white christmas

We had a fun trip to Cardston for christmas! And yes it was white!!! There wasn't very much snow but it was there. =) The only bad thing was that we lost our biggest suitcase on the way there that had ALL of our clothes in it! We still haven't found it. So while there, we bought just a few things, but we also did laundry every night and did some borrowing of clothes. I think I was mostly sad the girls didn't get to wear their christmas dresses on Sunday - and I haven't taken any pics of them in those! Oh well, you never know, it still might turn up somewhere... anyway, there are lots of pix!!!


Jonas and Kyla as shepherds for the nativity!


everyone looking at the star


Jonas and Kyla at the Cardston temple - sorry you can't even see the temple


Maelie was Mary in the Nativity christmas eve - here she is riding her donkey, Uncle Levi - Maelie was so happy to be Mary and hold baby Jesus - such a fun tradition!


Mary and Joseph (her cousin Mason) Maelie had so much fun playing with her cousins all week and her uncles and grandma and grandpa, I'm so glad we were able to make the trip


Jonas and Kyla were shepherds - the 3 wise men are Jonas' siblings Lorinda, Leland, and Levi. The angel is our neice Kylie and the other little shepherd is Jonas' brother Tim's little foster daughter Alyssa.






Jonas and I woke up before the girls for probably the first time ever - we sorta had to wake them up 'cause we were so excited, not for our presnts but for them to open presents! Christmas is so fun to see thru the eyes of a child!


little crazies on christmas morning


Kyla opening her Santa present - Tickle Me Elmo


Maelie opening her Santa present - Candyland Castle game - she looks thrilled, hehe, or is that tired?


Kyla with the ear phones on, some of those guns were REALLY loud!!!


Jonas shooting - Waterton mnts in the back


Maelie playing in the wilderness where we were shooting guns


STOCKINGS!!!


In Jonas' fam, after all the present opening you all go find yor Santa present that is hidden somewhere in the living room. We hid Kyla's way too easy, she found it right away!


Kyla playing in the snow


Jonas pulling Maelie and Kyla at Waterton






Jonas and his brothers are into guns and hunting so we went out to shoot some old TV's and radios and stuff. Even Kyla shot the gun!


They had fun making snow angels


Maelie eating the snow


Jonas pulled the girls around on the snow (ice) in the coldesac - they had a lot of fun!


On Thursday we went to Waterton Lakes National Park - here are Jonas and Kyla eating their hotdogs! - the snow suit Kyla is wearing was worn by Jonas as well as his other 7 siblings!


Maelie loving the snow!


We had a 4 hour layover in the Denver airport! The girls actually had a blast running around and riding the people movers - and getting pizza and icecream.






Kyla all ready for take off finally!!! When we got on our plane in Denver to go to Phoenix, we were in the plane for about an hour before it took off because they had to replace some small plastic peice to cover something in the cockpit.... the girls were getting a little impatient by then, luckily they fell asleep on the plane. But then when we had about 1/2


hour left they both woke up incredibly tired and upset, it was a fun landing, let me tell you. And then when we finally did get on the ground we had to wait for another hour before we got our suitcases (all of them!, except the one we lost on the way to Canada of course) we got home at about 1:30 am Sunday morning and that's when the girls got to see the rest of their christmas under the tree at our house. All things considered, we had a blast of a trip!

giant snowman!!!

We leave tomorrow for Canada! Merry Christmas everyone!!!

JAXON

I had an ultrasound today. Jaxon is doing great! He is 3 lbs, 2 oz, 66th percentile. 11 more weeks!

Maelie's christmas dance show

Maelie had her christmas dance show tonight. Here are some pix! She did an AWESOME job!!! (She stood up there and watched everyone!... haha! she didn't dance at all but we think she did great anyway for even standing up there!) Good job Maelie!!!



I got the chicken pox for christmas!




I'd like to get a teddy bear for christmas!


Maelie looking kinda sad...

She was really happy afterwards and said she had a lot of fun!


She did the princess walks in, she's in purple... and then you can tell she started to dance, was thinking about it, and then saw ALL those people staring at her! I don't blame her! I showed her the videos and she said, "I didn't do it!" kinda like she didn't even realize that she wasn't dancing! We love you, Maelie, our little princess! =)

I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas!

Mistie's 26!!!

I had a fabulous birthday yesterday! Thanks to everyone who made it great! Jonas took us to IHOP first thing and for lunch some of my family took me and the girls to Nielsen's. We went to play at a friend's in the afternoon and Jonas got avacado egg rolls from Cheesecake Factory for dinner and we finished off with an icecream cake!





I got a new icecream maker! I'm excited to try it out!!!

Mary, Did You Know?

