Zach's "Santa gift". . . a guitar.
Haylee's . . . a ripstick
Lauren's . . . an American Girl doll.
Elizabeth's . . . Littlest Pet Shop.
Haylee's first time on her ripstick. Although, she had been practicing throughout the summer on Jordan's.
Littlest Pet Shop freaks. =)
Merry Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! ! ! Christmas Eve day was spent at Maddy's house for lunch, presents and fun. She made all the grandkids, her kids and spouses aprons for Christmas.
Crazy Kids...
Every year the kids draw a name for the sibling that they'll buy a gift for. Christmas Eve we have a tradition that the kids get to open their presents from each other. I think this gives them an opportunity to really enjoy and see what their brother or sister really took the time to pick out for them.
Our beautiful tree...
Zach made him and Lauren a peanut butter, banana and raisin "sandwich" on a tortilla. And now he's measuring it to make sure that they spilt it exactly in half for the two of them. And yes, they came up with this on their own. I would never eat something like that myself. =)
Lauren's turn to help . . .
The finished product. Doesn't it look delish!
Mrs. Daniels, her pre-school teacher.
Santa Clause!
Musical Express Performance....The students who were interested, had to try out and Haylee made it!
Haylee letting her emotions run away with her... =)
Good job, Haylee! You did awesome!!! The Friday before Halloween...dressed up for school. Haylee's a dead Hermione (from Harry Potter-I think she just wanted to wear make-up, lol) and Jordan is a Zombie. Jordan did his own make-up.
Zach's also a Zombie and Lauren was.....hmmm.....I don't remember exactly. Guess that's what I get for not blogging in a timely manner. I believe she was going to be a vampire queen, but didn't want to wear the teeth and is just a dead queen?
And Elizabeth is a beautiful (not dead) Snow White. (Costume courtesy of my mom, it used to be Dani's when she was 4.)
Pumpkin carving the Saturday before Halloween. Although, Halloween was celebrated this day...the 30th, because Halloween was on a Sunday...and we live in Utah, so if we had celebrated it on Sunday, we would have been alone in it. Not that that's a problem!
Elizabeth and her Jack-O-Lantern. By the way, all the pumpkins came from our garden this year and last! Awesome! Savings of probably $50+!!
Lauren's......
Zach's......
Haylee's......
Jordan's......
I carved one too but accidentally deleted the picture I uploaded on blogger and I'm too lazy to do it again.
Rain on Halloween!
Zach was in wrestling club for a couple of weeks and had a mini tournament at the end of it. A friend from high school is the wrestling coach at American Fork High School and he was the couch for the kids. Him along with some boys from the HS wrestling team. They did awesome with the kids!
At the end of it, all of the boys received a Gold Medal and got to stand with the American Fork Caveman.
