Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa

This is a video from our Christmas celebration with Grandma and Grandpa. Enjoy!

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Our awesome Primary Presidency

Our primary presidency has really been amazing. We have been in our ward for a year now and they are constanly doing little things to make primary special for our little ones. One thing that they do is "Spotlight" a child each week with a poster that sits outside the Chapel. Melissa was the Spotlight child a few weeks ago and was so please to stand in front of the other children while the leaders described her favorite things. She was just beaming. This is her poster:

Advent Calendar

I have been forgetting to post a picture of our homemade Advent "Calendar." Last year we bought the little boxes with the chocolate candy behind each door and window but the chocolate was SO nasty that we decided to make our own version of it this year. Ray, Melissa and Kayla made these for us. They are very crafty!The girls have a BLAST taking down the bags each night and eating their candy before bed.

Melissa's latest masterpiece

Some of you said I should post pictures of Melissa's latest masterpiece. Here it is! This was before our "poopy" day even started!

What a poopy day!

Today has been the crappiest day! Literally. Before bed last night I had to go out and reset our heater and found that the entire side yard is marshy and smells HORRIBLE. That meant only one thing. Septic problems. So, this morning a septic company came out to clean out our septic tank and found that our septic pump is broken. So, they will be back tomorrow to fix that. $$$ The girls are completely obsessed with the fact that someone actually goes around and sucks poop out from the "ground" as they put it. They asked for a hose so that they could do the same. YUCK! Where do they come up with these ideas?? A little while ago Kayla decided that she needed to poop in the potty like Melissa and took off her diaper to sit on the potty seat. Well, she had already started to poop in the diaper and the poop fell on the floor upon her removal of it. She quickly picked up the poop (with her HAND!) and put it in the potty, somehow resulting in poop all over the floor, the potty seat, her rear, legs, hands and belly. (her belly???) Fun times. After bleaching everything (except Kayla) Melissa decided that our house smells horrible and is trying her hardest not to inhale. I hope she doesn't pass out.

Christmas Parade

Melissa was in a Christmas parade this past Tuesday with her new dance school and we ALMOST froze our booties off! It was SOOO cold! For some reason no one was allowed to wear a coat, just layers under their oh-so-cute sweatshirts... those poor babies literally froze! Ray rode along with Melissa on their "float" and he said Melissa was a good sport about it, but her teeth kept chattering! Poor thing! It was fun watching her wave to everyone. Grandma came up for the parade and our good friends David and Eliza came too. We really enjoyed it!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was very peaceful and laid back this year. We slept in, traveled to Grandma and Grandpa's house, helped prepare dinner and ate and ate and ate! We really enjoyed ourselves. The girls helped prepare the sweet potatoes and Grandma's famous biscuits. They had so much fun!

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Decorating the Christmas Tree

This is a video of us decorating our Christmas tree. Grandma, Poppa and Uncle Jeremy were here to help us! We decorated the Sunday before Thanksgiving and it has been redecorated at LEAST 200 times since then. We LOVE Christmas!

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The Nativity

The girls have been very anxious to set up our nativity scene and were so pleased to finally be able to "play" with it. I need to get one of the Fisher Price plastic ones so that they can actually interact with it. When I asked Kayla what the name of the baby is that she is holding, she, in a hushed, reverent, voice said, "Baby Santa." I guess it is time to start at square one!