December

It has been a month since the last post and a lot has gone on. We finally got all moved into the house and two days after we moved we turned around and packed up for a fun vacation to Utah. We had a great time in Utah with family and friends as we celebrated Thanksgiving, my birthday, Ashlyn's birthday and my little nephew Jackson's birthday, not to mention the best day ever for shopping(the day after Thanksgiving) which me and my sister Katie had a blast doing, unfortunately we do not have many pictures of our vacation, but we are very thankful that we got to go. After vacation Ashlyn had her first Christmas program with her school, I know I am a little partial but the Kindergarteners were the highlight of the night. We have also wrote our letters to Santa. And just this last Friday the 19th we celebrated Ashlyn's 5th birthday with a party which included 15 five and six year olds(a little crazy but it went better than expected).

Ashlyn's Christmas Program

This is Ashlyn saying her part.

I made myself a snowball as perfect as can be,

I thought I'd keep it as a pet and let it sleep with me,

I made it some pajamas and a pillow for it's head

then last night it ran away,

but first it wet the bed.

After they said their poems they sang Let it snow and Jingle bell rock. Jingle Bell Rock was the hit of the night, they got to wear their Santa hats and put on their sunglasses and they danced as they sang. I have to admit I loved every minute of it.

Santa Letters

This is Peter and the kids writing their letters to Santa a couple of weeks ago. It was so cute, they were so excited. You can clearly tell by Ashlyn's pictures exactly what she wants, Ryker's however is a little harder to tell but I am sure that Santa still understands it. After we wrote the letters we burned them in the fire so that the smoke from the letters would burn up the chimney and travel to the North Pole so that Santa could read them.

Utah Birthday Celebration

Friday Dec. 19th-Happy Birthday Ashlyn!

We had quite the party for our 5 year old! We invited all 17 kids from her Kindergarten class and a few kids from our old ward. First we ate some pizza. Next we played a little game of horseshoes and played until everyone could win a prize and last we played pin the tail on the donkey. After that we opened presents, sang Happy Birthday, and ate some cake. Overall it was a great time and it couldn't have gone any better considering the amount of kids we had here. We were also lucky to have her teacher Ms. Shasta come celebrate with us-she was a real tropper and stayed the whole time. She was spoiled by her friends and we are so thankful for all our friends and family who helped us celebrate.

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