Post Christmas {WRAP} Up!

Christmas gets more exciting every year for me and the kids, and I am getting better about patiently waiting about gift giving.

Alivia's main gifts were a "bitty baby" and an electric scooter.

Cooper's main presents was a nintendo 3ds and an electric scooter.

Bauer and Kessler got a car hopefully you can see it in the video above, that was a fun secret because they didn't ask for it and suspected nothing.

Here are some recent pictures of Addilyn, oh my goodness she is cute!!!

January's schedule is filling up fast. I have my annual recurrent training for work. I am also thinking about going back full time, which through the holidays I have been working full time hours and it hasn't been so bad. It turns my schedule from 1-2 days a week to 2-3 days a week. Not a huge change.

Ben is stressed out almost to his max. His store did well this 4th quater and he is also trying to prepare for some interviews that he has to go through in January.

The kids are still out of school their last day was December 16th and will return on the 3rd of January.

Kessler gets registered for pre-school in January and Alivia starts her second semester of choir.

Cooper and Bauer love being out of school, I have been working with Cooper about 1 hour every day on math and reading trying to get him caught up and maintain what he knows.

Ben and I didn't do the Christmas buying for each other this year, although he did get a birthday present he has been putting to good use (ps3 game).

 Now if it would only SNOW!!

37 years young!

 happy birthday ben!!

 In honor of tradition I would list 37 things about Ben that I appreciate, love and admire!

But I am going to skip that tradition this year, and just send a big Happy Birthday to the Daddy of our four kids and the man that I fell in love with many years ago.

Annual Gingerbread decorating

 Liv had her annual Christmas concert at the American Fork Tabernacle. It was a really cute year, they did songs from different countries, a few were in Hebrew, Navajo and Swahili.

Below is the pics from the annual Gingerbread making night, Ben made the forms for the boys the other day and we decorated them tonight. As I type this the kids are running around like crazy people. They would put one strip of frosting on their decoration and then take a big lick of frosting. Oh well.

Cooper's Robot, the arms broke before he even decorated it. 

         

 Ben's boat, the kids named it the black pearl.

 Bauer has a rocket.

 One candy on the house, one in her mouth:)

 Kessler made it about 5 minutes and then had to be hosed down in the shower.

 I thought the "peep" snow man head was funny, Ben ripped off the body and stuck the head on there.

Whew....how many more days of Christmas break:)

Temple Square and the JSMB

 We went to one of Alivia's choir concerts and in between concerts the boys couldn't  contain their manners. BOYS!

 If it has been a while since you have been to Temple Square it is nothing short of Amazing!!

This picture above does not give an ounce of  justice to the pine tree that has thousands of red lights on it. It has been my favorite since I was a little girl.

This year after all this talk and thoughts of a possible move to Canada, I was even more thankful for the beauty of Utah in the winter time.

Breathtaking!

 I really need a lens that can fit the whole picture in the frame or vice versa. It was nice to listen to the story again.

Brrrr

 It is pretty dang cold here right now about 16 (about -9c)degrees or so in the morning and only about 28-30 (-1c) degrees in the afternoon, I know the Canadians are laughing at me right now....

Here are some pics from Thanksgiving.

 Addilyn enjoying her pie.

 We went to Zoo Lights these are some of the only good pics I got, I didn't want to take my hands out of my pockets to take any pictures it was COLD!!

 The boys before church on Sunday. I originally didn't match to mean them and then when I realized two out of 3 matched I got Kessler dressed like them.

 Only 19 days till Christmas, almost done with my Christmas shopping, I have done a lot of it online this year, and it is like Christmas to me when packages are on my door of stuff I have ordered for the kids or others.

YEAH!!!