Almost Christmas

What a fun month so far. December is always packed with so many fun activities. Like making Gingerbread houses with your friends.

The Sugar Queen here really had a good time. One piece of candy for her house, then one for her mouth, one for her house, then one for her mouth. Seriously....she will be a dentist dream =)

This little guy didn't eat one piece of candy while decorating it. Afterwards he pops 2 or 3 pieces in his mouth and ran outside to play.

Speaking of self-control, Ryk had his Karate testing and advanced to an orange belt. 

Christmas crafts

Ward christmas party with Santa.....Amelia says she wants play food for christmas.

Ryker would like a dragon castle.

Went to San Tan mall to see Santa and play in the fake bubbles snow.

What a special day this was. Rigdon had his baby blessing December 12th 2010. His dad gave him a wonderful blessing and after he came and sat down, Rigdon and I just stared at each other for like 15 minutes while he smiled and cooed. I bawled my eyes out listening to the beautiful music and just starting at my sweet baby boy. I love him so much. His little puffy cheek, I could just kiss on all day. He really is a joy and I'm so grateful he is in our small family. 

Shaun (and Nana) are brainwashing my boys at an early age to love the Cardinals.  I hope they do learn to love it like their dad so they can have that bonding time throughout the years. While they watch the game, Millie and I will do our crafts =)

For the whole month of December, we have all our FHE lessons based on the true meaning of Christmas and our Savior. So we acted out the nativity story with our Little People and then the kids did a nativity project. Ryker wanted to color everything to match the Little People toys. He is such a perfectionist, like his father, certainly not me!!

 Rig-a-toni is just growing bigger and bigger everyday. I seriously love this little guy and each day we just lay on my bed and stare at each other while I make him smile and laugh and he makes the absolute cutest sounds. 

The kids and I had so much fun delivering our christmas treats to the neighbors. I was craving a cheese ball, (as I always do) so I decided to make them as our treat this year. Ryker loved going to the doors to hand our friends their yummy treat. Millie rang the doorbell. Hope everyone enjoyed them.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!

Wrapping up November

I got to go be a chaperon on Ryker's class field trip to the Stuffington Bear Factory. They kids were able to stuff their own animal and see how stuffed animals are made. Ryker choose the blue bird and named him Soar.

 Giving Soar a bath

On the bus. They also tie-dyed shirts so they were all matching. They even made shirts for the chaperons to wear =)

Nana and Pa took us to see "The Grinch" musical. It was very cute and lots of fun.

Rykers first play/ musical =)

Since Ryker was getting to do so many fun things, Nana took Millie to Build a Bear. Amelia loves the Rudolph movie (she has been watching it since July) so she made a Clariss Reindeer

When you press the ear it says "Hi I'm Clariss, I think you're cute" Amelia would laugh and giggle everytime. 

I'm mad we didn't get more pictures but my brother Abe, his wife Shantay and my favorite little niece Bristol came down for a week and stayed with us. We thought it would be fun to go to the temple lights with the whole fam.  Here are the uncles, Abe, Ethan and Blake.

Adelle and Shaun couldn't go, they were both working =(

I love my stroller, yes all 3 kids fit on it so I load them up and we are off.

For Thanksgiving we ate at the Martineaus this year. Holy cow it was good. I never eat everything on my plate  but this year I did plus some.  Sarah and Blake joined us and had fun with the kids outside. 

My 3 little monsters angels =)

Briss Briss and Millie

So I want to remember how cute Amelia is and the funny stuff she does. She is starting to be more creative and playing pretend. She loves to go outside and "drive" to all sorts of places. She goes to the store, the temple, to church, to her friends house, etc. But this time she had her high heels on, her purse and baby doll and her baby was sick so she was taking her to the doctors. I LOVE spying on her and listening to what she says.

Oh sweet wild Amelia. I will forever love your "piggies"

 Check out this little man. He is growing like a champ. He is 2 months and doing lots better. He was a gassy baby for awhile but now it doesn't seem to bother him as much. He has good days and better days. I would say bad, because nothing compares to the all day and night crying and fussing Ryker did. Millie was still by best baby and Rigdon comes in at a close second. I can't  ever capture a picture of him smiling though =(

Putting up the Christmas tree

They LOVE to get out all the ornaments look and talk about all of them.

Ryker putting the star on top.

 Looking forward to December!!!

November

November 2nd our sweet little cousin Riley turned 1. Missy planned a crazy fun Carnival Party for him. It was so fun and she did a great job.

Their was chili dogs, pretzels and cheese, popcorn, cotton candy, cupcakes and so much more. I was in Junk food heaven.

She even rented a bounce house for the kids (and adults).

Ryker has been in Karate for 2 months now. He moved up from his white belt and is now a orange/white belt....a snow tiger. We love going to his classes twice a week and watching him. Kids doing karate is possible the cutest and funniest thing EVER. 

WARNING: This may be the greatest thing you have seen this year. My dad is a crazy guy and likes to push the boundaries in life. Well he saw these beauties and couldn't live without them. When I first saw them on his feet I thought he looked like big foot. I laughed my head off. Yes these are shoes and they have a slot for each toe and yes he wears them in public....he has no shame.  

My parents took Ryker to see my grandma Mema who lives in Cottonwood. They stayed the night and the next day went on a 4 hour train ride through Verde Valley. 

On Vetreans day we went to the Zoo with my mom and brother. The weather was great but it was crowded. The kids had fun but it ended with tantrums and crying kids, Rigdon was not one of them. We waited in line for like 30 mins to see the new Koala, it was cute but not a good thing to do at the end of the trip. 

Amelia and her little friend started a little "Movin and Groovin" tots class. They are so cute.

Well just a few things to document for the month of November.