Deck the Halls!

The day after Daddy's birthday we decorate for Christmas! The kids did pretty much all of it since I was not able to walk... there was a baby in the way of my legs! ;)  Here are the kids singing Oh Christmas Tree and Nana listening in the recliner.

The range of emotions in this picture is just amazing, my kids really need to be actors! LOL!

Thane's Birthday!

On December 6th we celebrate the Birthday of one of the greatest people I have ever known! Thane Belnap! The hunkiest, funniest, loviest, thoughtful-iest, man on earth!  We love you Thane!  We started out the night by taking him to his favorite place, no not Hawaii, but close... Honolulu Grill.  We ate Kahlua Pork and BBQ Chicken til our heart's content, oh, and shave ice with ice cream.

Here, the kids are putting as many candles as will fit in one cupcake from 25 Main Bakery.  Thane actually requested cupcakes from there, I know, weird huh?  He never asks for anything like that!

Tait is having fun with the lighter!  Thane getting ready to put out the small fire...

Here is Tiernan and Taya, Thane's niece.  They just moved here from Canada and we had fun with them at dinner and celebrating.

After this fun, I started feeling regular contractions.  So we packed up and left for the hospital as soon as my great friend, Melanie came over to help with the kids.  Turned out to be false labor, so we came back home and tried to sleep!

An Old Fashioned Christmas Carol

Tiernan is in the Choir in her school and they had a lot of fun singing in Christmas concerts this season.  They got to perform at the Dicken's Festival, so they dressed in old fashioned clothes.

Here they are singing at Zion Bank before we went to Dickens.

And here they are on a tiny stage singing at the Dicken's Festival.  Tiernan loves choir, and she is a great singer.

LOL!!

Laugh your heads off!! Merry (or should I say Groovy) Christmas!!

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Jubilee of Trees with the Kindergarten :)

I'm so glad that I was able to go to the Jubilee of Trees with the Kindergarten from Sinjin's school.  We had a blast looking at all the cool trees, Sinjin had a million favorites, here are just a few.  He was not as excited to see Santa as I thought he would be.  He was pretty nervous, but he was brave and sat on his lap.  He didn't know what he wanted for Christmas, so we will need to write a letter!

Horton Hears a Who tree :)

The Nightmare Before Christmas Tree, scary!

Here they are peeking at the tree that the school made for the Jubilee of Trees.

Peeking again!

Sinjin with his good friend, Ryan.

Here is some of the class with the tree the school donated.

Another favorite...

Here is Sinjin and I, the little girl in the picture above took this picture, pretty good for a 5 year old huh!?

Thanksgiving 2010

I didn't get very many pics, or good ones at that this year.  I'm pretty sad about that :(  But here are the ones I did capture.  Thane's Sister and Brother-in-Law Lacey and Randy moved here (to Hurricane) on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, so the boys were pretty busy helping unpack the trailers.  We had Thanksgiving dinner there cause there is so much more room than our little squished house.  It was nice.  I sat. :)

Here is Randy with his new little "Mini Me", Trey.

Thane made a delicious smoked turkey, yum!

Here is Seth, Nana Belnap and Lacey.  Look at the yummy turkey Randy made, yummy!

Lacey and Grandpa Belnap, his mashed potatoes are the best!

Seth :D, Thane's brother.  He is loved the most by Sinjin who had to sit on his shoulders the whole day and steer him around by moving his head.  LOL!

Here is Seth holding Trey, and Sinjin loving the baby.  Grandpa Belnap is just chillin watching the boys try to set up the TV so we can watch "A Christmas Carol", the Jim Carrey version of course.

See me sitting with pie in front of me?  Yes, nice!  Thanks Lacey and Randy!

Roasting a Pig in the Ground...

Seriously, Thane wanted to try and cook a pork roast in the ground like they do at luau's, but it didn't stay warm enough to cook it through, so we finished it off in the crock pot LOL!

Pulling it out of the ground, looks like it's steaming!  It tricked us!

Halloween 2010

We start off with the school costume parade.  Here is Sinjin, more handsome than Edward or Jacob for sure!!

And I barely caught Tiernan, on her way out the door, she is a "School Girl".

And Amara the natural born Vet.

Tiernan's teacher dressed up like the voodoo warlock on Princess and the Frog.  Here he is scaring her with his snake!

Sinjin, looking goofy with his special Halloween glasses!

Tiernan wanted to play "silent ball" for a while before we left.

On Saturday, we carved our pumpkins, and ran around in the rain for a few minutes.

Amara picked a tiny pumpkin and wanted to paint it.  She is such an artist.  The other kids did their pumpkins all on their own.  I just helped cut the top off and carved the eye lashes on Tiernans, I think they did a pretty good job :)

Here they are, ready to go trick or treating. Amara changed her mind on the Vet costume.  I think she wanted to be a little prettier.

Tait went trick or treating with his friend in a different neighborhood, and Tiernan and Amara went with their friends, so we just had Sinjin.  It was our first year with one kid since Tiernan was born, and our first year without the stroller!  How weird!

Here is Sinjin with his little Girlfriends!  Aren't they to die for!!!?  They are such cuties~

After we came home we had homemade cinnamon rolls and watched Double Double Toil and Trouble and sorted our candy.  All together I think it was a very easy and relaxing Halloween.

Getting our Creative Juices Flowing

We had a lot of fun creating these snow hats for our little one!  The kids had fun helping me out.  Tiernan made the hat with the blue trim and pom pom.  Tait made a red one after this picture.

GWA Fall Carnival

First of all we start off with Crazy Hair day!  I thought it was pretty funny!

October 23rd was a busy day!  First we had the Primary Program Practice, then we had to run off to the School Carnival so the kids could do their class performance for us.  Sinjin's was so cute!  They sang a rock-n-roll version of Baa Baa Black Sheep, then I'm a Mean Old Witch.

Here he is, Joe Cool, with his sunglasses on.

"So you better watch out or I might scare you!!"

Tiernan's fun cowboy dance with her 4th grade classes.

We stood in line FOREVER for these face paintings, but they were worth it :)

Yummy Hungry Howies Pizza for lunch.

And Amara's performance reciting the Preamble of the United States and singing the National Anthem.  Wow!!

Getting their nails done by the DHHS cheerleaders.

And on the swing, another long line, but worth the smiles.