Preschool Program

The boys has their Preschool Christmas Program on Tuesday before Christmas. They did a great job singing. They were pretty excited about it all day long.

 Finally a moment with two happy girls

 Brax

 Taylor

 Brax giving his card to a lady at the home

 Taylor's turn. This old man was so funny! He was so greatful that they came to sing!

Way to go cute boys!

To Grandmother's house we go

The weekend before Christmas we went to Idaho Falls to spend some time with the fam. Mom went all out and got a horse drawn sleigh for us to take a cold ride. It was fun and my kids loved it. We had a great weekend.

 Call and Papa

 Avri feel asleep when we were almost back to Grandmas

 Taylor, Mom, and Aves

 Callers feel asleep with Papa

 Avri, Mom, Taylor and Dad

 Granda Kiesling

This girl loves her Papa. She follows him every where and always wants him to hold her. Cutest picture ever! 

We were planning on going to Jake's farewell on Sunday but the kids had not been feeling well so we skipped out and met up with him after his talk. Jake will be a great missionary.

Temple Square

Every year we go to Temple Square and it gets colder and colder. The kids were cold and done with in 15 minutes but we waited until Clark and Hayley got there. We walked around, saw they pretty lights, and were there to take picture when Clark proposed to Hayley. Fun night and so glad that we got to share that night with them.

Handsome boys

 Avri

 Macall would not smile

 Beautiful spot that Clark proposed

Clark and Hayley, congrats guys!

Hands

Missing my babies

As I have been watching my kids lately I can't help but think they are growing up too fast! I don't have babies anymore, or ever again. Kind of sad. But I also remember how hard they were and how much easier it is now. I loved the baby stage, even if I can't remember most of it but I LOVE the stages they are in now. Well, at least the boys. The girls are starting the terrible 2 thing. :-) But just for my memory (and blog book) and moments of baby hungriness (is that a word?) here are the kids birth announcements.

 And now... I could just eat them up!

Love them!!



These silly boys were "bored" today so I moved my car out of the garage and they road their bikes for a whole 5 minutes. Funny boys.  

Random

The other night we decorated a gingerbread house. The boys were disappointed that I wouldn't let them eat it like Grandma did. We tried to convince them it would be a good decoration but they still pouted about it.

 Taylor...

 Braxton...

 The final product...

As I was washing the girls hair we went with a diffrerent look. The boys thought it was so funny and the girls didn't really know what was going on but laughed because the boys did.

Avri...

Callers...

Blurry picture but had to post this face! love this funny girl

Sleeping Beauties

I love the way the girls sleep. We always find them in the funniest positions but lately this has been the way Callers likes to sleep.

 And Aves has to have her blankie up by her face...

 and a baby close by...

Introducing...

 MAGIC

the Elf

 He first appeared Dec. 5 and the kids have been loving him ever since. Such a fun idea and can't wait to see what Magic has up his sleeves!

The rest of the trip

Friday was supposed to be our stop at Grand Cayman but we never made it onto the island. The water was choppy and they didn't feel it was safe to run the tenders back and forth. Pretty disappointing not to be able to stop. It was also the last stop so we ended up with two full days at sea. By this time we were ready to be off the ship and back on land. We did the best we could to entertain ourselves for the two days but I think we all agreed it was just time to be off the boat. We had a blast and miss our friends already.

Mahogany Bay 12/1/11

This was the best stop by far. We walked off the ship and onto the beach! No taxi needed. We got off early and found a few chairs close to the water and hung out for the day. It was so nice to be able to sit on the beach all day. Justin found himself some coconut water and was happy with that. The ship was scheduled to leave this port at 3 so around 1:30 we got back on and had some lunch and then played some more mini golf and watch as we sailed away from the island.