Today Ethan said...

Today Ethan said, "Don't kill the mosquito, it's just a happy mosquito."

I love this picture so I thought I would share it.  They were watching a football game together.

Pre Christmas Preparations

  I decided to post what pictures I have of our chritmas preparations.

As most of you know, I am pregnant.  For those who didn't know that, I am 13 weeks now.  I have been so tired and this is how I spent most of December.  I think I slept as much as the cat.  Needless to say, most of the christmas preparations were a little behind schedule this year.

We started getting packages of gifts from grandparents in the mail pretty early and every day Kelsey would ask if they could open the presents yet.  So we made the traditional paper chains so she could know when it was time to open the presents.  The paper chains were a huge succuess.  They each had their own and they loved ripping off a paper every morning.

We also got new stockings this year.  I ironed on the letters for their names.  I think they turned out cute.

Our tree was red, black and silver.  It is kind of hard to see all the ornaments in a picture.

One day I made sugar cookies and the kids decorated them. 

This may have been their very favorite activity all month.

This last picture is of Kelsey all dressed up when I took her to see the Nutcracker Ballet.  She wore her fancy gloves, a pretty dress, fancy hair, and fancy jewelry.  We had a grand time.

The Christmas Post

This year we started all new traditions for Christmas since it is the first year we have not been with family for the holidays.  Christmas Eve we had a big dinner, Matt cooked a turkey, and we had the missionaries over to eat it with us.  Later in the evening we went to the Asbury Methodist Church down the street because they had a free puppet show about christmas.  It was fun because it was a worship service for the children.  Kelsey's favorite part was when we all held lit candles and sang christmas songs.  It was nice. 

When we got home we opened the gifts that we had gotten in the mail from all the grandparents.

We let them play for a few minutes then they went off to bed so that Santa could come.

Here is the tree after Santa's visit.

Christmas morning was magical.  Matt and I woke to the excited exclamations from Kelsey that "Santa came, wake up, Santa came."

The kids have had fun with all of their presents.

Here is Ethan getting creative with his new colored pencils.

And here we all played Kelsey's new game. 

Daddy won and became the most beautiful princess at the Ball.

Happy Holidays everyone.

Ethan quote of the day.

Ethan said, "I love baby Jesus like I love 'go Utes'."

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.  Christmas post will be coming soon.

New Family Pictures

Here are our newest family pictures.  Enjoy.

Thanksgiving Vacation 2009 Plans

Ok, Utah people, here is our itinerary for our upcoming vacation. I am putting it up here so that you can see what we are going to be doing and you can join in the fun if you would like. You can also see the spots that we don't have a plan and let me know if you want to make a plan with us for that time. We hope to see as many of you as we can because we MISS you!

Tues. Nov. 24th:
Around 8:30 am- arrive Hang with the Mason Family (probably Thanksgiving Point)
6:00 Cafe Rio/ 7:00 ish Leatherbys (Taylorsville) - any friends or family
are invited to meet us there for one or both activities.

Wed. Nov. 25th:
12:00pm Lunch at Tooele McDonalds. (Tooele people: everyone is invited so if you know someone who doesn't check their computer often please invite them too.)
Matt will be going to lunch with his brothers.
Wed. night open (no plans yet)

Thur. Nov. 26th:
9:00 am - Turkey Trot 5K Cottonwood Heights
Thanksgiving Dinner at Grandma Adam's house.

Fri. Nov. 27th:
Early- Shopping, Lunch, Twilight movie matinee. (Cry-baby-dot-com members only).
7:00 Matt is having his Heavy Metal Party with his Heavy Metal Friends. So if anyone wants to make plans with just me and the kids, I'm open.

Sat. Nov. 28th:
Morning is open.
BYU/UTAH football game. (not sure what time, I think it is in the evening.)

Sun. Nov. 29th:
Church with Mom
Evening- Temple Square (anyone is invited to go with us).

Mon. Nov. 30th
Morning is open.
6:00? - Sanders Family Party

Tues. Dec. 1st
Santa Pictures at South Towne Mall- time is not yet decided, most of the day will be open.

Wed. Dec. 2nd
Fly home in afternoon.

So there you have it. If you would like to see us leave me a comment on when you will be coming or if you want to meet us during one of our open slots, let me know when and I will schedule it.