I'm the Gingerbbread Man !

One of Chad's favorite things about the month of December is eating gingerbread cookies. He asked me for weeks when I was planning on making them. I decided to make it a family activity and we all made them together!

Chad helping Hailey to cut out all the fun Christmas shapes.

Tate can do it all by himself!

Can't forget the cinnamon candies !

Hailey making sure to put them in just the right spot.

I love how yummy gingerbread cookies make your house smell while they are baking.



The best part ......eating them of course!!!

Lights at Temple Square

We had so much fun celebrating the Christmas season by visiting Temple Square to see all the beautiful lights! We went with some friends of ours, the Patten family. The kids were soooo excited to get together, especially when there was snow involved.

Tate, Drew, Eliza and Hailey. They had a great time stomping through the snow and sticking their mittens in the freezing water.

What a great big bro. Tate is to his little sister.

Chad was so great to push little Carson in the stroller while I kept track of the other two. Carson was as snug as a bug!


These two are great buds. They loved seeing each other.




I think they all licked the snow at some point that night.

We had a great time!!! Yeah, a family picture with all five of us!

Perfect Imperfection

I love this time of year !!! Tate and Hailey were soooo excited to help decorate the tree this year. They were having so much fun I decided to let them put the ornaments where they wanted to. As you can tell in the picture, the tree is beautifully decorated on the bottom half of the tree (as far as their little arms could reach.) I thought it was so cute I left the tree that way for a week before filling in the top half. How lucky Chad and I are to have such wonderful kids.

Witches and Pumpkins

Halloween is just a few weeks away so we went to Gardner Village to the "Wee Witches Weekend" to see all the fun witches and other fun Halloween things! The kids had a blast with the music and dancing. It was such a great day!

Here are Tate and Hailey with one of the nice witches. They were both a little skeptical.

How cute are they! Wouldn't it be fun to have a swing like this!

What's a party without balloons!

This picture shows how completely happy Carson was the whole time we were there. I just love this little guy!

The day was so perfect and sunny. We'll have to do this again in years to come!

They wore themselves right out. Fine by me!