Gavon, Love Bug, Sweet Heart, Sugar Pie, Gavatar #2

Gavon - Photo shoot #2

I was told that I had to have a picture with both the black cowboy hat and tan cowboy hat. I hope you enjoy as much as I have.

I could make a book of all the many Gavon looks.

I LOVE this kid!

Gavon is quite the little helper. He loves helping around the house. Today we cleaned out the refrigerator. I wish all of my kids could have that much excitement when cleaning.:)(Make sure you look at "more posts" to see all we have been up to.)

12/16/10

Today at the kids school the 3rd-6th grade classes had their Christmas Sing. Tomorrow is the K-2nd grade. I video taped the girls singing but could'nt get them to load on my blog so you'll just have to trust me when I say "They were awesome!" Tomorrow I will tape Jensons.

Monday Night

Family Home Evening

Beautiful Night

Not Too Cold

Great Night To Go To Temple Square In

Salt Lake City

We ran into one of our neighbors and they took our picture for us.

This is floating on the reflection pool along with little tea light candles in little bubbles of glass. It was beautiful.

Shepherds watching over their flocks by night.

The lights were beautiful!

Nativity!

This was a fun Family Home Evening. We enjoyed donuts and hot chocolate to top off the night.

These are the pictures we used for our Christmas card this year.

We could'nt figure out why there was a haze on this picture. Leave it to Landon-there was a finger print on the lense @#!%$! None the less, it's still cute and this is what it is. Merry Christmas! You should get one soon.

At the kids school they do this thing called "Dads and Donuts" or "Mom's and Muffins" where you go listen to your kids read to you and look at what they have been doing. The other day it was Dads and Donuts for Maron's class. I thought it was kind of funny. Maron had an outfit all picked out for Christian to wear. Purple shirt, tan pants, and no tennis shoes! Christian was such a sport. Not only did he wear the chosen outfit but he didn't feel well. What a good sport.

Silly Maron

Family home evening this week we talked about giving not just receiving gifts. We made a list of the things we thought we wanted for Christmas. We then talked about Christmas being Christ's birthday and how we can give Him gifts. We talked about what gifts we could give. (sharing, being kind, reading our scriptures, saying our prayers, including others, saying Hi, smiling, etc...)

We wrote these down and put them in these boxes we made and hung them on our Christmas tree.

We love family home evening!

We have also been doing some Christmas traditions. 1. The Friend magazine had a fun advent calendar that asks a question every night about the birth of our Savior 2. We light our advent wreath on the four Sundays before Christmas and talk about what they stand for. 3. We have been reading stories and singing a hymn every night. 4. We have a candy count down that Jordon, Gavon and I made one day.

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I love this time of year. I love the time we spend together talking/sharing/visiting/and worshiping as a family.

We talked last night about what it means to "adore" Him. (Oh come let us adore Him) We looked up adore in the dictionary-Adore 1.Worship 2. To regard with loving admiration 3. To be extremely fond of. We then looked up the word worship. Worship- Worthiness, respect, reverence paid to a Divine being. What do you do to adore/worship/remember/be like Him?

12/10 I'm not liking this new camera very much. I liked my old one better. I can't seem to focus on anything and get a nice picture. I want my old camera back!

Madison's dance concert.

We went as a family last week to watch Madison at her dance concert. She did a great job. She has really enjoyed dance this year.

We went to a couple of wrestling tournaments last week too. I think the camera ate the pictures. I can't seem to find them. Trenton has done a really good job this year. He has won almost all of his matches except the one where he felt like he was coming down with the flu and just didn't feel so great

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Jordon

My poor Joe Joe is not feeling well. I think the croupy cough is going around.

To whom it may concern,

If you gave the croupy cough to us I would like you to come get it because we don't like it here. It has made my baby boy sad and his throat sore and scratchy. He really wanted to make a snowman tomorrow. Which probably won't happen. I wanted to go walking. Which probably won't happen. Next time please ask first. Thank you!

Sincerely, A mom trying to keep her kids well.

Get Well Soon my sweet Joe!

Gavon, Love Bug, Sweet Heart, Sugar Pie, Gavatar

Gavon, Gavon, Gavon! I'm not sure what we would do without him.

He loves his picture taken and he never does exactly the same thing.
(I love this picture)
This is his Ninja picture. He keeps us laughing always. We put our Christmas tree up last night. You would think that he had never seen a Christmas tree before. I think it has been re-decorated, re-decorated, and re-decorated. I hope it will make it at least until Christmas in one piece.
We love our sweet Gavon!