Christmas Eve Eve

I have to be honest....I wasn't very excited for Christmas.

I didn't want to deal with crowds, peoples attitudes and

all the spoiled kids and their "wants" for Christmas.

So after NOT wanting to put the tree up or any decorations,

Skee brought me home a book and a nativity set with it.

The book was called Keeping Christ in Christmas.

After reading it with lots and lots of tears, my attitude got

a lot better. The point of the book is to talk about a certain

person that was at Christ's birth and have a FHE about them.

After you discuss it then you place them by the manger.

I was so proud of my kids for wanting to talk about all the different people

at Christ's birth. They really got into FHE and needless to say, We had

an Amazing Christmas. I must admit I cried a lot during songs

I heard on the radio or comments my kids would say about Christ.

I am so proud of them and thankful Skee knew how to make

my holiday a meaningful and special one.

Opening their sibling gifts

And I had to let them open their warm and

cozy pajamas!! Love these little kids.

Hanging with Grandma

Since my Mom is a teacher and works

in the days, we stole her over Christmas break and

did lots of fun things.

She took the little kids to see Tangled

and then the older ones got to see Narnia. They all

had a blast. Thanks.

The next day she invited us all over to make cookies

and pizza YUM YUM

The kids did such a good job decorating their cookies,

Berklies UTES outfit I made finally fits her!!

Then it was on to yummy homemade pizza!

Thanks Mom for a fun week it will be sad to see

you go back to school.

Sadly later that night we watched the Utes va Boise State bowl game,

Too bad they lost, but we had a blast with all the company!

Until next year, bring on the PAC 12.

Santa's coming to town...

In their Sunday Best!!

Too bad it isn't the cutest picture, as soon as the

rain stops we will get better pictures.

We had a super fun evening with

my family where we had a FUN visitor

Before our Visitor came we had a little

talent show where some of the kids got to show

off their talents in front of us.

Leighton did her dance

The boys did a dance to Grandma got ran over

by a reindeer.

Then our Visitor Came!!!

Berklie was such a good girl. She was so excited she

jumped right up and onto his lap when her name was called.

We love Santa!!

I couldn't let my sisters have a cute photo,

that's what they get for not including me!!

Santa brought the boys nerf guns and they had

a blast shooting everyone!!

Merry Christmas

9 Years Old

Peyton Adam Fox 12-18-01

I can't believe I have a 9 year old.

Peyton is an excellent student, his teacher raves about

how good he is and how well he listens.

He loves to wear only comfy cloths....getting him to wear

levis or pants is a fight every morning. He is a lot like

his dad and only wants to wear shorts.

He LOVES sports and watches or listens to anything

sports. He definately knows his stats.

He is quite the athlete and is waiting to start Basketball,

but his true passion is football.

He loves to tease his siblings and hang out with his cousins.

Brashton and Peyton share the same Birthday!

So of course they had to spend most of it together.

After he finally came home he wanted

to help me make his cake. He is a pretty

good cook, he did it all cracked the eggs, measured and mixed.

I can tell he is growing up....he wanted a Utah

Jersey, a basketball sleeve, Steelers hat and since I'm a mean mom

and wouldn't get him an ITouch he just wanted

money from the Grandparents so he can save and buy his own!

He chose to go to dinner at Iggy's

I wonder why!!

This was my view of the Birthday Boy!!

We love you so much Peyton and are so proud

of everything you do!! We hope you had a GREAT day!!

Basketball

We signed Stockton up for Basketball and he

loves it. He is such a good dribbler, passer and shooter

it is a lot of fun to watch him. He walks around the house

dribbling the ball

(it does get really annoying, but worth it)

He was so excited to pick #8

It's a good thing they don't really care about out

of bounds because after dribbling up court he made the basket.

Good game buddy!!

Christmas Programs

Peytons class memorized the Twas the night before

Christmas poem and performed it in front of the school.

They had to come up with props and actions for their part.

His part....

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot

and his cloths were all tarnished with ashes a soot.

Easton had his preschool Christmas program at

the Heritage Place. The older people loved seeing the children

sing songs and say their parts.

Eastons joke...

What do sheep that live in Mexico say during Christmas...

Fleece Navidad.

After their performance his teacher said that

everyone needed a hug, so that is what they did they walked around

to everyone single person and hugged them.

They were so cute some of the grandmas didn't

want to let go!

We LOVE Miss Staci

We get asked daily if these 2 are twins!!

Good job boys we are so proud of you both!!