Christmas Day 2009

I think this has to be one of my favorite Christmas's. It was so nice to have all of our kids and grandkids in town. They spent Christmas morning at their houses, then came to ours at noon.
Our new clock from Krista and Matt

Jamie and Jordan opening one of their presents

Opening presents is so much fun

Molly in her princess crown, dress and magic wand from Libbie

Katie having fun in a box

Aida and her farm

Hailey with her fun Tinkerbell present from Molly

Here's Libbie trying out her microphone that goes to her karaoke machine

After opening presents at our house, with our kids and grandkids, we went to Mom and Dad's. Everyone brought something yummy for the meal. Jamie's cupcake creation for our Christmas dinner was a Partridge in a pear tree, She is so amazing, the cupcakes were darling and delicious!!!!

Kathy and the kids

Hailey and Molly

Dad, Chip and Ric

Cierra and Abbie

Krista and Aida

Lani and Katie

Chandler and Gram

Jordan and Jamie

Chip and Elycia

Chase and Morgan

After we went to Mom and Dad's, we went to visit Grandpa Cline. Wanda has been in the hospital in the ICU for the past week, but finally today is doing a little better. We sure hope she keeps improving.

Sledding at the Clines

Krista called last night to see if I could watch her girls while she delivered the Sub for Santa gifts her ward collected for several families. I was just about to walk out the door, to head to her house when Jamie called to see if we would like to come down to their house and go sledding with Molly, so I picked up the girls and headed to Jamie and Emily's. Their backyard has a perfect sized hill for the little girls. He stacked the snow, and made a great run for them. Hailey couldn't resist making Snow Angels while she waited for Jamie to finish the hill.

Here's Molly all cozy and warm. Molly was a little nervous at first going down the hill, but got very brave and did great. I took a video of her, but unfortunately it didn't work.

Ready, set, go!

Here comes Hailey, look out below!!!!

Hailey let me go down with her so I wouldn't be afraid.

It was such a nice day, the girls had fun playing on the swings after they were done sledding.

After the sledding, Emily made us hot chocolate to warm us up. Aida was so good to sleep the whole time we were outside.

Another trip to Discovery at Gateway

Since Libbie wasn't able to go with us on Monday, I invited her to go on Wednesday. We tried to get Hailey or Molly to go along, but they were both busy, so it was just me and Libbie. We had a great time, and she made lots of new friends while she was there.
Libbie always enjoys a ride on Nellie the horse.

They had some fun new building blocks that she made a huge tower out of

She had fun pretending to be a newscaster, and watching herself on the TV

All the girls enjoy working in the grocery store.

Libbie enjoyed playing with a HUGE Mr. Potato head.

There were interesting tiny bugs to look at under the microscope.

Jordan's Graduation Party!

Congratulations Jordan! Last week Jordan took his last final at BYU, he is now a BYU graduate. We had a little party for him tonight. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate very well, and we had a big snow storm, so Lani, and Krista and her family, were the only ones who were brave enough to come out in the storm. We had a yummy dinner and enjoyed visiting with them. Jamie made graduation cupcakes for the party. Here's our favorite new graduate!!!

All ready for the party.

She filled a ziplock bag with frosting, cut a small hole in the end, then frosted them with the ziplock bag. So cute!

Here she is adding the cute diplomas that she made out of fondant.

Didn't they turn out great!!! Jamie does such good work.

You may have noticed that my blog is easier to read, Thanks Jamie, that girl is not only a cupcake making gal, she has blogging skills too!!!!

A day at Gateway Discovery

Monday was my first day of Christmas break. To celebrate, I invited Molly and Hailey to go with me to the Discover at Gateway. (I knew I would never be able to keep track of all 3 big girls, so I'm taking Libbie and Hailey on Wednesday) We all had such a great time. After 4 hours, they were not even close to being ready to go. There are so many fun things to do. Lots of cars to test drive.


They wanted to try them all out



The grocery store is always a fun place to hang out.
Of course Molly wanted the food on the top shelf!

She drove the tractor into the store to load up her groceries.

Molly was brave and rode the horse, her hands are full of potatoes that she was feeding him.

Hailey got brave and tried climbing the rock wall, hold on tight Hailey!!!!

They had lots of new things to do like these cool plastic puzzle blocks.

There are so many fun things with magnets.

There were some new letters we had never seen before.

They had some new gears that were fun to put together and turn.

Thanks for making my first day of Christmas break so much fun!!!!