Pre Christmas Get-away!

The weekend before Christmas we planned a little get-away to SLC for some Christmas fun! The kids had a blast swimming at the hotel - the water slide was a hit!

We went shopping at the mall and ate at the food court.

We played at the nickle-cade

 We went to Zoo Lights, the lights were cool but the kids were a bit disappointed that they didn't get to see more animals, so we decided to go back a couple of days later in the daytime. 

Sunday we went to church with the Belchers, had lunch and visited a while then we went to temple square to see the lights.

 The kids were looking forward to spending our change jar money at the giving machines but it wasn't opened on Sunday so we went back Monday morning and everyone chose one thing from the machine. 

 Then we headed back to the zoo to see all of the Animals!

Then had a yummy sushi lunch!

 On Tuesday (Christmas Eve day) we went to the SeaQuest aquarium on our way home. Everyone had a blast getting to pet and interact with all of the cool animals.

The stingrays were a favorite!

 The birds were also lots of fun!

December Fun!

December is always a crazy month!  We got our PJ's at the beginning of the month so the kids could enjoy them all month long. 

The primary was in charge of the dessert for the ward party, we created a cute dessert table with lots of yummy treats - it was the hit of the party!

Loa had a presentation for her class.  They read the nutcracker then were divided into groups and told to create their favorite part of the story.  Groups did everything for act out their favorite scene to create their favorite character.  Loa's group made a Diorama of their favorite scene.

 Both of the girls classes had songs in the Christmas program, and Loa did a duet with her awesome piano teacher, Hanna!

Thanksgiving in Carlsbad

It's always a highlight when we all get together so we were excited to head to Carlsbad New Mexico to spend Thanksgiving at Trev and Ramey's.

The 17 hr trip is plenty of time in the car but we all handle it pretty well --we were SO happy to get there!  We left Thursday after the kids got off school and drove to Kanab where we stayed the night, then made the rest of the trip on Friday morning.

Saturday we went with Trev, Ramey and the kids to Taites Soccer party at the park, we thoroughly enjoyed the sunshine!

And we enjoy every second we could relax!

 Laexin has passed up Aunt Ramey!

Tuesday Cade, Shaylee and Mom and Dad arrived and we got the cool opportunity to go to the Rosales' where yavonne made us delicious ceviche!

The cousins were so happy to be all together!  Trev and Ramey made them their own little hang out area in the garage and they had slumber parties there every night!

 Kenz and Jed arrived on Wednesday and Grammie and Papa spoiled the kids with all of their Birthday gifts!  The kids also exchanged their Christmas gifts they had gotten each other--they were in heaven!

 Aunt Kenz helping Lytzi put on her fake nails!

 Thanksgiving was a good time!  We had a full house with all of our family and a few of Trev and Ramey's friends!

 It was fun to have little Joe join us too!

 The day after Thanksgiving we headed for home...it was quite the trip as we had snow about the last 4 hours.  We finally stopped for the night in Springville, Utah. 

16 years!

On November 15th we had our 16 year anniversary!  We celebrated with a day date to Logan, we ate some yummy food and LeGrand entertained himself while I did some shopping [Just like he would've if the kids were there 😂]