Lucky Kid

So Gray got to go to Hawaii with the Provo High Basketball team for a tournament, right before Christmas! Seriously, so dang lucky!

MAUI

 Gray and Mckay Hunter (Mckay's mom Julie, is my dear friend and took all these pics!)

 Gray and Devin Johnson

 A bunch of the guys....

Got home just in time for Christmas!

The Last Learning Dynamics Christmas Program EVER!!!!

We have been attending this cute little Christmas program for a lot of years....every child did it at least once, most of them twice.  Josie will be in Kindergarten next year so this was our LAST!

They were darling as usual!

 Her best friends are in her class.  Sophie is to the left and Ruby is on the back row to the right.

Notice when she comes out of her trance at around 18 seconds and then notices us cheering for her...silly little thing.  Man I love that face!

Rock is 8!!!!!!

Rock turned 8 on December 9th!  It was a busy week with school, basketball, santa's secret shop and life, so we had to be creative with our fun plans.

On Deember 8th, we had his birthday dinner...

Ribs, twice baked potatoes, peas, rolls and cake.

All the grandparents were there, but somehow we only got one set in a pic.

 Nice rib sauce face.

 The next morning Rock got his presents. New shoes, a cool new suit for his baptism, a remote control car and some other goods....

A few days later on Saturday, Rock went with some friends to the Lehi trafalga and played laser tag, mini golf and had a great time!

Happy Birthday Rocco...we love you so much and are so grateful you're in our family!

Hooray....you're 8!!!

Gingerbread House 2011

This year I had fun with crazy colors and fondant.  Chloe taught me how to make my penguin out of chocolate and vanilla tootsies and I love him.  But I think I'm most proud of my basket of apples.  To give you perspective, the green things are sprinkles. So fun!

Happy 41st Hans!

The birthday dessert request, somehow turned into 3....

but of course I didn't mind....

it was for Hans!

Happy Birthday Love!

You are the best,

the best of the best!

We love and celebrate you always!

Chocolate Cream Pie ..... Key Lime Cheesecake ..... Banana Cream Pie

Super fun week!

So I have a group of college girlfriends that still try to get together once a month or so....

November was my turn....and I got into it.

Man did I get into it....

I was a bit of a freak show...

Quite embarrassing...

But I had the best week EVER!

I had such a blast baking,

and baking,

and baking!

It was a hoot!

So thanks ladies for giving me the opportunity, it may not ever happen again, but it sure was fun!

Here was the menu....

Notice the dessert paragraph, the idea was to be a dessert "taster's table,"

 I hung some Christmas lights just for festive fun! Silly but it made me smile.

I forgot to take a picture of the table before, but here it is after we had our tastes.....

Such a hoot....

The favorites were:

Key Lime Cheesecake

Raspberry Yogurt Cake with Browned Butter Frosting

All recipes can be found HERE.

Disclaimer: I didn't make the salted caramel brownies....I've been dying to try them, but they're from the Chocolate in Orem!

Gray's Eagle Scout Project

Gray and Hans worked hard and fast getting the project approved so they could have it completed in time for the BYU baseball team to take it down!

Here is the flier that went out...

 Gray had a lot of help from the guys in the ward, they are such awesome boys! 

Gray was so grateful for their help! (And so were we!)

We were hoping to get about 100 kits, we put together over 350! What a small little miracle of generosity and good will! Gray also received money donations and was able to buy a ton of vitamins for the children in the DR!  Thanks to the Eadys for their help and guidance and for the BYU baseball team for delivering the goods.  Now its on to the endless paperwork!  Way to go Gray, you're almost there!  Next up, driver's license!

Halloween Day

 

Tru as his teacher Mr. Jackman

 Karate Guy

 

Cute Cowgirl

 Cute Witch

 On their way to preschool.

 School parade.

 The real Mr. Jackman as Billy Bob

 Every year our dear friends Jeanette Hales Beckham and her sweet husband Ray prepare a haunted house.  We've never gone, but this year we met Hans' Mom for some fun!  Josie hated every minute of it. Cried the whole time (it lasted all of 30 seconds).  But at the end when you go into say hi, Ray marks your hand with an invisible marker that you can only see under blue light and then you get to pick a mini pumpkin out of a big pumpkin.  On the bottom of the mini pumpkin it has a number....Tru went first and got a 1. Jeanette ripped off a fresh new $1 bill.  Rock got the same.  Josie got a 3... 3 brand new $1 bills, she was thrilled.  What a fun way to start off Halloween night!