Our December

I am so behind it is sad. This month as flown by and now it is almost over and I have not posted a single thing. At the beginning of the month, Jayda's 4th grade and the 5th grade did a Christmas concert. I luckily had a friend go with me to help...Nelson has been out of town a lot this month for work....so  I recorded a lot of it, and didn't get any good pictures. :( It was good! :)

On the 18th, Nana and Papa Bill came to visit for Christmas. Our first event was the drive through lights at Washington Park. It was a fun to see the lights and Kason was actually awake this year to see some...he loved them. :)

They were also lucky enough to get to attend Sienna and Mia's Christmas Parties in their classroom. Sienna's, being Kindergarten and all was full of entertainment and fun....Mia's was sitting in the dark while they watched Polar Express...hey at least we were there....even if Ryder spilled his hot chocolate all over me and the floor!

Here are a few pics of Sienna's party.

Christmas Eve, we invited the Sister Missionaries over and a friend in the ward, Laurie to celebrate and eat our traditional homemade pizza. We played our usual fun games, ate, visited, opened pjs, and had a great time! :)

Christmas morning was fun and eventful, we woke up to a little bit of snow covering the ground, so that was nice! And, the kids were spoiled again of course, but had a great Christmas. We are ever so grateful for family who can spoil us....Grandma and Grandpa Cluff for the amazing 12 days of Christmas they do each year, Grandpa Martinez who send just what we need :), Auntie Angie who did an excellent job at picking out the perfect gifts for them this year (I did it. :) But she paid, and that is the much harder part...and Nana and Papa Bill who made them all great tie blankets they love and bought them a wii. It was a great Christmas. The girls got different things, some got dream lites, ipod shuffles, books, games, they all got homemade aprons, the boys got lots of trains...which they LOVE, and homemade stick horses...which they ride often. :) Here are a few pics.

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(Ryder's Book of Mormon...he goes to Primary in a week!)

(CTR Rings)

(Sienna got twin boy/girl babies....she named them Jace and Juliet...I don't think that is Legal!):) 

There are too many pics to post them all, but It has been a fun Christmas......and you bet the very next day after a house of trash, boxes, wrapping paper, toys everywhere...and Christmas decoration that have been up for over a month...we cleaned house...put it all away and how nice it is. It was fun while it lasted...now time to focus on getting ready for babies...and not going into labor too soon!

Today we woke up to about 4 -6 inches of snow and it has been coming down all day. It is beautiful. This past week we have all had colds...it has just gone from one to another...so only Halle, Mia, Sienna, and Ryder could go out in the snow today.....they had a good time...you know, the entire 10 minutes they played in it. Doesn't it take longer to find their snow clothes and get them dressed than how long they play in it? Oh well, they had a fun time. 

It has been a fun and super fast December. Time flies. We are truly blessed.