Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone
we hope to wish you a merry christmas this time of year. We are thankful for all that we have and have been given this year. It's been great to catch up with all of you this year and learn new things about your lives. We are thankful for the knowledge we have of the Gospel and Jesus Christ. I am thankful that we have this time of year to celebrate, but I hope to always celebrate his life in the new year.
I had to put this picture in because we took so many pictures (thanks Cindy W)that I quess Sophia got bored.

Lily is 5 months old

My little lily is 5 months old now. She is getting bigger everyday. Her new thing to do is scoot around. She loves to play on the floor on a blanket looking for toys. She will stay there for an hour or so just playing.(it's great)she now can get up on her hands and kick her legs to scoot around. it's really cute. every once and a while she ends up on her knees so i think she will be crawling in the next month. She is such a happy girl, she smiles all the time and loves to hear herself talk really loud. Especially on Sunday when her voice echoes in the chapel. It is also really fun to see her when i do singing time in primary and she sees me, she lights up and starts to talk. She also started rice cereal this week and i wasn't expecting that she would eat it, but man did she love it. i had to make more. she was pulling the spoon out of my hand to get some more. Well, that's our little Lila, now 5 months old.

crazy week

This week has been crazy. First off my van was hit last Monday by a lady that wanted to make a U-turn ... into my car. Then today i found out that my wallet was stolen from my car. but hey they left my ID, weird huh? I thought that with all this craziness that James would be upset. I mean even though they were "accidents" some is still my fault. I was dreading even calling James because I thought for sure that he would not be happy with me, but on both occasions he just said that he would take care of it. I was so relieved. It had already been crazy with James new wrestling schedule, and him being away for the weekend. It just makes me feel better that he was calm and just took everything over. I love him for that, making sure that we are safe and happy.
And isn't this picture cute of him with naked baby Lily? I just had to share. Everyone be safe this holiday season, because some people could not be so jolly this time of year.

Pies are good to eat.

Most People know that Thanksgiving is my all time favorite holiday. A day of all cooking and eating, what could be better. This year our family went to the Ferrari's in Pleasanton, CA. Man was it a good year, we even were on time with our meal which is amazing. In our family we go all out but this year it was over the top. Diane planned the meal (ofcourse) and we had a whole day of shopping with Lily and Alexander. Do you see him in the basket because he's in there. We had appetizers before dinner like baked bree, a cheese plate with 5 different cheese, marinated olives, shrimp, the works.Now don't even get us started on pies. That is the best part everyone (except some) should make a pie, one that will win the pie contest at the end. So we always have about 8 pies. I made 2 this year. I came up with one 2 days before, and it turned out pretty well. Olivia made banana cream, Maddie: junior mint, James: reese's pie (very famous), Diane: Chocolate Raspberry, and pumpkin squares, and pumpkin pie, Me Chocolate pumpkin cheesecake pie, and cherry.This is a picture of our pies after they were finished, isn't Diane's Beautiful I think she won for best apperance, and man was it good with a layer of raspberry chocolates with a berry syrup in the center. I don't like raspberries and chocolate together but i had to try it and it was good. The kids had their own table that they decorated themselves. I don't think any of them really ate much though they were just playing and pouring juice on eachother's head. (sophia to alexander) the turkey was great, jason cooked it on the grill and it freed up the oven all day to make what ever we wanted. But I have to say I did miss the smell of Turkey roasting in the kitchen this year, but a very juicy bird. even Jason's coworker from Germany that had never had turkey thought it was good. Overall it was totally great.