New Year's Eve

We had an awesome New Year's Eve! We spent most of the evening playing Rock Band (well, Lorne did anyway!) We visited with family and freinds, ate TONS of yummy food, and rang in the New Year with a firework show!

Lorne rockin out with his cousin Sam


Rylee with cousins Ellie and Evie

Lorne dreaming of auditioning to be the drummer of Poison! :)

"Magic Reindeer Food"

The kids were given some "Magic Reindeer Food" on Sunday at Church by the most wonderful lady!! They were told to sprinkle the food outside, on Christmas Eve so that the Reindeer would smell it and would know where to come! They had a blast and kept asking Lorne and I if they did a good enough job for the reindeer to smell it. The card attached to the food stated that the reindeer could smell it from 100 miles away!!.....Oh the simple joys of life!! :)

Mitchell's Acting Debut!!

Mitchell's pre-school class acted out the manger scene in a play this week! He was one of three shepherds. (His best buddy Drew was one as well...he's the one in the light blue) It was SO CUTE! They only had a couple of lines each and the rest of the play was all of them singing songs. I'm such a proud Mama!!

Family Pictures!

Big Sweet Brother!

I came downstairs tonight and found Rylee asleep on Mitchell's shoulder. So CUTE!! He looked up at me and said "Mom, I've been holding Rylee's head so she can sleep"
What a great, thoughtful (& handsome) little (big) boy I have!

Visit to Utah

We just returned from a visit to Utah. We were able to visit with family and friends. There never seems to be enough time though because we werent able to visit with everyone. Mitchell and Rylee had a blast seeing their Grandma's and Papa's and cousins

Mitchell with my Dad

Lorne and Rylee with my Dad

Lorne with my Dad and little brother Skyler. Lorne talked him into bending his knees for this photo because Skyler is a good 6 inches taller than him! :)

Lorne with my little brother Warren

My dad had this race car track set and Mitchell had the best time with it!!
Thanks DAD!!!

Mitchell having a leaf war with his little cousin Cohen in my Mom's backyard

This was just a shot that I thought turned out SO CUTE of Rylee walking with Daddy!!!

HALLOWEEN TIME!!!

We had a very FUN and PLAYFUL Halloween this year! Mitchell has been telling us for 8 months now that he wants to be Sponge Bob for Halloween and he never drifted from that. Rylee was a Fairy and I was EXTREMELY surprised that she let me paint her face! After she was done getting "prettied" up, she just kept staring at herself in the mirror!