Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. JD's brother was able to come home, and his older sister and family were here as well. My Mother in laws parents are living with them now so they were able to have Christmas with 3 of their grandkids and 8 of their great grand children.We had a quiet morning opening presents at home and then we headed down to spend the day with the rest of the family. One of the cousins got a little Power wheels Jeep and Mason loved it. We had a Wonderful time and this has been a great year for our family and I know there are many more years of joy and happiness going on around here.

 Daisy Red Ryder

 Ellie's butterfly night light and Mason with his racing cars

 Train and Airplane night light my sister made them

 This stacker is tasty

 Lights                                                  Rubik's Cube delight

 Story of Baby Jesus by the kids

 Grandma Great and the kids

 Cousins

 Francesco Burnoulli

 Littlest Pet Shop animals

 Hours of Dagadar Fun

 Yippee I can shoot too!

 Littlest Pet Shop House

 The aftermath

 He wanted a car he got a Car, this one just came with a remote not an engine

 Amazing piece my Sister made me

 I can get that ball... I can get that ball

 Bucking Bronco Uncle Shayne

 Grandma Great telling a story

 Bucking Bronco Kayson

 Getting Ready

 Dell taking aim with his Red Ryder

 Ellie with the Red Ryder

Shooting Uncle Shayne's .22

Picture Post

This is what we've been up to the past month or so.  Ellie had another dance recital, we had a Fall festival at school with Dell, Mason is into everything and Zane is growing like a weed. He is standing on his own now so I suspect walking is just around the corner. Oh my where has the time gone I can't believe we only have a few days of 2011 left.

 Dell at the Fall Festival

 Ready for Applesauce made by Dell's class

 Chinese Checkers with Grandma Great

 Great Uncle Dan teaching the kids the a Hawaiian Dance

 Mason didn't want to Dance           Dell and Lady (aka LadyBug)

 Snow drift from "that" wind

 Seriously Mommy's Lil Man

 Car Boy

 Decorating Grandma Greats Christmas Tree

 Making Grandma Greats special dip

 Dancing Girl

Big Boy

Birthday Girl

Ellie Mae turned 6 in Nov. It is truly amazing how quickly the time goes and how my sweet little baby girl is turning into a smart, funny, amazing young lady. She had a nice day it was the last day before Thanksgiving break so we did presents at home and then had a family dinner and more presents on Thanksgiving with family. I'm thinking about throwing her a half year birthday in June so she can have a party with friends, and then we can play outside too. We've found it very difficult to do around Thanksgiving.

 Making her birthday dinner

 Awesome cake Miss Cindy made for her

 Big Kids

 Her Loot

 Paint Set

 Outfit from Bella

 New boots

 Braclet that came with her card she thought was cool

 Fun Dress

Her cake became magic and changed color after sitting 

outside while we ate Thanksgiving dinner.

Tiny Dancer

Ellie is taking a beginners Jazz and Ballet class this year and she is really enjoying it. They had their first performance last week, it was controlled chaos but it was cute and I know they will be better for the big Christmas show next month.

Halloweeen and Heritage Festival

The last weekend of Oct is the Livestock and Heritage festival here. We have several roads that run through town that are designated livestock trails and this weekend every year they drive thousands of sheep from the mountains down main street to the lower elevation pastures. They also have a tractor pull and a horse pull. We watched the horse and tractor pulls. The horses were Belgian draft horses and they were INCREDIBLE. The team that won weighed in at 5400lbs and pulled a load of 8350lbs. They were huge.

The kids had a nice an Halloween. We did the Trunk or Treat at Dell and Ellie's school. They had a Chili cook off, cake walk, along with a few other games. They had a raffel in which I won a massage so there are no complaints here.

Family Photos

We had family pictures taken by an amazing photographer/friend when everyone was here and we just them back. They turned out wonderful!

 All the Grandkids

 Kids and Grandkids

 Favorite #1

 Favorite #2

 JD and his sisters

 Mom and her 3 oldest

 JD and I

Goofy Men

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