The Blad Plantation for Christmas Break

 Dustin suprised me with one of these for Christmas and he also made up one for Ryan and Stephanie whom we had for the Christmas exchange. Then he decided to make one up for everyone!

 The boys took the little kids bowling while the girls when shopping!!! He ha we finally get to break out now that the kids are older!

 The Blad Boys and one Bone

We love to come here eveytime we make it to Hurricane. It is so close to their house and this time we brought the bikes!

More Presents!

 Another day in the red sand!

Christmas Morning

Setting up. We did pretty good. Went to bed at about 12:40.

 

The boys woke up at 6:56 am. We went in their room and told them to wait. We let them wake up McCall while we got the camera ready. Andrew was so excited about his Diary of a Wimpy kid set.

Jackson liked his silly bands

They shouted for joy over KINECT

McCall was kind of out of it and didn't show much emotion. Later that evening she did come up to me and say, "Mom thanks for all the dress up closes and for painting my trunk."

I snuck over to Lance's at about 3:30 and saw all the kids' toys. Santa brought Sierra the cutest kitchen ever! All wood. It was an old entertainment center made into a kitchen that she picked up at a boutique.

Events of Christmas Eve

 We had the perfect baby this year to play baby Jesus while Dustin read from Luke. Andrew played an Inn keeper, a shepard and a wise man. Jackson played Joseph, a shepard and a wise man.and McCall was Mary.I woke Zaylie up from a nap and she just sat in the basket the whole time very calm.

Dad took the kids outside to sprinkle oats and glitter so that the raindeer could find our house. The deer smell the oats and the glitter sparkles in the moonlight.

The kids helped get santa's plate ready after watching The Polar Express and before going to bed.

Taekwondo

Jackson earned a new belt and is doing very well in Taekwondo.

Mia is a great teacher. Very kind and patient. Jackson can't wait to go everyday.

Christmas fun

We got our second tree from our local farmers market for small price of $20. The best trees...so full and smell so good. We usually go cut one down but without mom and dad in McCall this year it didn't sound as fun.

This ginger bread house did not come from Costco this year. I was not going to buy one and Dustin insisted that we did. The kids loved eating then destroying it!

Our poor snowman is becoming quite droopy!

Pre Christmas dinner with friends

 The Kids table...

And our lovely table!

 We got together for our annual dinner with the Bledsoes and Garretts for a big Christmas dinner. We had it at our house Rebecca made her famous yams and this year she brought a delisious pea
can pie. We had a great time catching up.

Andrew's School Christmas Performance

Andrew's class and other 2nd grade classes put on a great program full of Christmas songs.

An art project Andrew was proud of and said it took a long time to complete.

We finally built a snowman. The first storm we never got around to it so I'm glad we had enough snow again to build this beauty! McCall out in the carrot, Andrew the nose and Jackson the mouth.

McCall's Christmas program

Every year, since Jackson was in preschool, The Howard's have come to our preschool for a Santa Clause appearance. Tammy Howard used to be our R.S. President and is now serving in the Stake Presidency. We see her often and love her very much. Thank you Howard's!

 The kids did a good job of enacting the nativity scene.

 I snuck Zaylie quickly on Santa's lap with McCall. McCall asked for something Hello Kitty. Which I had not got. So the pajamas I had got for her had cats on them and she asked if they were Hello Kitty so I told her yes.

School canceled

We had so much snow that next morning that they canceled school. This was Saturday but school was canceled on a Wedn. right after a long Thanksgiving break. We had already missed Monday of school because hwy 84 was closed on our way home. We ended up staying in a hotel for the night in Tremonton.