Family

We were so excited to have lots of family around this Holiday, and to celebrate and host Christmas in our new house!

 Here we have my Dad, my Grandpa, my Mom and Scott's Grandma.

 Scott prepping the glaze for our Ham and feast

 Me & my Dad

4 generations: My Grandpa, mom, me & Sienna

We also had Scott's parents over, but I didn't get a pic of them.

Christmas

Christmas needed it's own post. So here goes...

This kids face pretty much sums up our morning. It was fun and everyone was happy:)

 Grandma & Grandpa came (from their mission in Los Angeles) for the week, so Grandma helped us make Christmas cookies.

 Tanner's highlights were video games and pokemon

 Chase's were lego's, and a basketball hoop, also the "Family" got a new computer which he has commandeered

Sienna got her Elsa doll and a dress, she also got a Doc McStuffin's doctor set and she is making sure we are all in good health. 

Scott got a new jacket, wallet, sweater and cologne and I got a new DSLR camera (which you can already see the difference in the pics just in this blog post!!!) I'm pretty sure my face looked like Tanner's did in that first picture!

Hope it was good for you as well.

December

December was just too much fun to post much! Here's what we've been up to all month:

 We hit up the Home Depot kids club. Seriously, this girl is a DIYer in the making! (I'm so proud)

 We went to Anthem Outlet's (a outlet mall about 35 minutes north of us) They have the "Nation's Tallest Christmas Tree" on display and we drew names and split up to buy for each other. 

 We visited Santa. Sienna wanted to wear her "Santa" dress and he said he loved it. Here she is telling him she wants an Elsa Doll.

 We caught a nasty cold bug and EVERYONE missed the last week of school/work. Everyone was sad to miss all their parties. The silver lining though... I had seven extra goodie bags to give to friends instead of teachers (Chase has 3, Sienna has 3 and Tanner has 1).

 We celebrated 14 years of marriage. We went to Texas Roadhouse, where the waitress forgot to enter our order, so after an hour of waiting, they comped our meal and we called it a success:)

We visited the lights at the Mesa Temple.They have a pretty awesome Nativity display in the visitors center that we always love too.

 

And my good news, is that I finished my last class with the BYU-I Pathway program and I am an official BYU-I student. Because they took all my credits from when I was there 12-14 years ago, I only have 14 classes to take to get my degree. 

November- where did it go?

Sienna got a cookbook from the library (Taste of Home- Bakeshop favorites) and we baked the month away. Hello extra 5 lbs, let's be friends:)

 Can you find the human in that bed? I don't know how she sleeps like this, at least I know she is warm!

 Chronicles of Narnia, with Dad? Yes please.  Listen, do you hear that? There is not ONE electronic device on in the whole house. A miracle!

 First overnight scout camporee, with a pack as big as he was. He had a blast but froze his tooshy off at night!

 I ran the Thanksgiving Day 5k. Not my best time, but I did it! I ran with my sister-in-law Emily, Scott's Aunt Nancy, Uncle Ryan and their kids: Dan, Cami, Jason & Fay, Tara & Andrew. It was fun, and I wasn't last.

 This is Scott's grandma, we call her GG, with all the great grandkids from her two daughters. 18 of them!

This is Skylar, we tried to steal her but her Mama noticed. She was so sweet and we got our baby fix for the weekend!