Oh...

...By the way, in case anyone was interested we DID have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Cute kids in Sunday Christmas clothes after church.

Ready to open presents from Uncle Eric, Aunt Nicole, cousins Ivy and Sage...

Homemade Christmas PJs! :)



Christmas morning!



Santa brought one toy for each child

(oh and for mom and dad too)

and he stuffed our stockings.

It was nice to scale back with the gifts!

Audrey got one big and one small teddy bear. Kyle got a cash register. Kaden got Tinker Toys.


Kids exchange - the kids drew names so they each had one sibling to buy for!



Audrey got Littlest Petshop and a new Connect 4 x4 from Kyle!

(The picture got deleted by accident.)


Thanks Kyle!


A puzzle from Mom and Dad!



Books from Mom and Dad!

Kyle got a McQueen art set, G.I. Joe w/motorcycle from Kaden!

Thanks Kaden!

Kyle's puzzle from Mom and Dad!

Kyle's books from Mom and Dad!

Kaden got Handy Manny and his motorcycle from Audrey!

Thanks Audrey!

Here he is with his puzzle from Mom and Dad!

Kaden with his books from Mom and Dad!

We surprised the kids with some Harry Potter brooms after they had opened everything.

They were stoked!

We love Harry Potter at our house so...

...our kids are usually pretending to be wizards once a day - this will make it even more fun to play Harry Potter!

Grandma and Pops Anderson came over that afternoon and gave them some great presents!

That night all of the Hansen's came to our house - Kev read the Christmas Story out of the Bible...

...and everyone but Isaac participate.

(He was having a tough time during those 5 minutes but he was happy before and after that.)

All of us together before dinner.

DINNER!!!

We were so glad Kellie and Paul could come from AZ! :)

Mercedes sharing a candy cane with me!

Audrey's present from Grandma and Grandpa Hansen!

Kyle's present from Grandma and Grandpa Hansen!

Kaden's present from Grandma and Grandpa Hansen!

See! Told you Isaac was happy before and after the mager play!

The next day we went down to Shelley and visited Great Grandma Hansen!

She had this beautiful wall hanging given to her when Grandpa died.

It's the quote he always said when anyone asked him how he was!!

She loves to visit with the children!

Then we went to see Great Grandma Walton and had a nice visit there as well!

The following Monday we went down to UT and here's a shot from the Thanksgiving Point Christmas light show!

We went to Temple Square and missed the lights but saw some outside of the square!

Beautiful!

New Years Day one of Kev's best friends Ross and is family came over

(they were visiting from AZ.)

We played games, ate, talked, ate some more, played more games and talked some more! Wonderful!

Audrey and their oldest, Isis had fun!

Here we are!

Well it was a wonderful Holiday time.

We are so grateful for the Gospel and the knowledege of why Jesus Christ came to this earth!

This year we scaled way down with how many gifts we gave to each other and how many Santa gave. I liked it!

LOST

Kyle went to school yesterday with

all of his teeth and came home with

one gone.

It feel out at school and not only did he

"lose" his tooth but he "lost" it too!

It fell on the floor and apparantly all of his friends and he were looking on the ground for it but

no luck!

It had been really loose for 11 days
and I was wondering when it would come out!

Kev kept trying to pull it

but Ky wouldn't have that!

Excuse the pjs...it was a very busy day so i didn't have time to take the picture until bedtime.

I asked him where he wanted

to take the picture and he said

"in front of the door because that's where I was when you first saw it...coming in the door from getting off the bus!"

Good idea, Ky Guy!

Where has the time gone?!

My little baby boy is growing up fast!

A tooth gone and in exactly 3

months from today he will be 6 years old!

I am so proud of the Wonderful Little Man

you are becoming!

Love You All...

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RANDOM RANDOMNESS!!!

Good look Kaden!


AW, HE FELL ASLEEP WAITING FOR ME TO GET OUT OF THE BATH!

ANYONE SEE ANYTHING INTERESTING ABOUT THIS SHADOW MY PURSE IS MAKING?!

SOME PEOPLE ARE REALLY CRAFTY AND HAVE CRAFT BLOGS - I'M THINKING THAT WON'T EVER BE ME AND SINCE I CAN'T DISPLAY MY SINGING AND DANCING TALENTS ON MY BLOG (AT LEAST NOT VERY OFTEN) I CAN PUT MY ARTISTRY IN HAIR STYLES ON IT, RIGHT?!

MY KIDS ARE PRETTY DARN CREATIVE - AUDREY'S SO NATURALLY CRAFTY (FROM HER GRANDMA HANSEN, NOT ME!) SHE HAD THIS IDEA TO MAKE A DRESS AND SUITS FOR THE BOYS OUT OF PLASTIC BAGS!

HERE SHE IS DOING A CURTSY...IN HER PLASTIC BAG EVENING GOWN.

SIR KADEN DOING A BOW LIKE THE PRINCE HE IS!

HERE'S KYLE DOING SOMETHING...NOT QUITE SURE BUT HE LOOKS HANDSOME DOING IT!

What a Great Brother!

I am feeling overwhelmed with the love my children have for each other.

No they don't always get along, but they do most of the time.

It really warms my heart that they are all very good friends with each other and enjoy playing together every day.

Audrey and Kyle are very close as well as Kyle and Kaden.

I just love them so much and find such joy to see how sweet they are to each other.

I'M VERY THANKFUL FOR MOMENTS LIKE THIS ONE...

Here is something Kyle wrote inside the back cover of his coloring book just now.

...Audrey has been throwing up today! :(

Oh and on the inside of the front cover we found this and had a laugh!

My friend Marrianne gave me a gift for my "Amber Paige"

(remember the Doc. said 100% girl!)

...a couple days before I had Kaden Michael instead! :)

She also gave Audrey and Kyle a coloring book

(well, it's signed by her son, Caleb.)

Ha Ha...Funny Stuff!!!

Soccer and Football

Smart Start Soccer - Kyle and Kaden.

Kaden going for the ball!

Kyle ahead of everyone.


Right before his GOAL - which the camera missed. Woops!


Kyle was happy...


...excited...

...and overjoyed to have gotten a goal!!!

Team cheer - SOCCER...

...ROCKS!!!

Smart Start Football.

Ky

Kade

Ky got so close to a Touchdown!

After being tagged.

Ky's scary defense face!

Kade getting set up to hike the ball!

HIKE!

Kade getting tagged.

Kade's scary defense face.

This is how much Ky liked it!

And how much Kade liked it!

Such a good learning experience for them and I am one proud momma with how well they did!