December 2011

The first picture is of me and the girls on Christmas in their new dresses.  We got up opened presents.  The girls were all so excited.  Then we had some breakfast and got ready for church and went to church.  All my sisters and the ones with families attended church with us.  We came home and had Christmas dinner then opened more presents and visited.  Then we had desert.  Later in the evening my brother and his family came by and visited.  It was fun seeing everyone.

Me with my mom and sisters.

On Christmas Eve the whole family was together so we took our traditional picture on the stairs with all the kids and grand kids.  We had our traditional pizza benders for lunch and after lunch we played a fun game and the cousins did their gift exchange with each other.

My mom with all her grand kids.

Most of my family attended our Ward Christmas Party.  It was held in the lodge at Camp Tracy.  It was a lot of fun.  We had breakfast, frosted gingerbread men, and Santa came.

The Sunday before Christmas we had a special family dinner where Santa paid a visit.  Below is all the cousins with Santa.

My little family.

We saw Santa 3 different times and got pictures with him.  Each time Eliza was so excited to see him but the other two just cried and screamed which meant I would have to be in the picture with them.

This was our profession picture with Santa.

We attended Eliza's preschool Christmas party where the kids sang and danced for us. We also got to
have snack with them.  They let Brianna join in on the singing with them.  It was fun!  It's been a busy month but it's almost over.

CATCH UP

My cute 9 year old niece performed in Molly Mouse this past week.  It is a variation of the Nutcracker and is really cute.  Most of my family went and saw the performance Sat. night.  We had a good time!

Me with my mom and 2 of my sisters after the performance.

We had Thanksgiving at my moms house.  We were missing my brothers family this year but the rest of us ate way to much and had fun being together!

 For Halloween Kaitlyn and Brianna were ladybugs and Eliza was a bumble bee.  Both Eliza and Brianna had fun preschool parties that I attended.  Their dance studio also had a fun Halloween carnival that we attended.  It was fun.  In my moms neighborhood they have some neighbors who always have a Halloween BBQ for all the neighborhood and their families.  It was really fun this year because the weather was so good.  After the BBQ the girls enjoyed trick or treating. 

This past Fall I attended a lot of my nephews football games.  The girls had fun at them playing with their cousins.  Above is Miss E. with Kaitlyn.  And now we are getting ready for Christmas. Busy busy!