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Thursday, April 28, 2011

December 1st-25th 2010

December is all ways a busy month. I am usually way stressed out with all the things that need to get done. Surprisingly I was cool and calm the whole month. I'm not sure why. Nothing was different than previous years. The kids were excited to get the tree up and the decorations out all over the house. So the first few days of December were spent decorating the house. The following week my sister and I have a tradition we have done for over 5 years now. We each make a few goodies and get together and put plates together for our visiting teaching families, home teaching families, and neighbors. Then we drop them off to our families in the next day or 2.

Our ward Christmas party was on Saturday December 11. We met in the evening, but the theme was Christmas morning. We had breakfast for dinner and we wore our PJ's (Well some adults were party poopers and didn't wear theirs but I was so in mine). This was so not like our traditional ward Christmas party, but ya know what I loved the fact that they mixed things up a bit. It was fun and casual. We sang songs and then of course the big man himself made an appearance.

Hayden and Kennedy

Connor flipping his ribbon

Talmage

Payton

Talmage

Payton and Talmage were the only ones who wanted to sit on Santa's lap this year.

The following week (Dec 13-17) I was able to spend my days buying and wrapping presents.
Hayden's class party was on December 17th.

Hayden at his PreK class party

Hayden didn't have school the following week, but the other kids had to go on Mon., Tues, and Wed. So those 3 days I went to 3 class parties. My parents went to Connors school for a breakfast since I was in charge of the games at Kennedy's class party that was going on at the same time.

Kennedy, Hayden, Talmage, and Connor watching a movie

On Christmas Eve morning we had Jon's parents over for breakfast. Then Grandma Hansen helped Hayden and Talmage decorate a ginger bread house while I supervised Kennedy and Payton.

Hayden and Talmage by their gingerbread house

Kennedy and Payton by their ginger bread house

Later, My parents, Morgan, and Taylor came over for Christmas Eve dinner. I love our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. We always have a roast, mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls, a jello salad and some sort of veggie dish. Roast beef is my all time favorite meat. So this just maybe my top favorite meal. Then we hung out and played some games. The Tady's were out of town with his side of the family and the Edward's were doing their own thing. So it was just our 2 families but we had a fun time. Of course we made time to talk about Jesus Christ and his birth.

Christmas morning we just let them wake up on their own. I believe it was around 7 am. Which is later than a school day so I was happy. After the first kid woke up, we started waking up the others.

Christmas morning
Connor didn't want to come downstairs

Connor with his stocking treats

Talmage Zu Zu pet

Hayden

My parents, Morgan, and Taylor came over again and we had a big breakfast. I love my moms cinnamon rolls. Then we talked about what presents we all got and played a game before it was time to go bowling. My kids love this tradition. It had just started to snow before we left for bowling. So we ended up having a white Christmas. It has been over 100 years since the last time Atlanta has had a white Christmas. I hope it is another 100 years before there is another.

Kennedy ready to bowl

Payton under the leg shot

Morgan

Kennedy and Morgan

Talmage

Connor

Kennedy, Jon, Taylor, Talmage, and Payton

Our house the following morning

Christmas was a bit on the smaller size for us than in previous years with Jon's brother and his family out in Oregon and with 2 of my sisters and their families with other plans. They were missed and I hope they had a great time.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

November 2010

The first 3 weeks of November was nothing out of the ordinary, scouts, activity days girls, visiting teaching, volunteering at the kids school, Talmage's 7 year old check up, 3 dentist appointments, and flu mist for everyone (except Jon). The week before Thanksgiving Jon and I went to Hayden's school and watched him perform his little Thanksgiving play. He was an Indian and whenever the narrator said Indian's he had to say big and brave. It was very cute. Same one Talmage did 2 years earlier. Then they sang 3 Thanksgiving songs and then we went into their cafeteria for a Thanksgiving feast. I signed up to make a Turkey. It was yummy if I do say so myself.

Hayden Indian

Hayden in his Indian costume

Then the following day, Nov. 19 Jon and I went to Connor's school for his Thanksgiving feast. The cafeteria workers did a real good job at preparing all this food for the special needs classes all while getting ready and making lunch for the rest of the middle school. Because I had 2 Thanksgiving meals already I'm not too sad about not having one in a week on Thanksgiving day.
On November 20 Brenton had a wonderful opportunity to see and hear John Bytheway, a fabulous LDS youth speaker. Brenton at first didn't really want to go he thought it would be boring but Jon and I talked him into it. Jon and I have watched him on BYU TV a few times and he is excellent. When Brenton got back, he said it was so good that the time just flew by and he didn't want it to end he wanted to stay all day and listen to him speak. I am so glad he had that opportunity.
Since Hayden goes to school in a different county he had the whole week of Thanksgiving off. The other kids only have Wed-Fri off. We did have the other kids skip Tuesday so we could drive down to Disney World. We are meeting up with the Weihl family for the rest of the week. We haven't seen their family since I was pregnant with Hayden. So just over 5 years ago. It was so great seeing them and everything picked like we were just with them last weekend. We went to all four of the Disney parks and had a great time. The best part was having what we call super fast passes. 9 months ago, we participated in Disney give a day get a day. Since we bought year passes and didn't need a free ticket for a day we turned them in for super fast passes. We got 7 Disney give a day passes (Hayden was too young you had to be at least 6) and each one let us get super fast passes for our whole family so we have 7 days of super fast passes. We used 4 of them in June and we were saving the last 3 for Thanksgiving. So our first 2 days at getting our super fast passes they gave us each a super fast pass for both of our families. The 3rd day we weren't so lucky. They only gave us 10 total. This is how the super fast passes work. At each park they give you a handout and on that hand out has their fast passes for that specific park divided into two sections. Each section allows you to get fast passes for any of those listed rides up to 3 times. So lets say you are at Hollywood Studios. One section would have the rides Toy Story Mania, Tower of Terror, and Rockin Roller Coaster. So out of that section you can get 3 fast passes for any of those rides. So you can do one of each or all 3 of one ride or 2 of one one of another. And the same applies for the other section. Each person had their own super fast pass ticket. So we used the super fast pass tickets along with our tickets and were able to do a lot of cool rides without the wait and some of the rides multiple times. The weather was great the whole time and it was crowded but with super fast passes crowds weren't a problem. Now on to the pictures. I can't believe I didn't have one picture with any of the Weihl's. So basically you would have never know we went with them. I know Leanne took a bunch with us in them.