Ginger Bread House

Tonight we decorated our gingerbread house. The girls and I definitely had some difficulties with the roof. It just would not stay up. Before you knew it one of the sides started to cave it. In the end we did manage to get the roof on, the sides up and the ginger bread house decorated. And of course Georgia and Madison would not stop eating the candy, so some of the decorations are missing.

Bookerbee

So now that Justice is in kindergarten and Georgia and Madison have pre-school, its just dad and Brooklyn for a couple hours every Tuesday and Thursday. Out of all the girls Brooklyn is the one that definitely changes her clothes multiple times a day, which drives me nuts because the pile of laundry is ginormous to begin with. I guess it would only be natural that she would LOVE dress up. Here is what Matt saw coming down the stairs, of course it would not be complete without a little baby doll to top off the outfit.

Justice Lost Her First Tooth

Justice has been SOOOO anxious to lose a tooth. Starting last Sunday Justice woke up with a loose tooth. For the last week she has been wiggling it, and of course waiting for it to come out. Justice and I were sitting on the couch and I told her that it was getting really loose. Matt told Justice that he wanted to see too, well that was it. Matt went ahead and got himself a grip and then pulled it right out. All you heard was alittle ouch.

Starting to feel like Christmas

So now that the Christmas tree is up its starting to feel like Christmas! We finally got the tree trimmed and in the house. It was actually really hard to get the tree decorated. It was SO prickly ( never get a Scotch Pine ). Always a learning experience!

Fun with Gradma Newson

Grandma Newson has been visiting for the last week, and the girls have had so much fun playing games, listen to Christmas music, and just spending time with Grammy.We love you so much Grandma Newson!!!

Finding the Perfect Tree

This year we decided that we would have a real christmas tree. We have had a fake christmas tree for so long, I think that I forgot how imperfect real trees are. When we got to the Christmas tree farm we searched and searched to find our tree. It ended up being a really cold night and the girls really would have been happy with any tree that Matt cut down. When it came to cutting down the tree and loading it, it only took a couple of minutes.

Cant wait to get it into the house and decorate it, then it will feel like Christmas time!!

Happy Thanksgiving

So Much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, we got to spend a week in St. George with family. We packed up the house and left on Saturday morning.
Matt got to do some golfing, the girls and I did some swimming, played some tennis, went to Zions and went 4 wheeling a couple of times.
Here is our sweet little nephew Cole and BookerBee coloring.

On one of the days we visited Zions National Park, which was a first time for Matt and I. On our way to Zions we stopped and had lunch at a little cafe in Springville.
Zions was beautiful, we hiked Riverside Walk which is about 2 miles round trip. Nat, Brandon, Mike and Drew in Zions National Park.
Rob, Matt,Cole and BookerBee.Dave, Sue, Becky and Madison Zions was alot of fun, the girls loved the 1.1 mile drive thru the mountain.On our first day of 4 wheeling we did about 60 miles. We had 3 rhino's and three 4 wheelers. Here is Justice and Cole before we headed out.
This is at the very beginning of our first day, by the end of the day everyone was covered in dirt. We did manage to get lost, so when we did finally make it back to the truck I think that everyone was pretty happy.Our second day of 4 wheeling we went to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes. The sand was definitely a high light for the girls. I think that they must have played in the sand for a couple of hours. They had so much sand everywhere!! Here they are sliding head first down one of the sand drifts. Here is Rob, Mike, Brandon and Drew.What a great Thanksgiving!