Merry Christmas

yummy cookies

All week the kids have been dying to make sugar cookies. My response was wait till daddy is home all day on Saturday and we will. I think that they ate more of the dough and frosting than the cookies themselves!

Preschool Recital

Preston's preschool held a nursery rhyme recital at the echo city hall. (very pretty place) He and his friend Matt were 2 of the three blind mice. They did great!



I love the middle picture of him running with his tough sticking out!

Arizona

Beth, Tanner and I were able to visit Jill, Tim and their families in Arizona for a few days. We left on Thursday and I came home on the following Tuesday. My wonderful neighbors were able to take Pres and Hailey for a day and my even more wonderful in laws were able to take them for 2 nights.
We had such a great time but the time flew! I wish that they lived closer!

Lunch at the park. It was a balmy 58 degrees! The AZ crew were freezing their tootsies off!

Jordan's football game. This was another 50 degree night. It was quite funny because there were tons of little kids running around in big winter coats, hats, scarves and mittens on. If they only knew what cold really was!


Jill, Beth, Ag and I went on a little shopping spree. We left at 9 in the morning and got home at 8 that night. In the end our feet felt like they were going to fall off! Ella and Tanner were troopers.


Cousins! Jessica would have held him for the whole five days if he would have let her.

You don't see this in Oregon!
Jill was picking up Nick from a Christmas party and while she was inside I shot this pic! I hurried and took it before someone saw me. I am sure that they would think that Jill's little sister was nuts!


For family night we went to see the lights at the Phoenix temple. It was beautiful! They have more lights than on temple square! My favorite were the wise men.

Snowmen

The kids love to do crafty things, (I'm not sure where they get it) so I looked on Family Fun's website for some inspiration. I came up with snowmen made with canning jar lids. I didn't have anything that the magazine suggested so I did my best! Preston's is a ninja snowman hence the bandanna on his head.



Pres and Hailey seem to always leave pens on the floor and Tanner always seems to find them! I keep on catching him writing on my walls and he is only one! Way too early to be starting that habit. Yesterday he wrote all over Ryan's new work out book and today he found a box.

Doctors in the family are great!

I took Pres in to Derek on Friday because he has been having fevers for the last 2 weeks. He is on meds and is doing tons better. We decided to weigh Tanner while he was there and with his diaper and onesie on he weight exactly 17 pounds. Little bugger needs to weigh more! Derek wants me to have him drink 2 pedia sures a day and 5 meals a day. That would be great if he would eat! Its so weird to me to have a little baby because pres and Hailey were such chunks!
Last night he started breathing very heavily, like he wasn't getting enough air. I slept with him most of the night as he wouldn't let me put him down. He was so sick. Derek and Beth came over during church and checked him out. He has had a nebulizer treatment every four hours and is on steroids. Poor little guy. Hope he gets over this before Beth and I go to AZ to see Jill and Tim! I don't know what I would do without a doctor in the family!

Ward Christmas Party

On Friday we had our ward Christmas Party. The kids were so excited to see Santa. Or as Hailey would say it Cho coe lot. She is saying Santa Claus but it sounds so funny! All day Pres would tell me that I had to tell Sants what he wanted. He was very nervous to see him, Tanner was not happy to see him and Hailey was thrilled!