to all of our cute neighbors.

Pumpkin Patch 2010

It's Oct 31 and we are finally going to the pumpkin patch...Better late then Never!

As you can see very few pumpkins to choose from, but that didn't stop us we were determined to find a great pumpkin.


Look at those great pumpkins! Ok next year we are going to go to the pumpkin patch sooner, and find a great pumpkin.


The corn maze was a little worse for ware, but the kids still had fun.

Corn Bellies at Thanksgiving Point

Because it's fun I took the kids to Corn Bellies, to bounce, shoot and play.

Here is Aidan playing store with Madisyn.


They had a pumpkin cannon and corn guns. Aidan and Madisyn decided to do the corn guns. It was actually really cool.


We took a tractor drawn cart around the corn and looked at creepy pumpkin headed scarecrows.


Aidan was so excited about this little Cow Train. It just drove in 3 circles, but he was so excited to ride it, and he rode it with Mike in the little cow seat behind him. Too bad I don't have a picture of Dad stuffed in the cow.


Kimber and Madisyn loved the big bounce pillows. They would still be bouncing if they could. Madisyn had fun showing off her gymnastics skills.

Trick or Treat at Pinnacle

Every year Pinnacle goes all out for Halloween. This year was no disappointment, they decorate the entire section of their cubicles, and this year they had Peter Pan, with a full tree representing the lost boys, a skull island replica and treasure chest, along with Peter Pan playing on the wall, as you can see Aidan again liked the movie.



This really was the only time I dressed up Nicole and Man did she look cute. Michelle let us borrow her TinkerBell Costume and with her cute hair, she looked great.


She loved all of the candy, especially the suckers.


I stayed in Mike's office and handed out candy while Mike took our little ones to get some candy.


Aidan again with that silly face, but that's what you get from a 4 year old. Madisyn and Kimber had fun together getting treats.

Silver Pups Halloween Program

Aidan performed about 4 different songs for us about Halloween and then got to walk around Riverton and trick or treat to the different administrators. It was really cute, although Aidan just stood there when he knew I was watching. When I snuck to video he performed wonderfully. He really like the 5 Little Pumpkin Song.

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