Abby turns 6

Abby is offically 6!  It's hard to believe that she is that old....Here is a little sneak from her celebrations this week!

Thank you Grandmother and Granddaddy!  Bath time is now lots more fun!

Thanks Aunt Jennifer - Ethan and I spent all Wednesday afternoon of our snow day making paper dolls!

Thanks Grandpa - can't wait to twirl in this dress on Sunday!

Yum!  My birthday dinner of Cinnamon Bun Pancakes with Frosting Syrup!

After dinner, Ethan, Mom and I churned my first blizzard treat!  It was a lot more work than I expected, but it was sure yummy!

I had a wonderful birthday party swimming at the aquatic center!  I invited my friends from kindergarten.  After swimming, we had pizza, opened presents and had yummy cupcakes!

Me and Joshua, at my birthday party!

Week 2

here ya go again!

Week One

Ok, so I have a New Years Resolution - I tried last year, and got pretty far, but I am going to try this again. A picture a day for 365 days - big undertaking!  I thought if I posted them here, well it might motivate me to blog more....so here it goes! Wish me luck!

Lastest Christmas Fun!

Is anyone wondering why all of sudden I have all these posts in one day.  Well to be honest, I have great intentions on blogging, but well, I have a tendency to read other blogs more often than writing on my own.  I am hoping to update this just a little so that we don't look like total slackers when you all get your Christmas cards and go here to look and really notice when the last time I posted.  I promise to do this better, especially being so far away, it is a nice way to let you all know of our latest happenings... well here are a little more ....

1.  Aubrey packing her kitty lunch all over town in preparation of joining Hayden for his Christmas lunch at school.  She carried it all over, saying "lunch at school fun!"  "I lub school"  "my kitty lunch"
2.  We all officially can say we were gifted fruit cake, and all tried it.  Well I don't think any of us will want it again.  Ben's comment was that he thought it tasted like orange rinds with raisins.... yum!
3.  Abby and Ethan's self made concoction of "fruit salad"  lovingly made with out moms notice, ready to serve the missionaries for dinner!
4.  Just a little sign of the tremendous amount of baking that has been done this month.  Between open houses, youth firesides, and 4 advents, Ward Christmas parties, Relief Society Socials, well we've done a lot of baking!  My kids just might cry if we have soup and rolls again for dinner!
5.  Abby waiting patiently for her "friend" Joshua and his family to join us for our advent!
6.  Aubrey and I at Hayden's school Christmas lunch.  Mme LeBlanc and Mrs Ells made banquet tables out of desks, decked out with red and green table cloths, green napkins, paper chains, and all you can drink apple cider.  Aubrey had a great time!  I am sure grateful for fantastic teachers!

1.  A five minute photo shoot after a small snow storm with Ethan for his baptism invites!  Thank goodness he knows the photo drill well and is photogenic!  Fastest photo shoot to date!
2.  Ethan's Christmas concert at Harrison Trimble High School - he sang "It's time to pack the sleigh!" It was awesome!
3.  Ethan and Hayden singing Christmas carols in french with the missionaries after the Ward Christmas Party!
4.  Ben got to go with Abby and Ethan to their Christmas lunch!  Looks like they had a good time
5.  Abby's part in the Christmas concert - they sang "Jingle Bells" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

Gingebread Houses!

For FHE we made gingerbread houses, or as Aubrey called them, bread houses.  She "iked houses"  they are yummy!  We had a great night, only a couple tears after some roof collapsing, or a surprise "garage" which was a wall coming down!  Over all the kids like it, especially eating the rest of the candy and licking their fingers! 

Christmas Tree!

We started a little tradition last year when we went out with some lovely families in our ward to the former Bishop's Christmas tree farm.  The kids love going out to see the alpacas, to get a wagon ride and search from the thousands of trees for the perfect tree!  After we had a lovely dinner and carol singing.

Christmas Cards

Finally got them done, and I wonder why it's so hard to get my own done!

Merry Christmas to all!