the Temple and a party

This afternoon Dad, Tori, Sophi and myself got in Dad's car and started making our way south. We ate lunch at Junior's and then we went to the temple. My dad was sealed to his mom and dad and sisters. His mom and dad have passed on, beautiful work that was done today!
Tonight was our Ward Christmas Party.

Last Day!

Today was my last day babysitting and oh how thrilled I am. I love the kids, don't get me wrong! But, I feel like I'm getting my life back. My kids are excited too that I'm not babysitting, that says something. Here's to new adventures! :)

Christmas Cheer!

Tonight me and the kids went with Jake and the cubscout pack to sing Christmas Carols to some elderly people. I had a really stinky attitude and didn't want to go, Jake wanted us to so I was going for him and I'm so glad we did. What a great way to bring the spirit of Christmas to your heart. The scouts and Jake did a skit, that was put together by Kirby and was so cute. So fun singing carols with Kirby's guitar. Seeing the smiles on all the faces made it all worth it to me and I just love my husband, he was great in the skit and he is so much fun, he was yelling out the fun words when we were singing Rudolph. :)

Church News

In Bible Camp over the summer Sister April Lawler had the kids write letters to different leaders in the church...well, Ashton got a letter back from Elder Holland!

and I have sent in about 3 or 4 pictures that Sierra has drawn to the Friend and she was looking through the Friend last night and her first picture that we sent in 2 years ago was published!!! :) YAY!!!

Preparations...

We got our tree today...I was putting on the lights and Sierra says "OHHH, I'm just so excited!!! Oh, how they love to decorate the tree.


Kitty, she just likes to be close to us and sleep...

This is a taste of what it looks like near the end...Ashton has tired and is sitting on the couch admiring the tree...daddy enjoying a slice of pizza and Sierra still decorating! :)


Grannie brought over a Gingerbread kit for Ashton so we decorated that too!

Grannie brought Sierra a sewing machine and she sewed a stocking for her AG dolls.

Sierra and I watched "Evan Almighty", Daddy was watching the big game USC vs. UCLA and USC won and Ashton cuddled in his bed and watched his fav "How to Train Your Dragon."

A GREAT DAY!

Tonight was night #2 Holiday Performance. Jake and I attended his company Christmas dinner so Grammy took the kids to their performance and got to watch the kids perform tonight...along with Grampy and Grannie Ann.


Thanks Mom, Chris and Grannie!

Holiday Performance

Tonight was the Holiday Performance for SCVi. Ashton's class sang "Oh, What A Wonderful World" and Sierra's class sang "Hakuna Matata", the whole school sang "What Dreams Are Made Of". The kids performed so cute and the show had a story to it and it was really great. A wishing star fell from the sky and then was finding out all about planet earth and discovering how different countries celebrate at this time of year. At the end the wishing star made it back to her place in the sky and was thanking all who taught her about earth. Super cute!
Ashton was a bit nervous...you can tell by his facial expressions. He sort of sang the song even though I knew that he knew every word because he sang it to me several times at home.
He didn't know where we were sitting and maybe that was making him a bit more nervous.


Sierra on the other hand sang every word, and even had the moves...she looked like she was having FUN!


The teachers performed at the end and they let the kids go down into the audience to watch their teachers. We got a quick wave from Sierra.

Janelle came...

and dad and Tori came too!

It was so fun to have both of our kids performing this year! A great evening!