Christmas activities

We did lots of festive activities this December. We live so close to the mall so we went to see Santa at least once a week. Each time they had to tell him something different that they wanted Santa to bring them. They also got a See's candy carmel sucker so that made it even more enticing to go see Santa.

We attended both Reid and Clara's Christmas program(I am so sad, but I forgot my camera for Clara's program and she was so cute singing) Reid did a good job too. He sang some of the songs in French (Reid is in a french immersion program at school).

We went to the live nativity in Draper. It was such a neat experience except for the freezing 2 hour wait, but once we went through the streets of Bethlehem and came upon the nativity seen it was sooo worth it. My kids complained the whole 2 hours and then once they went through the main part they begged to wait another 2 hours so they could see it again. I would highly recommend it.

Here we are waiting in line. They did love the fires every ten feet. And the different scenes you got to see while in line.

We watched Santa fly in on a helicopter.

Alvin sees the helicopter. "Copter" He says. We also went to see the lights at Thanksgiving point along with Santa's live reindeer. And we went to the festival of trees. The kids loved it all.

Clara at preschool

I recently got these pictures from Clara's teachers and so I thought I would post them. Clara has grown so much this year in her preschool. She has really come out of her shell. She actually sits on diferent spots now on the carpet. She use to only sit in the very far left corner on the "C" square and no matter what was going on she would not leave that square. She now moves about to be able to see what is going on.

My mom came to read with the kids on granparent day.

Funny quotes from Clara

Last Saturday Clara was on the toilet going #2 and just then David came out of our room for the 1st time that morning (he had just woken up) and right when he walked past the bathroom Clara said "Daddy, I'm going poo and you get to wipe me!" in a very excited voice. David said "how exciting" and he wished he was still in bed.

Then when Reid woke up and needed to use the bathroom he noticed that Clara didn't flush the toilet and so he yelled out "GROSS!" and then Clara said "I left some poo for you Reid" in a very sarcastic voice. She is a little sicko sometimes and she likes to tease people and always has ever since she was very little.

"Mommy, I stepped on a muffin"

The other day I was changing Alvin's diaper and just as I got it off of him the phone rang and so I went to get it leaving Alvin without a diaper. As you can imagine when I got off the phone I didn't remember that Alvin was without a diaper and so I went to get in the shower. Pretty soon Clara came in the bathroom saying "Mommy, I stepped on a muffin." I stood there thinking "Mmmmm, I don't have any muffins, I wonder what she is talking about." and then it clicked in my head that Alvin didn't have a diaper on and Clara didn't step on a muffin. Let me tell you it was not so fun to clean up. At least it was a muffin consistency and not runny. gross.

Fashion Night Out at the Depot at Gateway

My sister-in-law's best friend owns Vintage Fox Boutique and she showed her stuff at the Fashoin Night Out and the Depot at the Gateway last weekend, so she asked me to walk in her runway show. It was so much fun. I love stuff like this so I was happy to do it. Katrina also walked in it and a couple other friends. There were other companies with models to show their clothes as well. Urban outfitters and Lola Bella are some of the companies there. I also walked for a local designer named Nappi. My mom and brothers came so it was a family event:)

Here we are waiting for Vintage fox to go on.

The Vintage Fox models. There were others, but we didn't know them.

Standing in front of the Vintage Fox display.

Some candids.

Here I come.

next outfit .
Last outfit. I was suppose to have a jacket on here, but I set in down and when I went to pick it up it was gone. We ended up finding it though.
Here I am in the Nappi outfit.

Here is a good shot of the hair and makeup. So crazy, but so much fun to get to wear for a night.

Cousins

I got some really cute pictures of Chloe, Alvin and Reid the other day sitting on my porch. They were all so happy.

Halloween

Here I am with Clara ready for our ward Halloween party. I was dressed as an 80"s person if you can't tell. It is always easy to fall back on the 80"s costume.

Reid as a power ranger in the school parade. I didn't know that he had those orange hot wheels tracks until I saw him walking in the parade swinging them like they were nun chucks. He knew he couldn't have weapons so he brought car tracks:) He knows how to beat the system.

Clara at her preschool trick or treating to the parents. She still doesn't like to dress up. What little girl doesn't like to dress up? Well Clara doesn't. She just hates it. I have to force her to do it. Silly girl.

Ready for trick or treating. Reid again with the track nun chucks. Clara let me do her hair in a bun like tinker bell. It took a lot of persuading. Alvin is peter pan, but he looks like robin hood or an elf. I made his costume so it isn't perfect.
Again those people in our neighborhood had the huge blow up things. Alvin didn't dare go on them, but loved to watch. He looked so funny standing in his little costume.


Little Elf