A visit with santa

Santa came to our ward Christmas party this year. The kids each got a turn to sit on his lap and tell him what they wanted for Christmas. No one was too scared to have a turn this year, they were all very excited to tell Santa what it was they wanted him to bring. (And none of it had anything to do with a trip, like we had established with them earlier!)

Decorating the tree

The finished decorated tree (a little decoration clumpy)

Let the decorating begin...

Kayla did the star this year

I've been really bad at keeping up on this, and I apologize. I'm going to start at current date and try to update and back track at the same time- so bare with me, and enjoy :)

Parent's day at dance class

Alyssa LOVES her dance class. She is doing really well too! They had a parents day in Dec. for all of us parents to come watch the kids and see their progress. Here are some shots of Lyss dancing her little heart out for us.

Princess Birthday Party

For Alyssa's 6th birthday she wanted a princess to come. So we started looking. After trying several different options we found one! Aunt Emily's friend Maddy came and was an Awesome princess. We had a ball, a tea party and a craft, then watched a princess movie All at Alyssa's request. She and her friends had a great time, and they all loved that there was a REAL princess at the party. It was a lot of fun and Alyssa's 6th birthday wishes came true :)

Watching a princess Jasmine story

The craft (we made necklaces)

The princesses-

The tea party-

The Ball-

Halloween 2010

Scraping out the pumpkin guts

Alyssa's cowgirl costume

Makayla as Hermione From harry potter

Matthew the firefighter

By their carved pumpkins...

All ready to go trick or treating...