Christmas!!!!

Christmas was so much fun this year! Kenny and Anna are having tons of fun with there presents. This post is mainly just for family far away, so they can see pictures, so it's going to be a lot of pictures!

Last night Kenny was so excited to open a present, and then when he found out it was PJ's and not Megatron, he was very sad, after about an hour he finally got over it, but it was pretty dramatic!


Anna loved her jammies though! She loves anything Dora.


Christmas morning shot of Anna


The kids going for their stockings and Santa presents:



MEGATRON!!! Finally!


Anna with her present from Santa....a talking backpack!!


After Megatron was opened Kenny just wanted to go to his room and play, but we convinced him to stay and open more, this is him with his two favorite toys of the day!


Anna loves her puzzles from Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Pat!


Mommy and Anna enjoying a few books Anna got for Christmas


This is my absolute favorite picture! Gordon got Kenny a soccer net to practice with, and this is Kenny celebrating after making a goal! (Yes, those are my shoes)


Kenny and Ironman...the two things he wanted for Christmas was Megatron and Ironman, and then last minute he got way into Power Rangers, and needed pink ranger to complete the set; luckily grandma and grandpa got it for him!


Anna and her Wonderpets


Anna and her new Disney figures, a good find by Gordon!


Kenny and his new Nerf gun...we shall see how this works out!


Anna and Gordon can now jam together with her new Dora guitar from Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Pat.


Uncle Sean is down for the semester and for Christmas he got an electric razor; his first one!


Gordon got some new recording equipment, and played with that all morning...he was like one of the kids!


Gordon and his blizzard maker!


Gordon and I also made Sean this blanket for his cold nights in Idaho!


Gordon got me a Kindle reading thing with some books already on it for my reading pleasure. I am really excited to use it!


Gordon and me at the Heat game, 10th row, center court! This was his big present, he loves LeBron!! Thanks to Sarah and Sean for babysitting!


The kids have just been playing all day with their presents and it is so fun to watch!





I love this time in my life where I have kids old enough to enjoy Christmas, and learn the story of Jesus and Christmas songs too. My family is wonderful, and I feel very blessed!

Snowing in Mesa (yes, you read correctly!)

There is a place you can go in Tempe where it "snows" (foam bubbly stuff) for 8 minutes at 7pm and 8pm. Kenny was wanting some snow, so we went with the family one night, and it was a lot of fun! They had a really big, pretty Christmas tree in the middle of it all.


Anna and me at the Tempe Marketplace, yes, she is teething!


Gordon and Kenny. Kenny was afraid for the first 5 minutes, but loved the last 3!


Kenny and Emma had a lot of fun playing together in the 8 minute snow, at least for the 3 minutes of it that Kenny was happy!




Our little Anna cakes with some snow foam on her head


Gordon and Kenny...there was live music like 50 feet away, which didn't help Kenny warm up to the snow any faster! It was very loud!



This is just a cute shot of Aunt Jill with the kids, she is a great auntie!!


It was so much fun; I have to say, I am so thankful not to live in real snow anymore, I can't stand it!

Super long catch up post!

So this post is super long and a little disorganized because it takes so much time to get the pictures up and type everything...so pretty much this is a random order of things!
First, Kenny, Anna, and I tagged along with Gordon to California when he had to go to a conference for work. It was so much fun, I love going home! Here is Kenny playing with Ali, one of the girl's I use to babysit. We also got to go to her basketball game where she made the first basket!


One day we went to the park with my sister and mom, and Anna went down the slide by herself for the first time!


Kenny and Anna playing at the park.


Every time Kenny would get off the slide he would run over to cousin Pru and give her tickles and say hi to her, it was pretty cute!


Kenny is a pro at sliding and did the big slide the whole time.


Before we went to the park, mom, Kasey and I had lunch at the hometown pizza place. The kids were too busy playing games to eat...Anna did manage to suck a lot of ranch off her bread stick though!


My mom playing games with the kids, she also supplied the quarters, which the kids took full advantage of.



Anna playing outside Susan's house


Kenny playing outside too


In case anyone doesn't know, Kenny and Skylar (dog) are inseparable when we go home. He loves to play with him, his favorite games include doctor, and hide and seek...yes, with the dog! He calls Skylar his dog; they are so cute together.





When we came home from California it was time to move into our new house, here the kids are helping me pack


The Monday after Thanksgiving, Gordon and I went to Monday Night Football, third row! We stunk it up, but it was still fun! Thanks to Todd for watching the kids and putting them to bed!





Right when we moved into the house we put up our Christmas tree, Kenny had a blast, Anna kind of did her own thing.




This is just a cute picture of Kenny, Jill and Anna


While un-packing some things in our room, the kids would run into our closet and shut the door, so Gordon opened it one time and saw this...so we had to take a picture of it! They are to cute!


Emma giving Kenny hugs goodbye


While we were in California having fun with family and friends, Gordon was in San Fran, he walked the bridge:


This was the scene outside when the Giants won the series!


We were also in California for Halloween! Anna was Minnie Mouse and Kenny was Optimus Prime. During the little parade before the trunk-or-treat, Anna danced on the table..pretty cute!


Anna sitting on the big pumpkin...I don't want to brag or anything, but my ward does the best Halloween parties! Huge pumpkins, hot dogs and treats, snow cones and cotton candy, games, parades, and of course, the trunk-or-treat!


Kenny telling us no, he didn't want to take a picture on the pumpkin!


Kenny won the cake walk!!!! I didn't know what a cake walk was, but we did it anyways. At first I thought it was musical chairs, but nobody got left out, when the music stopped they just all sat in a seat and the person picked a random seat number from a bag...and it was Kenny's! He was so excited! The first thing he said was, " I need to go home and show Skylar"!


Kenny doing the ball toss thingy


Anna going fishing


Both my cuties right before we went to the party!



It has been a fun, exciting past couple of months! I am so excited for Christmas and then the new baby! I'll try to be better about updating!!