Kids say the funniest things

Kids say the funniest things sometimes. At Wyatt's parent- teacher conference we were discussing the S, instead of a H he received in uses self control. I said that he needed to practice that at home also. Wyatt responded, "If I had a brother, it would be easier to have self-control" He thinks that his sisters cause him to lose his temper. I told him that wasn't going to happen, so just get use to it!
We were cleaning the house today. Lacey came over to me and said, "My heart is breaking" After asking why, she responded, "because of all this hard work I'm doing" Cleaning her bedroom was such a chore!!! Later, she made up a song and was singing about how hard is was to work, but we have to do it!

Leo the Lion

Leo the Lion, the mascot for the Real soccer team made a visit to Fillmore last week. He brought the $80,000 championship trophy with him. They kids had fun getting his autograph.

New Year Resolution

One of our new years resolutions was to work on our food storage. Macey's was having a great sale last week, so we went up and bought a TON of food storage. This is most of our Maceys trip purchases. Then we had a family project of putting some of it in buckets and reorganizing our existing food storage room. It looks so nice on the shelves and feels so good when we look at it.

Tubing Fun!

The kids have had a couple of fun tubing trips this holiday season. Their favorite place is Harmon's hill in Holden. It is huge hill and they always come home with injuries.
Marissa and Wyatt at Harmon's hill. The othe place they go tubing is at black rock. Here is Wyatt catching some air.

Marissa and Wyatt catching air.

A family train getting ready to go down the hill.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was so fun this year. Since I don't know how to upload the pictures in the right order, we will start at the end of the evening and go backwards.
We acted out the story of Christ's birth. Here you see Joseph and Mary with baby Jesus. Then we have the shepherds.

And the wise men bringing their gifts.

Here are Joseph, Mary, Baby Jesus, and the donkey leaving Jeruselem, with their gold, frankenscense, and myrh.

This is Lacey in her new dress. She doesn't like anyone to say she is cute, so we had to keep saying, "You look cool". She won't wear certain clothes she has because she says, "Someone might say I'm cute." Although she did look absolutely darling.

Here is TyLynn trying to convince Santa that she really has been a good girl this year.

Here is Lacey telling Santa she wants a princess castle.

Wyatt is trying to decide whether he has been good this year.

The evening started off with the annual Primart Christmas Eve program. Lacey rang bells to a couple of the songs.

Wyatt was a angel. If only he wore the halo all year.

TyLynn's class sang Mary's Lullabye.

Now they are all tucked in their beds with visions of sugar plums dancing in the heads.

Meagan's birthday

Meagan turned 14 on December 6th. 14 years ago, I was so excited to have another cute little girl. She was bald until she was almost 2 years old. When she was 5 weeks old, she had to be hospitalized for 1 week because of RSV.
Meagan is a very sweet young lady. She has a special talent dealing with handicapped people. She has been very close to her cousin, Kody, since he came from Russia. She has helped him so much over the years and they have a special bond. Kambree, her other cousin, has angelman's syndrome. Meagan has taken Kambree under her wing and formed a special bond with her also. Kambree loves Meagan and her face lights up the room when she sees Meagan.
Meagan has a funny sense of humor and enjoys making people laugh and have a good time.
We love you Meagan and glad you are in our family!!

Decorating for Christmas

The kids were very excited about putting up the Christmas Decorations this year. I'm so glad they are getting old enough that they can do it themselves, while I supervise.