It’s been forever

I guess I’m just in a blog funk or something; I have no motivation.   But since we use this as our family journal, I have to keep it up!! 

Mike’s parents took us up to Heber to go on The North Pole Express.  It was a few days before Christmas, and snowy, and cold.  Perfect for a wintery holiday night :)  The kids LOVED it and it was just fun being together. 

The next day we went sledding at Gorgoza Park near Park City for Mike’s work party.  It was SO much fun.  The kids were a little overwhelmed, just because the cold wind in your face could take your breath away.  But once Mike and I taught them how to tuck their faces down into their coats, they were good to go :).  After sledding his company took us to NYC Pizza for lunch.  They had the whole place rented out, so it was just us there.  And they just kept bringing more and more food and desserts.  It was yummy to say the least!  It was fun to get to know some of Mike’s work friends and their wives. 

Now I gotta get caught up on Christmas and the New Year.  But first I have to head to scouts, so hopefully I’ll get on and finish when I get home :)

Christmas Eve

We’re headed to Andrew’s house soon for Christmas Eve dinner. The kids are SO excited to go play with cousins and for Santa to come tonight! We have so much to be thankful for.

But most of all, this Christmas Eve, we’re thankful for Him.

Madi’s school photo

We were gone to CA during Madi’s school pictures but we got her in for the retakes.  Her teacher is so sweet.  It’s Christmas Eve and she dropped them by our house for us!  She felt bad that she forgot to give them to us before the break, so she came and found our house.  So sweet of her.  Anyway, here’s Madi’s kindergarten pic!  Maybe I’m biased?  But I think she looks adorable :)

They gave us a copy in Sepia too

What’s been happening

I’m needing to play catch up!  I posted a couple of other new entries about our windstorm, Madi’s dance, and Halloween.  So scroll down and check those out too! 

We’ve been having a great Christmas season.  Both my parents, and Mike’s parents will be in town for Christmas this year.  YAY!  We are so excited and the kids can’t wait. 

Anyway, here’s what we’ve been up to!

Playing in the snow

Watching movies in our jammies

Losing teeth. (She’s lost another one now)

Looking pretty all ready for church

More watching movies and a broken thumb.  AGAIN!

The kids got chosen to play the chimes at the ward Christmas Breakfast. 

They also got to wait in line to see Santa.  They were SO excited. 

Decorating sugar cookies after church

Phew!  What a month.  All tuckered out.  Complete with wii remote, cape, and toy gun :)

A couple more Halloween pics

Madi dressed up as supergirl on Halloween.  I just found these pictures and had to post a few

She was so funny, trying to fly on this thing.  Haha

Big muscles!!

This picture makes me laugh.  She totally looks like a cheerleader! 

She was running to rescue something..

Silly faces!

Windy much??

We had a HORRIBLE wind storm a few weeks ago.  There was so much damage all around Centerville.  The highest wind speed recorded was 103 mph.  I seriously thought our roof was gonna blow off.  We ended up being without power for about 14 hours.  Thankfully the house stayed warm and it came back on before bedtime. 

Our neighborhood:

I think all the leaves in Centerville decided to blow onto our porch.  There’s 3 steps under there!

You can see how deep they are by where they hit on Max’s leg. 

A couple of the pretty pines in our backyard :(

Some damage near my brother’s neighborhood

This was a tree that fell on Madi’s school.  School was cancelled for two days because of damage. 

Madi’s Christmas Dance

So every December Madi’s ballet studio has the parents come in a watch the girls during their class.  We get to see them doing their regular class, what they do at the barre and the stretches and stuff.  And then they perform a little Christmas dance.   I was happy Madi was able to do it because they’ve only practiced a couple of times, and Madi missed class the week before this.  So I had no idea if she’d even know the moves at all.  But she did great, I’m  proud of my little ballerina :)