Our Nativity!

We have a great Christmas Nativity around the world we have been doing for the past 7 years (Me 2yrs)and they do this great nativity where families can dress up and have a keep sake. I have decided to share ours with you this Christmas on the blog. I have not decided yet if I will print some out to send in Christmas cards, but I guess you will find out when you open your card this year. The kids look great all gussied up don't they. Oh how I love Christmas. The joys the reflecting of the year, and the most important part celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. I love being a member of the LDS church the gospel has made significant changes in my life. I am grateful that my kids see their mother praying and reading scriptures, and hope it will instill the importance of the gospel in their lives as well. Just think all this would not be possible if it weren't for the atonement of Jesus Christ. The other day Katelynn came to me and asked me if it would be ok for her to write a letter and make a gift for him. WOW is all I remember thinking, and then I responded Yes honey after all this is the reason we celebrate Christmas. Then she left me to my reading to Savannah and came back with a drawing and a letter and said "mom can I put this under the tree now?" I asked her if she would like to wrap it "Oh Yes can I". I am so blessed with her she has started to read the book of Mormon and praying with thoughts about what is needed to be said not to just get it out. She wants to learn and learn more and more about the church and Jesus Christ. I am so happy she has come to this on her own seeings how she will be baptized this upcoming August-September. I truly am grateful for the gospel. Happy Birthday Jesus...

Some Holiday cheer!

We have some fun pictures that we took while my side of the family was here for Thanksgiving.. The only one we are missing here is James so Merry Christmas James..

I love this picture of Katelynn putting an ornament on our tree it Great!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

My sister took these great pictures while they were here, and I do have to say a special thank you to Lucus for putting up the Christmas lights. Great Job!!! I love how the house glows red and the pillars even though they are uneven add a special light extravaganza.. Merry Christmas to all..

Cutie Patootie!!

Ok so I just had to share these great pics of Savannah. She is so cute with a big bow in her hair, and this last picture is her just tuckered out while we were putting up christmas lights. She is so cute I love that child even though she loves to color and she always chooses black permanent marker to color with. I am so happy to have all of my children the miracles that they all are.

Happy Birthday Steph!

Hope you had a wonderful birthday. This year my sister's birthday was on Thanksgiving she turned 38 WOW she is old. :) I tried my hand at a Boston Cream Cake which actually turned out pretty good. Steph got a pretty jewelry hanger which looked like a lady... very pretty! Also got Guitar Hero world tour which I did not play much of cause I did not want to ruin my Christmas darn you James... I love you Steph I so appreciate you being my big sister. You have not only taken care of me, but you share your life with me on a daily bases. I love our conversations and would miss not hearing you everyday. I love you Hope you had a great day.

Thanksgiving!

This year was fun minus James not being here, but we still made it work. Stephanie and Lucus came and they were in charge of the Turkey, because they were going to fry the turkey which I have never had. I have to say poor Lucus cause it was over cooked, and the only way I knew that was when the bottom came apart from the other half. If you look closely you can see where it separates. Its rather funny plus he thought he bought a 15 pounder and had actually bought an 18 pounder. LOL.. It was really not that bad.


My mom came and had fun with the kids and us adults. We made plenty to eat and I tried two new desserts a pumpkin trifle which I thought was really good and then I made Stephanie a boston cream cake only because it was her birthday on Thanksgiving this year.

All of us got a round at guitar hero and played wii sports which I still love. Katelynn was sooo cute when it was not her turn she still played guitar with us.It was a good Thanksgiving besides being a little sick it was great. We missed you James

Families in waiting dinner!

Well I decided to take the kids to our first Families in Waiting dinner. They had it at the Cattleman's Steakhouse which is a ranch/petting zoo/resteraunt/hayride... So lots of things to do. The kids had a wonderful time watching the animals, especially the goats cause they actually talked to each other one with a much higher voice than the other it was hillarious. They got to feed rabbits, and see peacocks for the first time( I could not get a good picture of these guys they were nestled in a section without good range of pictures, and my batteries went dead by then). There was a huge playground and the kids loved that. I got video plus pictures.




Then we took a Hayride which we had to wait 2 1/2 hours for, but I do have to say we learned many things about the area around here. Like for instance the movie Courage under Fire with Meg Ryan and Denzel Washington was filmed here, and they left the props for the Cattleman's Hayride pretty cool. The kids thought it was cool to see the Helicopter which is real and the tanks which are not real, the tents and burnt trucks LOL they kept saying "Hey is this what daddy is sleeping in and does he drive one of those"? So I hope you enjoy our day out I did, and believe me I totally thought I was going to be overwhelmed being the only one but it turned out great. I am looking forward to taking them bowling this month for free.Yeah!!