Christmas Festivities

Kenyon's Preschool Party complete with Santa

Gingerbread House Decorated

Visited the train park on a rainy, crowded night

The lines were super long and Jer had to get to work so the kids rode this little train instead of the big train and were completely fine with that - thank goodness!


Devin says, "Ho, Ho, Ho" now for anything Christmas. Here he is with his reindeer.

Only 2 more days and the big day is here!

Santa is Watching...

Although Kenyon prayed last night that he would not be on the naughty list, they sure don't act like they care that Santa is watching.

First, Maya cut off a braid. This has always been my worst fear and I thought at 5, almost 6, years old we were safe. Who knows what she was thinking! Thankfully it is in a spot that I can rebraid and you won't even notice.

Then, Kenyon was sent to bed early tonight for... I can't even remember what. We had sent him to time-out so many times that I finally sent him to bed instead. He was protesting, but fell quickly asleep in this position:

Christmas better come quick or there won't be any good kids left in this house. We pulled out the "Elf on the Shelf" book and elf today so we can remind them that the elf is watching and reporting back to Santa. Please let it work!

Our Little Angel

Today Kenyon opened up the present he made at preschool for us. I love the picture!

Good thing we have angelic shots of him to compensate for the rest of the time when he is on the naughty list!

Christmas Lights

Last week we went to look at Christmas lights with friends.

First, we hit the Temple Lights. We got there early enough that it wasn't crowded so we were able to get a family shot. (Notice the flip flops on my feet - swollen feet only feel good in flip flops... so glad we live in Sunny AZ!)


Thank goodness Kenzie was there to push Devin's stroller and attend to him - she takes such good care of him! :)

After the Temple we went to Cherry Street. It is a fun street where every house is very decorated. The kids had a blast walking/running through the neighborhood.

Love all of the Christmas festivities going on!

Performance

Maya's Winter Concert was tonight. She sang her little heart out. We were too far back to get some pictures of her in action, but picture her with her sassy attitude and lots of spunk doing actions to some Christmas songs - loved it!

She wanted to pose for some pictures afterwards...

Kenyon wanted in on it too.

After, we went for ice cream. Thankfully, Grandma and Grandpa came to support her which made up for Daddy not being there since he was working out of town. Oh and I might have needed the help controlling "the boys." :)

Kenyon always chooses the Cotton Candy ice cream - yum!

Child Labor

Our lemon tree is producing. The best part about freshly squeezed lemonade is that these two did all of the work.

Yummy!

Walking

He is almost there.



We practice walking back and forth and back and forth...

He always dives at the end.

Buddy, you have 2 1/2 months until this baby comes so you better get to mastering the art of walking before then!

The Church Christmas Party

Santa (Don't they all look thrilled?!)

Crafts

Mary and Joseph

Lots of fun!

Tired

Kenyon is in that phase where some days he naps and other days he doesn't. Regardless, he always has "rest time" in his room. After an hour of rest time yesterday with no nap, he wanted to run to the market with me. He was really quiet in the cart, but I assumed it was because he had his 2 Transformers with him, but suddenly I discovered this:

Fast asleep among the produce