December

We went swimming at Grandma and Grandpa's house for Dad's birthday.

A trip to see Santa.

Cute pictures in the snow.

The Christmas Choir Program.  They sang with Daniel Beck and Jesse Clark Funk.  It was beautiful!

Getting ready to go caroling with the youth in fuzzy gloves and hat (8 months pregnant).

Thomas is working on building something with the erector set Michael got for Christmas.

Michael's self portrait. He happened to have a scratch on his forehead when he drew it.  It's really even there anymore.  Reminds me of Harry Potter.

Dad and Isaac with a red all over his face (from what I'm not sure).

Thomas printed this out and put in his bathroom.  Love that.

We went sledding with cousins over Christmas break.  Too bad the snow was icy.  Within the first 10 minutes there were at least 3 people crying from injuries!  It was nice to be outside however.

Isaac sometimes falls asleep this way.

Michael likes to cuddle with him, even at La Costa.

Megan and her friend's at Ben's party.

Cute cute cousins

 Fun moments with Uncle John and baby cousin Dallin.

 Emma and Dallin

Christmas Morn

I guess I didn't get many pictures from Christmas this year. Oh well!

Classic Grody Picture (actually they really don't look grody at all...just the term we use for morning pictures).

The kids love getting stuffed animals.  Isaac named his elephant Tusk. 

Looks like Megan got something awesome.  I think it was a package of Almond Joys from Emma.  Emma was very good about getting everyone a present this year.

Christmas Eve

Traditional Christmas Eve Nativity (we always have a lot of fun).

Our very reverent Mary

Our angels

Our cute shepherds

The cutest little baby Jesus

Our angel

These guys chose to sit out and not get dressed up.

Christmas Eve Pajamas

Isaac's Christmas Program

Yet again, Isaac had the chance to be in his preschool program, this time for Christmas.   This one was almost worse than the Halloween one because all of the siblings were there to watch him and for some reason that made him act up even more. He stuck his tongue out at us. He seemed to get stage fright. He broke one of the hats on stage. He put his hands in his mouth.  But again, I was laughing the whole time. It's just really not his thing. Hopefully he will grow out of it.  Or maybe he just really needed a nap!

When he did this we really lost it and started laughing (which probably made it worse for him).  I think he figured if he couldn't see us we couldn't see him.  He was like this at least for a minute or so. 

He stood like that for at least 5 minutes, balancing on one foot.