Assembly and Santa

Brynn was Citizen of the month for the theme of generosity. She was so excited to get her award. Way to go Brynn!
Here's Abby and Leah waiting in line to see Santa at our ward Christmas Party. Leah waited in line to realize she really didn't want to sit in Santa's lap.
Abby saying her lines for the Nativity Program. Brynn was scared of Santa. I don't think she has ever sat in his lap. She told me that's not the real Santa and wanted no part in it. This reminds me of last year's Christmas party. Santa was our home teacher and Brynn said "That's not Santa, that's Brother Price."

Shea sitting up by herself.

December Doings

Here is Leah cutting some green beans for dinner. She worked so hard to snip the beans, she got about 5 beans in the pot in about 5 minutes.


We made gingerbread cookies. Leah wanted to sprinkle the sugar on. Do you think there is enough?

Abby loves to shovel snow. She did a great job shoveling our driveway. Then she went on to do the sidewalks.

Here is Shea enjoying her toy.

Wouldn't you love to spend Sunday afternoon under the Christmas tree?

We got our Christmas Tree last Saturday. Trent took the Abby, Brynn, and Leah sledding and then they went to get a tree. They all enjoyed getting it ready and decorating the tree. If you look closely you can appreciate Leah's decorating at the bottom of the tree. She put most of her ornaments down there.

Snowy Saturday

It's a snowy Saturday, Trent took the girls to go see the Nutcracker. I stayed home with Shea who is conviently taking a nap. Trent put up Christmas lights in our front yard today with lots of "help" from the girls. I also had lots of help when we made brownies.

Here are some recent funny quotes from the girls.

Abby: "If they didn't invent Barbies we wouldn't play nicely."

This was said after I commented on how nice they were playing together.

We had our Primary Program a few Sundays ago. I was trying to work with Brynn on her part she was all frustrated, crumpled up her part and said "I just want to throw it in the garbage." Which she did. By the way, she said her part beautifully.

One Saturday our next door neighbor was mowing his lawn. Abby, Brynn and Leah were out on the deck conspiring. The older two were whispering things for Leah to say. This is what she was yelling at our neighbor: "HEY MAN, SHOW YOUR BOOBS." (He usually mows his lawn without a shirt on, but for some reason he didn't this time.) Classic Leah.

Outings

Saturday we were able to go to Wisconsin and visit the Jelly Belly center. They show you how they make Jelly Bellies and of course give you Jelly Bellies to eat.

Tuesday we went to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. We decided to take the train into the city. That was a lot of fun, the kids thought that was great. Then we took a city bus to get to the aquarium. After seeing everything, we took a taxi to get back to the train station. During the taxi ride, I couldn't get Leah to sit down. She kept sticking her head through the opening to the front of the cab. Playing with all the buttons I am grateful she has to sit in a car seat in our cars. Brynn said it was the funnest day of her life. I think they all liked being able to ride on all the different forms of transportation more than the aquarium itself. It was a fun experience to go into the city like that.

I'm thankful for....

What a great time of year it is to stop and think about all the things we have to be thankful for. I'm thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the many blessings that come into my life as a result of the gospel: Eternal families, temples, the priesthood, commandments that keep us happy through our obedience, scriptures, my testimony of Jesus Christ.

I am thankful to be a wife and mom. I have the greatest family, from my parents & siblings to my spouse and kids! There is so much that I learn from each one of you.

We listed the things we were thankful for in FHE this week I thought I'd share some of the thoughts around our house: Leah: grapes, candy, blankies

Brynn: toilets, house, family, toys, clothes, fireplace, friends, back & front yard, Jesus

Abby: clothes, furniture, bed, pillows, house, Webkins, electricity, songs

Shea: Although she is too little to say anything here are the things we know Shea loves, baths, her passy, rice cereal.

Halloween

Sorry for the delay in our posts, we've been working on our office and the computer was disconnected for awhile. We had a fun Halloween. Brynn and Abby had a Halloween parade at their school. We went trick or treating...Leah was skeptical at first but once she realized that she was getting candy from everyone, she was running from house to house. We are glad to know that everyone is safe in California, there were many prayers said for our cousins!

By the way, Leah is out of candy yesterday I overheard her ask Brynn for a piece of candy this is the conversation:

Leah: Brynn can I have a piece of candy?

Brynn: (Silence)

Leah: Brynn say yes.

Grandpa Comes!

Dad came last week to visit with us. It was so much fun having him here. We went to the Rainforest Cafe for my birthday. We rode bikes with him Leah recently was put on the training wheel bike she thinks it's so great. Everytime she rides, she tells me she goes fast. Please check out Leah's mankle here.

Unfortunately we did not get to see Dad's mankle, we were privledged to see this classic Sunday look of shorts with black socks.

We did show Dad Lake Michigan. For those who haven't seen it, it looks like the ocean. All you can see is water on the horizon. Thanks for coming to visit us Dad or should I say Grandpa.