Week in Review...Dec. 29th

Grandma and Grandpa Hahn when they were here for Thanksgiving got us this Gingerbread train, we finally put it together! It turned out so cute!

On Christmas Eve we got together with the Pauls and went hot tubbing! Some crazy kids, namely Carrie actually went swimming in the frigid pool!! She said it was warm, but if warm means freezing than sure! haha!

We had our annual Christmas Reading of the story of the birth of Christ. This year when i started singing Glory to God which is tradition I got a lot of strange looks but my kids joined in with me. haha! This year we had Ricks parents and brother and fiance over, and his fiance is jewish so she thought I was nuts. Tradition is tradition though. Then the kids opened up their pajamas, it was an interesting night...

Hoverboarding at the park...

The day after Christmas we went to the Main event and did some arcade games and the older kids did a ropes course and laser tag.

Jacob found out that he's afraid of heights and ended up staying in one spot on the ropes course. He won't be attempting this one again...

The girls loved it though...

It took him about 10 minutes to get where he is now, and he went right back to the platform. I was proud of him for doing that much though, he was shaking and so scared.

The next day we went to the movies, because it was raining. The next day we went to the Scottsdale train park to ride the train and the carousel.

More pics from the hot tub...

Zach in the frigid pool....

It was a good Christmas for these kids...Haley and Jacob got hoverboards and Ashlyn got a long board skateboard. Abby got a Frozen bike and new scooter....

Abby also got a doll that our new neighbor made, it is adorable!

So grateful for the birth of Christ and the chance that we have to live a good life and know that we can return to Him.

Haley is getting her patriarchal blessing today and so we are preparing for that. We are excited for her and happy that she has made the decision to get one.

Week in Review...Dec 22, 2019

Our oranges are turning orange! yay!!

On Tuesday Abby went in for some sedation dentistry work, we were praying that she would cooperate and that we wouldn't have to do the IV sedation route again. If she was successful it would save us over $1000!! IV sedation is so expensive, we had to do with her one time already and with Jacob. So we were praying that this would work. We got there and she immediately downed the medicine, which was the first hurdle. Then she started getting wiggly and saying the funniest things. I was laughing so hard and she kept shhing me! She said that watching TV was best done whilst being upside down, she told me that she has 3 eyes and that I have 4, and that she had to take off her own sweater so that she would know that it's hers. It was hilarious, then they moved us into the operating room and they put the laughing gas on her nose and didn't fight it, so I thought we were doing good! Then the dentist came in and numbed her and all was good, she let them work on her and only tried to grab everything out of her mouth a few times, because she didn't like the numbing feeling. They were able to get all of the work done and I was shouting hallelujah. Then we got home and she was grumpier than grumpy, but I was ok with it because she had been so good the whole time. I promised her jean overalls if she was good at the dentist and she held me to that promise. We went and got overalls, a jean jacket and a minnie shirt plus a frosty at wendy's! All well deserved! Here she is resting after her shopping trip....

 Then she insisted on going to the park in her new overalls...

It was a big week for Abby, she had a cute holiday play and she was a rabbit. She was the cutest rabbit ever, she was so brave!!

 Then we made candy trains together....

 Ashlyn had to prove that she can still climb the swing set even though she's a too cool 14!

 Emilie and Ashlyn holding poses for me...

 I got called up to the stage during the schools holiday sing along to help with a wrapping challenge, we had to wrap a bike!! I'm on the right side! We won!

It's been a good week, we are excited to celebrate Christmas with Ricks parents next week.