Dentist and Dance

The procedure I have been dreading for over a year came.  Aaron got his teeth taken out.  He did great.  I loved how the dentist allowed me to wait until he could sit through the procedure rather than going to the hospital.  If he wouldn't have fallen and fractured a tooth we could have put it off a little longer.  

Leah says he is like Fudge now.  Fudge is character from a book.  He recovered quickly and was asking to eat shortly after the procedure.

Michael and Leah went to the father daughter dance.  They had a great time!  Leah loves the dance and asks to go every year for her Birthday.  They get their picture taken, eat dinner, and dance.

My older boys went to a church function where they were taught about dancing.  I had to sneak a picture from far away or the boys would stop dancing.  lol  I was never a huge fan of these types of events as a kid.  Michael loved them.  It is fun to watch them grow and figure things out.

The boys spent their Christmas money from Grandma and Grandpa West on models.  They have been having a great time building them.

A little snow

I forgot to take many pictures but I did get one of a few of the kids eating their ice cream sundaes and playing.  Dallin received the Priesthood last Sunday.  Joshua advanced to a teacher.  I am so impressed with my boys and how they have grown.  I am grateful that family came to witness it and it is fun to enjoy ice cream with them. 

I am in charge of activities for primary now.  We get to have it at our house so it will be a new adventure going from nursery to 8 to 10 year olds.

We got some flurries on Saturday.  We hardly ever see any snow.  The kids loved playing in it.

You can see it didn't stick or build up much but we had fun.

New Year

New Years Eve we played games and had some family over.  I forgot to take pictures, but we had a good time.  We each made our goals for the year and tried to come up with good plans to achieve them.  It is always fun to see the growth of a year.

Dallin and I ran the frigid 5k.  He took first in his age group.

I took second in my age group.  

I think it is so fun to run with my kids.

Mr. Peanut was there so we had to get a picture.

I have been doing lots more speed work to try and finally cut my 5k time down.  I was excited to actually see results! 

We love our medals

Christmas!

Dallin talked during church before Christmas.  He did a great job! We ate with family afterwards and had a great time hanging out.

We went to friends home Christmas Eve and ate yummy food! 

We played games and enjoyed the company.

We changed into our jammies.

We read the Christmas story.

We sent the kids off to bed.

We had a great Christmas!

We love Christmas and time with family.

We were up early and unwrapping presents.

We played with out new toys the rest of the day.

Michael got me a medal display board.  It looks like I need to run more races!  :)

Michael performed his first wedding.  He did a great job.

He has also preformed a second wedding already too.

Light up the Square

We had a good time at our city's annual light up the square event.

The kids got to sled.

We always enjoy the show.

They also enjoyed the train ride

We love our city.

Happy Birthday Joshua!

I officially have a teenager.  It is weird.  Joshua went to play paintball.

They had a great time.

We ate lasagna and had chocolate lasagna for his Birthday.  We are so grateful he is a part of our family.  He is super smart and growing learning new things every day.  

Thanksgiving Break

We hit up the zoo with Michael.

It was a little cold, but we had a good time.

We also had Thanksgiving this week.  

I forgot to take pictures but we fed a large crowd.  We did the turkey trot in the morning and at in the evening.

We had a great time with family.

Michael also got to do his turkey bowl with a few of the boys.

We are so grateful for time together as a family!