Spaghetti Mess

This little girl loves her some spaghetti, but look at this! She is such a mess when she does get to have some! Notice her fork. Untouched. I believe with the starter bite I left on there when I gave her her plate. Someday she will use a fork. But for today, I will just take her picture and remember this time when she was small.

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Getting Ready for Sunday

Grant also got some new church clothes for Christmas including this snazzy new tie.

-He looks so grown up! Super wish James had been smiling, but I think I took this when we were rushing to get out of the door. I just couldn't resist!


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Christmas 2013

The second Christmas in our new home, did not disappoint. We had so much fun with the kids, and hopefully instilling in them some new holiday traditions. I love living closer to family. I really believe that kids need their grandparents. And not just any kids, but MY kids especially. In Casper, we could never venture out, and now that we are here, we go to St. George quite a bit. We just love it here.

Anyway, on to Christmas.

Big ticket items (the things they asked Santa for) included for Audrey:
Snow White dress

For Grant:
Donald Duck stuffed animal.

Grant has always been a fan of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and all the friends, but these past few months have been all about Donald Duck. Donald Duck stories in our Disney Book, Donald Duck shirt, Donald Duck episodes of Mickey Mouse. I honestly don't know how it started. But I am not complaining. I love that he loves Donald Duck.
And Santa did not disappoint.

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Look at that smile! Look at how big he has grown! What a sweetheart. I love that his whole Christmas is made just by a Donald Duck stuffed animal. Can I save him forever?




And this little beauty! Adored her Snow White dress. If you will notice, she quickly peeled off her pajamas, and put it on.


And continued to wear it for most of the day. Santa also thought to give her a Strawberry Shortcake hat, which she also adored. This girl has many interests. She is so easy to get to like for things, if that makes sense. Princesses, Minnie, Strawberry Shortcake, Hello Kitty, she loves them all!




Snow White surprisingly got the shaft and Minnie won out in the end. Dress ups were a great thing for her this Christmas.


Oh the anticipation! I just love my little ones!


















This was a most fun Christmas! Grant actually got really excited this year, so I had two little ones super excited for Christmas.









Another Christmas tradition I hope that will be started is going down to St. George. Look out Grant's window! Sunshine! So happy we are back!




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Gingerbread House Fun

-This week at school, the Friday before Christmas vacation, the kids both got to make gingerbread houses. My kids are really not into too many sweets. Grant didn't want to eat his, and Audrey tried to eat some of hers, but she lost interest. They just are not huge in to sweets, but the candy they do like, they love! These houses started to fall apart soon after we got home, so I had to snap a pic. Grant also ended up being sick the next week, so I don't think he was feeling the whole gingerbread house thing. Audrey loves to pretend she is Mary, as in the mother of Jesus. She is so sweet.

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Christmas Decorating

I could not wait any longer. With Thanksgiving finished, (we had a great one, by the way), I just absolutely HAD to get the Christmas tree up. James had me talked in to December 1st, but I just couldn't wait that long. We had to get it up as soon as possible. So, sitting around the dinner table, James asked me what I wanted to do. With out hesitating, I said that I wanted to put up the tree. And James totally went along with it. We had so much fun this year. Our kids are ages three and five, and they are finally excited about Santa coming to our house. It was so fun to watch all the magic unfold this Christmas season.

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Audrey and Grant adored decorating our tree. I kept handing them ornaments, and they would be very careful about choosing which spot they got to on, even if another ornament was already there.


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