Here are some pictures from Christmas break. I need to do a lot of work on this post, but I wanted to get the pictures up for now. Hope everyone had a great Christmas!










































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Random

These last few weeks have been filled with all the usual fun Christmasy things.
Here are a few pictures or some other randomness.

Colton loving on Max. He absolutely adores his brother, sometimes to Max's detriment. And anyone who messes with Max better watch out. If one of us makes Max mad in anyway Colton is not happy about it.


Max has now entered the climbing on the table phase. Does every kid do this or just all of mine? It seems to be his very favorite thing in the whole world. Having marshmallows on the table for a few days definitely didn't help.

They Called Her on a Mission!

After much anticipation Grammy finally got her mission call! She was called to serve in Cape Verde which are a group of islands off the West coast of Africa! We are very excited for her, and we know she is going to make a great missionary!





Even though we love her and will miss her lots!

Kirsten talked about Indians in school a couple weeks ago. She had to make a model of an Indian home. She chose a tee-pee. She did this mostly by herself (which was really hard for me to not take over I think I may have some control issues I don't know...) and she did a great job!


Here is her family totem pole.


Kirsten took pieces of one of daddy's old shirts that he was sick of and ripped to shreds and had everyone wear them as scarves.


Watching a movie.

Thanksgiving Break

We had such a nice Thanksgiving break. It was so relaxing and fun I did not want it to end.

Wednesday: We decorated and Jonathan put up our Christmas lights. Kirsten has really been loving pretending like she's cleaning the pool. We had really nice weather so we hung out outside picking the last of our vegetables, riding bikes, and watching daddy put up the lights. Then we relaxed by watching some Elf and I baked. Perfect day.




Thursday- Jonathan played football and I did a 5k with some girls from the ward. We met Grammy for Lunch and then went over to some friends house for dinner. Kirsten loves playing with their little girl, Rhyan. They were born in the same hospital 2 days apart so there's a chance they've known each other since birth. The kids played so well together and it was great to hang out with friends.

Friday- We bought a tree and decorated it. Kirsten had been dying to decorate our gingerbread house so her and Jonathan did that too. Seth and Rachel came over that night. We played Ticket to Ride and hung out. Which is always great!


Kirsten's side with "magical snow"






Colton could not resist.








Max has started walking. He's still super unsteady so it's so cute.


Saturday we relaxed. Grammy came over to watch the OU game and took Kirsten to see Happy Feet 2. Max got a hold of some banana and threw up all afternoon. Kirsten started to get sick. So we just relaxed the rest of the day.

Such a good weekend. I hate when weekends like that end!

She Made the Paper

Every month Kirsten's school emphasizes a certain character trait and the students who exemplify that trait are given an award and their picture is in the local paper. This month the character trait was kindness and Kirsten was chosen from her class to get the award!

When I told Kirsten that she was chosen she was pretty nervous because she knew that meant she had to get up in front of all the 1st graders and talk, she did great though!


When it was her turn she said what the trait for the month was and said the quote of the month which is, "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." She did great and didn't seem nervous at all. We were definitely proud of our sweet little girl.

Halloween

So we're a little late on these. Our computer has not been working. Anyway, here are the Halloween costume pictures.

As you can see they all wore different costumes on Halloween.

Kirsten was a ballerina.


Max was a little gentleman.




Colton was a football player.


Halloween has gotten so lame. There are way to many trunk or treats on Halloween! When we went outside no one was out there are no lights were on. So we had to drive to another neighborhood. It was really fun once we got there. When we got back home lots of kids were out so we trick or treated this neighborhood. So it ended up being a really fun night!