December and Christmas

We started off December with the December birthdays and the 2 birthdays that were here, so we could celebrate chose to have a basketball birthday party. Here are 2 of the basketball players, and they both are mighty handsome!

This little one always melts my heart, he has the cutest grin and always lights up when he sees me.

These 2 are discussing the finer points of basketball, I am sure. ( Well, maybe Isaac isn't?)

The 2 birthday boys, just missing Jon.

Traegan, wants to open the gifts.

The next Saturday we went to Kace's piano recital and here is Tydon, quietly listening to the music, (love his grin.)

The performers, Tydon, needed to get in the pose as well.

Then we went to the Shaw party where we had fun eating and singing.

Rachel and Kace performed their duet, and as you can see, Tydon didn't want to be left out.

The next Saturday we went to the other Shaw party and here is McKenly getting ready to be,mmm, I'm thinking an angel that looks like a shepherd?

The manger

The tax collector

The shepherd

Joseph and Mary

the angels, yes, she must be an angel, she has tinsel on her head.

The whole nativity.

On Christmas eve, I was on call, ( I did get called in a couple of times, so it was kind of a weird Christmas eve for me.)  The next morning we woke up, (I had to stay is Logan because I was on call, so we stayed with Mary and Isaac.) (Mr. Jones stayed with me as well.) and here is Lincoln ready to sing jingle bells and go and see Santa.  He literally thought, I think that Santa would be there if we sang Jingle Bells. He looked everywhere, trying to find him and didn't even spot his presents for a good 10 minutes, because he couldn't fin him.

Trevor woke up, got into bed with Mom and then fell back to sleep.

Here is Lincoln, looking for santa.

Oh, here, is what he left!

Trevor was most excited about the candy and the eggnog that Santa has left.

Then he spotted this.

Lincoln loved his videos.

and loved looking in 

grandpas sock to see what Santa had left him.

a red pear?

Then we traveled to the other Jones' to see if Santa had been there.

Yes, he made it!

I'm glad I got a picture of Kace's poster for his room, it turned out great!

Tydon loved his, I think it was iron man. 

Can't remember what this action figure was called.

Santa came!

Then we traveled on to the Cannon's.  Evan loved his gift from Santa and I don't think put it down, except to eat!

McKenly had to show me her doll house and her lip gloss.

Bryce with his dragons and his castle.

oh, and his monster!

see, he is still playing it.

Mckenly trying to fit all of her heels into her backpack.

Layne with his sword and his stuffy.

We then had a nice dinner of prime rib, it was delicious!

Grandma and Grandpa, Jocelyn and Caitlin came as well.

and we all settled in for a long winter's nap!

McKenly ready to travel to her next destination,  (oops that is tomorrow, sorry you need to go to bed right now!)

Caitlin and Jocelyn

and finishing off the night with an all out sword fight.

It was a great Christmas!

Thanksgiving

I had to put this picture in because Mr. Jones thought it was cool that I took this picture.  Sorry it is blurry but I don't have  a very good zoom on my camera. I have to tell you a story about this deer though, it isn't the first time we have seen him.  Last week when I came home from church I saw this old guy with a "Go Pro" strapped to his head sneaking around the corner of the house.  For a minute I wasn't sure who it was because the Bishop never beats me home from church!

Well he was sneaking up on this big buck and he had his bow and arrow and he had a blunt arrow to try and see if he could hit this deer.  I honked the horn at him, not knowing what he was doing but thinking he looked pretty funny with his suit and tie and a "Go Pro" strapped to his head.  Well, needless to say my honking scared the deer and it went bounding off.  You couldn't see much in the movie he took, but he watched it over and over wishing he would have taken a still photo.  So when this deer came back I was just trying to make Mr. Jones happy.

we had a great thanksgiving and the food and company was great!

We had a couple of little tables set up for the little people, but Evan didn't think it was too cool to be included on the little table.

McKenly getting ready for the prayer and Bryce looking like he is in pain waiting.

I had to have one extra person on another table and I was worried about that person feeling left out, but Trevor thought he was King, having his own table.

Bryce finally got too eat!

Part of the table, the other side of the table was still getting food for those on the "little table".

MMM, it was so good!

Layne and Carson were included in the"big table"

After a day of shopping with Rainee, Mary and Caitlin we went to the light parade in Preston.

It was a little cold but it was fun to see the lights and fireworks.

Here they come!

It's hard to get photo's of fireworks, I always misjudge when to push the button.

Yes, we were in front of the Round's building.

McKenly had the parade queen wave down and was waving to everyone.

Breakfast the next morning was of course, fruit loops.

Before the Cannon's left McKenly gave us a fashion show.  We were talking about who teaches girls to pose? I'm not sure but most girl's are born with it and this one definitely had the poses down.

and the looks!

It was a great Thanksgiving weekend and we have lots of stories to tell about our black Friday adventures but because they include certain some one's gifts, I might have to tell them later after the gifts have been received .  But it was great fun and we were all tired when it was all over!