Merry Christmas

We wanted to say Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends.  We hope you have had a great Holiday Season.  

Love,

Christy, Kiley, Sydney and Kaden

December

As we all know December can be a busy month.  We started off the Holiday Season with our ward Christmas Party,  Sydney and Kaden both participated in the program, Kaden as a Shepherd and Sydney an angel.  

 We also delivered and received our share of treats and watched every Christmas movie we could.  One of Kaden's Highlights was making our annual gingerbread house.  

 And of course it is not Christmas with out Grandmas Randall's Christmas Eve Pajama gift.  

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving and want to say thanks to all the family that came to visit.  

Everyone arrived on Wednesday afternoon, Sydney and Kaden had been counting down the days and couldn't contain their excitement when everyone arrived.  Wednesday night we took all the kids swimming at Grandma and Granddads hotel. Then on Thursday morning all of the men and boys went pheasant hunting, but sadly were unsuccessful.  Grandma also brought projects to keep all the kids entertained until dinner time. They made pinecone bird feeders, chalk place card settings for everyone and she taught them how to weave yarn animals.    

Then of course on Thanksgiving we had a great dinner followed by plenty of pie and ice cream.  

Friday morning Kiley and McKade attempted another Pheasant hunt, after they returned we loaded everyone up and headed out to cut down three Christmas trees.   

Snowman

This weekend we built our first Snowman of the winter,  the snow was really dry so of course it didn't stick together very well,  so we did the best that we could.    Afterwards it was used for a snowball fight.

I am sure there will be many more snow storms to come.

Happy Halloween

We hope everyone had a great halloween.  Saturday we carved our pumpkins, then on Monday we hit the Main street trick or treating and some of our neighbors.  Kaden was just as excited for the ones that knocked on our door.  They whole time we were out and about he kept asking who was going to answer the door for them.   

I would have to say Halloween was everything they had hoped it would be.

Random

I feel like it has been awhile since I have posted anything,  so I figured I would post some random pictures of some things that we have been up to.

Soccer has come to an end.  Kaden had a good time learning the game and in the meantime had a lot of fun.  At the end of every practice they played tails, which he took pretty seriously.

 We have also spent a lot of time outside enjoying the beautiful fall weather. We know it is going to be coming to an end shortly.

 Sydney has spent a lot of time this summer attracting birds to our backyard.  The other day I found her outside sitting very still with bird seed in her hand.  She has wanted a bird to eat out of her hand for some time now,  but it didn't work. Maybe next time.

A week of Hunting

Fall has been filled with quite a few hunting trips.  Last week Kiley, Sydney, Kaden and Dash went duck hunting,  but they came back empty handed, it is still a little to warm, and of course that made Sydney happy.

 Kiley and Kaden went on their first antelope hunt this weekend.  Kaden loved every minute of it, especially the shooting part.   

 Kaden already has plans of glueing the head to his bedroom wall.  We are so proud.