Christmas Dance Recital

Ella had her Christmas Dance Recital on Friday December 18th. She absolutely loves dance! I still drive her to Salt Lake to dance which is getting harder and harder with our busy schedule! I swear I used to go no where or do anything now I spend my days in my car running! Anyways she did a tap dance and a ballet dance! We finished the night at Leatherby's for some ice cream sundaes!

SNOW!!

Monday December 14th we got a huge snowstorm! We got about 16-18 inches of snow! I finally had most of my kids snow gear so we all headed out as a family that afternoon to play in the snow! It was so fun! We built a snowman and made snow angels and Easton loved eating it (nasty!). I went in after about an hour to help Addie get warmed up and they stayed out a little while longer! We finished it off with some hot chocolate! 

The snow was so deep Addie had a hard time even moving in it!

Random

These are from November and December off of our phones.

Addie thought she would ride Maximus again, I hate to tell her it is too small for her and/or not real!!

Just relaxing at Grandma's house!

She always has messy hair! I do it every day but she undoes it half the time! It is kind of in that weird mullet like stage right now!

I just love sleeping pictures!

This was honestly the best piece of mail I got all year long! This is from my melanoma surgery from almost three years ago! I paid over ten thousand dollars for the whole thing and it was a huge trial at times to pay! I honestly don't know how anyone pays for ongoing cancer treatments, mine was a procedure one day and a surgery the next and it was well over thirty thousand dollars before insurance! So grateful it is paid off!!!!!

I was looking for a backpack/doll carrier around Christmas to give to Ella for her doll. I didn't want to get the American Girl one and all the others I was finding were ugly or way to expensive like this one! Only $1400 and you still have to pay shipping?!? Do people actually pay that?!?

Easton got this awesome tub of toys from my Katy and Kyle for his birthday. He was in heaven! He loves them!

Ella went on her first field trip in November to the Living Planet Aquarium. She had so much fun and it gave us a little glimpse of what it would be like to have her gone all day not half day! I'm not ready for it!

I took this picture to send to Andrew! Our neighbor had finally sold and was moving out! We aren't really sad to see him go. He had obnoxious parties, loud friends in the middle of the night, and speakers that could be heard in my bedroom! 

Easton and Britton after their Thanksgiving feast!

Kids love to come and play in the snow in the area behind our house and my kids love to watch!

Rough day I guess! She found this pacifier and wouldn't give it up. We "lost" it soon after!

Matching girls!

I came back from dropping Ella and Easton off from school one day and Andrew made me this yummy bowl of oatmeal!

Addie loved the Thanksgiving Day parade especially when the Sesame Street crew came on!

I think I posted these already from while I was out of town!

Addie loves horses and Andrew's sister Becky was so nice and brought her entire collection from growing up, up to Addie. She was terrified of them at first but she slowly warmed up!

See...she finally likes them!

This girl is just like her brother and sister and loves books! 

She loves Lucy!!

I bought Ella's fabric to make her new blanket and she didn't waste any time using it weather it was a blanket yet or not!

Family night is such an adventure!!

All of the kids think the built ins are their playground. Someday they will be decorated and they will be sad!

I tried to take her picture of her asleep and she woke up!

Chocolate Dipping

December 12th we got together at my Grandma's house to make some candy. We did it a couple years ago for Valentines Day and it was so fun. My Grandma had caramels ready for us to dip. She had a couple batches of fondant ready to do some others. I made a batch of fondant and she taught me how to make it work, it was fun to do! We decided to do a few different kinds. We ended up doing caramels, strawberry creams, orange creams, mint cream, and cherry chocolates. They all turned out really good. I was trying to have it be a surprise gift for Andrew but he came in and saw what we were doing when he got done with work, after I told him to wait in the car ;). It was such a fun day and Emily and I said we would love to make it a tradition! There is nothing better than learning from my Grandma, she is so talented and amazing!

Our first orange, we tried to make an "O" on top to be able to tell which is which!

My Grandma brought this box the next day and I wrapped it up for Andrew, after I ate one or two!

Ella's Music Program

The 5 Kindergarten classes put on a Music Program for Christmas. I honestly thought it would be a little different and we were so far back we couldn't really see or really hear but it was still cute what we did see. They sang 4 or 5 songs. I think it would have been better to do each teacher separately. Ella did a little part and I totally missed it! It was still fun to see!