Santa's coming to our town!

Santa once again has come in style to visit us.

First class ticket on a big red fire engine!

Every year, our city has Santa come to the city hall for the lighting of the Christmas decorations. They have activities for the kids, hay rides and lots of treats! We look forward to it every year.

Tanner was the first to sit on his lap and give his long list of what he wants:)

Carter and Brooks couldn't wait to see him.

Blakley loved Mrs. Claus and got right up on her lap. She didn't care much for Santa:)

Proud Papa and Grandma

Benson was so happy till he actually got close to Santa, then he was hysterical. Poor kid!

After visiting with Santa, we got to sit around the fire with our friends drinking hot chocolate and eating scones. YUM:)

Christmas Picture Time!

My family needed some updated pictures for our Christmas cards.

My cute friend, Tori, took them for us.

I think they turned out GREAT!

Thanks Tori!

We Love you!

Happy Holidays!

Carterism

(this picture has nothing really to do with this post, but make me want summer back)

This is the conversation that went on in the back of my car last night!

Carter: Guess what, Troy?

Troy: What?

Carter: We went to Grandma Beb's (Bev) house today.

(Her house has been vacant since she passed away.)

Troy: So (they are so nice to each other, ha)

Carter: And guess what?

Troy: What?

Carter: There are still people living there.

Troy: No way! Who?

Carter: They're called Spirits.....Yeah but they don't like to work so we cleaned the snow off of the driveway for them.

Troy lost a tooth!

He did it!

He lost his first tooth!

And the Tooth Fairy gave him $2.00 for it.

Must have been one special tooth!

Thankful

This year, we had Thanksgiving dinner at our house.

We were LUCKY enough to have our families with us to celebrate this holiday.

Ahhhh cute!

Love these girlies!

The little boys thought it was pretty cool to have a table all to themselves. Big Stuff Guys!

Say Cheez!

CHEEZ!

Rob and his 3 SWEET girls!

My sweet dad helped us by making the gravy.

And boy was it YUMMY!

Lela and Grandma Terra

What a NUT!

Sure love him though!!

After going through my pictures, I realized that we forgot to take pictures of so many people and I am sorry.

We love you forgotten ones:)

I love how Thanksgiving reminds us all of what we have to be thankful for.

I am THANKFUL for:

my family

my loving hubby

four adorable kids

Clint's job

my mom and dad

my mother-in-law

our house

my siblings and wives

my nieces and nephews

especially my 3 special nieces

my wonderful friends

my life

our health

my Heavenly Father for giving me all of this

oh so thankful!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Pilgrim or Indian

Carter's kindergarten class had their Thanksgiving Day program at school. They have been working hard on their songs, their dances and their speaking parts. They even learned sign language with a couple of the songs.

Carter's part: "I'm grateful for my family."

The second half of the program, he got to dress up as a Indian. And what a cute little Indian he was:)

Good Job Buddy!

We loved watching you perform:)

It's Grandma Terra's Birthday!

And we want to CELEBRATE!

Most of the grandkids

We had the family over for a yummy BBQ.

Cake and Ice Cream are a must:)

Doing what Grandmas do best: holding their grandbabies!

Thanks everyone for coming and letting Terra know how much she means to us. We LOVE her so much!

Happy Birthday Terra!

My sweet niece, Jessica, got to go on her first high school dance last weekend.

We went over to her house to see her all dolled up.

She is such a BABE!

I just LOVE her dress!

And Lela did such a great job on her hair.

BEAUTIFUL

Disney on Ice

It's Carter's turn to go on his date with me!

I decided to surprise him and take him to Disney on Ice. And of course I wanted to take my Grandpa Tom with us. (I don't think there is a soul that loves Disney more than Grandpa Tom.)

We picked him up from school and took the traxx downtown. Carter was so excited to ride the train. I think this was his favorite part of the night.

We had awesome seats right up front.

He loved seeing Mickey and his friends!

Unfortunately he had never heard of Lilo and Stitch...

or The Little Mermaid.

Luckily he loves Peter Pan and Captain Hook!

FINALE!

Yummy!

After the show ended, he said "I thought we were going to Disneyland. That's where I really wanted to go."

Way to Dream Big!

18 months old already?

Blakley's 18 month stats

Weight: 23 lbs. 14 oz. 30%

Height: 31" 40%

Head: 46 30%

Words:

Hi Mama

Hi Dada

Hi

Bye

Peesh (please)

BB (blinky)

Car Car (Carter)

More

No No

Mmmmmm

Pretty

Baby

Favorite things:

If you tell her you love her she will blow you kisses.

loves to call her daddy on the phone "Hi Dada"

CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB

have books read to her

loves to be outside

loves to be with her brothers

will not let you feed her, she has to do it by herself

loves to sleep with her mommy and daddy

has 8 teeth (4 on top, 4 on bottom) w/4 molars coming in

loves music

loves to dance

loves to play hide and seek

(Here she is hiding and waiting to be found)

Our little Blakley Girl is already 18 months old!

We couldn't LOVE her more!

XOXOXO