Ready for December!

It took 2 days, but I've got all my Christmas decor out now...

This is the miniature tree I put in Kalyssa and Abbee's room every year and they love it on while they go to sleep.

I also decorated their bunk bed with garland and lights while they were at school. They were excited to see it when they got home and couldn't wait to go to bed that night! haha. Then Baylee ran to her room to see what I did to hers...

I put a red garland on her bed and hung colored lights all around the ceiling.

The girls were sweet and really appreciated it and were so excited!

One of my favorite things about Christmas time when I was little was that my mom let me put the extra Christmas lights up in my room too. :)

Awe... I LOVE the Christmas tree at night!!!

Nov 30, 2010

Crushed Ornaments

The day after we decorated our tree... Will quietly wandered away from me, and I heard a pop sound from the other room. William pulled these ornaments off the tree and crushed one of the bulbs into pieces. Luckily he wasn't bleeding anywhere. :)

Nov 30, 2010

Decorating the Christmas Tree

It's Monday night... we have all the kids together, so we can decorate our Christmas tree! As soon as I get the boxes out William jumps right in to help, of course! He never misses a thing!

I started putting together the tree, but Will insisted he take over.

 Brandon made us a fire, and we listened to our George Strait Christmas CD.

 Here is Will's antlers we got him last year when he was a baby.

 The kids got the tree about done...

Brandon gave Will the star to put on top and lifted him up... Will just started hitting the tree with it. Brandon held his arm to where it should go, and it was complete!

Nov 29, 2010

Advent Calendars

The kids LOVE getting Advent Calendars to countdown to Christmas!!! They even put it down on their Christmas lists to Santa. But Grandma Mitzi came to the rescue and dropped them off today.

William had no trouble ripping the paper off his... so he'll do very well opening his presents this Christmas!

Nov 28, 2010

Christmas Lights at Temple Square

The day after Thanksgiving, downtown Salt Lake has a lights ceremony at 5pm where the Christmas lights are turned on... including the lights at Temple Square. Most of my family went down to check it out...

First we ate at the Lion House Pantry. A restaurant on Temple Square that was Brigham Young's house. Brandon and I took our kids here last August... the food is really good so we suggested we all go there to eat since the rest of my family hasn't been there.

We took these 3 tables in the old Quilting room. My mom's face is funny here... haha.

Makayla, Kalyssa, & Taylee

Me, Mary & Nate, and Brandon with Will

Rhiannon took this picture of Jeremy eating a watermelon. :)

After we ate it was dark enough outside to enjoy the lights! Taylee & Makayla stopped under this cool hanging bush...

I took these pictures of the Salt Lake Temple...

As couples, we took turns in front of the temple taking pictures.

I have one of Jeremy & Rhiannon from their camera... but none of the other couples with us. :(

Rhiannon took this cool picture of the side of the temple.

I was so worried William wasn't warm enough... all the kids had on layers of clothes!

There was a bunch of these lights along the walkways...

Here's the gang of us with our hot chocolate, except my Mom and Lorenzo, they went inside the Joseph Smith Building to get our names on the list for the next movie.

 We went inside the South Visitors' Center to check out this new model of the temple. It's an exact replica of everything inside the Salt Lake temple.

I took a close up picture of the celestial room where Brandon and I sat while we waited to be sealed to each other. The room does look exactly like this model... it has amazing detail and is so beautiful.

Kalyssa, Makayla, and Taylee get close to see it all too...

This is inside the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

Will and Rhiannon

All of us are inside the Legacy Theater to see Joseph Smith  The Prophet of the Restoration. A film about the life and legacy of Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Brandon and I have seen this movie, but no one else in my family has... I'm so glad they all wanted to see it!

Not sure why Mary & Nate are making these faces, but I love it!

After the movie we walked by Brigham Young's house again where we ate dinner. This is the outside...

I love the garland along the fence... it was all real fruit.

His house was nicknamed The Beehive House.

Time to go home! ...and it started to snow. :)
Nov 26, 2010