Christmas Eve Day

Christmas Eve morning we headed over to my mom's for Breakfast. Most everyone made it that was in town. The food was yummy. The kids had fun playing with cousins.

Then some of us headed over to Aunt Jill's for the Nutcracker run.

Slatin won

Thanks Aunt Jill for putting fun things like this together. We love you and your family.

Merry Christmas Teachers and Office

My kids have great teachers and the Elementary has the best office besides the middle school (thanks mom) so I always want to let them know how much we appreciate them. This Christmas I went simple. I made them candy cane suckers and sugar plum marshmellows. They came together cute.

Beatty Family Party

Last Saturday we had our adult Beatty party. Kade and Becky were in charge and kept with the homemade gift theme. Everyone (except one person who shall not be named ) made something for their person and then added something to go with it. (namely gift cards) It was alot of fun to see what everyone came up with.

Heather had Tim and made him this shirt. His favorite word is Awesome and he told the kids to call him "Uncle Awesome" .... Awesome. She also gave him a gift card to his favorite store. Tim had Sam and gave him some coupons for hair cuts, and a night of babysitting for Sam and Kendra. Lucky. Chris had Summer and I(we cheated) made her an apron, cuz she likes to cook so much. NOT. and a gift card in the pocket for her to buy something fun.
My Parents had Taylor and made him this sweet hat and gave him a picnic table to go with it. Ellie had Heather and made her this darling wallet with a gift card. Kendra had Chris and gave his these oh so lovely undies with a duct tape wallet and some spending money, Becky had Ellie and made her this cute Jewelry holder.

My mom had Kendra and made her puppets with a puppet curtain (forgot to get that picture it is soooo cute) Zak had my dad and made him a duct tape wallet with a chain and gave him some sweet smelling stetson Cologne (growing up that is what my parents always had zak give his friends, a wallet and cheap cologne) with a gift card in it. My dad had Kade and he made him a hat (0k maybe my mom helped) with a picnic table

Summer had Becky and made her this really cute bracelet and gave her some spending money. I had Zak. I had so much fun coming up with his gift. I made him a picture book with pictures of just me and all my lovely poses. What a lucky guy. I have to say as I was making it I couldn't stop giggling as I put the pages together. It was fun. I also gave him a gift card . Kendra had my mom and she gave her a duct tape wallet with money. Kade had me and gave me a super cute jewerly holder.

It was fun to visit and see what everyone came up with. It was especially great that Taylor was home to share it with us.

Show and Tell

Emerson took Uncle Taylor for Show and Tell on Friday. She was so exicted that he was able to come so she could show him off. She made sure I asked him to wear his uniform. The kids had some great questions for him. "Is Iraq in Utah?" "Have you ever sniped anyone?" "Have you ever driven a tank?" "What did you eat?" and a bunch more. It was fun to go and listen to him talk to the kids. Thanks Taylor

Then we made a quick stop in Slatin's class to say Hello. His cute little face turned bright red when Uncle Taylor gave him a hug and kiss. Later I asked him if he was embarrassed and he said no, I said but your face got all red and he said red is for happy mom, not embarrassed.

Taylor is BACK. WOOHOO.

Taylor is back home. We are so excited. We drove up to cedar this morning to meet his plane at 7:50 But the army was early and we almost missed him coming off the plane. My kids were SO excited to see him.



Deacon did not want to leave his Daddy's side. He had a huge grin on his face the entire time. He sure missed his daddy.

Summer and Tim

My gang minus Chris who was taking the picture

Shirts they made for Deacon and Trip to wear.

Proud parents

Ellie, he can't keep his eyes off you.

watching for his dad to come off the plane. Thanks Ryker.

and since their was kissing go around, why not join in

Thank you Taylor for serving our country. We love you and we are so GLAD you are home.

Dickens Festival

Emerson started clogging in August and had her first performance Saturday at the Dicken's festival. Chris and I weren't able to make it, so Aunt Summer played mom. Thank you Summer. Doesn't she look so pretty. My mom saved me money and made Em's costume. Thanks so much mom.
Usually in the past Em has had major melt downs before each performance, the costume doesn't fit right, the leggings or tights bug her, she doesn't like this or that so I was prepared to have this happen again but she surprised me and was super excited to wear nylons and her costume fit her great.

She let me curl her hair and we even put a tiny bit of make up on.

Lexi and Emerson

It has been fun to have her take clogging, she goes to the same house and with the same family that I took from.

Good News and not so good News

We have heard from Taylor and he is set to be home in a couple of days. We are soo excited. It could be as early Tuesday or as late as Thursday (we hope) I can't wait to see him.

The not so good news, Chris and I were out tonight and we got a phone call........ one son threw up on another son. The sick son was standing over the well son and thought he just had to burp. Nope not a burp. So sad for the well son and his head, face, and pillow. But the good news. Not a drop got on my carpet.

Taylor

Taylor is back in the United States. I can't tell you have how excited we were to get the news. Not sure when he is coming home yet but he is safe. We are so excited to see him. Love you Taylor.

Em's New Bed

We got these old doors at a garage sale awhile ago. One I have in my Living room and the other one we had up in my hallway until today

The other one is now in Em's Room as her new headboard. I love it and she loves it.

Not bad for 10.00 dollars. I love old doors. I want to do this with some drawers I have from an old desk and use them for the sides of Em's bed. Someday...... soon I hope.

Spiders, Spiders, Everywhere.

Spiders are everywhere at our house. I had a spider clip order for 70 spider clips. So needless to say we have spiders everywhere. They are using them for Christmas to go with the story about spiders and a Christmas Tree. I had never heard this before but after talking to him I looked the story up and it is neat.

I am just about done with them only 12 more to go and then I am packing up my beads. This year I have probably made about 120 spiders so I am ready to pack up the beads. Grateful for the order but glad to almost have them done. I picked up some Halloween wigs on clearance and the Em and Slatin had a blast trying playing with them.

Kaige's team is in the playoffs this week, so football is winding down. Kaige and Slatin are both signed up for Basketball and Soccer tryouts for SPRING are already this week. Crazy. We just had our last game Saturday. So things are not slowing down like I would like them to, but we keep plugging along. We have had some major changes in our family and Chris will be home more to help out. I am sure as I write this I have just jinx myself. Ryker driving has been such a blessing, he helps out with some of the back and forth which is sooooooooooo soooooooooo nice.
Tomorrow night I get to go watch Jaxton at his Ballroom dancing class. To see what they have learned so far. He really enjoys going, but that also could be because he has such a cute partner.

Sadie Hawkins

Ryker was tagged by Ashley on Monday for Sadie Hawkins. He was VERY excited that she tagged him. They had a fun day and now they are off to the dance.

The Guys and their hats.

I sent Taylor and some of his buddies these hats and they got them. Too Funny. Thanks for the picture Taylor.

New Project

Found a pattern online for this blanket and had to give it a try. I love the curves in the blanket. I made the bottom one first and then the top one. They make up pretty fast.

These colors look so much better in person. The camera didn't do it justice.