Date Night!

Oh it was about time. David had a really hard semester come to an end yesterday!!! I was so excited I planned a fun date to celebrate (hey, that rhymed). We went to Olive Garden for dinner and to the Hale Center Theater to see A Christmas Carol.

It was so fun and so nice to get out. The kids loved their babysitter and I loved the break.

Zoo Lights.

Every day in December til Christmas we have a fun family activity to do. Wednesday's was a trip to the zoo to see the zoo lights. I had planned on it being just the kids and I, and that didn't seem to appealing to me so I called 4 other's to see if they wanted to join me. All said "Sorry can't tonight" so I had resigned myself to go alone. And it was probably very inspired that no one could go, because when David got out of bed he decided that studying could wait and he would come with us!!! Yea!!!! I was so dang happy and it made the trip so much more enjoyable. It only took us about an hour to walk through the whole zoo, but hey it was a fun hour. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so we had to do with the cell phone, but you won't mind will you?

Comet or Vixon I am not sure which one, they were there with Santa.

This one was animated. See the star, the animals were passing it forward to go on top of the tree.

She is Oh So Talented

Monday night was C's first piano recital. She has been taking from the sweetest lady in our ward for about 4 months now. She is doing really well and her teacher absolutely loves her. The last couple of times after lesson's she has let us know that Miss C sight read a couple of songs and played it perfectly. Now I know she isn't a prodigy, but she is really doing well and I love it.

This is C and teacher playing Jolly Old Saint Nicholas.

Catch Up Post.

I have bored you all too tears, haven't I? Geesh, I guess I am just not in a posting mood or my kids just aren't making picture moments happen. Who knows?

I did find a few pic's on my camera that I haven't posted about.

Dawson built his first by himself snowman. He was so proud and so disappointed that it only last about 2 hours. But hey an accomplishment is an accomplishment.

In a few days from that it snowed really well and the kids finally talked David into pulling them on the sled. The fun didn't last long because, well it was dark, and daddy had to do homework (I can't wait til he's finished). But the kids had fun, and have since had fun in the snow.

The day after Thanksgiving, we set up our Christmas decorations. I finally consented to a fake tree. My whole life I had a real tree. I was a die hard. But circumstances have left us with a fake. I am pleased with the one I picked however and hopefully it will be a good tree for years to come. I do love the ornaments I purchased for it. The tree has little red berries stuck into it so I just could bring myself to put blue and silver ornaments on it. The rest of my house is decked too so if you want to come see it, come anytime.

Dawson had to be in the pic. He's so handsome.

Well that's all, today we are going to make Christmas cards while we watch the Christmas devotional. Yea for relaxing Sunday's.

It's been a while.

I didn't realize that my last post was clear back on the 8th. Sorry so boring around here lately. All the things that come with this time of year has happened in our house. C got strep, D made fun of her for getting strep, and B is just B. (I hope their initials don't confuse anyone, I just decided one day to start using them). We made cookies, we snuggled down to watch TV cuz who wants to move around when it's cold? We have done some Christmas shopping, and I am about to start making homemade, from scratch, with real pumpkin, Pumpkin Pies and Apple pie from apples off our tree. I am really excited, because I love pumpkin pie and I really love homemade, fresh pumpkin. It's the best!
Oh and I also made some really cute hair clips with C on Sunday. I will take a pic and show you. I love them. C had fun cause I just let her do what she wanted and I had fun because I didn't have to think of anything else for a couple of hours. Too bad because of my craftiness we ended up with a really lame, really horrible Sunday dinner. Oh well, it's rare that I have had just a down right horrible dinner.
And today we have just gotten ready for the 30 year storm to come rolling through. We brought in fire wood, took all the outside toys and put them in the garage. Moved above said pumpkins into the shed, and brought out the blankets, candles and flashlights just in case. I am actually hoping that it is so severe that the kids get to stay home from school. I have never once had a snow day from school and I think it is about time to have one.
So here is to a super short update post, and I hope everyone has a fabulous Thanksgiving!!!!

Oh the Leaves

I love fall! The colors, the temperatures, the smells, the treats, EVERYTHING! Well this fall has been a little slow. The leaves changed later and have just started to really fall off our maple. Sad thing is, the wet weather started today. But, I being the plan ahead mom that I am, made sure the kids played in the leaves yesterday.

I tried to take a cute picture of them in their Sunday clothes, but they wouldn't look at me and all they wanted to do was throw the leaves in the air, so that's what I took a picture of.

Then they all changed their clothes and went back out to rake the leaves into a big pile and jump in. They had so much fun and we all laughed a lot. So Fun!!!!

I had some fun on Picnik this morning. I am not sure I love the edits but it was still fun.

Veterans Day Assembly

Last Thursday the kids school had a Veterans Day assembly that the kids were encouraged to invite anyone they knew that was a Veteran. My grandpa served in the Korean War as part of the Navy. I was excited but also nervous to invite him. He has Alzheimer's and I was worried he would get anxious or all of a sudden get confused about where he was. But all went well and he was like a kid in a candy store. They had the Vet's walk out in a precession as the audience stood and clapped. He just lit up. He is very proud of the time he served and is not shy about it. He was great during the assembly and stood and sang the Navy song with the fourth graders. And as he was walking out in the precession he saw Caitlin and stopped to shake her hand, which started the rest of her class wanting to shake all the Vet's that came behind him. It was so cute and he was so happy. He even told Dave on the way home that the day had been a "Good Day." Which is rare in its self because he is usually very nervous when he is away from home. I am sure glad he had a good day. I love my grandparents.

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