Things we have missed

Well since I haven't blogged for awhile, I have missed a lot of important stuff. So Let's go through them a little bit.

Scott had a birthday. We won't tell you how old he is. Let's just say OLD!!! We went to dinner and enjoyed his birthday.

Scott's Birthday Cake-Icecream Cake

The second thing you need to know is that my Treyson turned 5 years old. He is so excited to go to school next year. For his birthday we took our family to Kangaroo Zoo (Grandma Jan, Whitney, and Parker came too). It was a lot of fun. Even Brielle loved it. We just slid down the slides and had races with the kids. They want to go back soon
Kangaroo Zoo

Treyson's Birthday

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We then celebrated Christmas. Like always Santa was good to us. Looking back the Christmas season just seemed to fly by. We had our nightly devotionals, saw Christmas lights and spend a lot of time driving from Pleasant Grove to Centerville and West Valley to see family. Because Scott's family was in town we ended up going up quite a bit.


For Christmas Eve we had our traditional talent show. The Grandkids had a great time acting out the Christmas Eve Story.

Treyson and Hunter

We had Christmas at our house. I love having it with just our little family. The kids were so excited and they loved all their presents. They have probably played the Wii the most. Treyson loves it and would play it all day if I let him.

The kids waiting to come downstairs

Ashlyn on Christmas Morning

Britton and his new bike

Brielle on Christmas morning

Treyson or Transformer

In January we had Brielle's 2nd birthday. We had cake and ice cream and she loved the presents she got to open. She is becoming a pro at opening presents. She is now the typical 2 year old. INTO EVERYTHING!!! If I could count how many times she was on the table a day. Let's just say A LOT!!! But we are enjoying her energy.

Brielle's Cake

Brielle and her cake

Brielle and her new dress

Blowing out candles

Grandma Neola and Brielle

Britton's Baptism and Christmas Around the World

Britton's Baptism

On December 1st of this year our Britton was able to be baptized into the True Church. We had the early time of 9:00 a.m. for his baptism. Of course we awoke to lots of snow and bad roads. We were glad that everyone made it in time. Britton was glad to see everyone.

We had the baptism with another little girl in our ward. Fortunately, we are good friends with them and do a babysitting group with them. Our friend Holly wanted to talk and thought it would be cool for each of us to talk at their baptism. So I had the privilege of talking on baptism.

It was a good baptism and we are so proud of Britton. We then had a yummy brunch afterwards at our home. Thanks to all who made it. It was a lot of fun visiting with family and seeing Elise our new addition to the family.

Britton and his dad

The Family

Britton and Scott

Britton

Britton and Scott

About 2 that afternoon Ashlyn was lucky to have been asked to perform in Christmas Around the World at BYU. Every 3-4 years they ask cloggers that aren't actually students to come and do a number. It was a lot of practices and many hours of work. But it was well worth it. She had a good time and enjoyed performing in front of such a huge amount of people. We are so glad she was able to do it.

Britton's Birthday and Reflections

BRITTON'S 8

Well our Britton has turned 8 years old. He had a wonderful birthday. He invited 8 of his closest friends to go to the bowling alley and go bowling. It was a good party for mom because her house didn't get destroyed and it required no planning. I think we will have every party there. It was a lot of fun. Mom made bowling cupcakes and we had pizza and drinks.

Britton at his birthday party

Britton and his buddies

Eating Pizza

What fun we had

CUPCAKES

Yep, This is our cute Britton

That evening after bowling we went to our school's Reflections Awards Night. Both kids took first in their divisions. Ashlyn did an awesome video of pictures she took while we were at Disneyland. Britton made a cool figure out for 3-D Art. They both received 10 dollars from ToyRus and decided they wanted to enter in every field next year. We just found out that Britton's has also won at Council Level and will continue to go on. We will let you know how he did.

Halloween

Harry Potter Family

We had a wonderful Halloween this year. We were the "Harry Potter" Family and you would be amazed at how cool our costumes were. (At least we thought so). Britton was Harry, Ashlyn was Hermoine, Treyson was Ron, I was Professor McGonagall and Scott was Snape. Scott's was the coolest costume because a lot of people thought he looked just like him.

Brielle as Ginny

Treyson at his preschool parade

Doing his funny face

Britton as Harry Potter

Treyson as Ron

Ashlyn as Hermoine

Scott as Snape

Janan as Professor McGonagall

So after the kids Parades at school we went home and decided to go visit my Grandma so she could see our costumes. After our short visit we ran back home so we could attend the Annual Neighborhood Potluck Dinner. We do it every year before trick or treating. We have Hotdogs, Hot chocolate, Homemade Rootbeer and then everyone brings a side. It is just a good way to start out the Trick or Treating. We all meet and then when it's over we all know its time to start Trick or Treating. My parents came down for the night as did Whitney, Bryan, and Parker. It was a good time by all. Thanks Dad for passing out the candy.


Dueling it out

Dad and Brielle

Snape dueling the Harry Potter Foursome

Our sweet little girl

Visiting with Great Grandma

Halloween Preparations

For Family Home Evening this week we finally got around to carving our pumpkins. We had planted pumpkins this year in our garden. When all was said and done we had 26 pumpkins. We gave a few to family, a few to friends, put a few in the yard for decorations and then carved a few. We still have quite a few left. The kids sure enjoyed planting, taking care of, picking and then carving our pumpkins this year.

Treyson and his pumpkin

We also had pumpkin chocolate chips cookies for our dessert. They were really yummy as you can tell by Brielle's face.