It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas

Well, we've lived in Nevada for about 4 years. It has lightly snowed a few times, but this snow storm, has all making sure we are still in Nevada. My kids were so excited to go outside and play. Luckily we had jackets, hats and gloves. We attempted to make a little snowman. The boys had a blast. Their feet got cold after about an hour, we were lacking boots, but needless to say we had a great time. Matthew said, "look mom, it's snowing, now Santa can come tomorrow, right?"

eating snow

our snowman

view from our street

This is our little snow bunny. She didn't quite understand why she had to have so much garb on, but she loved playing in the snow.

Sata Claus is Coming to Town

Santa Claus came to our ward party and as you can tell Amie was less than thrilled to see him. Even with her precious doll in hand it was everything she could do to break away.

Garrett's 7

It's official Garrett turned 7. It is hard to believe our parenting adventures started 7 years ago! Garrett had a fun birthday and enjoyed stretching the celebrations out as long as possible. Here are a few pictures from the stretched out celebrations.


He loves blowing out candles and making wishes. Whenever he has the chance to make a wish, he will. He has such faith that if he doesn't tell anyone what he wished for it will come true!



For Matthew's Birthday he wanted a Mohawk. So this year Garrett asked for a Mohawk also. Since both the boy's hair needed to be cut we gave them both a Mohawk. They kept it for several days, then they asked for it to be cut off. We were surprised. We thought they would ask to keep it on.



We spared Amie the Mohawk though. The boys thought that we should be the Mohawk family and all have one. We told them girls don't get Mohawks. They were disappointed about that response.

Happy Thanksgiving part II

Not only did we have a great time hanging out on the beach but we had a fun time cooking and and hanging out. We had two Thanksgiving dinners (so my sister who is a nurse and had to work could have a good Thanksgivng dinner) and spent a good majority of the time haging out.

Erin (my sister in-law) and Emily making dinner

David and Erin at Dinner (my brother and sister-in law)

My boys and brother at dinner

Grandpa entertaining Amy while we cooked. Amy loved every minute of the attention

The kids idea of finding something to do. I love the sparkles the boys are wearng!!

Emily and Eric goofing off durning family pictures.

After all the Turkey Celebrations were over we took some family pictures (minus Elliott who is in Brazil and Kim who is in China).

Happy Thanksgiving part I

We had a great Thanksgiving break spending time in California with family. My brother was able to come out from AZ and my sister was able to fly out from NY. The weather wasn't exactly Vegas warm, but who can't complain when you spend time hanging out with family on the beach. One of the fav's was going to La Jolla Cove. Here are few pics from the day :

At the beach Amie was obsessed with the Cheese balls. She would fill up her dump truck and then eat away. (Notice the big container of cheese balls)

This was probably one of my favorite pictures of the day. Daddy and daughter enjoying the waves discussing nothing but enjoying everything.

A family picture at the beach

A Dennis Family picture at the Beach (minus Kim and Elliott)