Nursery Visit

Mom's visiting day  in Charlotte's nursery 4 class.  She loves school and it was fun to be with her there to see her soaking it all in.

Isn't 8 great?!

Brooklyn chose to celebrate her birthday at Funtopia, a kids' climbing place. Mackenzie, Brooklyn, Emmie, Katelyn, Charlotte, Nicole, Ellie, Elizabeth and Sophie pictured here. They had a great time climbing up the walls and eating ice cream cake. And as a bonus we got to go straight to the BYU football game after partying for more treats.

Family get-together with the standard yellow cake and chocolate frosting.

The grand finale was Brooklyn getting baptized on December 5th.  She was very excited and ready for this day. She was feeling so sick the day before her baptism but she got a blessing from her dad and grandpa and we experienced a tender mercy as she felt much better after that. After the baptism we had lots of family to our house for a brunch of Kneaders french toast and breakfast casserole.

AZ for Turkey Day

Thanksgiving holiday spent at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess was a great success.  It is not always smooth sailing with the 4 rascals on vacations but plenty of cousins to play with and kids clubs to attend with cousins made it super fun.  We played around the hotel, made up plays, played at top golf, and did the Christmas activities.  Smiths also crashed Annie's family feast for our warm up meal to be repeated at the hotel soon after.  And we saw Christiansen cousins again at the trampoline park.

Looking Back at B

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Halloween 2015

The Hwangs were gracious enough to invite us to their Halloween party again this year. The ninja and dead bride taking time out for some refreshment.

Jeffrey- Ninja turtle who wouldn't wear his costume so he wore ninja turtle jimmies
Charlotte- Dorothy who found the perfect back drop at the ward party
Brooklyn- Ninja who doesn't want some girly costume
Mackenzie- Harry Potter who is old enough to go trick-or-treating with her friend Nela??
Also pictured Grace in the most amazing Amelia Earhart costume ever, Braden in camp and Reagan sporting Captain America girl

Mom- leaves Dad to take all the kids Halloweening so she can go to the Garth Brooks concert? (Which was amazingly fun) What a dead beat mom and a rock star dad!

Nationals Baby

Back row: Jill, Me, Lou    Front: Sarah, Sandy, Carolee, Annette, Kim, Michelle, Karli

3.5 Nationals in Palm Springs was so fun. I can't believe I didn't get a picture but Robert came along which turned it into an even better weekend.  Our team ended up coming in 2nd in our flight. I played a singles match that I won, a singles match that I got smoked and a doubles match with Lou that we won.

Sparta Spirit

Mackenzie scored her first goal and also did a great job as goalie at this game. It was a great day.