What else have we been doing?

What else have we been up to?

Well Jessah played on the soccer team of her school.

Reagen was on the cheer team...

Thane played on a basketball team. To bad the game Grandma went to got cancelled so no action shot.

This boy got to play on his first t-ball team. Connor loved finally getting to play instead of always watching...even if he did sit down when he was playing outfield.

Hunter is playing Coaches pitch this year. He just hit the ball here.

All are keeping busy and active.

And last but not least...

No I didn't forget little Faithy...what's new with her you say? Well Faith had a birthday last month and got a new big bike. Shortly after she got it she got going a little to fast and fell off and broke her arm. She has been a real trooper about it tho. She even has a cute smile laying in her hospital bed waiting for her cast.

Her first cast was pink. This is before she let everyone sign it. She is still smiling here along with her brother.

Cast #2 is purple...so girly, pink then purple. Still smiling....You don't think she is using this to her advantage. Who can resist giving attention to a poor little cute girl with a cast.

Catch up Time...

Wow how time flies. Here it is already January and my last post was way back the first part of Oct. So here is the first of a couple of catch up post. We were busy all fall doing all of our favorite traditions. There is just nothing better than family traditions. In Oct. we did our annual pumpkin carving. All the little ghost and goblins showed up. My sister Kathy fixed us a great meal and then the carving began. We had some really creative pumkins this year.

Moving on now...yes keep up, we are moving rather quickly...to Thanksgiving. Our family's master cook Kathy, my sister cooked dinner for us again. Here are my Mom, Dad and nephew Tate waiting for dinner. I should have posted a picture of her serving table, it looked beautiful and all was delicious. It's great having wonderful family and food to share the holiday's.

Now on to December and our Christmas celebrations. We start out early in the month building our Gingerbread houses at our Gingerbread party with all the gang. Everyone gets so creative. These two boys stopped long enough to let me take their picture before they went back to finishing their houses. I think they might have even eaten a piece of candy or two while decorating their houses.

One of our favorite traditions for the year is our annual Polar Express party. We have the best time with a game of Christmas Bingo, a craft, a cooking project and always end the evening by watching the Polar Express Movie. Fortunately by then end they were all asleep for the night. By morning they were all ready for our traditional waffles with whipped cream and sprinkles on top. Lucky for me I am the Grandma and don't always have to give them the most healthy breakfast. I am so glad the kids still look forward to this tradition. Here are Reagen and Connor with their reindeer antlers they got to make for one of the crafts.

And last but not least was our Christmas Eve gathering. This year since it was on Sat. all came for breakfast. We had a great breakfast and then opened all the gifts. Fun for everyone.

Best of all was being able to Skype our missionary Matthew in Wales. We got to talk to him for about an hour and a half. He looked and sounded so good. We are all anxious for him to return home in May. After our talk with him he got to call both of his Grandmothers which thrilled them both and then Aunt Kathy. Unfortunately Aunt Kathy had to much going on at their house and didn't hear the phone ring so he had to just leave a message there. Sorry guys!

So we are caught up a little now. Life gets so busy but I am going to try to get better at posting more often so that I don't have to do so much catching up. Not making any promises tho.