And here goes the third or fourth round of Christmas candy. This time it was orange/coconut fondant to dip in chocolate with our already made mint fondant. We made our second batch of fudge which was succesful and also a double batch of peanut brittle. Kyle and Katie were more than happy to jump in and help.
Here's a snapshot of nightly teeth brushing. Katherine usually misses the sink and spits onto the counter.
We were going to use the gingerbread house kit for FHE but Sunday we needed an after church activity so we dove into the project. I'm surprised the house was finished despite Katherine grabbing candies and eating them every chance she got.
The kids spent an evening with Santa at a company Jeff works with. They got their faces painted and sat on Santa's lap. Well, Katie wouldn't go near Santa but surprisingly Kyle jumped right up and gave a complicated but very detailed description of a flying helicopter that does this "bzzzzz" and has two missiles and so on.....I'm sure it was quoted verbatem from the barrage of toy commercials.
The first time it snowed the snow wasn't wet enough so our snow man is a miniature. Next we made our Christmas countdown chain. I loved doing that in school. The snow stayed around long enough for the boys to sled also. Kyle thought that was so much fun.
Here is the first good snow of the year. For the first time in 3 years the snow was wet enough to pack into a snowman. Jeff and our neighbor Chad had quite a hard time getting the body on top of the base. There was a lot of grunting and blaming for the snowball not moving an inch. Our snowman's hair was made out of chocolate twizzlers--good idea huh?
Here's the boys entertaining themselves with games after church.
Grandma Clark came up to our house Thursday and we made
Here are the boys helping 
Our Halloween dinner tradition. DEAD MAN OVER WORMS!!! Yuck
Pumpkin Carving Family Home Evening. Katherine was the most daring of the kids and cleaned out all of her own pumpkin "guts".
Here are the costumes. Katie's hat only lasted long enough for the photo. Don't you think Kyle fills out this "The Thing" costume perfectly. Josh is of course of the age where he wants to be scary and bloody....Mom said scary was OK.
We swear the doctor said it was a girl. It seems like she needs some coaching on how to play like a girl. I bet her cousins Abi and Mallory would love to dress her up and teach her how to be dainty. 
Boy does she love to tackle her Daddy. 
Has everyone met Carmello? This is Josh's pet hamster Carmello. He's a teddy bear hamster and is the easiest pet to take care we've ever had. Katie loves when we get him out. She's even pretty good at holdi
ng him until he dares to move. Then she squeals and someone better be close or he's gonna fly!
Grandpa and Grandma Carlson came out to help Brent get settled at school. We had a relaxing Sunday at temple square until Kyle got hungry and we hit meltdown status. I wonder who he gets that from? Jeff and his parents got to see the tabernacle choir perform and I think they enjoyed some of the pleasures we have being Utahns. Oh, the wonderful pose from the boys is target practice for Brent and his football.
