Christmas came! Along with the snow...

The build up to Christmas was full of some fun traditions!

Here is our annual gingerbread house making in progress

Another tradition is to eat all the candy that doesn't make it on the gingerbread house...









...until we feel sick, of course.

























That night, M and O were simply too tired to make it to bed. Here they fell asleep in the middle of playing.


Our Family Day!
We pick one day before Christmas that we call our Family Day. We go out in the morning and spend all day doing fun stuff together.
This year, we went to breakfast at Denny's, where we drew names for presents to be purchased at some time throughout the day. Then we drove to St. George, where we went bowling. ...And, not to brag, ...but I really kicked some booty.























After that, we shopped at the outlet stores for our Christmas presents. But O, was really informative and told me straight away what they had bought for me.

We then went to the movies to see Tale of Desperaux and ate dinner at Olive Garden. That's when the snow really started to come down, so we thought it best to start heading back to CC. It was a good thing as I lost control of the car only going 25 mph and almost slid right into two parked troopers. We eventually made it safely back after stretching our ride home for an hour an half.

Christmas Eve
We had a full house. We invited two families over for dinner. Of course Santa was able to drop off some PJ's for the kids as he made is way around other parts of the world.

Christmas Day!


Another fun tradition!
Tearing down the fully edible gingerbread house...


The kids have had so much fun playing in the snow, and we have even discovered some great sledding hills.

Here the kids are playing right outside our house.
We had a great Christmas!

And now, to close this post, I end with some of our best talent!
Enjoy

This was filmed by the kids, so sorry for the bumps!

Christmas is almost here!!!

With our Christmas tree and other decorations up, it's finally begining to feel like Christmas.

One tradition that we have is that the kids always get a chocolate Advent Calendar (where they open the small, paper doors for one chocolate every day until Christmas). Well, ...this is how I found O with her calendar - just on the second day...

24 pieces of Chocolates in two days :(

Yesterday we went to the annual Christmas Parade that C City hosts. I must say, I was impressed by their floats and even found it more entertaining than the 4th of July parade. The weather was also beautiful!

We had a great Thanksgiving up in SL. It was really fun to be back. On Thursday we had Thanksgiving with Sonja's family and my mom who was experiencing her first Thanksgiving. Saturday we had the Price Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, I did not bring my camera - but Helaman sent me this picture from Sunday which was baby A's blessing.


He is such a good baby - and cute too!

Since I have been such a slacker in updating our blog lately - I thought I would throw in just a few pictures from when my mom was here visiting (all taken from her camera - it seems I have really been a slacker with my own camera). It was her first visit to C City, she loved it and we had a great time.










Outside the Old Rock Church












At Lefty's Hideout - a shabby, but great Mexican resturant















O - celebrating her birthday with a birthday cake from Grandma Price. She did not leave that cake until it was time to eat it. By that time, several swabs of frosting were missing - and the evidence on O's face was indisputable. :)

Out for a morning stroll in our deserted neighborhood

Enjoying a day on the Temple grounds in St. G.

Heading up to Cedar Breaks.

















E, climbing to new heights.

Wow - I am finally updating our blog!!!!

Congratulations Steve!!!! Now a Commercial Pilot!

Steve flew down to St. George today and passed his FAA exam to get his Commercial Pilot License. He has had a fun few weeks flying around Southern Utah before the winter sets in.

flying over Lake Powell

Coming in for a smooth landing

Halloween
Three fairy princesses and one combat soldier



School

The kids are loving their new school and have adjusted quite well.

Learning basic math skills

Problem solving and botany

Putting on a play about ancient Egyptian civilization and learning the Egyptian alphabet

Swimming

The kids are getting better and better in swimming.














M's best stroke: the butterfly

K kicking some booty in the Butterfly - way to go!