Happy 10th Birthday Hannah!

Our Hannah is 10!  She had an awesome birthday party to celebrate.

She designed her own birthday cake and mom made it just like she wanted.

The girls decorated treasure boxes and painted rings.

The girls played spin the nail polish bottle.

Happy birthday!  We're so glad that you had such a fun day :)

Weekend in Ogden

We headed down to Ogden in January for Brady's cousin's wedding reception.  We are so excited for Jami. She looked beautiful and was glowing.  Her reception was very glamorous!

We stayed in a hotel that night.  This is so fun for the kids.  We went swimming (twice) and had fun having grandma, Vicki, and Bruce and Becca's family there too.

The next day we went to the Children's Museum in Ogden.

There were some dress ups. 

 I think Jonas was some sort of super hero from the past.

Lots of fun things to do!  Hannah and Eli tried to play a chess game with the big pieces, but it didn't last too long because other kids kept coming and messing it up.  When they milked the cow, it was funny because water came out when they did it right.  To end off the day, the kids rode fake horses and a bull (and Jonas dressed up like a rodeo clown).  Good times!

On our way home :)

Geography Bee

Hannah won her class geography bee a few weeks ago and got to move on to the school geography bee.  One student from each 4th, 5th and 6th grade class in the school participated.  Hannah did great.  She got second place!

New Year's Eve

I love celebrating holidays with my kids!  We made hats and had a party. 

 We watched Despicable Me and counted down to 9:00... good times.

HAPPY 2013!!!

Moore's Winter Visit

A couple of days after Christmas I had a really bad allergic reaction (to who knows what!)  I felt terrible, and my face looked horrible- swollen with hives.  Luckily my sister Michelle and her family came for a visit and kept my kids entertained so that I could rest.  We had lots of fun too.  And I felt a lot better after the first day.

The kids got to have a sleepover one of the nights. 

 It's fun to get the cousins together!

Christmas Finally!

The big day finally arrived!  And it was awesome.

We had such a fun day together!  We played with all our toys, 

(the kids got tablets and Jonas spent hours playing on his) the girls did nails...

and we went sledding!  

Christmas Eve

We went to Grandma Lori and Grandpa Matt's 

for Christmas Eve dinner, games, and fun.

The kids did a nativity play (so cute)!

Jonas was Joseph, Carlie was Mary, Eli was a donkey then a shepherd, Conner was a wise man, Hannah was an angel, and Kate was baby Jesus (replaced with a toy when she started crying).

 Lori and Matt have a foreign exchange student student from
Germany living with them this year.

His name is Daniel, and he is so nice.
He gave each of the kids a chocolate egg with a toy inside from Germany.

Back at home, we got on jammies, 

then read "T'was the Night Before Christmas" together. 

(We read Luke 2  during the Nativity play.) 

Christmas cookies for Santa.