Gone so soon

I wish we had Christmas every day, or for every holiday instead. (Karina)

Christmas party, these guys loved seeing a "fat" Santa. Karina was a bit concerned the Santa at her school was skinny! She even said he might not be the real Santa. I have come to the conclusion that our kids may know he is not real, but they will never want to admit it, which is fine with me.

Two things I do want to stop doing. One, never put the reindeer food right outside your front door, because it will be inside your house in no time. Two, is I wish Santa wouldn't be so darn picky about what kind of cookies he would like to have left behind. Grant told the kids Santa would not leave presents for them if they did not make sugar cookies for him to eat, this after I had told them we were going to leave choc. chip cookies this year, to change things up a bit. But that quickly changed. So maybe next year Grant should be helping us make all those cookies for "Santa", was my only response to that.

Our version of can you find waldo?? (or Tosh)

This guy Loved this one present in particular, he would not get off the horse, in fact if the only way we could make him open presents was while he was on the horse. This is all he did Christmas day no joke and the day after. It was SO darn cute.

CHRISTMAS 2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

From us all.

Ballet

This last Monday was Karina's little dance recital. It was very cute and it only lasted about one hour. They have their real cute and elaborate recital in June. But here we got to see some somethings they practice in class and a cute little routine to go with it.

How would you like to be able to do this?

Our little Karina has come along ways from when she started at 22 months where she just stared at the teacher and stood around while the other girls dance and twirled around her. Now she loves it and would like to give Irish dance a try.

They are home!

The grandparents are finally home from their mission in Hong Kong. For those of you who do not know what a mission is, it is a period of time when either 19 yr old boys or 21 yr old girls, or in this case a senior couple leave their home and go a serve an LDS mission sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in what ever country they were assingned in this case for a little over a year and a half. They arrived about 2 weeks ago and our children were so, so excited to see them. My favorite was when we got to their home and a little neighbor girl was waiting for them and told them they were gone for a long time and she had missed them, and if she remembered making cookies with her. Grandma had previously been her primary teacher it was very, cute and sweet. I think it safe to say they were greatly missed by all who knew them and loved them.

These are only some of the grandkids, the other half was either hiding or in school.