Dance Recital

Cloe's First Dance Recital was on Wednesday and it was a lot of fun. She did a great job! she is just quite the cutie. Brent did get it on tape amidst other wiggly crying children. I was nervous as well because it was my first one to manage all by myself. I sure learned a lot and I hope that they just keep getting better and better. :) It is fun to see Cloe and her personality developing. She did a great job I was really proud of her. One of her favorite parts was the ballarina bun and getting to wear make-up.

Sunday and Saturday Stars

Sunday was a great day of accomplishment for our family.

Dakota Decided to pack her own bag for church today and when we got to church she had a stuffed animal and an orange all ready to go. She asked, "Can I eat an orange?" we thought, "What?" and then there was the orange. :) She sure likes to take things into her own hands. (I think mommy snacks were not efficient enough for her.)

Paige started crawling. Right down and out of the aisle after Dakota's bag. Apparently she liked Dakota's packing job better too!

Cloe gave her first talk in primary. She did a great job. She spoke up loudly into the mic and she held up her pictures. She was very confident and cute. It was very neat to be a part of it. She talked about Jesus being the perfect example of love and kindness and that when she shows love and kindness to others our family is blessed.

Saturday was also fun at church for the ward Christmas dinner. The primary kids did the Nativity Unfortunately mom forgot there costumes they were just winter kids for the nativity in there coats. We didn't have enough to remember Saturday. Getting ready for Cloe's talk and mom subbing Sunday school again thank goodness it wasn't the adults again, CTR 6-7, (which was a lot of fun), we made rolls for the dinner and baked cheesy potato's. I'm glad all the other things weren't forgotten. The kids also got to see Santa and they had a family dance afterwards which was a blast.

Cloe and Santa, you could not tell from this picture but she was very excited to see Santa.

Dakota did not want to sit on Santa's lap but she did anyway, because she really wanted a bag of goodies.I thought Paige would not have anything to do with this. But she wasn't ready to leave Santa, she was taking it all in and she loved the fluffy beard.

UHHHH!

Paige can clap and the grunting is just way too funny! We had to capture it on video! She is almost crawling, but seems to move her way around the room without it anyway. She also loves to put her hands way above her head and we say "So Big!"

We have been busy getting ready for christmas. We are doing our christmas everyday tradition. We have been reading the Nutcracker and we just finished it last night. The girls love all the pictures of the ballerinas. I am done shopping for christmas I just have some last minute finishing gifts and wrapping and all that good stuff. We are going to be making a gingerbread house (storebought this year) and lots of cookies. It has been so cold here lately and the snow and ice are just sticking around. It's been really nice to have the fireplace going.

Trees, Lights, Parades, and Holiday Cheer

We have been busy getting ready for the holidays. For the first time that I remember in my life we went up the mountain and cut down our own Christmas tree. It was so much fun! The years past we just thought it would be too much work with young kids. This year we bit the bullet and just did it and we even had more young kids and it really was a great time. I was sad that I also forgot my camera on this excursion. We found a spot to get out of the car and walk through some trees we got out and we headed towards the trees and the snow just kept getting deeper and deeper it was so cute to watch the kids trek through the snow, I can't believe that Cloe did it all be herself and Dakota got a little help from Dad. I held Paige and finally the saw after dad gave it to Cloe. But she did hold it for awhile trudging through the snow. We walked through the trees where the snow wasn't quite so deep. We found a few trees that could have worked but then the clouds opened up and the sun shown down on our tree. "Hallelujah, Hallelujah!" It was an awesome Hallelujah moment. We walked over to it and Brent started to saw it and then he stepped on it to get it the rest of the way down. Then we had to figure out how to get all these kids, the saw, the dog and the tree out of the woods. It was a very funny sight and I'm glad that we didn't miss it this year. Then that night we had a Lights Parade downtown, the kids really enjoyed and got lot's of goodies. Then we had some friends over for Hot Cocoa and cider. And today we have been decorating the tree and putting up lights, and other decorations. I love the holiday spirit and the feeling of Holiday music and decorations going up. It's been a really nice couple of days off (Brent's Days Off).
Not much more says holiday cheer!

ThanksGiving

Dad and Cloe and the thanksgiving dinner table. Grandma always makes things so nice. Rachel and Paige

Mom and Paige and her first thanksgiving and first try of turkey and Stuffing. She loved it!

CLoe and the picture she made with aunt lee lee.

Dakota and Grandma Nessi

Thanksgiving was really nice! We got to visit tons of family. First we went to Great Grandma Carols house and while we were there we also saw, Aunt Lee Lee, Aunt Andy, and Grandma Nessy, Grandpa Jack, and Grandpa Tom, Aunt Leslie and Uncle John, Uncle John, Aunt Marci, Aunt Polly, and Unlce Ray and my Cousin Rachel. We had fun visiting and we had thanksgiving dinner and then we went to Uncle Darren's and Aunt Brenda's and had yummy desert and went to the movies. While we were there we also got to see cousins Stacey and Autumn, Uncle Steve, and Aunt Ruth, Grandma and Grandpa Casey, and Uncle Brice. They got to go to Basketball and Football games. I got to do some shopping on black friday and then we started our drive home and we stopped in casper and got to visit Pop and Grandma Dot. So we definalty got our fix of family and the kids slept the rest of the way home. It was a really nice trip. It was nice to see everybody. We don't get to see everybody enough. I forgot my Camera so thanks LeeAnn for the Pictures.

Hump Backs

Beware of scary Hump backs!! (But the photography is much better this time.)

Eight months Old

She's not quite eight months old in the picture she's about a week away but very close. Paige is not crawling yet but she is very close here is a video of her bounce forgive my sideways photography I realized this near the end, I don't ever seem to remember when I start to take a video or if I do I forget about it half way through. She does move around by scooting and rolling and also pulling herslef over her knees when she is sitting. She loves to play with anything and everything she can get her hands on so beware. When I was walking around in the kitchen the other day she grabbed the juice by the handled and pulled it off the counter. Luckily Brent was there to calm me and clean it up. :)