Early Christmas!

Grandma Stewart was excited for Alayna and Benson to get to her house so she could whip out her Christmas present early....a Cotton Candy Machine!!! Alayna got to go pick out what flavor she wanted...blue, of course!

To say we ate a lot of candy is an understatement :)



Who's going to make me more?!!

We sure miss living with Grandma and Grandpa Kitchen - Grandpa went all out with his Christmas lights this year...it was beautiful!

We all snuggled up for a wagon ride through the lights at Thanksgiving Point...talk about freezing cold!

But it was super fun to be with everybody enjoying the lights...there were also a couple of tone deaf carolers on our wagon - sigh...

Despite the freezing temperatures...Grandpa revved up his motorcycle to give Alayna a ride.

Alayna loved it and can't wait for the next time!!!

Fun at Grandma's

Nothing like making and eating Gingerbread houses!

Cousin time - I love Kamree's red hair...so cute!


We love Grandma!!

White Christmas...

We could only dream of a white Christmas in our neck of the woods...so we were pretty excited to head to Grandma Brown's and play in the snow.







After all the fun in the snow....it is just fun to snuggle up by the heater. Nothing beats cousin time!!

First Fieldtrip

Alayna's preschool class took a fieldtrip to the airport. We got to see the Life Flight helicopter - and hear the paramedics talk.

The kids got to sit in the helicopter....despite the scowl on Alayna's face - she got to sit in there longer than anybody else - and loved every minute of it!

Randomness!

I have been horrible at blogging lately...but I have a few pictures from November that I wanted to share - first Benson covered himself in marker a few weeks ago, thank goodness it was washable!!

We celebrated Coby's birthday this month! We were lucky to have him home for half a day before he had to work all night...we had Grandma and Grandpa here to watch the kiddos - so Coby and I could go to the temple and Christmas shopping! I made homeade apple pie for the b-day boy!

Coby has been begging me to make Cinnamon Rolls for years...I don't know why I have been so intimidated by cinnamon rolls, but I tried them once and they were a disaster so I haven't tried since...anyways - I was so excited...they were so delicious. They could not have been more perfect...especially for Coby's birthday!! Happy B-day Coby - we love you!!

Benson tried to wear all my sunglasses - it was so hilarious!!

So Alayna had to try too!

Thanksgiving Feast

Today Alayna had her Thanksgiving Feast and program at preschool.

She was so proud to be an indian!

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Here are the 4 songs her class sang. Alayna is front and center and by far the loudest one! (This is especially for Grandma!)

Halloween Festivities!

We didn't get to carving pumpkins until Sunday afternoon - Alayna's request was one silly (by her and dad), and one scary...she thought we succeeded!

We are so lucky to live by my cousin Randi and her awesome family! We decorated Halloween sugar cookies together and Benson couldn't wait to dive into his...using the no hand method.

Clean hands....not so clean face!

The Doc's put together a Haunted House for the kids to decorate....they thought it was really cool!



Nemo and Sully - are super-excited to Trick-or-Treat.

Alayna had a Halloween Party at Preschool - her super cute teacher dressed up as Jesse.

Alayna and her Preschool friends all dressed-up.

So excited to go Trick-or-Treating....they couldn't even pose for a picture!

Play Hard!

We were so excited to have Grandma, Grandpa, Kasey, and Brayden come see us...we were all thrilled to have them spend UEA with us. We played hard the whole time they were here...there was some super intense cousin playing going on!! (Warning: tons of pictures coming up!)

Together at the zoo!

Swimming is always more fun - when there is more people than just mom!





Brayden was a pro at staying on the turtle (not an easy task)!

Its not always fun and games at the pool when you don't get your way...I just thought this picture was cute.

Family Fun!

We headed to a Fall Festival during the middle of the day and it was 95 degrees...yikes. The kids had a blast - riding the barrel train.

Showing off their muscles!!

And their bean bag throwing skills.



Benson making his way through the hay maze at record breaking speed - he was a machine trying to get out of there.

Jumping!



Yay for the teeter-totter!

The kids loved it!! (They had never even seen one before and had no idea what it was...sad, huh?!)

Starting the corn maze...sadly enough it was just to hot to finish it - so we went in and then popped back out for a nice refreshing beverage.

The kids loved painting their pumpkins.

Grandpa Brad flew home on his 50th birthday...so we had a party the night before they left. Coby made that awesome Black Forest Cheesecake Cake - it was delicious!! We had so much fun with the Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Kasey, and Brayden - and were so sad to see them go. We moped around the house all day after they left. We loved having them here and are counting the days until we get to see them again!!