Quick update

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We did. Here are just a few photos of the big day.

The Christmas Spirit

The Christmas Spirit

Our family would like to wish everyone a very Joyous Christmas and Happy New New Year. We hope you enjoy a wonderful holiday with friends and family remembering our Savior and the true meaning of Christmas.

=) Happy Day!

It's all official, I am now the proud Mama of an Eagle Scout! Tonight, G-man had his board of review and passed!! I'm so happy! The next step is to plan his Court of Honor. Hopefully in the next couple months. I'll have pictures for you then because, of course, I didn't think of bringing the camera. Obviously, I'm not a Scout.

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Hey, Friends!

I want to tell you all about a show on Monday call the Sing-Off. It's on NBC at 8pm PST(check your local listings) It's an a cappella singing competition. The group to watch are the BYU Noteworthy Ladies. They are amazing! Two of the girls, who are sisters, are my friends daughters and are in our Stake.

Make sure you watch! Go Noteworthy!!!

Really???? Stitches and a broken finger in less than 2 weeks??

Poor guy! Little A was trying to get into big brothers room where he wasn't wanted and unfortunately this was the result. Fingers in the door jam - not good! He broke the tip of his middle finger. He said he heard crack when it happened. Yikes!
Ironically, we just had this discussion a few weeks ago, where I shared an experience I had as a child getting my fingers slammed in a door. Also discussed no slamming doors (or closing them for that matter, keep them open) numerous times. Ok, I'm teaching but no ones listening.!!! They say bad luck comes in three's, Not anxious to find out what's coming.

Family Night

Here are pictures from our fun family night. The kids made their own "ginger bread" houses. We did this a couple years ago at a friends house and our kids had so much fun I wanted to do it again. It was a fun way to see the kids get creative.

The finished projects.

Everyone was all done and Gman was still working on his! I was surprised at how much time he took building it. He made his to look like our shed that hubby built a couple years ago.

The hard part now is finding a place to put them all.

Snow!

Don't laugh.

Well, it may only be a light dusting, but still we're talking about California here and in the 11 years that I've lived here I have never seen snow in the valley. I did have to drive a few minutes to get to it, but it was worth it.

Thanksgiving

I can't believe that it's a week after Thanksgiving but even more unbelievable is that it's December 3rd! Wow! Even though it's a week overdue, here are some photos to recap our holiday. Sorry there aren't many. I just am not good about taking pictures. I let my cousin take most of them, I was usually too busy cooking, so I'll have to get her photos.

As you may recall, I mentioned that Gman had a birthday gift coming from us but it would be delayed. Well, here it is!!! This is actually a combo gift. It's a birthday/Eagle Scout project gift. We waited for a really great sale on last years gear. So that made us both happy! He is so excited and even had the opportunity to try out both his snowboard and his golf clubs with his cousin S. while he was here. Very fun!
My sister kept all the cousins entertained playing fun games while waiting to eat! (which we always seem to be doing)

Hubby has officially renicknamed Little A. It's now Crash! On Saturday, my sister took all the little ones to the park, and they were playing tag. Little A was running and tripped coming off the spongey ground from the play area to the concrete and fell chin first on the cement. Ouch!
Two hours in the ER and 5 nifty blue stitches later and all is well again. Oh, which by the way, are his first, if you can believe it.
Family photo.
A last minute thought before everyone left Sunday morning, hence the pj's and pale complexions.

Now we get to move on to bigger and better things. Christmas is right around the corner. I've been out only a bit and find it funny that it seems like the stores are now always crowded no matter what time of day it is. I don't understand, does nobody work the month of December? I used to at least find some hours of the day when it wasn't too crowded. Not anymore. Oh well, 'tis the season.