Santa Who?

Over the last few days my girls have had a good reminder of The True Meaning of Christmas. On Saturday we all had a chance to go to the Anoka Stake Center where they were hosting a nativity display, with hundreds of creches on display from all over the world. It was AMAZING all of us were blown away. As we walked around you could feel the sweet spirit that was in the room.



On Monday, Madisyn prepared a sweet family home evening on The True Meaning of Christmas, she explained what each Christmas symbol represented.

It's so hard especially as a child not to get too got up in the hustle and bustle of Christmas, it was nice to reflect upon the The True Meaning of Christmas.
My children are all so different in personality, but have one very strong thing in common, their love of The Savior of the World and for that I am very thankful.

Making Do.

On Thanksgiving day and the day after, Ashtyn, Maddy, Sydney and Emily spent the days raking up the leaves in our yard. Ashtyn spearheaded the project by saying to Maddy, "lets surprise your mom by raking up all the leaves!" They had to get a little creative and make do with the tools we had in the garage because we only had one rake.They pulled out the snow shovel, a shovel and wagons, but in the end did a pretty good job. We rewarded them by taking the to "The Christmas Carol" in 3d.

ALREADY!

The last couple of days have been "unpleasant" at our house to say the lest. Mason has been super fussy for the last three days, if he's awake, he's screaming. I thought maybe I had given him my cold, but in the back of my mind worried that he may be following in his sisters foot steps with getting ear infection after ear infection until finally they got tubes. My fears were confirmed at the doctors today...... So here we go again, poor little guy I was hoping to skip this with Mr. Mason.

Happy Thanksgiving

Mr. Mason's World

I'm getting so big, I'm 8 weeks old today.

My feet and hands are growing, but I haven't caught up with my sisters yet.

I don't like my baths, but I get them anyways.

I love to be held.........

and held............

and held.......................

and held..........................

and held....................

I also love to sleep..

and sleep.......

and sleep......

and sleep!

I also have started to smile, but just not for the camera.

(That's whats been going on in Mr. Mason's world. )

A blonde at heart

Ashley and I were in the grocery store tonight and while we were shopping someone announced over the intercom, " Courtesy on aisle 5 please." Ashley then turns to me and says,"Who would name their kid Courtesy?" I looked at her chuckled and thought," You did not just say that."
She then says to my chuckle, " I know, right!!" I then explained who Courtesy was.

I guess we all have our blonde moments.

HALLOWEEN

We had a great Halloween we went to our friends house where we and had great food and great company.

After dinner everyone loaded up on a trailer filled with hay bales and went trick-or-treating, they hit the neighborhood then went to a church where they we doing trunk-or treating.

The girls came back with their buckets full plus more in grocery bags. Can't wait to see the dentist bill next month!
















Mike was "Book Face".... I mean "Face Book"

Madisyn was a witch.

Emily was Jasmine.














Hannah was Raggedy Ann, which she pouted about all day, but ended up loving!!














Mason was a Red Hot Chili Pepper.