Tuacahn Live Nativity

Last night Shan had to work late, so I took the boys to see the live nativity at Tuacahn. We have never been before and I am so glad I took them. They were so good for me and loved every minute of it. We got there a little early so we got to sit on Santa's lap before the show. This is the boys second time to see Santa. Blake does not like him yet, but he will. Michael once again asked for a dinosaur and a puppy. He wants the big, expensive ones from Costco that move and make noise. I hope he's not too disappointed when Santa doesn't come through for him. And Carson once again asked for a train set. I'm not exactly sure what he's looking for. He already has received three train sets, one on all three of the last Christmas's. Maybe he thinks it's a tradition.

Afterwards we sat down and watched some kids from the high school sing a bunch of Christmas songs. The boys thought they were pretty funny.

Then we went into the amphitheatre to watch the nativity. Our wards YM/YW got to be the performers in it. So it was fun to see them all act out the story of Christs birth. The boys loved it. And I was impressed with how much they could remember about the Christmas story.

After the show we went out and rode a little train around the property to see the lights and some of the old props from the show. The boys of course loved this!

I think we have a new family tradition!(Hopefully next year Shan will be able to come.)

Christmas Lights

Monday night for Family Home evening we went down to the temple to see the lights and nativity. The boys loved it. The lights were pretty and they liked getting to look at the lifesize nativity. We even let them go into the visitors center and they were pretty good about not running around. They are all so excited for everything this Christmas. We've been watching a million Christmas shows on T.V., we made our neighborhood gifts, we've been shopping and even made it to the last few minutes of the Jubilee of trees. It is so fun, and with so many more fun things to do for Christmas it's only going to get better!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was at the Millers house this year. It was nice and relaxing. David made us all a crepe breakfast early that morning and then we just hung out at their house all day. (Oh and Shan did make time to go out Coyote hunting early in the morning.)The food was delicious and the kids were great. They played house most of the afternoon. Michael and Kadence were the babies and Carson and Megan the parents. The best part was that Michael actually fell asleep while they were playing. Bonus for me!

Stone Soup

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving Carsons class made Stone soup. They invited families to come enjoy it with them. So I left Blake with a neighbor and Michael and I went to Carsons class. He was so excited to see us there. He had made us both hats, which we proudly wore. He helped us get our soup and showed us just where to sit. Michael was in heaven, he loved being in Carsons class. The stone soup was delicious, Carson even had two bowls.(I wish he would eat like that at home!) After the soup was gone the kids all sang us the songs they have been working on in class. It was so cute, I was surprised that there were only three other moms there. I love any opportunity I have to participate in that part of Carsons little world! And I almost had to drag Michael out of the class room, I think he'll do just fine in Kindergarten!

Decorating the tree

The Sunday before Thanksgiving we put up all our Christmas decorations. I had gone to Vegas the day before with my sister-in-laws to do some serious baby shopping.(I bought my first things for this little baby girl. It was fun! Now I can't seem to stop.) When I got back the boys had put up the Christmas tree and were very excited to get all the decorations on it. So Sunday morning, very first thing, we decorated the tree and got out all the decorations. Now it finally looks like Christmas!

This was Blakes first year to help with the tree. And sadly he didn't do much helping. He just ran around playing with the ornaments. I keep thinking I would like to get new decorations for my tree, but this year has reminded me that my pretty much indestructible wood ornaments are probably good for now!

White Trash Party

Okay, so I am way behind on my blogging, so here it goes! We got to go to a fun birthday party for our neighbor Travis. They had a white trash theme, so everyone came all decked out in their white trash gear. There were some hillarious costumes! I went the mumu route since there was no way I was wearing anything spandex! Shans shorts were funny, because they had a built in can holder!

Shan made this awesome hat for Travis as his white trash birthday gift. It was pretty funny, since once you started the root beer flowing, it wouldn't stop!

Anyway, it was super fun! Thanks for the fun party Marchants!