Sugar Cube House

It has been a tradition in my family to make sugar cube houses at christmastime. So last night for FHE we made one! It was more like Jonas and I very quickly built a house so that the girls could stick on the christmas light m & m's. It was pretty funny trying to build the roof really fast before it caved in and also before the girls knocked it over from being so anxious to stick the lights on. I am surprised it still hasn't caved in. The girls had a lot of fun eating, I mean decorating a sugar cube house!

My Christmas

1. WRAPPING PAPER OR GIFT BAGS? definitely wrapping paper!!!
2. REAL OR FAKE TREE? I totally love going out in the snow to cut down a tree but sadly haven't done it the last 2 years...
3. WHEN DO YOU PUT UP THE TREE? the day after thanksgiving!
4. WHEN DO YOU TAKE THE TREE DOWN? not really sure, probably after new years
5. DO YOU LIKE EGG NOG? yummy!!!
6. FAVORITE GIFT RECEIVED AS A CHILD? not sure really, trampoline's were always fun!
7. DO YOU HAVE A NATIVITY SCENE? yes we do and my girls play with it ALL the time, we now have both little animals broken, I so need to invest in the Fisher Price nativity scene
8. HARDEST PERSON TO BUY FOR? I think most adults are hard to buy for
9. EASIEST PERSON TO BUY FOR? little kids, there were soooo many things I wanted to get my girls for christmas this year, if we hadn't just gotten into a house and aren't traveling to another country for christmas, they probably would have been spoiled rotten on christmas morning ;)
10. WORST CHRISTMAS GIFT YOU EVER RECEIVED? I think the worst are when they say "happy birthday and merry christmas" - I mean, c'mon it's not my fault I was born close to christmas!
11. MAIL OR EMAIL CHRISTMAS CARDS? I honestly don't care what I receive, and one of these days I'll get into the whole mailing out christmas letters with a family pic included
12. FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIE? Charlie Brown
13. WHEN DO YOU START SHOPPING FOR CHRISTMAS?November
14. HAVE YOU EVER RECYCLED A CHRISTMAS PRESENT? I don't think so...
15. FAVORITE THING TO EAT AT CHRISTMAS? stocking candy and christmas breakfast and I also remember Janay's candy cane popcorn
16. CLEAR LIGHTS OR COLORED LIGHTS ON THE TREE? this year we have colored
17. FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG?All I want for Christmas is you, tee hee hee - but I also love just about every single one!
18. TRAVEL AT CHRISTMAS OR STAY HOME? traveling is way fun, I am excited to go this year, but I think we are going to start traveling the day after christmas so we can have christmas morning at our own home
19. CAN YOU NAME ALL OF SANTA’S REINDEER? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, but do you recall the most famous reinderr of all... Rudolf!
20. ANGEL OR STAR ON THE TREE TOP? I really like the star... it has good christmas meaning
21. OPEN THE PRESENTS CHRISTMAS EVE OR MORNING? one present on christmas eve and the rest on christmas morning
22. MOST ANNOYING THING THIS TIME OF YEAR? the traffic and how walmart is packed when you're just trying to get groceries
23. WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT CHRISTMAS?the feeling and the excitement and this year I love seeing it thru Maelie and Kyla's eyes, they are sooo excited!
24: FAVORITE CHRISTMAS TRADITION? temple lights probably - but man, there are so many fun traditions
25. UP EARLY OR SLEEP IN? early for sure!
26. DOES SANTA WRAP YOUR GIFTS? of course
27. DO YOU TELL THE CHRISTMAS STORY? I am looking forward to the family nativity this year at the Stanford's =)

What is your christmas like???

MERRY CHRISTMAS

a couple of videos

I love Christmas time!!! Yeah!!!

I love this time of year! Christmas is 3 weeks from tomorrow! Wahoo! Maelie just finished up her last ABC-123 class this morning and she had a cute little program. (I didn't bring the camera!) She had a little parent day for her sports class last week on the last day and I didn't bring my camera then either! Her dance christmas show is in a couple weeks and I will be sure to bring my camera! She has loved all these little classes. We are heading off to Canada for christmas in a few weeks! We are excited to see family and snow and for christmas in general!!! Here are some pix over the last week or 2!


Jonas and Kyla crossing the log at the zoo


Kyla playing on the frog at the zoo


Kyla on the bean bag, Jonas gives them bean bags rides and they have so much fun


Kyla in her red dress.... with a "Made in China" sticker on her forehead!


Of course, Maelie on the frog


The carousel!!! They LOVE it! The sad part was when we were done, Kyla threw a fit because we had to get off and Maelie tripped and fell on her face, so we walked off with 2 screaming girls!!!


The Baboons!


Carousel again - Kyla doesn't looks thrilled but she sure was


just a cute pic of Maelie


Kyla and the giraffe that talks at zoo lights - I think his name is Jengo


crazy Jonas - these girls sure love their daddy