Christmas

This year we decided to sleep Christmas eve at my parents. It was fun to have all my family together. Lily could not get to sleep and was probably up til 10 or so. Which turned out okay because she slept in. :) Which worked out fine because my parents woke up to a leaky water bed that needed attention.

I wasn't super good at taking pictures this year, but here ya go. We got a lot of fun stuff and probably gave Dad way too many books, but he's hard to shop for.

While we were waiting for Dad to finish up with the water bed. Not sure what Kiersten is doing here. Leading us all in Christmas Carols?





Umm, apparently Michael didn't want me to take his picture.



Boys getting dart guns in their stockings.



Followed by an action shot of Aaron's glasses falling off his face from an apparent direct hit to his face. Click so you can see the glasses in mid-air!


Other random pictures.


Camera war with Dad.



I don't know who took this, but we're trying out Lily's new game.



After lunch we came back to our house and opened some stuff. For some reason I only took 2 pictures and one isn't very good. And the other one Aaron has a goofy look on his face. I'll have to ask Mike if he took any with his camera. Thanks Grandma Pam for the blankets, the kids love them!

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.