A busy December

Wow it has been a busy month!! (actually the last 2,3..4 months have been pretty busy!!) Ellie is growing up so fast! She is such a joy. She is 9 months old now and loves: crawling, putting everything in her mouth, eating and eating and eating, pulling things out of boxes, baskets, cupboards and drawers, playing peek a boo, standing and climbing and just being busy!
 

We have been trying to bundle up and enjoy being outside for just a few minutes to play and ride our bikes. David does not dare to go play outside without someone watching him though.... silly kid! He used to go play in the dirt for 20-30 mins on his own (with me checking on him). Now he won't even go out in the yard for a second without me walking right along with him. Its good to get me out there playing with him though. He loves playing outside with his sisters though. They are always making little huts (messes), and exploring.

David had a fun month at preschool doing Christmasy things. He made this cute Santa, they exchanged presents and made little gifts to give away to a friend. 

We had a nice time at the Ward Christmas party, good food, a nice program and 50 baked potatoes to bring on dance, gymnastic night!

We have had a little Elf come to visit from the North Pole this year. We even got a special letter from Santa Claus explaining his job. We named him Jack. Almost every night Anna writes him a letter with lots of questions, and leaves him a treat. He has done some funny things: drew pictures on our pictures on the wall with a dry erase marker, took peices out of Daddy's puzzle, turned our milk green, hung up by our mistletoe, hid in our poinsetta, climbed in our Christmas stocking, left us mini oreos, hung our underwear up on the Christmas card holder, and today toilet papered our tree!! The kids get a good kick out of everything he does, and are most excited when he does something silly... Isn't he supposed to be watching if they are good or bad?... huh, guess thats not too fun! 

This is my new addition to the Christmas decor this year. I hung little pictures of our past Christmases on it. It has been fun to look at and remember.


We recieved this beautiful poinsetta from Wayne's boss at his Christmas Party. It is so lovely, I have really been enjoying it. We are blessed to have such wonderful employers who take such good care of us. This year Wayne was put on salary, and we started getting Dental Insurance, such a blessing. 

Grandma gave our family this little Nativity to paint, It was fun to do together and is a wonderful addition to our Christmas things. Thanks mom!

Anna has been taking Piano lessons, and she had her first recital last week. She played Good King Wencles, and did a wonderful job. She is enjoying piano and has a very sweet teacher. 

 

Saturday, Santa visited the community center in Vernal so we went to see him and tell him what we wish for this Christmas. It was wonderful we didn't even have to wait in a single line (thats a first!!), and we were able to take our time. The kids were happy to see him.
David wants a Transformer house.

Megan wants the whole Lalaloopsy collection. 

Anna wants a surprise! 

Ellie was intrigued and didn't even cry! 

 

Amist all of this fun I have been crocheting Christmas presents. And just learned how to crochet some fun new scarves using Sashay yarn. We have also been moving forward on plans for building. We plan to start Feb. 1 if everything goes according to plan. So probablly by next Christmas we will be in a new house, wow!

Grandma Zola

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My Grandma Zola passed away on Nov. 20, 2012. She hadn't been feeling really well for a week or so, but decided she really wanted to go to the Primary Program at church. But she got there and sat down and slumped over and stopped breathing. She was able to be revived and taken to the hospital. We thought it was a stroke. But probablly it was just her body shutting down. She was on life support for a couple of days, and I was able to go see her and tell her goodbye.
She was such a great example of serving and loving others. She leaves a great legacy for her posterity. I will miss her sweet little cards in the mail, and hearing her voice on the phone, and visiting with her.  When I was young I would go spend a week with her in the summer and she would always spoil me and my brothers. There are certain foods and places that will always remind me of her.
The funeral was a lovely service, I think we were all still in a little shock. But it was nice to be together and share our memories of Grandma.

My cousin had all of the great grandkids release a white balloon to go up to heaven to Grandma, it was very sweet.


Grandma  has 4 granddaughters and 10 grandsons. The granddaughters shared memories of Grandma at the funeral, and read her obituary, and the grandsons were pallbearers. Lots of tears were shed, but we have peace knowing that we will see our beautiful Grandma again.  

 

 

 

Happy 4th Birthday David

David turned 4 in November. We celebrated his birthday at Preschool class, with these little cupcakes, he picked out Spiderman and Ironman rings to go on the tops.


His class made him this fun Birthday crown.
 

They also made this cute turkey hat for Thanksgiving


We had a little party the day before David's birthday with our cousins and Grandma and Grandpa. Mommy made Transformer decorations, a pinata, Transformer ballons, and a Transformer "cake"

David was one happy boy, he loves his Transformers! He kept bringing me a his toy transformer and asking me to draw this one too. He was so sad when some of them popped.

I'm so thankful to have this little guy in my life! He keeps me smiling. He is getting to be a great help, and loves playing with his sisters and his cousins and friends. He is a little social guy thats for sure. Lately he has been more nervous about certain things though... (a stage hopefully). We love you David and are so glad you are part of our family.

David recieved several nice gifts, Mom and Dad gave him a new balance bike. We have been practicing riding it several times thanks to the nicer weather we've been enjoying. David is getting good at cruising on it... I need to take pictures. One of his favorite things though were these super cheap 'transformers' that I got from the dollar store to decorate the cake with... they broke so easy though, always in pieces and he was constantly asking us to fix them. (they ended up in the garbage a couple of days later)