Christmas Festivities

It's the last day of the month and I've hardly blogged a thing. We have had a great Christmas month. Most of these pictures were taken awhile ago, but they were too cute not to blog. I'll add more later of actual Christmas day stuff.

This was our attempt at Grandma's annual Christmas picture with the grandkids. We normally have it professionally done, but ran out of time. So, this is as good as it gets this year. Actually this kind is much more true to life and kinda tells it like it is- kids will be kids!



Cydnee and Kennady in their new Christmas dresses.

Michael and Michele's boys stayed with us for a weekend while their parents were in Arizona. They are so great to have around- so easy and fun to be with. The boys entertain each other with video games, basketball and football matches in the play room so they hardly emerged from the basement the whole weekend except to eat. It smelled like a gym locker down there!

Dave's cousins Colby and Brad joined us for dinner with Michael and Michele when they came to get the boys. Such great guys!!! We love having them in our ward.

Finally!

Kennady has been WAITING and WAITING to lose her first tooth. Most of the kids in her 1st grade class have already lost several teeth, but our kids seem to be extra slow in this area. -Austin has only lost 9 and Spencer just lost his 8th- Anyway, last night was a great day at the Halls' house.

And this is what Kennady left for the tooth fairy- picture taken post tooth fairy visit, of course.

Getting in the Spirit

The kids and I spent an evening at the Festival of the Trees. We started at the gingerbread houses (their favorite part) and then continued on through rows and rows of beautiful trees. Here are some pictures of some of our favorites. The kids were tired and ready to quit after just a couple of rows, however and were fighting over who got to ride in the stroller. Cydnee just wanted to sit and watch the dancers and singers who were performing on stages nearby (not a popular idea for her brothers). We managed to get in the Christmas spirit a little bit and had a fun time.

This tree was called Kinetic Christmas and had balls that moved all throughout the wooden tree. So cool!

Maybe if we had a treee like this one, Dave wouldn't complain about decorating at Christmas time!

This was taken just as we were about to leave. Of course they were fighting me about taking pictures, so I said the quicker you stand there and smile, the sooner we'll get out of here. Are those some natural looking smiles or what? What we do for a picture, huh?