Kaiya with my wedding dress on and some random pictures

Kaiya's Christmas Party with Friends

Gingerbread Houses

Smile!

I really hate doing Gingerbread houses. Then Kaiya had a huge project over Christmas break. It was about her heritage. In it she wrote about family traditions and one was making Gingerbread houses. It made me realize I need to stop being a grinch and suck it up and make Gingerbread houses again! So while Stacey's family was still in town...that is what we did!

They surprised me and celebrated my birthday 

Love Jemma!

Too much sugar!

I think she was sad about leaving the next morning....I don't blame her. I was sad she was leaving!

Thanksgiving

We changed tradition this year and decided to have dinner at our new house. It was different but there was so many people we thought it would be better (we being my mom and I). It worked out well and everyone ate a ton of food and had fun! We had over 30 people there. It was fun that my sister Stacey and her family was in town. That made it even better!

Baby Smiles

I had a blast with this little one! Got my baby fix in.

Reading predictions

Trying to get a good picture with this many kids - near impossible. But we tried...and there might be one good one in there.

Cirdan tried really hard to get Hank to like him. Hank is shy - but by the end Hank warmed up to him. Mission Accomplished.

So many desserts

Awkward 

Nate clearly ate too much

When everyone left we got a family picture. Cannon loves setting the phone up for automatic and running to get into the picture. We took a ton of pictures because he didn't want to stop.

Oh and some of these pictures Ella is crying because she wanted a sleepover but we said no - 

Cannon punked us and told us what to do

I got the kids some cookies they would paint. Thanksgiving morning they did them and had fun!