Christmas Presents

Does Lauren look excited or what? For some reason all of the kids had to pull the presents out from the tree and count them, stack them and inspect their presents. I guess they were pretty excited.

Gavin made a computer desk and chair out of a stack of gifts, but the picture didn't turn out.

Christian and Landon had to make a dwelling for Remmy the Rat.

Snow Angels and Guitar Heroes

Lauren having fun making a snow angel in Grandma and Grandpa's back yard. It is nice to finally have some snow to play in and maybe we will even have a white Christmas!


Lauren and Grace making angels.

Having fun in the snow. Good thing Sabrina took lots of pictures when she was here or I wouldn't have any of these fun things to share. Thanks Sabrina.

This one cracks me up. I guess Guitar Hero takes a lot of concentration - I know it did for me. It was pretty funny to see Dad playing the guitar and Gary on the drums with him. You guys kill on 'Eye of the Tiger'!

Sweet Lauren

My pretty girl!


Sabrina took these pictures of Lauren and I just love her sweet little face, so I just had to post them.

Frosty Zoo Fun

Me, Lauren, Gracie, Claire and my cute brother Gary at Hogle Zoo. Sabrina is taking all of these wonderful pictures.

Gary and Sabrina really wanted to visit the zoo when they made a trip to Utah to visit us. I thought they were crazy since it was the middle of December. Lauren was excited about going and I wanted to spend time with our visiting family, so I decided to go too. It was pretty cold, but we had a really good time. We saw some cool things (leopards trying to attack us through glass), and some disgusting things (gorillas eating their own poop, right after pooping it - sorry, you really didn't want to know that).

We even went on the merry-go-round, which was cold but the girls loved it.


Here is Lauren making her 'monkey face'. She said this is what the monkey was doing and indeed he was.

Grace and Lauren having a cute cousin moment holding hands at the zoo.

The girl's (Grace, Lauren and Claire) sitting on the tiger statues.

"We're headed in the right direction." Grace was our tour guide looking at the map and letting us know if we were going the right way.

A Precious Performance

Lauren has been taking dance for a few months now and her little class performed at the Festival of Trees. This was the cutest thing ever in my eyes (why do I bawl like a baby when my kids do things like this?). I wish the video I took was better quality, but at least you get the idea. Lauren is the one on the far left side.

Ready for our dress rehearsal. These costumes are just too cute!