New Year's Eve...

We had a great New Year's Eve and Day!
The Bush family was all coming to our home for the new years bash.
Kevin was at work and the kids wanted something to do so we created a balloon drop upstairs and downstairs we did a ball drop with those little balls they put in ball pits. It was fun to make.
Lucy and Tayson didn't make it to midnight but Cole and Dailey did!
We had lots of fun playing bingo and candy bar craps.
Creig and Mindy made some awesome noise makers and cute little 2014 glasses!

The next morning we had the Dearden family over for a yummy Breakfast! It was a great way to kick of the new year!

Zoo Lights...

During Christmas break we were given tickets to go to zoo lights. We took hot cocoa with us and went and saw the animals. Well the few we saw. It was cold and we didn't see too many. But we had fun!

Cousin Sleepover...

The Bush family kids have all been wanting to do sleepovers so we divided them up with there cousins and sent a group to each house to sleepover. We all met at our house and divided the kids to the houses they were going to.  We had Cole's age group here at our house. I forgot to run down and get a picture of them. When I was taking pictures they had already started their party and were downstairs dancing to music and hanging out! Those party animals stayed up almost till 1am.

The older boys went to Creig and Mindy's house and Dailey and the girls went to Ben and Rachel's house. And Cole and that group stayed here!

Lucy came out with her backpack on and her pillow pet in hand but we were not sending her on the sleepover. But Ben took her down to there house and let her hang out for a bit! She loved it!!!

The next morning we all gathered at our church building and played basketball and brought breakfast foods and hung out. Than we exchanged all the kids back to their parents! 

Christmas Day...

We are so grateful for the birth of our Savior and for his example and that we can be together and enjoy this season as a family. We had such an amazing Christmas. We opened gifts and played at home for awhile with them and than we headed to both families and opened a few more gifts with them. It was such a nice day!

Christmas Eve...

We read and acted out the christmas story and than opened pajamas. This year I made the boys byu pajamas and the girls were a striped material. It was fun to make them. My Mom did the hard part with the elastic. I still have to learn how to do that.
We had a big Christmas dinner too!

Visit with Santa...

Our Visit with Santa and Mrs. Clause was so nice! The kids were so fun to watch and I loved hearing what they asked Santa for. Mrs. Clause had a hurt arm and santa said that one of the elf's left a toy out and she tripped on it and hurt her arm so he asked them to be careful when they got by her. Well Cole was listening and he said "Which Elf"? it made everyone laugh. He was worried that it was his elf that left out the toy. Dailey asked santa for nun chucks and santa asked her if she knew what those were and she said uuh. No.
It was so funny!

Cole's Captain of Character Award...

The last day before Christmas Break we got to go to an assembly for Cole. He was getting an award. It was the Captain's of Character award. The teacher nominates one student in the class who is doing the things they are working on. They do the seven habits of highly effective kids. Like: win, win.
The teacher wrote a nice paper about Cole and how he tries to talk about things first and how he is positive in the classroom and nice to those around him!