Christmas Treats with Grammy and a Tooth

Grammy came over on Friday, and we made sugar cookies and fudge.

Notice Hayden's missing tooth

Hayden and Cole love projects, and this was no different. There were way too many sprinkles, as usual. We were all on a sugar high that night, for sure! It's fun being close enough to do these fun things with Grammy!

 

On a side note, Hayden lost her first tooth last week. She went to the dentist about a month ago. He said he could see her permanent teeth and that she would probably start losing teeth in about a year. Then Hayden knocked her tooth on something and got a string from a blanket wrapped on it. Then it was loose. She was so excited. She spent a couple days wiggling it like crazy, then one night she just pulled it out. Obviously, she was super excited to get that tooth out. She put it in her windowsill for the tooth fairy (she didn't want it under her pillow). Cole wanted to know what color clothes the tooth fairy wears. Luckily, the tooth fairy left a note with Hayden's dollar. The note congratulated Hayden and told her to let Cole know she wears purple clothes!!

Some Christmas Fun

The kids and I made a Christmas Time Bucket list. The list included "visit a live nativity." We heard about a great one and decided to go. Brogan was over that day so we took him with us. Their faces explain it all. They were hyped up, and the line was mega, mega, mega..... LONG! We were in line, not even the real line, for 45 minutes. Then we got to the actual line, which was about 3 times as long as what we just waited in. Ryan and I were not up to waiting another 2 hours, so we bribed the kids and went to get ice cream instead!

 I talked to my mom later that night, and she and her Relief Society had actually been there, too. They did wait in line for 2 hours and ended up leaving, because the line was never ending!

Maybe next year.....

 

Another thing on our list was The Festival of Trees. Ryan and I had never been, but had heard great things. It was a lot of fun. One of Cole's favorites was the Cars tree.

One of Hayden's favorites was the Rapunzel tree. I thought the kids would love it, but honestly, they weren't really in to it and wanted to leave. Their real favorite part was the end, when we got treats from the Sweet Shoppe, and went home! Oh well, I enjoyed it!

Brooklyn has started grabbing her toes!

Thanksgiving

 

Anika, Brynli, Lochlan, Brogan, Hayden, Cole, Celtin

This was our first real holiday in Utah in the past 5 years. We spent the morning in our pajamas watching the Macy's Day Parade (which I love). Then we had dinner at Adam and Shylo's with them, my parents, and Sean and Brittany. Dinner was so good, and our pies turned out pretty well, too.

After dinner the kids ran wild and the adults played games. It was so fun!

Later that night, Ryan took the kids to his parent's house while Brittany and I saw Breaking Dawn 2. Yeah, we're cheesey, but it was fun.

Overall, it was a relaxing, fun, great day!

We are so blessed and thankful to our Heavenly Father for all He has given us!

Pizza Hut Field Trip

On November 7th, Cole had his first field trip, and he was so excited.

We went to Pizza Hut, and each of the kids got to make their own pizza. It was fun to see how excited the kids were. They loved it!

It was kind of hard waiting "so long" for the pizzas to be done.

Finally, one happy boy and his pizza :)

Food!

About 1 1/2 months ago, Brooklyn started rice cereal.

She tried it....

but didn't love it. She tolerates it but isn't really a fan.

Halloween

We had a very busy Halloween this year.

It started off with Ryan's work party the Friday before. Hayden was at a field trip so we took Cole and Brooklyn. There was a big pizza lunch, candy, face painting, balloon animals...it was lots of fun.

After the party, we went home and picked up Hayden. Then we went to Grandpa Woodland's work party, where the kids got a ton of candy!

Spiderman, A Bee, and A Skunk

On Halloween we went to Adam and Shylo's. The kids played the donut game. Hayden refused to play, and Cole tried his hardest but really struggled ;)

Then we headed out trick or treating!