MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009!!!

We had such a great and fun Christmas!! The girls were so excited for the morning of Christmas to come, Makenna told me that she was going to have sugar plums dancing in her head. She's so funny.

First our Elfs came on Christmas Eve, and gave the girls some new PJ's and slippers...



Then came Christmas morning....
They loved all of their presents from everyone and had such a fun and exciting day playing with their new toys ...








After opening all the presents, and after family came and went, the girls went straight to playing a new Wii game that Santa brought us. It is the Toy Story game and if you've been to Disneyland recently and went on the Toy Story ride, it is just like that and so much fun!! The kids loved playing it...



I hope everyone had a Great Christmas, I know we did!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!!

Santa's Christmas Cookies

On Christmas Eve morning, when we first got up, we decorated Santa some gingerbread men cookies! The girls all loved decorating them, and used WAY TOO MUCH frosting, but they turned out to be very yummy and we had so much fun getting them ready for Santa to eat that night!!...

Christmas Dance Recital

The girls had their dance recital on Saturday. They worked so hard and did so good. Hannah danced to "Roly Poly the Polar Bear", and Makenna danced to "Santa Baby." They did so good and looked so cute up there. They both knew their dances and had so much fun doing it. I think the part they liked best was getting to wear makeup!!






Makenna and Kaybree... They were in different classes this year


Hannah and Oakley... They also were in different classes this year


Makenna's dance class...


Hannah's dance class...

Our Gingerbread House

This past weekend, we decided to make our gingerbread house like we always do for Christmas. It started out great, frosted the house and started to put on candy. But while we were decorating it with candy, the roof started to slide off and then it broke it half. I think that we put too much frosting on and so it was really heavy. It was sad, Makenna started to cry. I felt bad. I think that next year I am going to try to do it with milk cartons and let the kids decorate their own.

The Nutcraker

Last night, Makenna, Hannah, and I went with my sister, her little girl, Lily, and my mom to the Nutcracker. It was actually performed by a company called Mountain West Ballet, so the tickets were more than half the price than the one done by Ballet West.
It was really cute. The girls all really loved it. At the end, when the Sugar Plum Fairy was dancing, Hannah went out into the aisle and started to copy her and was dancing like she was. It was so cute, I couldn't stop smiling. There was a little old couple watching and pointing at her dancing.
After it was over I got the girls at little nutcracker. And we headed home. We didn't get home till around 10 o'clock or so, so the girls were exhausted. But it was lots of fun. I am sure the girls are going to want to make this a tradition and go see it every year!

Down Town Weekend...

This past weekend, we had a fun filled Saturday. First off, Matt, Makenna and I went with Matt's parents and brother and family to see, "A Christmas Carol" at Hale Centre Theatre. It was really good. I don't know if Makenna understood much, but she said that she liked it.

After the play, my parents brought me the other two girls, and we headed to lunch and then downtown. We first went to the Gateway and walked around a bit. While we were there, we decided to go into the Apple Mac store. They have all of these lap tops just sitting out for you to play around on. I was standing close to the door, with Makenna, Hannah, our niece Carlee, and my sister-in-law Linda. We were just playing around and all of the sudden, I heard an alarm going off, so I look over my shoulder and there is this person unplugging a laptop, grabbing it, and totally took off running.
There were like 5 or 6 employees just sitting there, and I was saying..."Um, he really took it.., He took it!, He's gone!!" While everyone was just sitting there looking at the door, these 2 customers, took off out the door after the guy. It turns out that they tackled him and it ended up being a her!! She was like this 30 year old women. Crazy!! I have never seen anyone shoplift before, it was really weird. Also I guess that the employees are told not to go after anyone that steals, just in cast they have a gun or something, which makes sense.

So After that event, we took the tracks to Temple Square and walked around and saw all the beautiful lights. I couldn't believe it, but I forgot my camera!! So Sorry, no pics today! But it was a beautiful, fun day downtown, with a little of excitement!

Swiper?!!?

Last Wednesday, on my way to take Hannah to Dance Class, I was driving up this back road by our house, and I totally slammed on my brakes. There was a FOX in the field off of the road. It was crazy to see a fox so close up. I don't know if I have ever seen one that close. After I stopped to car, he crossed to street on to the other side, and so I backed up to look some more at him. It was kind of fun. Alexa kept calling him a puppy, but Hannah and I said that we saw "Swiper, the Fox."

Festival of Trees

So a couple of Saturdays ago, we went as a family to the Festival of Trees. I love seeing all the beautiful trees, and the fun gingerbread houses.
Makenna and Hannah went into the Kids Corner and got to do a few fun little things...

They got into this "Bubble Machine" where they stand in a stool, and a big bubble gets put around them and they can try and blow a bubble out from it...




They also got to call an elf from the North Pole and talk to them. Makenna memorized the number, 3-5-3, so that she could call them again. She hasn't tried yet, but we'll see if she ever does. They got to talk to the elf and tell them what they wanted for Christmas and just chat with her. They had a lot of fun with that...




While I took Makenna and Hannah over there, Matt stood in line for Santa, he probably waited a good half an hour, 45 min. It was worth it. The kids got to see the "real" Santa and they got a candy cane and a nice hug and Merry Christmas from Santa...





I just have to say how much Alexa LOVES Santa. At our ward Christmas party the other night, she saw him when he came into the Cultural Hall and she just kept following him. Then when we went into see him in the room he was set up in, she kept getting out of my arms and walking over to him, and just stood there looking at him and saying, "SANTA!!!" It was so much fun.

My kids really love Santa, I have never had one that really Did NOT like him. Hannah was probably the closest to not liking him, she wasn't so sure about him when she was little, but the other two, absolutely loved the guy!!

Makenna and Hannah's new hair....

Last Wednesday, Matt and I went out with our friends to dinner and a movie(we saw Blindside, which was AWESOME, by the way) anyway, my sister, Stefanie watched the girls for us. When we dropped them off, I told Stef to "trim" Makenna's hair a couple inches, and to cut Hannah's hair, so that there was a style to it.

During dinner, we got a phone call from Stef, telling us that she cut Makenna's hair, like really short. I was so sad, when she texted me a picture of her with her short hair. Makenna's hair was so long and beautiful, that I just wasn't happy about it being so short. I am okay now, but I still wish it was longer. Makenna really loves it and wanted it to be short, cause all her girl cousins on my side have shorter hair, and she wanted it short like them. Stefanie thought it would be okay to have a six year old decide how they want their own hair. I don't... I think the mom gets to decide. Oh well, like Stefanie said, It's just hair, and it will grow back, it will just take some time.

I do really like Hannah's hair. Her hair was so thin, that it needed something done with it, so now I can actually leave it down and it looks cute.
Here are the pics of how their hair looked a few weeks ago when we had pictures done and now. It is hard for Hannah because I never left it down, to see the big difference....

Hannah before:



Hannah after:





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Makenna before:



Makenna after:

Christmas Tree 2009

So we have actually had our tree up since the 21st.... I know, it was early, but we were all ready to put it up. I was surprised that Matt wanted to put it up, but he said that he was excited to do it, so we did. We have such a beautiful tree, well at least I think so. This is the 3rd Christmas that we have done this theme to our tree and I love it. It just feels like Christmas.

I am so excited for Christmas this year. I am done with shopping for the kids, now I just need a few more things for nieces and in-laws. Other than that, I am done and am excited to just relax and enjoy this Chrismas season!!!

Carving Pumpkins...

Today, we finally got around to carving our pumpkins. It was fun this year because Makenna and Hannah were able to draw what they wanted their pumpkins to look like, before we cut it out for them. Here they are, our cute family pumpkins!!!