Santa

Picture with Santa at our Primary Activity

Ready for Church

We were actually ready in time to take pictures. We had church an hour later today because we had a special combined Sacrament with another ward.

My Baby is ELEVEN!

Jonah had his 11th birthday today. I can't believe it!

Where does the time go?

He was home sick from school yesterday with a cold. He wasn't 100% better but still went to school on his birthday. They had a 1/2 day. He was tired when school got out even though they just had an assembly, ate lunch and watched a movie. :)

He waited (almost) patiently until Joe got home from work so he could open his gifts.

Jonah is a great helper and a good example to his younger brothers and sister. He has a great sense of humor. He does well in school and his teachers know they can trust him.
We Love You Jonah! Happy Birthday!

Secret Santa

Our ward did a Secret Santa thing this week. Each night we would give a gift to a family. At the end of the week we reveal who we are. We also got a gift each night from a family. My kids loved it.. both the giving and receiving. Jonah dressed up like a burglar (all in black with a black ski cap and black gloves) and we had our walkie-talkies to communicate. We would drop him off a couple of houses away, and get into position. Joe would 'radio' to Jonah that he could go. Jonah would 'stealthily' ring the doorbell and run and hide! We would wait in position until we saw in the binoculars that the package had been picked up, and then we would radio to Jonah that it was safe to return to the truck. We all had such fun! The things we did for gifts were:

microwave popcorn with a note that said: We hope your holidays are "POP"-in!

2 liter Rootbeer and vanilla ice cream: We're "ROOT"-in for you to have a Merry Christmas!

A bag of rocks: We hope your Christmas "ROCKS!"but we also put in a coloring book and a snowman figurine from the dollar store

a plate of cookies: May your holiday be filled with Sweetness!

and the final day, we gave them a whisk and some Hershey Kisses.
When they opened the door, we came from the side of the house singing "We "WHISK" you a Merry "KISS"-mas!"

On Friday, the doorbell rang in the late afternoon, and when Jonah answered it, his jaw dropped! I wondered what could cause such a reaction so I looked out and this is what we found!

We opened the door and I was trying to think of the people that had babies from our ward. The family came from the side of our house singing. We all got a good laugh. They didn't let us keep the baby, but they did give us this:

At the park after school on a windy day

I put a video together of the kids having fun at the park back in November. The sound of the wind in the speakers was so loud so I put some fun music to it. (Fun to Do, from LDS.org)

Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas!