Christmas Eve

We went to our friends house for a Christmas Eve dinner and Nativity play. We had a really nice time.

Ellie twirled and danced around being an "angel".

Kelsey was thrilled to be Mary. She really played up the part and at the end said, "I am so proud of myself for being such a good Mary."

Cameron made a wonderful shepherd AND a wise men (we were short on kids so he played both.)

My Christmas Present...

My kids (and my husband) agreed to wear their Christmas outfits and let me take pictures with no fuss for me as a "gift" to me for Christmas. They looked great. Its fun to dress them up. Thanks Gma and Gpa for the cute outfits!!

Santa Claus came to our Ward Christmas Party. The kids were pretty excited to sit on his lap. I wasn't sure if Ellie would do it but she climbed right up there and asked him for a kitty. We (Blaine and I) love when Santa is coming because if the kids are being bad, all we have to do is say, "Okay, I'll go call (or email) Santa and tell him your not being very good and he might put you on the bad list." They are good pretty fast after that!  We are all getting very excited for Christmas!!

Bring on the Gingerbread!

We had our 6th Annual Blood Family Gingerbread House party this last weekend. As always--it was lots of fun with lots of candy, and we were able to get to know some people from church a little better which is good. Our kids love this party, because its basically a free for all with the candy. 

Blaine was creative enough to "personalize" our house this year with our name. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent 4 1/2 days in Pittsburgh (or "Picksburgh as our kids call it) with our brother and sister-in-law for Thanksgiving! We had a great time! We had a delicious Thanksgiving feast, and instead of shopping the day after Thanksgiving--we went to the Dino Museum which was really cool. Thanks to Phil and Lisa for a really great time. It's a Thanksgiving we'll always remember together.

Playing in the snow!

Our kids rarely have seen snow so they we're thrilled to have a little bit of snow to play in with their cousins in Pittsburgh. They built one great snowman all on their own and had a great time! Kelsey's snow pants made her slide down the hill which she loved!

Cameron was in his 1st grade Thanksgiving play last week. He is dressed like a Pilgrim of course and did a great job delivering his line about "Q" which stands for a "quiver" that the Native Americans used to hold their arrows to hunt food for the big feast. Way to go Cam!