Felix Family Christmas Party

Cute kids:











Epic Dodge Ball

After a couple weeks on the counter, I finally tossed the masterpieces that were our gingerbread houses. Here are the pictures for posterity.

Lily's preschool Christmas program

Lily's school had a singing program. They sang a few Christmas songs and some other songs they had worked on. It was your basic cute program.





After the program Santa showed up in their classroom. Once Lily realized that she might have to sit on Santa's LAP, she started crying. Here she is being scared to death of Santa.

Cold!!

I can't believe how cold it has been lately. It's been close to 0 every morning. I feel a little bad for Aaron walking to school, but it's only 5 minutes and it would probably take longer than that with the crazy traffic of everyone else taking their kids to school.

So he bundles up--been wearing boots, snow pants, coat, gloves, stocking cap, and hood. They have been having indoor recess because of the cold. So yes, the heating bill is going to be horrendous, but I'd rather have it cold and sunny than having to deal with driving in more snow.

Mike drove to work earlier this week and saw a car in front of him driving sideways across the road, then the car right in front of him did a 360! He stopped in time, luckily. Next time it is like that, I'm going to insist he works from home. I was really hoping we'd be moved by now so he wouldn't have another whole winter of driving up there in the snow.

New tree--finally!

So here's the new tree with it's usual hodge-podge of decorations. I had to convince Lily we couldn't use ALL of the tree decorations we have, or it might look even crazier. I think it is a foot taller than our old tree so we'll probably have to get some more matching ornaments (or "ordaments" as Lily says). Though the kids don't care if they match or not.

I found this at Target and really liked it but they were out--so we stopped by Home Depot, and even Wal-Mart, but didn't like any there. There was another one I liked at Lowes, but it was also sold out. Finally Aaron and I went to the Target in Sandy and got the one I liked from the first Target. So it was quite the trek to get it.

Look guys, posting it the same day!

Lori, Kirsti, and I were pretty much inseparable during high school. We had so much fun going to the dances, planning parties, etc.

It's been awhile since we all got together, but luckily Lori penciled us in while she is here visiting family. The kids got along great, and it was fun to meet the newest member of the Shawcroft family, Kyle. He is such a happy boy.

It's great to have friends you can pick up with again right away no matter how long it's been since you've seen them. Love you guys!

At long last...

Halloween photos:

So behind in posting

A couple more pictures from the canyon. What the heck is up with these leaves? I promise I did not put them there.

Mike's idea in the canyon.

Mike started finding leaves of varying colors to make a rainbow of sorts. It turned out really cool! As you can see, he had a lot to work with.

Orange!

Super good posing in the canyon:

Pumpkin Patch

This past weekend was beautiful weather. Friday afternoon (after the dishwasher repairman finally finished up--Hooray for automatic dishwashers!!) we met up with Teri and the kids to choose some pumpkins. After getting all the pumpkins a wheelbarrow could hold (sadly, I was too busy making sure it didn't tip over to get a picture of the boys trying to push it), we stayed and let the kids climb all over the tractors and go through the "maze" (really, there was only one path--it was free, what did I expect?). I was amazed how much the kids loved climbing on the tractors. But I didn't mind. It was nice to be warm in the sun, and just chat away while the kids played.

Pictures from Aaron's visit to Denver