Buillding the snow fort and more!

December 2008

Some fun pictures of the kids building a snow fort, sledding and playing around.

I went outside to take some photos of the kids in the snow cave and when I came in Megan decided to put some of her own gloves on. They were just oven mitts!

The kids sledding on the hill.

Rob and Nicole in the cave!

Dad with Megan in the cave!

Justin and Katie inside the snowfort, it was pretty big in there actually. Very cool!

Justin, Rob, and our neighbor Landon

Digging our the hole.

Katie playing with her new computer art game from Christmas.

Giddie up Cowgirls!

Pajama time and playing with toys!

December 27,2008

The kids got these bug towels from grandma/pa and they have been running around the house saying "bugga bug, bugga bug" and chasing each other!

Megan and Rob playing with the doll house dad style. They were putting the people on the roof then pushing them off and laughing.

Justin on his new bean bag!

The kids on their bean bags watching cartoons.

Megan laughing. Her laugh is so fun and very contagious. I love that silly grin!

Megan playing with the fire truck.

Playing in the snow & more!

December 26, 2008

Today the kids wanted to go out in the snow so bad with dad. They were outside most of the morning until we went to visit Grandma/pa.

Megan hanging out inside with mom.
The kids worked so hard on this sledding hill. And a lot of fun on it when it was done.

My little builders!

Building and playing in the snow!

Justin and Megan playing guns!

Katie and Rob throwing snow at each other. Like the nice snowball right on Katie's forhead!

Christmas Day! 2008!

December 25, 2008

What a great Christmas morning. The kids actually slept in until just after 7am amazing they never do that. And we had a white Christmas. A little more snow than we were thinking but it all worked out ok. And a great day being together with one another. We had such a great Christmas! Rob and Justin went and shoveled several of the neighbors walks and enjoyed the day serving others. It was nice to think of the savior and all he has done for us and our family.

We got a lot of snow on Christmas day! So much that we decided to just stay home and play in it and enjoy our new toys and things. We went visiting family another day! We were glad we did. Here is Justin by the snow in the front yard!

Justin with all his stuff! Merry Christmas!

Megan and Katie with all their presents.

Kids with grandma and grandpa and aunt Shannon and uncle Brandon!

The family by the tree!

Eating the homemade cinnamon and orange rolls I made (it's tradition what can I say) with fruit!

Justin and Rob with their new nerf guns!

Nicole with her new pressure cooker. I can't wait to bottle!

Rob with his new gun! He is so excited!

Megan with her princess bike helmet!

Megan trying on Katie's new shoes.

Mom and the girls!

Justin and his new bike!

Katie got her ponies she wanted!

Justin and Dad playing with his new race track!

The girls playing!

The kids just after they woke up waiting in our room for dad to make sure Santa wasn't still here and all was clear.

Christmas Eve!

December 24, 2008

Twas the night before Christmas....

What a fun night with the kids.

Making sugar cookies for Santa!

Frosting cookies!

Katie loved the pink frosting. She would use so much frosting and we would ask her what is that cookie, she would say "it's an icing mountain cookie" that it was too. The funny thing was that days later all of us were fighting for Katie's Icing mountain cookies because they had the most frosting on them.

Frosting cookies, or eating them.

Megan! I think she ate basically everything she touched!

Picking out which cookies they wanted for Santa and writing their letter to Santa.

Katie with the Reindeer food. We put this outside all over the snow for the reindeer!

Rob sprinkling the reindeer food!

Thanksgiving Point for Christmas!

December 2008

Another fun Christmas Tradition is to go down to Thanksgiving point and see the lights. This year we took a wagon ride pulled by horses for FHE the week of Christmas. It was cold but the kids LOVED it! They sang Christmas songs and had a great time. Afterwards we walked up and saw the reindeer and they thought this was so cool too.

Katie and Megan!

Katie in front of the horse and wagon!

Justin and Rob laughing.

Mom and Megan! Megan thought that the lights were so cool and fun to watch. She kept pointing at them and making noises. She liked the horses too.

Katie on the wagon ride.

Justin, Katie, and Megan looking at the reindeer. We had to explain that these are some of Santa's extras. Not the ones he uses to pull the sleigh. They were still in training.

Katie & Megan were fascinated by the reindeer!
Katie and Megan!