LIGHTS!!

Last Sunday we hopped in the car with our hot chocolate in tow and drove around and looked at the pretty Christmas lights. We ended up going to this amazing house in Murray and then Quinn suggested we go to Christmas Street. I used to go there a ton when I was little but haven't been for 10+ years, so it was good to start a tradition with our kids.

Caleb and Peyton

Don't mind P's outfit she was already in her jammies and did not want to change!!

SANTA BABY!!

On Friday night we headed to Tuacahn to go see Santa. Peyton was BEHIND excited this year compared to last year when she bawled the whole time and Quinn ended up putting her on the "naughty list" They were both excited to tell Santa everything they wanted and then we walked around and enjoyed the beautiful lights and even more beautiful surroundings.

Meeting the Jolly Old Man

She even ran up to him and hugged him when he was coming out

Daddy and his Princess

They even set up a little swing that lasted for 5 min literally and I think by the time Caleb got off he was going to puke!!

Daddy and his kiddos

Standing by the tree

Just love them

This picture just doesn't do it justice it is so pretty there!!

THANKSGIVING!!

We headed down to sunny St. George for Thanksgiving this year. We had a fun filled weekend of good food, great company, shopping, Bingo game and lots of laughing. My Uncle Mike, Cousin Crystal and her husband Rory joined us this year as well.We headed out on Black Friday with the other billion people but didn't go until much later in the day so not to many deals left but still had fun!! Headed to Tuachan to see Santa and rode dirt bikes a lot!! Quinn and I even snuck in a date night, when you have that many free babysitters you better believe we were taking advantage of that!!

I am so thankful for this time of the year before the hustle and bustle of Christmas to reflect on ALL the blessings we really do have:

I have a GREAT husband and kids, amazing parents, siblings, in-laws, cousins, uncle and aunts, friends, food on the table at all times, a roof over my head, a car, jobs, clothes, heat and A&C, water, electricity and much much more!! There really isn't much to complain about huh?

Before Thanksgiving we headed out to our annual Turkey Bowl. Great times, great hits, crashes, slides and all in the name of fun!!

Getting ready to whoop on them!!

Look at their determination on their faces to try and win, but to bad it didn't happen!!

Rory the "monster" plowing his way through us little folks

The family after a hard game of turkey bowl!!

The "WINNING" team

The whole gang after another successful year of TURKEY BOWL

We only walked away with a concussion from Brad and a broken finger by Crystal

Quinn and Caleb tossing the football

THANKSGIVING DINNER

Everyone at the table

Sadly this is the only picture I got of Thanksgiving Day

PEYTON'S DARE

My Mom and I left to go get the gifts for the bingo game and I get a text from my uncle telling me to control my child. I thought it was her eating pie with no utensils so I laughed and showed my Mom and she was like "that's not pie, that's butter!!" So this is what happens when the Mom leaves the house for 30 mins? My Uncle Mike,Crystal and her husband thought they would dare her to eat it and she did!! She did score $5.00 off of Rory though, she was so proud of herself after.

Just beginning her lovely dare, at least they held her hair back for her:)

Look at her go!!

They dared Caleb but he's not as "smart" as her and he said NO!!

She's loving it

The butter after Peyton getting a hold of it!!

GO COUGS!!

We headed down to a BYU game a couple of weeks ago. Peyton has been begging to go so we went until half time and then headed to Brick Oven Pizza, it was a fun night for all!!

Dad and his buddy

Mom and her buddy

Such a cutie

Quinn and Caleb doing their cheer

DISNEY ON ICE!!

Princess's-check, 5 happy girls-check, one fun day-check.

My neighbor works for channel 2 news and his wife was going to be out of town while it was here. So he came up with the brilliant idea if I would take his girls he would give me 6 tickets. So I of course called up Laurie and told her to come with us as well. It was a really fun day and those girls did not move an inch the ENTIRE show!!

I am so mad, I accidentally left my camera in the car so I could only take pictures with the crappy phone camera.

This was how this girl was the whole show

All the Princess's coming out in the end

Rapunzel and Flynn

This lovely picture with the girls

Kam, Annie, Hailey, Mylie and Peyton

Once we got home I was able to take a picture with the camera

Peyton, Annie and Mylie

SHINING STAR!!

Peyton was the Shining Star at Preschool this week, she was so excited and bugged me for weeks to make her poster. She then filled her suitcase with all her favorite things and we brought her favorite treat. She sometimes is so shy and so I thought I might have to talk about her but I was wrong she hopped right in there and told them all about her. She was so cute and it was fun to watch her interact with her schoolmates.

Don't worry her poster didn't look like this I am just weird about our last name being out there. Some of her favorites things are: Ariel,Pizza,Pink,Max & Ruby,Dancing,Tubing,Jumping, Strawberries and Swimming.

She got to adorn the Shining Star Crown as well.

She felt special all day. It's so much work for the Mom's to get these posters all together but they really do get excited!!

SNOW FUN!!

Quinn was out of town one week and my Mom was in town up in Deer Valley so we decided to take a little drive up there and go sleep at G-ma's hotel. The kids had a lot of fun. They had an arcade room with all different games, we played some darts and then headed out to go swimming in the pool.

This is what we got to overlook in the morning it was so beautiful!!

The kiddos playing a little game on the Wii.

Just because they are cute before we headed out to go swimming.

Then we headed out to this...

A blizzard

At least the water was super warm, it was actually really fun to swim in the snow.

But then we returned to this..

shoes and clothes covered in snow. So we of course had to just book it to the doors all while trying to carry everything and Peyton crying about "how cold she is" Really because I was so warm!!

Then the next morning we had some breakfast and headed out to the outlets. I will tell you there was some major deals going on. Maybe due to the fact that not to many crazy people would go shopping in that kind of weather.

I think my kids were getting sick of pictures by this point!!