December 2015

 Yikes!! I am missing so many pictures from December because all of the pictures on my phone before and during Christmas are gone!! In the month of December we went on our annual Christmas lunch date with Ric and Jo, went to Sue Hardcastle's funeral (Pam's Mom), had Shaun's work Christmas party and had a private room at a bowling alley (so much fun!), Shaun and I went and saw the new Star Wars movie, had the Woodford family Christmas party 2 days before Christmas at my parents house, spent Christmas Eve with Patsy and Jay, and spent Christmas with Ric and Jo.  So much fun!  We also had several family movie nights and watched all of the Star Wars movies with the kids.  Here's a few pictures of our trip downtown one Sunday.  It was FREEZING!!

 Here's pictures from Lila's dance recital.  She loves having her friends in her class!

 Grace Hardy, Avery Jackman, and Brooklyn Chapo!

Lila is on the far left with Avery!

After dance pictures

 These pictures are on Christmas Eve.  Here's all three kids with their Christmas jammies.  Also, they are allowed to touch Candy Cane and give him a hug before he leaves!

 

 Here's some pictures from Patsy's house on Christmas Eve. 

I wish I had more pictures!!!! I don't take my Nikon with me everywhere and those are the only ones I still have!! No pictures of my family, no pictures of Ric and Jo........ I guess I'll just have to keep those memories in my mind!

Here's a cute picture of the kids the day after Christmas.  We kept all of the new toys downstairs is a glorious mess for 2 weeks.  They loved it!

Here we are on New Years Eve!! We hit dinner with Jared and Leigh, then came home and had a family movie night and watched some Star Wars, then were all asleep by 10:30. We are so boring!!! And tired.  Parents are always tired.  :)

Here's a fun trip to the Museum of Natural Curiosity with Connor and Andie!

Happy New Year!!!

November 2015

 There were so many fun things that happened in November!  Unfortunately, I don't have many pictures to prove it because I got a new phone in December and all of the pictures for November and December were lost!  Here's the few pictures I did manage to get on my Nikon.  Isaak and Lila had their first piano recital the first weekend in November.  They both started taking lessons in July and are doing a great job!

 Their piano teacher, Lily Martindale

 And here's a cute snow fort the kids put together with the little snow they had available that day.  Cute!

In November we also had parent teacher conferences (both kids got great grades), all of us managed to catch the stomach flu, we had a Thanksgiving at Jo's a few Sundays before Thanksgiving, I had Thanksgiving for our little family the Sunday before, and then on actual Thanksgiving, we went to Patsy's , then later that evening we caught Thanksgiving dessert at Kim's house and played games.  We also had lots of snow, this winter has been VERY white!!

October 2015

October was filled with lots of fun!  In the beginning of the month, Porter was scooting along the floor doing the worm, and by the end he was crawling, mostly doing the elephant crawl.  He is such a happy and loveable boy!!

 

We bought a season pass to cornbelly's this year, but due to lots of colds that went through the family, we only made it 3 times.  Here's some pics of one of our trips.  Montana got to come with us, too!

 

Savannah, Carly, Lila and Avery at the fun run!!

 Isaak's fun run!

 Melissa had a great murder mystery party the day before Halloween.  Here's the elaborate invite!  The egg had a raven painted on it and the invite was inside the egg. Very awesome!!

 The girls showing off their hats with Porter

 Clark, Taj, and Isaak

 Kim, Melissa, Lila and I had a really fun girl's night at Gardner Village!! We started off the night with dinner at Chris and Miyuki's. So much fun!!!

 Crazy hair day at school!

 I love that my kids love to read!  They always love to take books in bed.  Isaak is reading the Garfield Holiday book.  It was one of my favorites when I was a kid!

 Pumpkins!!!

Halloween Parade day at school!

 All ready for Melissa's murder mystery party!!!

 Halloween night!!! Shaun always makes it so much fun by riding us around the neighborhood in the RZR.  We get to hit all the really good houses!!