ooh

oohh is the noise that comes with this face.

we get this face a lot.  especially when she is talking to other babies or pets.

how do you not love this face?  

and she has crazy eyes.  both the other kids were dark brown by this time

e has gray, green and brown in there. so i guess that makes her my

hazel baby?  love them

christmas break is not a break...

if we stay home braden and camiron fight, bicker, hit.  there is a lot of yelling and timeouts.

but when we are out b and c are great.  So we got out a lot.  

2 week of everyone home is a bit too long. 

disney on ice was a hit for everyone.

this was our first at disney on ice and it was above and beyond my expectations.

it was like cirque de sole on ice.  pretty great.

Denton ridge lights. 50000 lights, a fabulous santa (except when he

told the kids he loves chocolate chip cookies- i soo was not planning to make cc cookies!)

a train made of golf carts, hot chocolate, marshmellows, fires.  

it was a great time. 

we made gingerbread trains this year instead of houses.  

to me this is one of my favorite christmas activities.  

my little reindeer

a trip to the rangers museum. 

hiking raven rock

a painting adventure

(this really was  a lot of fun)

and don't forget the movies, mini golfing, roller skating, bowling,

 trips to the playground, playing in the sandbox, playing at the lake, making a fort

legos legos  legos.  

are you exhausted yet?  i am. 

merry christmas morning

the cookies have been snarfed up.... that is a sure sign of santa

the carrots for rudolph?... gone

yep the big mans been here.

e missed all the present since she snoozed through the opening!  

 She got around to opening her presents around 5 that night.  

b got the prized ds he has been hoping for

cam scored the bitty twins.  lucky girl

and e has the cutest rocking horse which sings the funniest songs.

we all listen to the over and over because we think they are funny

and it was perfect to get to go to church and celebrate the true meaning of christmas

so perfect to have christmas on a sunday. 

we had a beautiful singing program for sacrament- and troy even got to sit with me

because we were combined with another ward.  That is a present on its own!  

merry christmas! 

goodbye little elfie

our elf might have made a final stop off with each kid before heading back to the north pole for 

the last time of the season.  

And troy and i might have thought this was hilarious. 

good bye until next year little elfie.  thank you for helping us through a

few rough patches this year.  

christmas eve at the koch's has turned into our away from home tradition.

We love having a christmas eve party for the kids to get together with friends and run their wild excitement out of them.  And because this makes a full decade of not going home for christmas- so it is fun to have our own traditions now. 

this year we had the andersons, asmus, mayberry's and hancock's.  

it was a full house with 10 adults and 17 kids.  

We made homemade snow globes, ate dinner, frosted cookies for santa, had some extra crafts

and just plain ran amuck.  it was perfect.  Thanks dear friends for joining us this year.  

mandy, sydnee, me, katie, jen

lil' santa leads the class

B got to play santa (the lead) in  his class play.  He was super excited.  (this followed just

after his first grade class election where he was elected "class president".  He was 

over the moon about being the pres and instructed that i call him pres.  

he is unsure what being class president entails but it will have him doing "important stuff".  

It was a vote where every kid had to vote for someone other than themself and

he got the most votes.  Yea Braden.   as a mom this means to me that he is nice

to the kids in his class and that is a great feeling as a mom.)

back to christmas...  he played santa and then we had a class party.  it was fun- as fun as class

parties ever are :)  and he was super giddy to say goodbye to school for 2 whole weeks.  ugh.  

christmas program

camers had her christmas concert for preschool.  

she was so cute and sang hard.  She was a doll up there.

Some of the songs were pretty funny with their extra glories and hallelulas and she loved it.

e didn't love it as much with nowhere to play except to pull things out of my bag.

after the show :)

with her best friend Bria.  (bria got to be the angel)

breakfast with santa

Santa number 2 for the season.  our neighborhood had a yummy fun breakfast with santa.  We need to stop seeing the big guy.  a new wish and want comes each time.  :)

But we had a great time seeing all of our friends from the neighborhood, making crafts and chatting with santa.  perfect morning fun.