December 2011

Zachary and Emma enjoyed the BYU Christmas

party for kids.

We got a nice fir tree that smelled great - same

as last year.

Here's our new fireplace decorated for

Christmas - we bought it on Thanksgiving

morning when it went on a great sale.

Here's Zachary with a friend after

a magic show at his school.

Zachary had fun at Macey's getting his nose

painted, getting reindeer antlers, and especially

telling Santa what he wanted for Christmas.

Here's Joshua Creek performing at Eddie's

BYU Christmas dinner. We went there after

going to our ward Christmas party.

We had fun seeing the Festival of Lights in Spanish

Fork as a family.

Emma insisted on helping drive (we were going

about 5 miles an hour). :)



Megan played well in a Dixon Middle School concert.

Joshua played well at his Provo High concert -

this may be the last time he plays, since he

opted to get out of band class at the end of this

semester.


We had fun flying to and from southern CA for

our Disneyland trip. We enjoyed visiting Carleton

and Robyn's family and seeing their new house.

Here we are in front of Disneyland:

Here's Megan and Joshua on the Thunder

Mountain Railroad ride.

We were waiting in line for the submarine ride -

the Matterhorn is in the background - we all

enjoyed that ride, too, besides Emma.

Zachary loved the Buzz Light Year ride.

Zachary and Emma were enjoying the "It's a

Small World" ride

Megan and Zachary liked the spinning ladybug

ride at CA Adventure Park.

We had a fun time visiting Santa Barbara in between

our two days at Disneyland/CA Adventure Parks.

Joshua and Eddie had fun playing frisbee on the beach.

We all loved our bike ride on the beach - all on

the same bike.

Here's a view of the kids' room at our hotel:

Emma is so funny with her pucker face:

Here are Joshua, Eddie and Megan on the Splash

Mountain ride:




The Disneyland castle was beautiful at night:

We had fun doing our Nativity Scene on Christmas

Eve:

Here's Emma in her Christmas dress after

Church on Christmas:

Here's Emma with her Christmas presents - she

opened them last since she napped while we opened

our presents.

We had Eddie's family over for Christmas dinner:

The missionaries came over, too.

The centerpiece is a sugar cookie tower I made.

Poor Emma ate on the floor.

New Year's Eve Activities:

Zachary loves his new bear

Emma loves playing in her playhouse

She also loves her ball pit

Zachary loves his science kit activities

Joshua and Megan helped set up for the youth

dance, and Megan hung out at a friend's house

while Joshua went to the dance.

Here are the lanterns the kids at the dance let go

at midnight New Year's Eve - Megan joined in

this activity with her friends, too.

Happy New Year!

November 2011

We had our family pictures taken at BYU for

our Christmas cards (and to finally get a whole

family picture with Emma!)

Megan had fun at a BYU Dance Camp - Emma

wore her BYU cheer uniform to the performance

at the end:)

I had fun celebrating a friend's birthday at Red Robin.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! We had a lot of

family at our house! It was great fun and lots of

great food!

Here are two tables set up together in our living

room area where adults ate:

and our other table in the dining area where

some kids sat:

Here are some of us getting dinner ready and

enjoying appetizers:

The missionaries and others had fun playing

ping pong in the garage before dinner - that's

where our couch was, too. :)

Here we are ready for dessert:

We are so thankful for all our family and blessings!

We also celebrated Mom and Dad's 65th birthdays

that day, as well as Eddie's and my 16th anniversary :)

Jodi made Copa Memory books for all of us as a

gift to Mom and Dad, too - she did an amazing job

and they are so fun to read!

I had everyone (who wanted) write what they were

thankful for on leaves - this is what Joshua wrote :)

We also had fun turkeys for kids to make.

Eddie, Cordell, Joshua and Megan had fun skiing

on Black Friday, while Mom and I had fun shopping.

Eddie, Cameron, Kirk, Joshua, Ethan, Tyson,

Cordell and Canyon had fun golfing on Saturday

after Thanksgiving, too. Megan and Zachary had fun

with cousins jumping at Lowe's Extreme until Megan

hurt her back and had to go to the ER - luckily it wasn't

broken! (We found out after x-rays and then a CT scan.)

We enjoyed our niece's baby blessing the Sunday

after Thanksgiving, and then took our family picture

afterwards - Zachary wasn't too happy about that :)

Eddie set up the Christmas lights with the help

of a scissor-lift again.

This has been a busy month with Eddie appearing

in the 10th Circuit Court in Denver before 11 judges -

and it looks like he won his case! We also hosted 6 ward

activities at our house for bishoprics, prospective elders,

and families. Eddie then made it through another Stake

Conference (he surprised me and had me bear my testimony,

but it turned out okay:)) Zachary also got glasses this month!

Emma is scooting on her bum and getting into everything,

and loves to try and walk, too (still no crawling, except up

the stairs). She is 15 months, and is very curious and cute!

She is now at 6 percentile in weight, 21 percentile in height,

and 79 percentile in head size.