A Little Free Time

I have had a little bit of free time the last couple of weeks with no school or work.

I have accomplished much on my to do list.....

Year End Family DVD for Grandma-check

Scrapbook calendar for Mom-check

Work on Digital Scrapbook Pages-check

Here is a layout I just finished. Thanks Brenda for the inspiration.

Merry Christmas

The kids were so excited for Christmas morning to come. They woke up the first time at 2:30 then at 4:00 and finally we got up at 5:30.

A sneak peak at the Christmas Tree....

Here they are waiting to go out and see what Santa brought them.....

Finally time to go out-first stop-STOCKINGS! (I think Chloe ate most of her candy yesterday)Just what she was hoping for-when she opened the box she squealed with excitement and grabbed Bullseye out and gave him a big hug. She hasn't put them down since. She is now trying convince me that they all need to go to church with us.A Demarini Vexxum Big Barrel Bat (for those of you who know baseball that equals a pretty sweet bat).They must have been good little boys. Let the wars begin. Our neighbor was so jealous he didn't get one of these under the tree he is really hoping he gets one for his birthday in a few days so they can all have a big nerf war.

Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful day!

Christmas Eve

The kids just opened their Christmas Eve PJ's. They were both so happy just to have something to open. This will probably be the last year I will be able to pull off having them get matching pj's, but I love them to match on Christmas Eve. They both got a quilt for Christmas Eve too. Here is Chloe's I searched high and low for this fabric and finally found it on ebay. She is soooo happy with it. Tanner also got one his is Utah Jazz it's not bound yet so that's why he doesn't have it tonight, but he is excited about it none the less and keeps asking me when it will be done. Hopefully sometime this weekend.

Christmas Cheer

Class Pet and Basketball News

Chloe was chosen yesterday to bring home the class pet (a stuffed alligator) for the Christmas break. She was so excited! She was also the envy of many of her classmates. Last night my Grandma asked her so does that make you the teachers pet? and she seriously replied as she held up the alligator "no Grandma this is the teachers pet". LOL

Tanner has started the basketball season again. He is having a good year so far. They won there game this morning 30 to 24. Tanner had quite a few steals and also picked up quite a few loose balls. He is getting better at dribbling and passing and has already improved so much in the last two weeks.

Gymnastics Review

Chloe had a little Gymnastics Review today. Each of the girls did a routine on each of the apparatuses and the parents were able to watch. It was great to be able to see what they were working on and Chloe did so well preforming in front of people which is something she usually has a hard time with.

Santa Claus

We just got back from the Santa Social at the kids school. A great event! They decorated with all the gingerbread houses from the contest and the kids got to see Santa. Fun Times. I love Christmas!

Gingerbread

One of my kids favorite things about the Christmas season is making Gingerbread houses. This year they will get to make two because they made one for the contest at their school and they will be making another at our family Christmas party tomorrow.

Here are the ones for school....

Tanner-

Chloe-

(you should have seen some of the entries you could totally tell the parents did the whole thing and didn't let the kids even touch it I mean what kid has the patience to make a 3 foot tall castle made out of sugar cubes-LOL For you Brian Reagan fans the kid couldn't even zip up his own pants and he built a volcano)

Family Pictures

My very talented sister in law took our Family Pictures over the weekend. So here they are. I love how they turned out!! Thanks Brenda!

Sledding

Once the kids discovered this activity they would spend as long as they could every day outside doing it. They hooked a sled or two at times to the 4 wheeler and would pull each other around the yard in the snow. They only came in when they were so cold they were in tears or when one of the sleds broke. They had a blast! My kids keep asking when were are going to Fillmore again so they can go sledding some more. LOL

Soccer Pictures

I know the soccer season is over, but I just got these picts back so I thought I would post a few and share. I love them! Thanks Heather:)