Family Night Fun

Alison is such a ham. Whenever we tell her to "smile" she says "cheeeeeeeeese" and scrunches her face up. It's so funny.

For treats on Family Night Hayley had made homemade popsicles. The kids had so much fun eating them and laughing at Alison's reaction. Everytime someone would get ready to take a bite, she would run up with her tongue hanging out, hoping they would share with her. Most of the time they did.

Andrew's Birthday

Andrew's Birthday

Andrew turned 6 years old on January 6 but, we had a little family party for him tonight. We were babysitting, so those kids got in on the fun too. It made Andrew all the more excited. He wanted a Star Wars cake this year, so I made the attempt. I didn't do too bad. A few cake decorating lessons and who knows, maybe I'll actually learn how to make straight lines. I guess what really counts is that Andrew loved it and had a great time. It was perfect to him. Happy Birthday Andrew! And as Andrew now says, "Only two more years until I'm 8." (He can get baptized)

Miscellaneous Christmas Holiday Pictures

Andrew and William "performing".

Connor and Colin

Alison's "cheese" face. She loves to pose for the camera.

I found you Oreo. Our cat's favorite spot during the holidays.

Our Christmas tree before Alison attakced it. Most of the ornaments within her reach are all shoved under the tree, since we got tired of constantly hanging them back up again everyday.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

...or rather our ward Christmas Party. The kids could not wait to see Santa (aka Bishop Barkdull) this year. They waited in a long line as patiently as they could so that they could tell Santa everything that they wanted for Christmas. They were really into the Santa thing this year. They even left a plate of cookies and milk for Santa on Christmas Eve. And were very excited when they found an empty plate and cup in the morning with a note from Santa. Santa sure had to be sneaky, since there were at least 4 kids camped out on the living room floor.

My Girls

I have tons of pictures to upload from over the past few weeks. Here are a few of Alison and Hayley in their new Christmas pajamas. Hayley was determined to have footed pajamas this year, so after a lot of searching I finally found some in her size! Alison fell in love with her little plaid pajamas. She kept stroking them and saying "pitty". (pretty) Both my girls look absolutely adorable in their new pajamas and that's not coming from a biased mom. Alison turns 16 months old tomorrow and Hayley will be 10 in February. Wow, does time fly!

Gingerbread Bowls

My mom told me about this fun and creative idea using gingerbread. You take your gingerbread dough and shape it to the outside of a oven safe bowl and bake it. Once it comes out of the oven and cools you have a cute gingerbread shaped bowl. You can then decorate and fill it with whatever you want. We are going to fill ours with cookies to give to our friends and neighbors. Check out this website for some more great ideas using these gingerbread bowls. http://www.gingerbread-house-heaven.com/gingerbread-bowl-recipe.html I will post pictures of our own bowls whenever we get them done.