Tonight was our annual family Christmas party. Mitch decided that he wanted to show his Christmas spirit by wearing a Christmas sweater. So off to the D.I we went and the craft store and this is what he ended up wearing that night. I am a little worried that he may be losing his mind! Love that kid! Maddi just wore a normal sweater, Thomas had fun building his gingerbread house and Jacob made us proud by winning the musical chairs game! he was so excited he won that he pumped his fists in the air.
O.K so they really are graham cracker houses! Every year we have a family night where we make our gingerbread houses. It is always a lot of fun and usually ends up with the kids trying to stuff as much candy inside their houses as they can fit! This was the first year Jacob did his all on his own( I only held up the walls for him as he iced them.) Good times!
Maddi went to the Christmas dance Saturday night.She took a good friend of hers named Mark that she has known all of her life. They had a great time and she looked so pretty. These pictures were taken at the end of the night after dancing. I will postthe pictures from her camera after she gets home from school.
Maddi loves the show So You Think You Can Dance. So for the past little while we have been stalking all of the Utah boys that were on season 4. She was able to take a class from Gev, we saw Thayne (her favorite) in Footloose this summer and we met Matt today after It's a Wonderful Life. Matt was way cute to her and was super nice! The show was great and now that she has met all three we can stop stalking them! Well, we still will probably stalk Thayne occasionally!
We had the most awesome opportunity to go get out of town for a few days last week. We started out in St. George, then on to Disneyland and Universal Studios and then off to San Diego. We had a fantastic time it was hard to come back! This is really the last time we will be able to do a big Family vacation before Mitch goes on his mission. ( yes , I teared up as we walked in to Disneyland that first night!) Disneyland was SUPER fun and SUPER crowded! The first night was the best we were there for a few short hours but managed to do most of the rides, the crowds were smaller that day. Then the rest of the days there were crazy!! SO many people! It still was fun though. Everyone laughs at me because I say that even when all the kids leave the house I will still go there on vacation, I LOVE IT!!!!
I am married to the most awesome man in the world who keeps me laughing every day. We have the BEST 4 kids EVER. They are growing up WAY too fast!!!! They always make us proud, they are amazing! I spend most of my time in the car driving them around to their various activities! One day my dream is to not have to drive a big old mini van and have a tiny little red convertable bug!