01 January, 2010

New Year's in SLC

We took off for SLC the last day in December and stayed till New year's day. Sterling had worked on a nice sledding track in his backyard. The kids had a blast.
Andrew taking the corners.

Jackson was a little dare devil!

We went to Rodizios Brazillian Grill while we were there. Dannene gets a babysitter every year that we go for New Year's and us adults get all stuffed.

25 December, 2009

Christmas In McCall



We had lots of fun in McCall with Grandma and Grandpa. Grandma planned lots of things for us to do and had incentives for the kids to be good. She had a box of wrapped gifts that the kids could choose from when they got along with each other and didn't fight. Andrew has been having a difficult time with this for years now!






We went sledding at the dump.






We ice skated at the Manchester Ice and Event Center. Andrew loved it so much that Dustin and I took them back there the next day.






We had a nice Christmas Eve program.







Grandma kept them busy with games during the day.







Santa even found our little family up in McCall!










It was a Lego fest for the boys and girly things for McCall.








The moose pajamas were a hit.



Lots of memories with this nativity scene. My mom made these when we lived in Provo. The set came from the BYU craft store. My mom would go to the BYU book store once a week for almost a year. She made five sets one for Donna, Lois, and NoraLee's family. They were given to them in sets for Christmas presents over a five year period. Lance (14) and Lane (12) and I (7) would come along sometimes and Lance once made a skull and a santa with a BYU football and Lane made a little kids nativity set which he still has and sets out every year.





19 December, 2009

Andrew's Christmas Party and Program

Andrew's class had a Christmas party with some really fun treats. They had peppermint chocolate dipped pretzel sticks and dipped oreo snowmen.

Mrs. Slocum even dressed up as Santa Clause.
They played bingo.


The 1st grade put on a little christmas program for the parents. Andrew was nervous as usuall but you could see him mumbling the words and half doing all the hand actions.




10 December, 2009

December Fun

Primary had a really fun Christmas activity. They divided into 4 groups and reenacted the nativity at one station, made ginger bread ornaments at another, did a service project (making cards for the missionaries in the ward) and read a Christmas story at the last station.




We made a ginger bread house this year from a kit from Costco! Easy and actually taste pretty yummy!





Jackson's preschool recreated the nativity scene and they each had a part!





Richelle's boy was baby Jesus. We do a Co-op preschool and I teach every 7th week. We each take a week to do a field trip our holiday party and Richelle did Christmas this year.








Santa made his appearance as well.
McCall didn't know what to think and she wouldn't sit on his lap.




05 December, 2009

Christmas at the Mall

We walked around the mall and looked at all the decorations and saw santa and all the kids waiting for a picture then we took them to See's candies and let them pick out a sucker.

17 October, 2009

Linder Farms

We tend to go here every year with the kids because it is so much fun. They have corn mazes, corn shooters, corn box, hay rides, bouncer, cow train ride pulled by a tractor, etc....
The kids got pretty high on the bouncer.

We didn't let them buy any pumpkins. We went shopping in the Rawling's garden and picked out 5 pumpkins a lot cheaper!


The kids played for a long time on the hay stacks.

Andrew and Jackson really got a kick out of jumping from stack to stack.

15 October, 2009

Andrew's 7th Birthday

Lego's were the hit of the party. Lego's have been so good for my boys. Hours of entertainment.
This is a cake from pieces of my birthday cake. I made the racket into a race track and part of the court into a race car! Brilliant!


Andrew had his neighbors and classmates and church friends to his party. Elliot, Jared, Scott, Evan, Andrew, Steven, Jackson and McCall

They played this race car game that they played last year.