Christmas Eve

After the nativity we read some stories and sang some songs.

New PJ's

Aspen, Jacelin and Ava weren't there for this picture. Up to 15 grandkids now!!!!

Still at Grandma Margies

Some pics of the family.

Christmas with the Marshall's

We celebrated Christmas on the 23rd with the Marshall Family. As you can see Santa came and gave all the kids pj's (pj picture to follow).

Growing up

For those of you who know who Harry is, he has now been retired to the cedar chest. Drew has had him in his room for the past 12 years and is now ready to give him a different home.

Drew Karate

On the 16th of December Drew had another Karate promotion. He is doing such a good job in karate we are so proud of him. As you can see he is now at Brown belt with orange stripe. Once he goes through the stripes then he will be very close to a black belt. GOOD JOB DREW!!!

Kids School Program

The Elementary School had their Christmas program on the 10th this year. The kids did a good job and looked cute. Sorry the pics aren't great, thanks to the Grandma's and Grandpa's for coming and supporting us, we love you (Grandpa Fischer had to go deal with a work thing, that's why he isn't in the pic).

Our decorated tree

Here is our tree in it's finished state. We really like the shape of this one.

Family Picture

Here is our new family picture for 2009. When I scanned it, it came out a little dark. And of course I look like a dork. But everyone else looks great.

Then the snow

Saturday night into Sunday, we had a good little snow storm. The kids had a good time playing and building a snowman.

Gettin the Tree's

After eating and football and eating some more, we all went out Christmas tree hunting. Shanon and Adrian decided to just get a tree back in Colorado when they got home. We got several different trees. One for our family, one for Erin and Jordan, one for Joe & Leniece, a smaller one for Katie & Megan, an even smaller one for Mclane and a tiny one for Bostyn. It was a lot of fun and we picked our trees quick this year. Yay!

Thanksgiving time

We had a great time on Thanksgiving this year. Here are all the grandkids (minus Alex and Emma) eating dinner at Grandma Fischer's.
The next day after Grandma made her turkey noodle soup, then the kids made turkey hand cookies. We also made some other sugar cookies just to eat.

Here is Camri with her turkey cookie

And Drew with his Turkey cookie

And Alyssa with her's

Here are a few other cute pictures of the kids. We had a lot of fun. Thanks grama for all you do so the kids always have fun.

Info

This is mostly for my benefit, I just wanted to have this information somewhere and a picture to go along with it. First of all they are all in their pjs, not because it is bedtime, but because they got to have a pajama day at school. Yes, Drew was excited! Secondly, I measured their height and as of November 24, 2009 Drew is 5ft 5in tall, Alyssa is 4ft 6in and Camri is 4ft 2in. I am so proud of them and love them very much, even though I get super mad when they spill orange drinks on my carpet downstairs.

Anniversary! (13th)

Yesterday was our Anniversary, but we celebrated over the weekend. We dropped the kids off to my mom and headed to Mesquite on Friday. We got back to Minersville on Sunday. On Friday in school Alyssa pulled out a tooth and then while in Minersville Camri lost her tooth that was super loose. So the girls each got a visit from the tooth fairy $2 each. We had a nice time just relaxing in the room and the hot tub. Also we saw a couple of movies and as always we ate A LOT!. Then on Sunday we had our annual Grandma Eleanore's Thanksgiving Dinner. Some pictures were taken, but I will need to get those and them post them. Thanks to Grandpa Tim and Grandma Margie for watching the kids.

Veterans Day

It has taken me a while, but I finally got these pictures from Veteran's Day and Aunt Annette's B-day put on here. The Elementary school had a nice program for all the Veterans in Panguitch and as they announced the veterans, students were able to escort the veterans in. It was so nice to have Grandpa and Justin and then the kids escort them in.
Happy Birthday Aunt Annette! Thanks for all you do for our family!

Science Fair

On November 6th, it was the Panguitch Elementary School science fair. This year we had to do 2 projects. The fair is for 4th-6th grade. We tried to do a project that has to do with the kids core this year. So as you can see, Alyssa did her project on the Water Cycle. And Drew and Dason did their project on the phases of the moon. Thanks to all those who helped the kids with their projects. Drew and Dason got a medal and Alyssa got a superior ribbon. Some of the teachers at the school asked Drew & Dason if they could keep their project to help teach their class on the Phases of the moon. The box behind Drew was something Justin helped them with. You can look into the box and then touch the metal ruler to each lightbulb and it will light up the ball inside and show a phase of the moon. When you are all here you will have to see how cool it is.
Alyssa did an experiment with a bowl and a small container in it. She put a small amount of water in the bottom of the bowl and then she put strawberry milk powder in the small container. Then she put plastic wrap over the top and a small weight on the plastic, over the small container. Then she put it in the sun and water condensed on the plastic and dropped into the small container.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was fun this year. We wish everyone could have been here, but we had a good time and the weather was great.

Day before Halloween

On Friday October 30th the schools had their halloween parties and everyone got to wear their costumes. Here is me and the kids and then Grandma and me.

Pumpkins

This year we just bought our pumpkins from someone in town. We carved them, it gets easier when the kids are bigger. They turned out pretty good.

Beautiful October sky

This was a picture Justin took last week out our backyard. Just one of those things he enjoys.

Drew's 3rd celebration!

As always Drew had more than one celebration of his birth. This was the cake that Justin made him for Sunday Dinner. Thanks for all the birthday wishes and gifts and all the support you all give to our family.