Christmas review

Christmas day

Yes this is how we found Meg Christmas eve, in her bed

of course they all wanted to sleep together!

The Primary Christmas breakfast and talent show, it's low key, yet very enjoyable.

Emma played Jolly old St. Nicholas on the piano. Rex did Kata 1 karate. I only got pictures of Levi sitting on Santa's lap then my camera died : ( SAD

Twas the night before Christmas read by Nate and Emma

Our Elf on the Shelf has a lady friend thanks to Meg! This is a really cute tradition we do with the kids. Each night the elf finds a new place to hide, the kids love finding him in the morning. We also sent a letter to Santa with (Trinko Winter Rumble) asking him if he could visit us a day early so we could go visit our cousins in Vegas, Which he did. He even left a family wii game for us to play and enjoy as a family!

Christmas memories...

~The kids loved that there were presents in the tree.

~The kids feel they got three Christmas's one in AZ (Sonny flew and got us so we could be with the Hogles for a party) Then One at our house (a day early because their was no way mom and dad were going to haul all the presents out of town!!!) Then one in Vegas on Christmas day.

~Levi when he got up and we walked out into the room to see if Santa had come, jumped out of my arms and ran to his popper Santa had left him and would not let go of it for three hours till nap time.

~If you ask meg if santa came she says no but she got a stocking from him!

~I was so proud of Emma she performed her song for the talent show and in her school class

~ I love that i have no pic of Rex, GREAT! (we did get video of everything in fact we did more video that stills) he loved all the Lego"s he got and pokemon things plus he got a laser pen he thinks is pretty cool and a crystal growing kit

Dance receitals

She wouldn't do the dance, she wanted raisens!!

i can't get Emma's video to upload Grrrrr

The karate champ

Our first place winner

They have two areas they compete in. One is a routine called Kota 1 which he took third (he doesn't care as much about the Kota). The part he really likes is the fighting. There were 8 boys and Rex was called to go first against another boy. There is no contact allowed. The first boy to three points wins, and Rex scored 2 very quick points. The other boy was frustrated and after timeout was called hit Rex in the face while Rex wasn't looking! The umpires gave Rex the point and he won 3 to 0. He told me afterwords "my eyes watered a little bit, but it didn't hurt." Rex immediately had to fight again against another boy and the winner got first place and the loser got second. These two boys are evenly matched and the score was 2-2 but eventually Rex landed a kick to the other boy's stomach and down he went! Incidental contact is OK so there was no penalty. Rex finished him off after that and won first place. He was so excited you could see in his face how proud he was! ~Nate

Friends at the holidays

My really good friend Lisa has this yearly tradition of inviting her girls friends and their familys over and they do a cookie bake. This year all the moms brought a treat for the kids to make, so the kids made rice krispies dipped in chocolate, chocolate dipped oreos, cherries dipped in choc with a kiss to make a mouse, and marshmallow snowmen, topped off with snicker-doodle cookies. Talk about a sugar high! The best part is between six families all the kids have a friend and play for hour and the moms get to talk (adult conversation a rare treat these days!) we had a great time

Meg had to have a snow man doing jump rope. i think she just saw the licorice and came up with a way to at it so she could eat it later.

The third graders

the boys

Rex the ladies boy

Emma and Hailey were twins for twin day at school

Christmas Elf Name

My Christmas Elf Name is

Kerry - Merry so we did all the family and now you can address us by our new namesNate - Chipper Tum-TumsEmma - Snappy Sugar SocksRex - Jolly Bing-a-LingMeg - Tootsie Twinkle ToesLevi - Puddin Smickleifigus

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Advent calendar GRRRRR

So this morning at 3:30 long after we had settled our brains for a long winter nap

When out in the living room there arose such a clatter

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

When what to my wondering eyes should appear

AAAAHHHHH REX

in his excitement had decided to open the next door to our advent calendar! ( Kids )

So i sent him to bed and the new rule in the house is you have to be dressed for school and have your bed made before you get to open a door!!!