Gingerbread Houses and Cookies

Each year my family decorates gingerbread houses. It has become quite a competition for the adults, okay just my sister and I. We had fun this year coming up with ideas and trying to beat out the other! Here are the finished products.
From left to right- Staci and Troy's; Zach's; Mine and Richard's

Arcadia and Mekensy had cookies to decorate. As you can tell Arcadia enjoyed all the frosting and sprinkles.

Christopher Pop-In-Kins

Last Monday for FHE we had a visitor knock at our door! The girls were so excited to find a bag from Santa on the porch. They had been waiting for an elf to come. Inside they found Christopher. Christopher is an elf that was sad because he never got to meet the children he helped make gifts for. Santa decided to make him children's elf and let him live in children's homes from late Novemeber til Christmas Eve. Christopher is magic and "pops" around the house to make sure they are being good. So far he is helping the kids remember to be good. Hope it lasts a couple more weeks! Opening Christopher. Arcadia had been a little nervous for a few days because she thought there was a real elf coming. This was the only time they could touch him because touching him will make him lose his magic. That rule is great because then he doesn't become a toy!Christopher, Arcadia and Mekensy listening to the story.
After reading our story and talking about being good we went to check out some Christmas lights. I found a house online and the kids were amazed. They have their own radio station and the lights go on and off to the beat of the songs. The girls could have stayed there all night. We highly recommend checking it out. The website is www.christmasutah.com.

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

We had a great Thanksgiving. Our day started off with the boys (and Staci) heading out to go shooting. They packed up all the pumpkins and junk from around the house and headed out just West of Utah Lake. While they froze outside my Mom, mother-in-law, me and the girls went to see this movie:
We all loved the movie. Arcadia's favorite part was when Rapuzels Mom said, "Do you want me to be the bad guy? I'll be the bad guy". Sometimes I wonder why certain things stand out to her?!

After the movie my Mom came to help me get the turkey ready. We had Thanksgiving at our house this year with my family. The girls were very intrigued by the turkey. Who knew that kids would love watching to women pull things out of a turkey. After some coaxing Arcadia did this.
Then they watched the turkey cooking in the oven. It was not cooking fast enough for them.This is what I did while the turkey cooked

Halloween ...I know, way behind!

Part of the reason I have put this all off for so long is because I didn't have my camera so I am waiting for everyone to get me the pictures they took! We had a great Halloween filled with many parties, carnivals, and parades. The girls were both dressing up as ballerinas and then they became ballerinas with wings. We had family and friends over on Halloween for soup and a little football. Luckily the rain held off long enough for us to go around a neighborhood. It was fun for almost all the neighborhood kids to go around together. Nothing like having to pass out candy only 2 or 3 times! Not many trick or treaters for us!!

Pictures from Arcadia's Preschool Parade