{It's the MOST WONDERFUL TIME of the year!!}

 I truly believe this is 'THE' MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!!

The spirit of Christmas gets stronger and stronger as the kids get older and we have made sure to take part in all the Christmas Spirit. We have really tried to teach our kids the true meaning of Christmas as well as to enjoy the little moments with the kids. I love the NO school part where we can hang out all together all day!

 

The Rigby Light Parade...It was sooo cold!

 

Santa Claus was there!

 

Brayden's Kindergarten Christmas Picture to me :)

 

The kids all begged to help decorate our Mountain tree....they were so excited when I said YES!

 

And Jaxton has become quite obsessed doing and wearing everything daddy does...he even carries his own tools around with him :)

This past weekend we surprised the kids by taking a weekend trip to Utah! We went to Temple Square to see all the lights, visited the New City Creek Mall, Park City, and went swimming 3 times!!! It was so much fun!

Family Photo!

 

 

Better Late then Never :) ....Last night the kids OFFICIALLY mailed off their letters to Santa!!

It seriously is soooo much fun now that our kids are getting older :)

 

 

 

 HOPE EVERYONE HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

 

{Falling Behind}

I'm a tad behind(okay, A LOT behind) at keeping updated. Time has been flying by here at our house...so this may be a little bit of a pic overload! :) 

 

OCTOBER

 

Started with a field trip to the pumpkin patch around the corner from our house with Kaydree and her class. 

We ended up taking the kids back so they could pick out their favorite pumpkin!

 

and THIS FACE makes me happy!!! :) He loves the rain!

 

Brayden's Kindergarten Photo

 

Kaydree's 1st Grade photo

 

OCTOBER 19th was THE BIG DAY!!

Not only did it hit Austin that we were now going to have FOUR kids while waiting in the Dr's office

but we also found out we are adding to our football team with another BOY!!!! Kaydree was in tears :)

 

Our first snow came  and the boys played outside for hours....we are still wishing we had MORE!

 

Halloween 2012 was a blast! The kids all were way into the spirit and knew exactly what they wanted to dress up as :)

Carving Pumpkins! :) 

 

Just because :)

 

NOVEMBER

Kaydree had her Thanksgiving performance at school and her part was super long and she did it perfect!!

 

The kids showing off their MAD skills! :)

 

My Aunt Udy(Judy) came to visit us!! We love her!

Beautiful fall sunset

 

Our day after Thanksgiving tradition of finding the PERFECT Christmas tree :) and sledding! We had so much fun!

 

Game night of Twister



 

Gingerbread Houses :)



{September in a Nutshell!}

We spent a lot of time as a family and enjoying the last little bit of time before school time and activities start into full swing.

We took a drive up to Hailey/Sun Valley, ID the first weekend and stopped off at Craters of the Moon to look at all the lava rock.



 

 

We also made a stop at a playground there :)

 

The kids LOVE 4-wheeling so we decided to take two camping trips up to Moody Creek (our backyard pretty much)...There was sooo much mud and rain but that made it that much more fun! 

 

Brayden and Kaydree have been wanting to learn how to ride their dirtbike so Austin and our friend taught them how...Brayden's first go at it was a bit intense haha. He kept pulling on the throttle instead of the brake!

 

Kaydree did super good!

And what would camping be without taget shooting :) Jaxton wanted his chance but settled for watching. 

 

 

AND......SCHOOL STARTED on Sept 5th!!! Brayden is officially a Kindergartener and Kaydree is in First Grade! They absolutely love school and the bus rides too!

So what was left for me and my sidekick to do???

Potty training was on my to-do list..we succeeded for the first week then went backwards...but he's so dang cute with little undies on...we are still working on it though :)



 

Bowling Night!! The kids just get better and better!!! 

 

Picture Day!! They are growing up :(