Rub a Dub Dub....Grandma's New Tub!

My parent's new house was finished just in time for us to visit at Christmas and the girls favorite part was the old fashioned claw foot tub. The kids loved the old style detachable water spout.

 Riv and Riah made bubble beards and pretended to be Santa.  "Ho ho ho!  Merry Christmas!"

A Star, a Star, Shining in the Night

This year we took the kids to see the lights at Temple Square.  It was freezing but we had a great time and River and Sariah were SO excited and loved seeing the nativites. 

I love this picture of Cameron with the girls.  It's one of my favorites....it might have to go up on the wall!  Well, maybe after I fix the red-eye.

Our Christmas Tree!

Gingerbread Night, Holy Night

The girls helped me make this gingerbread nativity for the ward Christmas party.  We made it out of actual gingerbread, a first for me.   It took all day long ! The kids couldn't wait for the icing to dry so I had them work on the adorable marshmellow sheep.  They did a good job, don'tcha think? 

They had alot of fun in the nativity game too....Sariah was a cow and River was an angel.

Family Day at the 328th Combat Support Hospital

Cameron was in charge of Family Day at the unit this year.  There were games, crafts, cookies and a real Christmas dinner with turkey and mashed potatoes.  Santa even came!The kids got to hang out with the soldiers all day and they loved it.  The soldiers taught the kids cadences and had them march up to the attic to do PT and other military games.  They even got to hold the rubber M16s that the unit trains with.  They are the real size and weight so the soldiers showed all the kids how to hold the M16 properly.  River got to try the "sniper prone" position.  Sariah just tried not to fall over....I think the gun weighed more than her!

 They also did relay races with training dummies the combat hospital uses.  The kids had to drag the dummies across the room.  River said, "I had to grab the dummies leg and it had blood on it and it's brain was coming out!  The dummies hand was all black and gross!"  She loved it.  Sariah was scared of the dummies and wouldn't even look at them.

Spike It !!!

River drew this picture.  It's a viking warrior stabbing a huge dragon and blood dripping down and pooling on the ground.  

 Cameron took it to work and hung it by his computer.

Red Rover with the Johnsons....They always have the best leaves!

Snow fun, Farm Fun, Halloween Fun

First day of snow!!!

 Fall on the Farm.

(Grandma Hicken is the best story reader)

HALLOWEEN!  Sariah was a clown and River was a dinosaur because she wanted to be "something scary".  She also wore vampire teeth with her costume for a while so she could have "sharp dinosaur teeth!"  Sariah kept saying "I'm gonna be a clown with a red nose and when I say 'twick or treat' they give me candy!'  We even got to stop by Great Grandma and Great Grandpa's house the week before Halloween. 

The Halloween parade at preschool.

Cameron with his cuties!

Eating the loot.

Frosty the snowman.  The kids and I made this snowman in about 5 minutes....the snow was wet and perfect!  Sariah was so sad when he melted.  She looked out the kitchen window and cried "Mom, frosty died!  Look! Look! .......Awwww. Poor frosty!"   River ran out to dig in the snow for frosty's mouth because it was made out of red licorice.

Blake's Last Year Playing for SUU

In an effort to finally catch up I'm combining all the pics for Blake's SUU games together.  We were able to go to a home game in Cedar City and a game up at Weber.  We had a great time. 

 Swimming in St. George before the game.

River, Mom and Ty

 Family picture in which River refused to look at the camera.  Check out her awesome hair though!

 Ty and Mel

 The Girls

Sariah with Uncle Kenney