Lauren's First Dance Recital

 

Elf on the Shelf

This December 1st an Elf paid us a visit from the North Pole. We named him Hershey. The story book that he showed up with tells us that he watches the kids all day to make sure they're behaving and then at night he returns to the North Pole to report their behavior to Santa. The day he arrived he brought a Delicious North Pole breakfast and some fun toys for the kids!

Most of the days he got into mischief or brought the kids fun things. Silly elf.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Santa Baby . . .

(10 1/2 months old)

Elizabeth, Coco and Lauren

Jordan's last time putting the angel on the Christmas Tree in our home . . .

Zach

Silly Girl.

What a cutie.

Haylee must have left somewhere before we took pictures. She *was* here to help decorate, though!

More of Little Miss Coco

Coco finally started to crawl on her hands and knees, rather than sniper crawl, at 10 1/2 months old. She also started crawling up the stairs which forced us to put a gate up at the bottom. Here she is thinking that she's going to scale it. Silly girl.

Thanksgiving

Lowell & Coco came out for Thanksgiving this year. Baby Coco adored Grandpa Lowell and the way he sang and danced with her.

All on their cell phones . . .

The day after Thanksgiving Chris took Steve, Zach and Jordan to a Rush concert in Vegas.

Halloween

Well, unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Jordan or Haylee dressed up this year. Haylee went over to her friend's house before I could get pictures. She went as a queen . I was dressed up earlier in the day as a vampire because I was helping out in Lauren's class for her Halloween party. By the time the evening rolled around, though, I was exhausted and not in the mood to fix myself back up for pictures. On the bright side, Halloween this year had awesome weather!

 

Zach: Grim Reaper ~ Elizabeth: Dead Queen ~ Chris: Horse (obvious?)

Coco: Jack-o-Lantern ~ Lauren: Gothic Fairy

Carving Pumpkins