Random December Pictures

Savannah made us delicious red and green christmas pancakes on sunday morning!

Caulder and Blythe are the best of friends. It's crazy how excited Caulder gets when I tell him that he gets to play with her!

The budding computer enthusiast!

Gingerbread Men

This year we decided to use the extra gingerbread cookies from our huge batch to give them to our neighbors and friends with extra frosting and candies. We took pictures of our own decorating. Caulder really got into it. He enjoyed the plain cookie until he tasted the frosting and then he just kept having the girls put more on as fast as he could lick it off.

Fun with Shapes

These pictures were taken this past week on one of those "I don't care if it's messy, let's just have fun" mom days. I wish we had more of them, cause just check out that smile!!

Savannah's field trip

I had the joy of accompanying Savannah on her field trip to Knights Ferry this past week. I love to share in those one on one moments with my kids and it's fun to see them in their element with their friends. I am proud of her and the wonderful friend she is to the kids in her class and the amazing helper she is to her teacher.

Thanksgiving

The girls got early cousin christmas gifts and all got the same dress ups.

Grandpa, Tami and Grandma hanging out at Tami's house before the big thanksgiving meal!
This Thanksgiving we went to Tami's and Mike's house. On the way, we stopped at Debbie and Rolan's new house and had a lot of fun with them and we got to see Aislyn's Thanksiving play at her school.

We also got to see Henry, Amara, and all of the other cousins. We got to see the two babies blessings on saturday.

We played Switch with all of our cousins. I got two dress ups from the movie High School Musical from Jessica and and two of my other cousins got the same thing! Claire got a High School Musical 3 make up kit from Victoria.

Grandma and Grandpa rented us some big bouncey houses and slides that we played with in the church gym while the adults talked and made food. We had a blast! Thanks grandma!

Aislyn, Kallie, Claire, Macy, and I got to put on a play called Forest Changes. Aislyn was a fish, a poor girl, and a Butterfly, Kallie was a poor girl and a peacock, Macy was the director, Claire was a caterpillar, a tiger and a butterfly and last but not least, ME! I was a bird and a homless girl. It was a great show!

While we were at Tami and Mike's we played with all 27 cousins non-stop! The adults speant time shopping, playing games, and talking.

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for my house because it has been pretty cold outside.
I am thankful for my cousins to play with and my family because it rocks!
By: Savannah Pace

We visit Napa while the Houser girls visit

This past weekend mom and dad took off for a short trip to Napa after getting us comfortable with Dani and Reagen who flew out to watch us. They visited an italian castle (which also happened to be a winery,) went to the beach, played golf, hiked around Jack London State Park, ate great food, saw "007," and missed us a lot. Meanwhile, back at home, we went to the park two times, went to Fun Works, rented Kung Fu Panda and Tinkerbell from Redbox, ate lots of candy, played outside (the weather was SOOOOO WARM,) did gymnastics,and had fun with our cousins.

When mom and dad got home saturday night they took us out to dinner and then to see Madagascar 2 at the movie theater. Dani and Regean had to go home on Sunday, but we sure had a good time with them while they were here. Hopefully they come back out to see us again really soon! We get to see them next week in Utah. We can't wait to see all of our Cousins and our Grandma and Grandpa, and Aunts and Uncles. I think we will have fun!

By Savannah Pace

"Spray butter in my sippy cup, please."

Caulder approached Todd this morning as he was making breakfast with a sippy cup and the spray butter that he had gotten from the fridge. "Please?" was his simple plea. Cute.... My son loves butter, so this wasn't too weird, except when I think of him actually drinking butter from his cup. EEKK!! Life has been full of kids. The girls are off track and Savannah has been keeping us all on a schedule. We had a few days at the beginning of this "vacation" period where I let us be free. No schedules, no hassles, except for the things that were no option activities like Claire's Yes Company rehearsals, Savannah's piano lessons, both the girls dance classes and Caulders naps. I don't give up naps!! Anyway, within those 2 days Savannah was going buggy!! She decided to come up with her own schedule. It went something like this: get up, do math, do PE, do social studies, do reading, do writing, do music, do art, watch TV, and play on the computer. It also included weekly field trips and 2 friend play dates per week. Needless to say, we compromised and came up with a schedule that she and the rest of the family could handle. I kept thinking "Man, this girl loves school!" She has such a great teacher this year who has really given her a new enthusiasm for learning and especiually for reading. She has read several books already since she has been off track. Claire is really enjoying her Yes Company rehearsals. Their performance of the Jungle Book is later this month. Claire was cast as a Bumble Bee. Both of the girls are really enjoying their friends, and Caulder is having a ball!! We spent last monday at Fun Works (for our field trip,) and he was in heaven! He also really loves shoes, popcorn, and eating markers. Saturday night the girls had Jade and Cambrie Stacey over for a "girls night." They put on a whole Hannah Montana concert in the playroom and ate pizza and watched "Fish Tales." They really get along well together. This week we are looking forward of the arrival of Dani and Regan on Wednesday. That's all the girls can talk about!