Lights at Temple Square

Our kids have never gone and seen the lights

at Temple Square so we thought we had better go.

We told the kids all about the lights and how pretty it

was going to be. As we got Berklie out of the car there

was a street light next to us....she looked up turned to me

and said "Wow that is pretty lights mom."

I love her, she is hilarious!!

We have been focusing a lot on the nativity part of Christmas

so it was fun that the kids got to see the Shepard's

and Wise men walking towards Baby Jesus.

Berklie was disappointed she couldn't go into the

water and see baby Jesus.

I made the mistake of saying we were going to see

Baby Jesus at the Temple. Easton thought we were really going

to see Baby Jesus and was mad that He wasn't real!!

We had a great time and luckily it wasn't

too cold. If fact the kids were complaining they were too hot.

Kangaroo Zoo

Jack and Lara are back in town for Christmas

and we wanted to play so we went to

Kangaroo Zoo.

We love week days there was no one there but us!

Buffalo Ranch

We spent Saturday morning cleaning up the Church from the

Temple party and after we headed to West Farmington

to Buffalo Ranches to meet Santa, ride the ponies

and go to the petting zoo.

I have to laugh, my kids all jumped up on Santas

lap and were totally excited, but once they got on his lap

they ALL froze. They sat there too scared to look

at Santa and they would just answer his questions without

even cracking a smile.

It is the same facial expression on each kid!! Too funny!!

All the kids loved the petting zoo except Stockton

for some reason he wanted nothing to do with them, he

didn't even want to look at the animals.

Then on the pony rides Peyton wouldn't do it, crazy

kids I thought I knew them!!

Sorry daddy that you got hay fever and had

to stand far far away, we love you and are still glad you came!!

Stockton

Stockton is such a sweet kid,

He is really struggling with his teacher

being gone, she went in for Heart Surgery this week.

He is so worried about her that he has been physically sick.

I sometimes forget that he is isn't a little kid anymore

and that he is growing up to be

a loving sweet boy.

Jazz Game

One thing I love about Skee is that when something

sounds fun, we just do it...no planning no preparing we just

drop everything and go.

He was offered Jazz Tickets so we headed into SL.

We were on the very top row!! The kids had a lot of fun.

We had a couple extra tickets so the

Tipton boys came and so did the Schreiners.

Berklie is into pulling faces!

We went all the way down to meet the Jazz Bear, but when

we saw the Jazz Dancers Berklie had to get a picture.

GO JAZZ

My crazy family

We sat and watched Alema and Thurl while they were on TV

and when I picked up my camera Thurl looked at me,

gave me a silly look (which I captured) then smiled as

I gave him thumbs up!!

Temple Party

My In Laws work at the Bountiful Temple on

Wednesday nights and every year they help put on a

Temple party for all those who work on their shift.

She always amazes me with the creation that is in her head.

We (all her children) have been putting this on for the past 6

years and every year it gets better and better. We have

never taken pictures before (not sure why) but this year

I had to get some.

My 2 little helpers!

Luckily their ward got to do their Christmas party

the next night!!

Flips Santa

Thanks so much to the Judy Allen team and Matt and Mo Draper

these Santa pictures are so cute.

Next year I will put some thought into their outfits!!

Big Girl

I got a phone call last week from Miss Mo telling

me that Berklie had made it to the top of her

list and could start dance in January. Well as excited as

we all are I had told Berklie that she had to be potty trained

before she could dance.....I thought I had till March!!

I didn't want to tell Miss Mo no so I sat down with Berk and told

her Miss Mo wants her to dance, but she has to wear

big girl underwear.

She is way more stubborn than the boys were, but

when it is her idea she does great!!

So far she has done awesome, her favorite thing to do is

sit with our ipad and go potty!

Good girl Berklie keep up the good work!!

Ward Party

We had our Ward Party this past week.

It was a lot of fun, the kids got to be part of

the Nativity. As I was getting them dressed, Peyton started

to get a little nervous and asked

how many people were going to be watching him. Funny

since he plays sports and has never worried about that.

Peyton was a shepard

Easton and Stockton were wisemen.

The cute primary singing Silent Night.

There was such a sweet spirit there, as the Nativity

was being read the gym was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

We always love to see the Big Guy!

Rivalry Week

We always love Rivalry week at our house, we have

lots of people to talk smack with and there is always

a vandalism that happens, unfortunately we didn't get

a picture of our BLUE snowman!!!

The guys always do a BYU UTAH football game, this year they

rented the Indoor Soccer place and played. The kids

sure loved running around on the field and playing as well.

Then we bundled all up and headed to the game!

We left Berklie and Easton at home, they would have

froze!! They kids were mad at me for making them

wear their snow cloths, but thanked me during the 4th quarter!!

Ill be honest, it was a crappy game on both ends, but

a win is a win right!! Sadly this is the last game during the winter months,

I'm not sure it will be the same once we are

in the PAC 10 and they are independent, but we always love

a good Rivalry!!