Kindergarten Chirstmas Program

Nate's Kindergarten Christmas Program was yesterday morning. And what FUN that was!!!! We took 65 pictures just trying to capture all of Nate's facial expressions. One of the other kindergarten teachers told me today, that it was planned to put Nate on the front row to help out with the singing. Let's just say he used his Rasband voice, and there was no way you couldn't hear him! He used his all to sing!! In one of the songs they sang about the nativity, and Nate was picked to be one of the wise men.Hope you enjoy the pics!"OHHHH, I'm the loveliest Christmas tree! Ho, Ho, Ho, He, He, He"Singing with his ALL and MORE!
One the wise men

Nate's 6th Birthday

On December 9th Nate had his 6th birthday! Can I believe it's been 6 years allready? NO! It's gone by way too fast! We were sick the day before so we took it easy. But we still opened presents, ate cake, and played train. It sure was a fun day to just spend together! Happy Birthday Nate!!!!! (This is my 1st attempt at a slideshow - here's crossing my fingers that it works)

Nate's 6th Birthday

Abby Girl

As a mom I've been feeling guilty. The more kids I have the less the younger ones get. Nate has a whole baby scrapbook filled with pictures, Emma - half a scrapbook filled with pictures, Parker - 4 scrapbooked pages, Abby - NOTHING! And I feel like I haven't taken a picture of her since she was born. It really isn't true, we've taken pictures of all the kids together, but nothing of just her. And she has grown SOOOOO much. I weighed her last week on our scales at home (so I'm not sure how accurate) but she weighed as much as Parker!!! It was time I took some pictures of my not so little girl who is now 7 months old!

From Mullet to Man

So Parker has been in need of a major haircut I just haven't known quite what to do with it. It was a little long in the back, but it had such a cute curl as you can see. His hair was described by Uncle Dustin to be "business in the front, party in the back" We got a good kick out that. But it was time to clean in up a bit. So not knowing how to really fix it, we just took the clippers to it on the shortest guard. So know it's just military style.Here are the before pictures:

And here is the little man now:

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! Ours was GREAT! We spent the day at my Grandma Pollock's house. It was a HUGE crowd! Everyone was there except Chet & Jamie's family. We usually are not that lucky to get everyone from the family there together, but we came VERY close this year. We had the usual huge Thanksgiving dinner. Then the kids played with toys, while the adults played games. And Abby was so good to take a nap! The following day TeJay had the day off!! It was wonderful to get to spend some family time with him. Nate insisted that since Thanksgiving was over that we HAD to put up the Christmas Tree. Usually I wait until after his birthday, but he wouldn't let that happen! So Saturday was spent "decking the halls". I think that Nate and Emma think the sooner they decorate, the sooner Christmas will be here. It just means more work for Mom as she tries to keep the curious Mr. Parker out of the ornaments and the train. Allready most of the ornaments have been moved to higher ground just out of reach.

Emma put on the Angel topper for this yearThe finished Beauty!

The real reason (I think) that Nate counldn't wait! THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN!! They have played with it every night since. Chirstmas wouldn't be complete in our house with the train!
WE ARE READY FOR SANTA NOW! Guess I'd better get shopping!

Last Ride of the Season

Over the weekend, TeJay and Nate took their last motorcycle ride of the season. They went to Saint George with TeJay's dad, and they had a lot of fun. They left Saturday afternoon, and came back Sunday night. We told Nate that it would be a really long ride for him, but he insisted that he REALLY wanted to go, and he would be good. And he was!!! On the way to Saint George they only stopped ONCE, and Nate never complained! He said his backside was a little sore though. They saw trains in Milford, and I'm a little surprised that they didn't bring back any train pictures,because Nate LOVES trains. He even has a "Train Scrapbook" that he cuts out pictures of trains that he finds in the newspaper, or anywhere to glue into his scrapbook. TeJay and Nate have helmets with CB radios inside so that they can talk to each other, and both listen to the radio. Along the ride, Nate asked TeJay to turn off the radio so that they could take turns singing their own songs. What a great idea for a road trip.