Starting the Christmas cheer...

We had a cousin party with the Williams cousins that were in town on the 22nd. The kids got to make cookies, decorate them, eat pizza, open presents and PLAY! It was so much fun. Santa was more than happy to get cookies that were frosted by the kids!



What a fun way to start Christmas! More posts to come....

YAHOO...another annoucement!

Since I had such a great response to my last announcement...I thought i'd try and see if people are even reading my blog.

YAHOO!!!

Jake is a PE!!! Professional Engineer! He passed his test! What a great christmas present to know that he passed and can be a Professional Engineer! He is such a hard worker and an amazing husband!

Great job Jake!!
This is where the PEs of Idaho are listed...here is Jake's name :)....http://www.ipels.idaho.gov/rostersearchbyname.cfm

Sugar cookies and Graham Cracker houses...

We have had some creative, fun times these last few weeks. We meet together for a 'dinner' group with a bunch of our friends once a month and this month we decided to do graham cracker houses with the kids. I think the parents had as much fun as the kids doing them! Anthony LOVED putting the candy on his house and watching his dad build it up!

A couple of Mondays ago, we decided to make and decorate sugar cookies for FHE. It turned out to be a really fun activity for all. Jenna has to be as big as her brother and wants a chair right next to mom to help cut them out, wants a knife and her own bowl of icing to decorate her cookies with. I wish we would have gotten a picture of the cookies Anthony decorated because he did a really great job. We took the cookies to Grandma and Grandpa Williams and Grandpa Loyd and Grandma Nay. We had a lot of fun and will make it into a tradition to do next year!

Finding a tree!

I love going and finding a Christmas tree in the mountains...and so do the kids. As soon as we got up in the mountains, they couldn't stop smiling. We went up to Pine Basin on Saturday and only had to hike up a 'little' mountain to find our own little Christmas tree lot. The kids and I had fun playing in the snow while Jake walked around to see which way we should go to find the perfect tree. Anthony and Jenna both loved to eat the snow. Once we found our tree, Jake and Anthony cut it down. After that Jenna just had to help her dad pull the tree down the hill to the truck. She was so proud that she was 'helping'. She keep making sure we knew where she was by letting out her own little words. It was very cute. Anthony and I had to play like penguins and slide down the mountain because it was too steep and slick to just go down...Anthony couldn't stop laughing while we were sliding down! I love finding our Christmas tree from our own personal lot!!

Messy, messy, but cute!!

I needed about 2 extra minutes to get dinner ready while Anthony and Jake were raking leaves outside. Jenna had had enough and wanted out of her highchair until I showed her an Oreo Cookie. I think the pictures tell the rest of the story!! She LOVED it. She did pretty good to not get it on her shirt either! What a cutie!