Christmas in the Valley-Bates Nut Farm

We had lots of fun at Bates Nut Farm. We hit a lot of traffic on the way so we missed Santa Arrive in the helicopter. We did take the "Polar Express" hay ride to the North pole to see Santa. All three boys fell asleep on the drive to the farm. We couldn't get Matthew to wake up, so he slept through everything. Too bad for him.  Its crazy what kids can sleep through!!

Thank goodness we have a double stroller.. lol..

It was pretty cold out there for us Californians. and yes Teresa is wearing her Mrs. Clause outfit. She insisted on making us wait in line again(we had already taken the picture of Sam and Lincoln with Santa) so she could get a picture with Santa! I know she's a little obsessed.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! 

I think this video speaks for itself, but I know it is soooo cute!!  I love these boys so much!

Holt Christmas Party

 Alright here are the pictures I had Dad take at the Holt Christmas party.  I know, there are only two of them but these are the pictures I wanted taken. Henry insisted on taking a picture with Biza(great grandma) Maybeth, and Mardin. He wants to make sure the kids will have it to remember her by when they are older.  Family is very important to Henry, and it makes me so happy to know that he is my husband.  He is such a great guy! We have big plans, and goals for next year(NO MOM, I am not pregnant!!!) so wish us luck! Merry Christmas to all.  I will post more pictures after Christmas.

Cousins & baptism

Here's a lot of pix.  Trayton and his baby bro.  All the kids wrestled with Travis and let me tell you, it was CRAZY.  I'm glad I wasn't in the middle of it! 
Travis, Naomi, and Tracker all took a nap together.  Cute.  And Mary Rose and Tell Walter together.
Trayton's baptism was wonderful.  I was so happy and couldn't keep back the tears.  Trayton will have the Spirit with him always to guide him.  I love this gospel.  I'm so grateful I have wonderful parents who have lead me and taught me to follow the right.  :)

Halloween!!

I am so excited to report that I actually "tried" with the kid's costumes this year.  I never really cared what my kids Halloween costumes looked like, or how convincing they were because I knew it would just be covered up by a snow suit or be bulgy over a snow coat.  But this year I took nice pictures beforehand and even got a compliment on the face painting!!  Woot woot!  Trayton was a skeleton, Tustin was spiderman, Tracker was a dragon, and Naomi was a kitty and Tell was a football. 
Also Trayton and Tustin carved their own Jack o Lantern today.  They did a great job!  We did it today so it wouldn't go bad and we could still make it into pie...  :)
Hope you all had a fun Halloween!!

For Elaine

Elaine, I know you read our blog, so these are especially for you.  I changed out the boys clothes recently and out of the pile came this sweater.  I was reminded of you once again. You made this sweater for Joseph years ago, and its one of my favorite ones out of all the ones you ever made for my children.  So thank you once again!

Lots of love
Tiffany

Life in the Fall

So a couple things.  Trayton is not yet 8, but has begun participating in cub scouts! (I am the wolf den leader) so here we learned about the flag ceremony.
School is in full swing. We do an etiquette class activity with our friends the Hendersons, once a week. And Tustin made an F out of playdough.
Tell fell asleep while jumping in the bouncer.  Soo precious. 
And finally, Tracker jumped on his sister wrong so it bent his leg back to his butt, apparently a little too far.  We took an x-ray and it's very minor.  But he will not put any weight on the foot and crawls around the house, or I carry him.  :)  He should be healed up in 3 wks.
Love you all!  Can't wait for PLASR and Halloween!