CHRISTMAS TIME

We had the Robbins over to make special Christmas sugar cookies for Santa ;)


My mom, Greg, and Dayne joined our little family on Christmas Eve to make home made pizzas and enjoy the Christmas spirit :)




The kids have to have their special time to sit on Santa's lap.

Mason loved Santa, as you can see with his big smile!


CHRISTMAS MORNING!



We enjoy seeing my dad and Kathy :)

GIRLS NIGHT (ALL NIGHT)

This was a baby shower for Heather and our girls overnighter all in one. It was so much fun, that we are making it an annual ordeal! We went up to the cabin and had Heather's baby shower and spent the night. We felt like we were all 16 again. Mom's should not stay up past 3:30AM, it really hits you the next day when you have to still take care of the family:) I'd say it was worth it though. I still feel pretty young at heart :)
Thanks Brynn for taking this first picture...she was there, just snapping the photo.




Next morning, on the way home, we stopped for some breakfast at the Oaks. Thanks for the great time girls! I love having such a fun and close group of girl friends at this stage of life. It's a great blessing :)

Shauna was a trooper and even brought along her newest baby boy, Zack:)

I lOVE MY KIDS!

Thanksgiving in St. George!

We spent Thanksgiving in St. George with the whole Petersen clan. Polly had her anual Thanksgiving fish pond game for the kids. It was a good time :)

I just love this picture of Jake and Mason. Mason really was fasinated with putting.

Tayli Loves Preschool

Tayli's preschool. She loves to learn and play and I love to volunteer as much as I can :)

Christmas Service Lesson

We taught the kids about serving others for a family night lesson. We took them grocery shopping and then loaded up the groceries to give to someone we knew was in need over the holiday season. They had a super good time and loved this activity:)

Disney's Princess On Ice

My mom, Tayli, and I went to Disney's Princess on Ice! Tayli was in her own little world just enjoying every minute of it. Cinderella (with Arial coming in a close second) is her favorite so that's the picture I chose to post.

That's all for tonight...I'll do my best to get caught up :)

Halloween Was Awesome!

We all had fun dressing up. Tayli and I were butterflies. Thanks to Sarah, our makeup was the finishing touch to our costumes.

Jake was a "cereal killer," and Mason was a turtle :)

These are our carved and painted pumpkins :)

Tayli at her Preschool trunk-or-treat.



Mason was quite attached to this black balloon!

The Petersen Family Halloween Party! Jake and I won the best costumes, which included a gift certificate to Chili's! YAHOO!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY MASON!

What a slacker I am! Lots has happened in life since I last blogged about 6 months ago, so I'm just going to hit on a few highlights since then. My handsome little man turned 1 on Oct. 15th and he had a blast eating/demolishing his b-day cake :)