Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! We were thrilled to have a family here in Rogers do the 12 Days of Christmas for our family! It was the first time our family has been on the receiving end and our kids were thrilled! We also did the 12 Days of Christmas for some of our friends and we were caught on the third day! What makes it even worse is we delivered the first package to the wrong house! :) Oh well, it was still fun!

We went to Little Rock for a full week and it was wonderful! The kids had a great time seeing all their Uncles and Aunt Jen. We went out to eat, saw a few movies, played a lot of games. It was great to have the entire family together on Christmas.

Why not have two shirts that look exactly alike?

Opening their presents from Grandpa Joe and Grandma Marge

Emma and Papa

Making a gingerbread house with Mike and Jen

This was suppose to be a girls picture. Did not go over well with Jackson as you can see.

Jackson, Emma, and Dave at the movie theater

Two happy girls!

This was the surprise present from Uncle Dave! The kids were so excited!

Steve and Dave drove up to our house to put the trampoline together. Thanks guys!

Ta-da!!!

Visit from Grandma

Random picture with the beautiful flowers my brother Steve sent for my birthday! :)

Poor Emma

Emma and Grandma

My Mom came to visit the week of my birthday. We were so excited! Both kids could hardly contain their excitement when Grandma came to pick them up from play/preschool. We immediately headed over to Chuck E. Cheese! That night my Mom and I went shopping for a bit. The next day we were headed to Emma's big dance class and poor Emma got really sick with the flu. We spent the next 8 hours holding Emma on the couch. She slept most of the day and was pretty miserable. I was so glad my Mom was in town (even if it wasn't the trip we had planned). That night the Young Women came and delivered Christmas cookies to our family.

Happy Birthday Momma!

I had a great birthday last month! Chris and I were going to try and go on a date, but Jackson was so excited that we stayed home and partied as a family. We opened presents with my parents a few weeks before my birthday. Then on my birthday we had another party. A week after that my good friend Lana watched the kids so we could go out on a date.

The yummy birthday cake!
The LAPTOP!!! Thanks Chris!!!

Jackson really enjoyed opening my gifts!

This was the scarf that Jackson picked out for me. He was so excited!

The preparations for the big party! Don't be fooled- Chris and Jackson did all the work. Emma just showed up to be in the picture and lick the cake batter! :)

Ward Christmas Party

This year our Ward Christmas Party was a Christmas Morning/Winter Olympics theme. Everyone wore their pajamas and had a nice breakfast dinner and played games. Here are some pictures.

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with our good friends from Little Rock and Rogers. The DeGroot's came up for the day and we had so much fun! The kids were so excited to play together and Jessica and I were able to make some cake pops. We also had our friends, the Crowell's over to eat. My kids were in heaven because the house was full of kids! This was my first year to make a turkey and luckily it turned out great. I feel so grateful to have such good friends!

Special Visit

We had so much fun with my parents this weekend. It was a really quick trip for my parents, but we had a great time. We went out to eat and my Mom and I were able to get some shopping in. Jackson gave his first talk in Primary, so we were glad my parents were here to see it. Here are a few pictures we took right before Church.

Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween weekend. On Friday we went to the Goblin Parade, on Saturday my parents came up to visit and we went to the Ward Trunk or Treat, and on Sunday the kids were so exhausted from such a fun weekend that they both went to bed at 6:15 instead of trick-or-treating (partly because it was on a Sunday). Then Chris and I took turns passing out candy to the kids in our neighborhood and watched a movie. It was the perfect weekend!

The kids were so excited for their pumpkin cake!
Family picture at the Ward Trunk-or-Treat

Jackson and Momma at the Trunk-or-Treat

Buzz and Snow White

I had this great idea that Emma and I would be Snow White together. She was so excited when I walked out in my costume, but didn't want to take any pictures with me.

We finally got one!

Emma was not very happy with her Daddy!