Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all!  Here are the kids in their Christmas Eve PJs with their surprises from Santa!  We had a great Christmas!  It was our first Christmas in this house, because last year we were at Bryce's parents house.  It was so fun to be together and enjoy the craziness.  The kids are all out enjoying the new backyard with their new wheels.

Temple Lights

 

You can never get good pictures of Christmas lights, but believe me the lights at the Temple were gorgeous!  We had an awesome time with the Allred cousins checking them out and having hot chocolate in the Temple parking lot.  Thanks Grandma for organizing the holiday fun!

Gratitude Tree

 

To prepare for Thanksgiving we decided to make a tree to show all the things we are thankful for.

 

The kids had a great time writing on leaves and sticking them up on the tree in our dining room.

 They just kept going and going.  I'm going to have to make more leaves if we do this again next year!  They were so thankful for the things they have.

Some of them were so good, I had to share.

I love these kids and the things they think of.  I am so grateful that they are a part of my life, and for this time of year when we can celebrate the things that make us happy!

Halloween

Happy Halloween Everybody!!!  We had a busy and fun one this year.  We got to go to party after party and had a great time!

Bryce at the Ward Party dressed as a Pirhana Plant.

Everybody ready to go trick-or-treating.  This year the boys were vampires, Caitlin was Hannah Montana, Avery was a witch, and Noelle was a cheerleader.

 

 

Our two little vampires!

 

The kids had a great time roaming the neighborhood with their friends.  I love our neighborhood.  So many fun families! 

 

 

And after all that trick-or-treating was the Great Candy Divvy!  This is what was left after the kids each picked 35 pieces.  I'm sad to admit how much of this will be eaten by me.

Happy Halloween All!

Easter

Okay, I know I'm all out of order. I'm a bad blogger and I'm trying to play catch up. So here are our Easter pictures. The kids had a lot of fun and were so excited about their Easter baskets. They even got movies in them (I must have had a different Easter Bunny growing up). Avery just got an Easter tupperware instead of a basket, but it still tasted fine.

The kids got to have an egg hunt at Grandpa and Grandma Dopp's house. Daddy helped Avery and everyone got lots of eggs. Luckily, most of them were real eggs so we didn't have too much candy to take home.