Supervisor

Derrick was made supervisor over mapping plats. Hooray!

Merry Christmas!

I heard Landon come running down the stairs. He has to go through the Christmas tree room to get to our room. He yells, "SANTA CAME!" I told him to come in our room, he could barely handle that request so we sent him back upstairs to wake Porter up. They were back down the stairs in 5 seconds flat. Landon couldn't seem to find his Santa pile right off the bat.... he was getting a little distressed. Porter was wide eyed looking at his. Hazel was still sleeping at this point. I was able to get a nice little posed picture of the boys infront of the tree surrounded by presents. :-) unopened and still looking pretty.
Here a few more pictures of them opening gifts and wandering amongst the chaos. I made there pj's, finally finishing them yesterday at about 5pm. We feel they had a great time and are still enjoying themselves.

Landon's Preschool Program

Cute Hazel

Here is a picture of Hazel looking just so cute and happy.

Christmas Tree

This Christmas tree is special to us. Here is why. Earlier in the week we had gone over finances and decided that we just didn't have money for a tree this year. We had been laid off for a month. Thankfully Derrick is working again. HORRAY! The following Sunday some members of our ward asked if we could use a 9 ft tree. Derrick said yes. That evening the tree arrived, 14 feet tall, and totally fresh. I think they cut it themselves from the mountains. Derrick cut the top off and we put the top in our Christmas stand. Its actually a very pretty tree.

The kids helped decorate it and were besides themselves with excitement. Landon is especially excited. We found him after bedtime sitting in the rocking chair watching the tree. The next morning he was up at 4 am turned the lights of the tree back on and went back to bed.

Santa Pictures

Here are the kids at the ward Christmas Brunch Party. The kids were very excited, and I think we even had the real Santa there at our party!