Wednesday, March 22, 2017

family pictures 2016

 Our on trip to Bear Lake we took some family pictures in Paris Idaho. It is the cutest old town with some awesome buildings. 



 They love the silly pictures!

 The handsome boys! 
 
 The cute girls!

Bethany 13 years old.
Hannah 11 years old.

Rylan 9 years old.  
Dallen 7 years old.
Bryleigh 5 years old.

november 2016

Bryleigh and her all about me poster. We had fun putting to together! 
Her favorite foods are brownies and macaroni and cheese.
She wants to be a singer when she grows up.
Her favorite book is Gingerbread Girl, her teacher read it to them at school. 
Her favorite holidays are Christmas and Halloween.
She likes to dance.
She is named after her 4 grandma's.
Da - her middle name is lee, so the bryLEIGH in her name is after her.
Grandma Johnson, Great Grandma Davis, and Great Grandma Gribbin's middles names are all Jean, and Bryleigh's middle name Jane, which Jean comes from Jane. Pretty cool!
Our old house. The new owners are having a lot of fun making it their own. I think it looks really good, but I'm sad that "our" old house is kind of gone. The whole process of selling and moving all happened so fast and I was still detaching from the house. But I'm glad they are enjoying it!
Bryleigh waiting outside her class for parent teacher conferences. The kids always do great at their conferences and the teachers just love them all to pieces!
Hannah got glasses! They did an eye test at school, and they sent home a paper saying she needed a second eye checkup. Sure enough her eyes had gotten worse and she need glasses. She was surprised when she put her glass's on the 1st time, at how much she couldn't see before. 
Getting the kids donuts for good grades! 
Now that Bryleigh is in school too, we get so many donuts! 5 boxes, 30 donuts! We have donuts for days!
More basketball. She is a great guard and taking the ball down and also a great defender!
Bethany at young women in excellence with her personal progress stuff she displayed. She sewed a pillowcase, has gotten better at softball, and reads her scriptures. 
Bryleigh's class did a Thanksgiving feast. They got to dress up in their pilgrim clothes and go to the lunch room and get their thanksgiving dinner. It was pretty cute. I got to help make the girls bonnets and the boys hats. I helped in the classroom that day and helped get everyone's dress up clothes on. She loved having me help with her class! It was fun seeing her interact with her friends. 

When Bryleigh goes to school, I drop her off at the front door. She walks to her classroom and then waits in the hall until her teacher is ready for them to come in. 
Bryleigh with her new seahawks shirt. Her other one got too small, so she put in a request for a new one. 
While Da was visiting Amber's family we got to watch scout. The 1st day he was with us he pouted and pouted the whole day. He kind of started to drive me crazy like a kid who was pouting. He has such a sad face! He perked up the next day, and did ok.

These two have fun playing together, but sometimes I think they also get tired of eachother! 
The day after Thanksgiving we took the kids to go see Moana. It was a cute movie. The kids loved the recliners, it was their first experience with them. So much more comfortable than the little chairs!

thanksgiving

Thanksgiving dinner! It was just our family this year. We usually have my mom with us, but she went to my sister's for Thanksgiving this year. We just did a little turkey breast, instead of the big turkey. Since only the boys will eat it, it was just easier. 

We had a lazy morning, watching the parade. Had dinner.
We decorated gingerbread houses after dinner. This year they each got their own gingerbread house to decorate. Usually I do one big one out of gingerbread, and then little ones for the kids out of graham crackers. I didn't do the big one this year, just the 5 little ones. 


They had a lot of fun!

We ended our night with some pies and games. I was adventurous and made some of my own pies this year. I have never taken the time to go through all the work of making my own crust and pies. We had a relicity activity where they taught you how to make pies, so I took it on. I made a berry pie and it was delicious. I think it's now my favorite pie. It used to be razzleberrie, but I think this one is better! 
We played would you rather and mad lips. This was Dallen's mad lips. Pretty silly!

tree decorating

I finally got around to making the new stockings I have been wanting to make for a couple years. I was tired of our old stockings, and they were all the same. So we spiced things up a little and got new stockings. I love how they turned out! I let the kids pick out what fabric they wanted for their main part and the top. They enjoyed being part of the process too!
I was ready and so excited for Christmas this year. We usually don't do our tree until the day after Thankgiving, but I was ready earlier, so we set it up. There are no rules right! I justified it because we are going to be gone for 10 days in December, so it made it so we could still enjoy our Christmas trees. 
Each year I give the kids a new ornament. This year I gave them an ornament with their favorite sport.
Bethany got a softball,
Bryleigh a dancer, Dallen a soccer ball. 
Hannah a basketball.
Rylan a football. They were happy with their ornaments. 
They each have their own box of ornaments from over the years, that they get to put on the tree. 
Every year it's like discover their ornaments all over again. 

Dallen and Bryleigh have  a hard time the Bethany and Hannah have so many more than they do!
Ella was very curious to what we were doing. 



I like it when I capture him being silly!
Ella was too curious with the tree! She enjoyed climbing both of our trees, which was very frustrating. She broke a couple ornaments!
Last year I had a hard time with our Christmas tree, and having all the kids ornaments placed all over it randomly. So we bought a 2nd tree after Christmas last year for the kids ornaments, then I get my own tree to decorate. The kids tree we set up in the family room, and my tree was set up in the living room. It was fun having two trees this year!