Merry Christmas!

 

 We had a wonderful Christmas and the kids had so much fun!

 

 

Making pizzas on Christmas Eve with Grandma and Grandpa

Making a manger

 



Tanner drew Kevin in the gift exchange

 





 

Grandpa got Tanner his favorite present, a new dirt bike toy!

 

Ryan got Maddie a really cool Sleeping Beauty Barbie

 

 

Tanner had no interest in anything else after he opened this

 

Trevor's usual gift, Hot Cheetos

Maddie got all the Frozen characters

 



 

 

 

 

Christmas morning!

 

Tanner's second favorite present, a dinosaur!


 

 

The carnage

 

 

 

 

 

Trevor's favorite present this year

 

 

New seats for the Vette!

 

 

 

 

 

Tanner and Maddie helped

 

 

 

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

We have been busy getting everything ready for Christmas around here.

 

 

Hanging the stockings by the chimney with care

 

Putting the ornaments on the tree

 

Tanner kept pulling all the ornaments off and breaking them so we had to move them all to the top half of the tree

 

 

 

Maddie and Tanner share a room now!

 

Maddie helping Mommy make cupcakes

 

 

Kalie teaching Maddie how to walk with a rubber duck on her head

 

 

Trevor had to go on travel to Albuquerque for 4 days and I went with him while the kids stayed with Grandma and Grandpa. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of our trip, probably because I was too busy reading, eating amazing food, and shopping! But we had tons of fun and the kids loved staying with their grandparents.

 

Making gingerbread men

 

 

 

Maddie has been dying to do this since she got "The Little Gingerbread Man" book for her birthday

 

Me eating broccoli salad

 

 

While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads

 



 

 Tanner is always in all these weird sleeping positions, so we have to document them for posterity

 

Taking the Corvette out for a spin

Yesterday Brent and Tracy wanted to go look at the leaves on the base so we brought the Corvette and took a bunch of pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family picture

 



 

 

Tanner loved all the airplanes and helicopters

November Update

We haven't been doing too much lately, mostly just working on projects and Christmas shopping and enjoying the cooler weather. Trevor went on travel to Maryland for a few days and we had stake conference. I helped make the salad and cheesecake for the dinner they hosted for the General Authorities that were visiting.

 I got a new calling too, I am now the 1st counselor in the Stake Primary!

 

 

 

The pumpkin cheesecake I made for the dinner, first attempt. I ended up making it three times because I had to practice cutting it.

 

The final product

 

 

What Tanner was doing during the last hour of stake conference

 



Tanner loves to sit with his feet up on the ottoman, just like Daddy!

 

On Veteran's Day Trevor took the kids for dirt bike rides behind the stake center parking lot



 



 

Tanner LOVES going on rides and can say "dirt bike" perfectly.

(He just learned how to say Mama like two days ago)

 



 

Maddie running around

 



Us taking pictures and watching them ride

 



 

Tanner loves reading books now