do a little dance ...

Embrie had a Christmas Dance recital which naturally means, a lot of pictures of her flopping around on the floor ...

and doing .... her own moves?

Ha ha! it was actually pretty cute. Just another thing Brad had to miss for working, so I recorded it, or at least tried to with a baby on my lap and not having the best view of her. And now I am upset because the "actual dance" is not to be found on my camera?! It really was a cute dance I guess we'll have to settle with their warm up.

And on to December

We had a fun little excursion to Gardner Village to do an 'Elf Hunt'.

We've done 'witch hunt' and this was sort of the same but really, the kids love it they've never been bored with it yet. And it is my chance to spend more time with Embrie too since Garrett is in school all day.

My parents were not going to be traveling much through the holidays (due to Blain having shoulder surgery before Christmas). So they invited us all up for a couple of days to have a Christmas party.

We had competition: Gingerbread houses

Now it was going to be couples or families against the like. I was missing my other half, Brad had to be working that weekend. I knew that with him we'd probably win, but I was determined to show that I could do it without him!

Kalvin brought a friend, Morgan, home. She was his partner. Jared and Jessica, Sunni and Ed with help from their boys Blake and Colton (since they are older kids). And Grandma agreed to be on my team.

I had really grand ideas. To win this competition I wanted to make a long ranch house.

Blake with his families truck and trailer, pretty awesome.

Jared and Jessica made a log cabin.

Kalvin and Mogan made what I thinkwe decided was "a prison court yard" although I think they were at first trying to make it look like a building on campus at USU.

....... well this is the last photo of me and grandma Judy's house still standing. My long ranch house didn't want to stay standing and we tried to turn it into a house with a fenced yard but it was a FLOP! ah! sorry Grandma. Apparently I can't do it with out Brad. I am sure Grandma could have done better with an idea of her own. I probably should have let her make the blue prints :)

Even the kids and Grandma Sheri made houses that stood better than ours!

Oh well it was lots of fun.



I vow to catch up

This is after all my diary/ scrapbook/ family history journal of sorts so because I am a little bit obsessed with chronological order and stuff. I will get these past few months out.

And so this was our Thanksgiving Holiday spent with the Callahan side of the family. There were fun Minute to Win It games for the kids they loved it!

I recognize how amazingly lucky we are to have such great families, to not want for anything and to know that our Heavenly Father has given all of this to us!

November

We'd come back from Disney Land to the first snow of the winter season and so the kids and Brad promptly set out to make a snowman ...eeerr woman. Hmmm kinda looks like me on most days.