Christmas Nativity

The traditional Christmas Eve Nativity at Grandma Wilkey's.  

Performed by any little kid willing to participate (there were around 100 people at the party this year... and that is all Grandma's direct kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids!).

 

At first Kaylee thought she'd like to be an angel.

But ended up changing her mind and being a shepherd instead.

 

My nephew, Liam, played baby Jesus and was so sweet!

I seriously can't get enough of his chubbiness and his beautiful eyes!

Logan was an angel.  He wasn't wanting to keep the halo on at all before (or any other piece of costume), so I was surprised when he decided he wanted to stand in the middle of the nativity AND wear the halo.  Cute!

Kaylee sat staring at Liam the whole time and was so sweet.  Even after everyone had cleared out she kept sitting there watching him with a really sweet look on her face.

It was all wonderful, as always!

Logan - "The Look"

Logan usually gives cute looks like this:

 But for some reason, for a couple weeks in November-December he'd also give this look:

My guess is he'd been hanging out with his Aunt Paige too much.  She's a pro at those kind of looks.

Santa Clause

The kids got to sit on Santa's lap twice this year and both did great each time (though I would have been okay if they hadn't because I love the kids scared of Santa pictures)!

Santa #1:  Ward party

 

 

Santa #2 at Grandma Wilkey's house (AKA: the REAL Santa)

 

 

 

 

She knows what she wants

We went to Denny's for dinner one night in November.  Kaylee had her kids menu and after studying it, let us know what she wanted (the soccer ball was a sippy cup with a ball lid).

We only ordered the burger and fishy crackers for her (even though she told the waitress she wanted the soccer ball too),  When our waitress brought all of her food, except the soccer ball drink, Kaylee put up her finger like she did in the video and said to the waitress "and a soccer ball."  Cute child.  No, we did not get her the soccer ball.  Mean parents, I know.

Other cute pictures from November 2010

Playing Wii Fit.

 

Fake sad face.

Kaylee will sometimes climb into Logan's crib with him.

That's what I call a perfect Sunday afternoon.

Helping Uncle Mikey clean up after Thanksgiving dinner.

Kaylee's 3rd Birthday

Remember Kaylee's obsession?

(Halloween)

Well, when I asked her what she wanted for her birthday cake she requested carebears (surprise surprise).  And now if you ask her how old she is she'll hold up her fingers, tell you she's three, and proceed to tell you all about her carebear birthday cake.  She even told Santa Clause about it when she was sitting on his lap at Grandma Wilkey's.  She also asks me every few days to make her a carebear birthday cake (she already had 2 and they both took a long time, so I let her know she has to wait till next year).

 

Here are the cakes she absolutely loved:

Cake #1

Her cute face she made while we sang to her.

Cake #2

  

She had 3 parties this year.  One with our little family, one with Joel's family, and one with my family.  They were all a lot of fun! 

 

 

 

Wiped out from all the partying.

She loved her birthday!

BTW, besides being obsessed with carebears, she's also obsessed with Halloween, birthdays, and Christmas.  She talks about all of them often.  Such a fun girl!

Halloween 2010

I really have no desire to blog lately, but I know it makes my husband and family happy (can't blame them... the kids make everyone happy), so I'm going to do a bunch of posts and schedule them.  I make no promises about blogging more once the scheduled posts are done, so enjoy them while you can :).

Starting with Halloween (yes, it has been that long- well, besides quick house posts)...

We had 2 pumpkins this year, both of them Jack Skelington from "Nightmare Before Christmas."  We were a little excited for Halloween, so we carved the first one at the end of Sept. and had to do a new one mid-way through Oct.  The kids LOVED Jack!  They loved checking on him each morning and saying bye to him if we ever went anywhere.

Their Uncle Brent was dressed as Jack Skelington and they thought that was pretty cool.

Logan was a Zebra (thanks Heidi!) and Kaylee was a Carebear (she's a bit obsessed).

If you've ever seen "Serenity" or "Firefly" you'll be able to understand our costumes.  Joel is Malcolm Reynolds and I'm Inara (well, the best I could do).

 

The kids had a blast and it was a fun and busy Halloween!