Christmas with Family

December 2012
About a week before we left, we got to have a great visit with Mikes parents and brother... (aren't they so cute!)

They took us to the zoo in San Jose, and even though we got rained out, we still had a blast!  We will miss them, my girls love when they come, because they are always showering the kids  with the cutest  best little gifts for each child.  

We hope to see you soon, Bob, Fran, and Toby!

Here we are in Utah.  

We drove about 45 minutes out of St.George, and got to go sledding, this was a first for my girls, and they LOVED IT!  Chase was not a fan though :(

Then it snowed in St. George!

My Mom and Tysen

These girls spent way too much time together on the computer!

Sweet Haleigh feeding Tyse

Chase, without any hesitation, fell in love with my brother Jon!

We played a ton of scrabble (a family favorite)  My Mom and Dad are the ones to beat - they're both really good!

Mom spent a lot of time in the delicious kitchen

Christmas Eve food hangover time at Jon & Aprils

Mom always has fun crafts for the girls to do

We all had a great time spent with family, enjoying Grandmas cooking...a little too much... and playing games, and hanging out!  we are so lucky to be  a part of all our extended families!  We love you all!

Christmas 2012

This Christmas Statistics:

Riley - 6 {Asked for an American Girls Doll, Easy Bake oven, & A Barbie car that she could drive}
She got and easy bake oven, roller skates, and her own ATM machine

Chloe - 4 {Asked for a Barbie car she could drive, a guitar with a microphone, and a scooter}
She got the guitar, the scooter,  and a jewelry box

Chase - 21 months - loved the Christmas tree ornaments, and sitting in the shopping cart while I shopped.  He loved seeing Santa Claus!
He got a little people farm and a remote control dog


Tyse - 3 months - Mesmerized by the Christmas lights!
He got a baby toy and some Gerber puffs

Mike & Jaime got a GPS to help us out in our new city, and a back massager for the end of those long days in the car and moving boxes!

Random cute kids

Chloe likes to hold Tyse, and he loves to look at her

 

 

 

This chair is Tyse's Favorite these days!  This is him at 2 months old

 

This is his newest favorite spot, I love when he talks to it.

Chase has discovered TV, he'll even sit and watch my shows, its nice, but a little concerning.

This was a cute shot of my sweet girls. from the park over Thanksgiving weekend

Our Thanksgiving

 We made Leaf piles! 

 

We had Powdered Donuts and juice for breakfast...cause who wants to cook Thanksgiving morning??

 

Tyse, got this cute outfit from a lady at church, he definitely won the prize for most festively dressed!

 

I LOVE the turkey on his bum!

 

Follow all this by a great dinner, with great friends!  And some online shopping at night with some good black Friday deals...got all my shopping done in one night!

Have you heard the news yet?

A Wonderful Baby Blessing

 

Tysen was blessed in church yesterday.  Mike gave the most beautiful blessing to him!  We decided to bless him  just about 2 weeks ago, and we knew our family members wouldn't be there with such short notice, so we had some wonderful friends that helped Mike in blessing him. 

 

 The men in the circle were Erich Hoelzer, Hugh Hall, Scott Jensen, Kenric Russell, George Nijmeh, and Steve Hunter.  I feel so much gratitude towards all these men and their families, it was like a past, present, future experience for me.  Some of them were there when Mike first joined this church, and really helped him on his way, others were there in the singles ward where we met and got married and were great strengths to me and Mike, and who also were there with us in the temple when we got married, another was friends with us while we had our first 3 kids, and served diligently with Mike for years in our old ward , and others are in our ward now, and who we treasure the friendships we've made.  It was a wonderful day to celebrate our fourth child Tysen.

Our Halloween 2012

Kid # 1

A Pirate

 

 

 

 

 A fellow pirate, and her good friend at school

 

 

This is Her at our Trunk or Treat, not enjoying the camera

 

 

Kid # 2

Rapunzel...

A fellow princess friend

 

...And then Alice

Chloe decided that the wig was too annoying at our church activity, so on actual Halloween, she turned into Alice, both super cute, I think!

 

 

Kid # 3

A Football Player 

 

 Kid # 4

A football

 

(Well, Chase's football)

 

 

Chase, with his best little buddy!

 

 

Just 3 of them

 

Hope you had as much fun as we did!