Pirate Party!

For Macy's fifth birthday party she chose a pirate theme which ended up being very fun to plan. Unfortunately, I didn't get photos of a lot of the details but there are still a ton of photos to follow. 

Naturally, the kids  got a treasure map leading to different rooms/activities until we ended at the treasure (goody bags for each child). We had so many kids, we chose to have it at the church.

St. George- December 2011

We went to St. George between Christmas and New Years with my parents and the Cooks. Unfortunately, I only took one blurry picture of Julia. Fortunately, Corey got a picture of Macy with her first ever fish.

Christmas 2011

Christmas card 2011

Christmas 2011 started out crazy for us. JD and I were in charge of our ward Christmas brunch. Man, I was happy and exhausted when that was over.  Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the cultural hall after it was decorated but here are some of the trees we used to decorate the tables. We folded about 30 magazine trees, glued sequins to styrofoam forms and bought a few at them.

After the party we were ready to focus on our family Christmas and went to get a tree. We ended up with a little live tree, that is now planted in our backyard. Maybe in a few years it will be our big Christmas tree.

This was our first year with an elf and it was really fun.

Macy was Mary for the Summerhays Christmas Eve nativity on Christmas Eve. She was so cute and took the role very seriously.

The girls were excited and adorable on Christmas morning. I took video of the present opening and apparently didn't get any pictures.

Macy had to check if the reindeer ate the carrots she left for them. They are very messy eaters.

I loved having Christmas on a Sunday.

We then had a great night with the Ashby family.

Macy was an angel.

Christmas with kids is such an exciting and magical time but most of all, I hope that I can teach them the importance and miracle of the birth of our Savior.

Ballerina

JD and I loved going to parent observation day at Macy's ballet class.  She was really into it.  She was very good at memorization and following directions.  Her free dancing was hilariously good and our homework needs to be skipping. 

We love our little princess ballerina!

Fall 2011

four wheeling in the backyard

September 11th memorial

canyon drive to look at the leaves ending with a walk around Silver Lake

Corn bellies

Julia's First Haircut

The mullet had to be stopped so Julia got her first little haircut on November 19th.  It is much harder than it looks to cut a straight line, after her hair dried I was trying to even it out for days.  I don't think I will doing very many more haircuts.

I love her little face!

Happy Halloween