Christmas Festivities 2017

We did a lot of fun Christmas activities this year! We saw Santa at our local grocery store:

Though Zane hid and did not want to see himL

We took fun pictures for Grandma and Grandpa with the lights:

Baby’s First Christmas!

We decorated the Christmas tree:

We went to our ward’s fun Christmas party and saw Santa again, and amazingly- no one cried!

The ward also had a variety show, where all the primary kids sang some Christmas songs, the Relief Society sang some songs, and Ryan and the Elder’s Quorum did a hilarious skit to the 12 Days of Christmas that has already become kind of legendary (pi-kah!).

We decorated the house for Christmas, including hanging our stockings:

I got to help at Hyrum’s school winter party (including making a snowman toss). After he finished his snack, I found him reading a book!

I got to sneak into Cora’s class too to see her enjoying her school party:

We got to decorate gingerbread houses with friends!

And Zane decided to actually eat his, dinosaur style:

We decorated sugar cookies to give to friends and Santa:

Our friends invited us over to act out a nativity, and they had super fun costumes! Zane was a wise man, Cora was a sheep, Hyrum was Joseph, and Ryan was a shepherd:

After Christmas, Ryan took Zane and Cora to the gingerbread festival (I stayed home with sick Hyrum and baby Ivy). They said it awesome, and they loved the Yoda gingerbread and the Lord of the Rings gingerbread!

And they got to pull the handcart a little:

So many fun things to fit into December!

November 2017

We had some leftover toilet paper from class parties, so we decided to make these cuties into mummies:

Cora had her last soccer game this month (a lot of rescheduled games due to weather) and she got a medal!

Hyrum started cub scouts this month! So far, he loves it!

Ivy has started saying syllables, but let it be noted that her first word was “muh-muh” aka, mama! She knows if she yells this she will get attention, so I say she knows it means me

Mindi got the kids these fun capes and masks:

Hyrum couldn’t sleep one night, so he came down asking me for a hug and kiss since I hadn’t given him one earlier. He then said, “I can go to sleep now- I think you have a magic hug and kiss.” Melt my heart!

Ivy has been army crawling tons, but has also started to just get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forth. So maybe the real crawling is coming!

Ever since Halloween, Zane’s prayers always include, “thankful we go trick-or-treating, not go trick-or-treating anymore” plus the usual prayers beginnings and endings. I guess he really loved trick or treating!

Cora came home one day this month and told me, “I have a boyfriend” and gave me a sly little smile! When questioned about it further, she really has no idea what that means, but man those things start early!

Cora became a word star this month, which means she knows all the kindergarten sight words! Way to go Cora! Me and Mindi got to go to the assembly where she received her award:

Ivy always gives Ryan the biggest smiles when she’s supposed to be nursing at bedtime. She’ll nurse, nurse, nurse, then BIG smile for Ryan, then nurse, nurse, nurse, BIG smile for Ryan. She loves her daddy!

Zane loves his dino sweater and tail he got  for his birthday!

My parents took the kids to Chuck-E-Cheese for Zane’s birthday, and they had a great time, though Zane did get stuck in the playplace:

Love this guy!

I always tell Zane, “night night, I love you!” before I put him in bed, and lately he’s started to say it back every time and it’s the cutest thing ever!

Cora has started saying things like “delish” for delicious, which makes me wonder if she’s turning into a valley girl sometimes…

Cora is just the sweetest big sister, and she loves little Ivy so much!

Zane loves meat, fruit, and milk, so that’s pretty much all he eats!

Ivy is starting to climb and get into lots more things:

We tried potty training Zane this month and it didn’t go very well. I gave up on the third day as it was getting super frustrating. However, Zane did get hand foot and mouth disease on day one of potty training, and it turned out being a pretty bad case of it, so I’m hoping that was the problem. We’ll try again in January!

Hyrum started drawing some monster drawings this month that I actually thought were pretty creative and had a real style to them. That boy always impresses me!

Zane feeding Ivy- and he actually did a decent job!