The "Baby" is 3

I feel like our big boy is getting bigger every day. Maybe he is. He likes to say "I'm a funny boy" and "that's silly".  Jeffrey gives the best prayers which always start with bless my mom and my dad.

He is doing great with potty training but refuses to wear underwear. Not sure why, but it is either commando or a pull-up. Happy day for me when I got him to pee in the toilet for the first time!

Palm Springs

Quick trip to Palm Springs during Christmas break

Merry Christmas

We had a fun Christmas season.

It was our 2nd annual Christmas FHE candlelight dinner.

The girls slept in the loft on Christmas Eve in their matching pajamas. Hopefully next Christmas Jeffrey will be ready to join the big kids in the loft.

Always the most exciting part of Christmas...Christmas morning was really fun.  Favorite presents this year: M-timex watch  B-cotton candy maker  C-Star Lilly giant unicorn  J- bristle blocks

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.

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