Ward Christmas Party

Dec. 4, 2009 was our ward Christmas party. They had people sign up to decorate the tables. It was fun to see all the different Christmas decorations on the tables. We heard performances from the Choir, Young Women, Primary, Bishopric and a 9 year old boy whose grandparents are in our ward. He played the piano. He was really good! We enjoyed visiting with all our friends and the food was delicious!! After all the activities Santa made an appearance.

This is Bradley making a guest appearance in someone else's picture!
Kaylee & Tommy George

The Jensen boys

Daniel, Jake & Seth

Daniel didn't dare go see Santa by himself, so his cousins let him go with them.

Bradley loved seeing Santa. He kept trying to see him over and over again!

Anna

This is the primary singing a couple songs. The sister that is subbing for me did a great job teaching the kids the songs. They sang really well.

It got a little bit crazy while the kids were singing. I think Bradley actually got punched during the singing. I missed it since I was taking pictures. It was almost as much fun watching the kids on the front row as it was listening to them sing.

When the kids started going up on the stage Daniel got excited and wanted to go too. He got up there before I could stop him. He didn't know any of the songs since he is still in nursery, but he did smile very cute!

The Y.W. sang a song about Grandma's fruit cake, which is the reason she got run over by some reindeer!

Daniel liked the cupcakes the very best!

I think Bradley ate two cupcakes that night.

Ward Choir

Eliza visiting with Caroline Gudknecht. She is one of our favorite ladies in the ward.

We were sitting next to the food table, so there was a little bit of room. The boys kept dancing and playing ring-around-the-roseys. We had a great time and everyone was very tired by the time we got home!

Eliza's third week

These are some of my favorite pictures of Eliza from the last week. I have had so much fun dressing her up, and since she is so cute when she is dressed up I just have to take pictures!!

We took this one when we were trying to get family Christmas pictures for our Christmas Card.

Sorry these last ones are a little bit dark.

I love her tiny little feet! Here they are next to Dad's hand to show size.

Resting before her bath.

Here she is sporting one of her new bracelets from Aunt Janna!

She was happier after I took her little Christmas dress off, so I had to get a couple of her with her bow in her hair.

Eliza wore this little dress to church the first week we went back.

We have had so much fun having a little girl in the house. She has only been with us for a little over three weeks, but already she has her Mom, Dad, and brothers wrapped around her little finger!! We hope you enjoy seeing her pictures as much as we have enjoyed taking them!

New Camera & Puttin' up the Tree

Since our camera has been on the fritz lately, so we got a new one! Trying to get the right settings on a new camera can be frustrating and fun at the same time. We have some really cute models to try the camera out on.

Eliza gets tired when she has to supervise!

Bradley and Daniel are good to keep Eliza entertained.

Andy was laughing at me because I was trying to take a picture and it was really on the video setting. I couldn't figure out why the flash wouldn't go off. I was trying to get him and Eliza sleeping on the couch.

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The Tree!

We usually put the Christmas Tree up on the Monday after Thanksgiving. Bradley and Daniel were so excited to put it up.

What cute kids!

Getting the tree out of the box.

The boys love this time of year because they get to look for Christmas lights everywhere we go. They were really good helpers putting up all of the decorations. We hope you all have a great Christmas Season!!

November 30, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

We went to our Cousins house to have Thanksgiving dinner this year. (So much better than Thanksgiving last year!) Aunt Marylynn and Uncle Ron are here visiting. It was so much fun to see them. Aimee and Dan are some friends from our ward who were also there for dinner. Later in the evening the Carrol's and the Jensen's came over for pie. It was a great day full of family, friends, food and visiting!

Aunt Marylynn & Eliza
Eliza agrees that Marylynn is a Great Aunt!

Elyse & Eliza
They are starting to look more the same size until you look at Elyse's arms and legs. She is so cute and chubby! We will have to try for a picture were you can see Elyse's hair better. She has red hair just like her Dad. Happy Two Week Birthday Girls!

Cathryn, Eliza & Aimee

Angie called and asked if it was okay for Bradley to bring his bike over because Seth had something to show him. Bradley was very excited and had to ride his bike over. The boys drove like mad men around the drive way. Dr. Scott was good to stay out and supervise the boys. Seth was doing a great job with NO wheels!

Ben was being his cute little self! I don't know how he managed to run around so much without getting run over by the boys on the bikes! It was a little bit crazy out there.

Seth, Jake & Bradley enjoying pie and ice cream!

Daniel went straight for the chocolate kind.

I was trying to get all the pies and ice cream but instead I caught Dan, the ghost of Thanksgiving present! It is crazy some of the images our camera catches.

Airplane Scott was in charge of the Ice cream. It was like he had a Mary Poppins bag. He just kept pulling out Ice cream! He wanted us to have options, and we did!
We enjoyed visiting and eating with all our family and friends out here. We hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov. 26, 2009

Lazy Days with Dad

We have been very fortunate that Andy has been able to be home since Eliza was born. The boys love having Dad home, and so do I! We have read lots of stories and gone to park almost every day. (By we, I mean Andy and the boys!) They constantly tell Andy that they are not through with him. :)

This morning Bradley didn't want to shower with Dad and Daniel because he was reading to Eliza on the bed. It was so sweet. He didn't want her to be all alone.

Here is the whole crew reading stories.
Daniel joined Bradley as soon as he was out of the shower.

Eliza enjoyed the attention, or maybe it was just being able to stretch.

The boys have decided that the Muppet babies are pretty cool!

This is from yesterday. Eliza really is our little princess. She is pretty calm most of the time.

We just love her to pieces!!!

This is the boys most recent outing to the duck pond park!

They had a lot of bread to feed the ducks. Daniel was pretty cautious about to ducks. He liked to have Dad in between him and the ducks.

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I love this! When Daniel realizes how close the ducks are he starts telling them to "go away!"

November 21, 23-24, 2009

cANDY Land: Part 2

Bradley has played a lot of Candy Land with his Dad recently. It is one of the perks of having our Dad home with us! The other day while Daniel and Eliza were napping I took the opportunity to finally get threw the shower. Bradley talked Andy into playing Candy Land. They were both getting very close to the end of the game. They ended up on the same color with only a couple draws left. Bradley drew the pink Gingerbread card. Andy started laughing in his face and promptly marched his piece all the way back to the beginning. He was surprised at how calm Bradley was about the whole thing. Andy was proud of how well Bradley was taking it. He was sure Bradley was learning that it is okay not to win every time...it is just a game!

After a couple more draws Andy danced his piece across the finish line first. Bradley started smiling and said, "I win Dad!" Andy replied, "No you didn't, I did." Then Bradley shocked him when he said,"No Dad. Mine is the blue on, yours is the red one." Sure enough the red one was back at the beginning and the blue one had finished FIRST!

Moral of the story: Make sure you know which piece belongs to you before you laugh at some one and move them to the beginning!