A review of December 2008

So, it's been awhile! December flew in like a storm and flew out just as fast. What did we do in December? Well, I'll tell you.

December 5th was the Norman Family Christmas Party. It was at my cousins, Brett and Lacey's, brand new house in Mapleton. The kids loved it because their girls bedroom is big and open and has a playroom in it. It was great fun! Santa was there and we had lots of good eats and lots of fun hanging out.

December 6 was Nate's work Christmas Party and we had lots of fun. We went to The Melting Pot and the food was sooooo good. I want some right now!!

December 12 Kenzie and I made our Gingerbread House. We had lots of fun.

December 16th we had my brother Cody, his wife Courtney and their daughter Brinklee, my parents and my grand-parents over to do Christmas with Cody and Courtney since they were going to be in Mesa for Christmas. We ate soup and they opened presents from my parents and grand-parents and then we hung out. They got Kenzie a game that she already had, but we went and traded it for Twister, which we will be breaking out as soon as Courtney and Brinklee are back home... Hurry Back! They got Kamryn a piano and she loves it. Here she is opening it. It was good to just hang out with them before they left.

December 23rd was my 31st birthday and Nate got me a Wii FIT and I love it!! We have been trying to do it every night and it makes exercising so much fun.

Christmas Eve the girls opened the traditional new pj present and then I got them cute little ornaments that I thought were cute and a toy. Kenzie's ornament was a webkinz horse, like the webkinz she has, and a rubiks cube that no one has been able to figure out yet and Kamryn's ornament was a pig because she loves pigs and a fun book. After opening pj's it was time for bed so that Santa could make his rounds.

Christmas Day we actually got to sleep in a little. Kenzie didn't wake us up until about 7:30. It was probably good cuz I would have been really onrey had I been woke up any earlier. Santa was good to all of us this year. Kenzie got a High School Musical High School (like a barbie house, but a high school), karaoke machine, cd's, movies, camera, stocking full of goodies and loads of clothes (which she needed) and Kamryn got lots of Fisher-Price stuff (because I love little people and all that stuff), baby einstein movies, Elmo Live, toy box and lots of clothes and shoes that her fat little feet won't stay in. I hope they thin out soon! I got a new camera that fits in my purse, a nice watch, cd's and clothes and Nate got binoculars, shoes, clothes, dvd's and cd's. I over bought, like usually, but you only live once, right? Next year I hope to cut it back a little.


Well, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hate making resolutions so I just hope that everyone can achieve what they want in 2009.

Update

So, I got a little behind on the blog. Nate was harrassing me tonight because I still haven't taken my pictures off my camera since the Tuesday before Halloween! I'll try to rewind my short memory and see if I can remember what has happened in the last two weeks.

First we had our pumpkin carving festivities with my grandma and grandpa. We have been carving pumpkins with Mar and Gar since October 1997. At first it was just Nate and I, grandma, grandpa and my cousin Tesha, who was 10 years old at the time. It has now morphed into Grandma, Grandpa, my cousin Tesha, her neice (so my cousin) Shantell, Tesha's friend Jessica and her daughter Sierra, my mom, brother and his wife and daughter - Arlane, Cody, Courtney and Brinklee, Nate, myself, Kenzie and Kamryn and then whatever other friend of Tesha's that decides to pop in and carve a pumpkin. This year it was her friends and twin sisters, Saray & Iris and Iris' daughter Jasmin. Holy cow, so many people to cram into grandma's little house, but it was so much fun. My grandma and grandpa even carve pumpkins!! They are the best and are still so young at heart. I hope to be like them some day! Next, was our ward Halloween carnival. Makenzie dressed up as Hannah Montana and Kamryn was a cute pink and purple butterfly. In these pictures Kenzie doesn't look so much like Hannah Montana because she refused to wear the wig. She hated it because it made her itch. I finally talked her into wearing it Halloween day for the carnival at school.

Halloween day I went to Kenzie's school to help her with putting on her wig and chearing her on when they did their parade. That night we went to trunk or treat at our church. We had lots of fun. We ate hot dogs, chili and hot chocolate. Makenzie had so much fun with her best friend Emily. I was thinking that they were going to say "We want to go by ourselves because were big kids now," and then they surprised me when they said, "will you please walk around with us, we don't want to go by ourselves." It makes you feel good to know that you have at least one more year of a sweet innocent loving child who isn't ready to toss their mom out of the moving vehicle yet!

All in all, we had lots of fun this Halloween holiday. Hope you all did too! Maybe one of these years I'll be able to get Nate into dressing up and doing fun stuff like that (haha!)... Maybe Jim and Ryan need to work on my stubborn husband for me!

Movie Night Out Back

Sunday we watched a movie out back and it was pretty fun. Couches or mattresses would have made it much better. I think we will try to do it again sometime, but make some improvements.

Family Christmas Party

Yesterday was my family Christmas party. We went to my cousin Jessica's house and ate dinner and visited and then Santa made his annual visit to the kids to deliver a gift to each of them. We had loads of fun. Makenzie did not want to leave because she was having so much fun with her cousins.