christmas shenanigans galore

visitors to our nativity continue...monsty and a snowman came to worship the newborn King!

christmas sock exchange with my crazy fun bible study girls!

ready for the parade to start!

skating with friends!

meet jack, the gingerbread man.  he plays wrestleball. he's the best player on his team.  he averages 50 points a game.  as the best player, he's been chosen to represent the team in their christmas jerseys during this year's holiday ad campaign.

no big deal...just working on a little research project.

love these two a bunch!!!

suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, "glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men."

we had a date night and saw "newsies" at the orpheum and it was sooo good!

this girl rocked her zambia presentation! and, we may want to take a trip there now!!!

the girls in my ss class had our annual favorite things/wrapping christmas party!

some of the cousins saw the singing christmas tree!

christmas break, baby!!!

she does all her own wrapping.

ba ba ba buh ba ba buh ba buh...the force has awakened!!!

frozen fun on the farm

we celebrated a fun friend's birthday with anna, elsa, and olaf on a farm.

they took sleigh rides and sang along with the frozen sisters while olaf watched from the side.

4 little ducks waddled around the farm.

the kids loved feeding the sheep and goats!

carter man's favorite part was the train ride!

oh.  and john fed a deer.

party people

grace and carter were super excited to celebrate their birthdays especially since their party included pjs and cereal!!!

when the guests arrived, they began making their fruit loop necklaces.

next, we tossed pancakes.  there were lots of giggles during this game.  carter and pierce were chunking the pancakes at each other.  andrew kept trying to eat his and then turned it into a hat.  allie had to dodge them.  pancakes landed in lots of unusual places.

the kids enjoyed lots of yummy breakfast foods...cereal, donuts, pancakes, and fruit.  mmm!!!

before our friends left, we played one last game...

this may have been the most entertaining!

we loved having friends and family over to celebrate!!!

this Christmas (cont'd)...

Mimi, the kiddos, and I went to our church Christmas program and they sang some of very favorite songs!!!

We decorated cookies with sweet friends.

He got an early gift...Rudolph!  The new love of his life!!!

We were SUPER excited that Christmas break had arrived at last!!!

We had a late night dinner with Mimi and Poppa!

One morning, I woke up to this!!!  What is happening in this place???

Grace mailed a letter to Santa while we were doing some last minute Christmas shopping. 

And, she worked very hard wrapping her Christmas gifts for everyone!  She didn't want any help because she wanted to make sure everyone knew it was from her.  Love her!!!

Christmas, we are almost ready for you!!!

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grace had a fun time celebrating allie's birthday at her frozen party!

and...we got to meet elsa!!! and sing with her and dance with her and hug her!!!

we are lovin' these summer days!

popsicles, swimming, coloring

these two boys love their puppies!!!

she's so pretty!

i was just given these sanuks and they are COMFORTABLE!!!

carter's silly show...he's such a mess!

and, that was just the opening act to yet another performance of...you guessed it!  let it go!