Happy Easter

 

Happy Easter   

2011

Is it Spring or is it Winter?

 

Is it Spring or is it Winter, it's hard to tell.  I guess this is how Utah does spring, these were actually taken today outside.  The kids sure do love the snow!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Kate 5, Jane 15 months, Caleb 2

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone, may you find Luck today and everyday this year!

Happy 100th Day of School

Last month Kate celebrated her 100th day of school.  Her teacher asked each child to bring a poster with 100 things on it, so naturally Kate picked flowers.  She has a great time at the party that day.  She loved counting every ones poster they brought from home.  I love to see this girls excitement and energy is all that she does!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Watching the man cut the Christmas Tree

Caleb on the ride back to Grandma's

Jane and Daddy

Say Cheese

Kate on Santa's Lap

All smiles this time around

Jane not knowing what to think about Santa

Caleb loved being a Shepard, he kept giving me the thumbs up sign and smiling at me during the performance.

Jane at the Children Museum Playing with the Balls

Kate in the Play Kitchen

Jane walking everywhere around the museum

Caleb couldn't get enough of playing in the Kitchen area at the Museum

All tuckered out from the Museum

All three Kids played so hard they fell asleep on the way home in the snow Blizzard.

So this Christmas season was filled with tons of excitement, fun, family and many memories to remember. We had a wonderful time picking out my moms Christmas tree from the tree farm that is just around the corner from her house. Kate and Caleb got to walk threw the forest of trees, watch the man cut it down right in front of us. Caleb got to ride with Grandma on the 4 wheeler home with the tree. What a great memory to have.
This year we went to a lot of fun Christmas parties and got to see lots of Family. Caleb and Kate loved dressing up at Mamaw's Christmas party as part of the Nativity. They even got to see Santa Clause again, this time it went a whole lot better, no frowns this time around. I forgot to take pictures of every party, makes me want to kick myself when I forget. I sometimes guess I am enjoying the moment and time spent together so much I forget to take pictures of it. I still got quite a bit so I am not to upset. The joy of watching the kids open all there presents from all the many families was a delight to see. Thank you everyone for all the generosity and joy you have share with all of us this year.

This year we also got to do some really fun activities together. Kate went Skiing with her Daddy for the first time ever, she loved it, from what I hear she did really well for her first time. We also got to see some great movies, one of the most favorite I think was the new movie Tangled, what great show. Then we also went to the Children Museum in SLC. It was Jane's first time and she loved it. It's nice that she is walking now, I think that helped in her 1st experience. The kids went bowling too, Caleb loved rolling the ball down the lane, he talked about bowling for days after wards. I think the best part for the kids was playing with all their cousins, staying up late ,and spending lots of time with Dad, oh and I can't for get all the present they got to open. This year we didn't get a white Christmas, it was more of a brown color, but a few day later got the biggest storm of the year so far. The kids loved playing in it, I have to say I didn't necessarily like driving in it myself. It made everything looks so beautiful and white. I love Snow! It really was a great time filled with family and memories to remember for a lifetime. Merry Christmas everyone!

A Visit with Santa Clause

So this is this year picture with Santa Clause, It's Classic, one to go back and look at in years to come.  Caleb just ran up to Santa and smiled and said what he wanted, Kate did the same. Then  as soon as I place Jane on Santa's lap the photographer say the magic words Caleb so loves to hear  "SAY CHEESE" he instantly starts to make a stink face and frowns.  He know that when he here those words, someone is wanting him to smile.  I hope this is just a phase, he loves to smile and take pictures if its his idea, but not when you want him to for a cute picture with Santa Clause.   At least I got a picture with all three kids with Santa this year, I guess I can't be to picky what kind of faces they make right.  This was the picture we took at the Elves Gift show in the previous post.

Elves Gift Show

 

So a few weeks ago we went to the Elves gift show at the South Town Expo center, and had a great time looking at the Christmas singers, and Visiting Santa.  The kids loved looking at all the Christmas displays, and posing by all the candy canes and polar bears, I still need to upload those picture at a later time. The kids got a kick out of the Balloon making Lady booth, they all got to pick something out for her to make.  Kate got a swan, and Caleb got a frog and we got our niece a pink flower. There wasn't much there to see just enough for the kids to get out and have a little fun and tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas this year.  They had this fun photo booth you could get into and take silly pictures, the best part it was free.  I loved how it turned out, some of the expressions are priceless. 

My sister had a fun elf hat and shoes, so we had a little more fun elf-ing around the house later that evening.  The kids had so much fun pretending to be one of Santa's Elves.