The Highlight Reel.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Gingerbread House Fun!!!

Jason and I had this great idea to start a new tradition with my family.
We had the first annual Gingerbread house contest and were amazed at how creative my family is. Everyone was divided up into teams and given the exact same amount of material. They had a time limit and the rest was up to them. The only rules were no eating the candy and all the candy had to be used on the house. We had a blast! Next year is sure to be bigger and even better! I am so glad that my family was such good sports and everyone participated.
This is Toby's dog house to go along with the barn theme. Go figure it was made by Grandpa's team (Baylee, Shannon, Paula and Grandpa Warner)
This was the "S&W Christmas" (sorry the picture is sideways)
Yes they do celebrate Christmas in a double wide! Made by Guppy, RJ, Trent and Kenzie.

This is the guard dog for the S&W double wide. RJ made it out of one piece of gum and some royal icing. Oh and a lot of patience.

This is Christmas at the OK corral. Complete with a stream and yes a corral with a horse. This house was made by Dori, Graig, Tristan and Jaycee.

This is the Christmas Cottage. Made by the "Master Gingerbread House Maker" aka MOM and Jackie. Raynee was on the team for moral support. This house won the award for most "Christmas Like"

This was the winner for Best Construction. Made by Karl, Toni, Bo, Brek, Easton and Xander. Yes we stacked this team with most of the little kids, being that Toni and Karl have the most patience we figured they could handle it. This house was amazing, Karl even cut the pieces of graham cracker to make a chimney and dormer.



Team Grandpa. Making sure the animals aren't left out.

Trent trying his best to focus while Guppy constructs the house.

Shannon eyes up the house to make sure its all in square. Yeah Right!

Jackie and Mom look lost. Good thing they've already got the house up and standing.

Karl and Easton concentrate while making the cuts for their house.

Xander spying on the competition while Shannon attempts to assemble the barn.

Raynee is just here for the Candy!

Dori and Tristan are all smiles now that they have a original idea for their construction.


Guppy, Kenzie Trent and RJ are trying to improvise after the roof collapses on their house. Thus comes about the S&W Christmas, Double wides=Flat Roofs.
Thanks everyone for making this new tradition so much fun! Can't wait to see what we all come up with next year!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Small Town Christmas

As is the tradition this time of year,
The kids participated in the annual
Pine Canyon Town Christmas Program
This year Bryn Leigh was in it as well,
She was a doll, I know we say that all the time






But this time she was playing one on stage.












The boys were Santa's elves






They did so well and knew their parts perfectly.

I am so grateful that my Mom and Brandy Palmer go through






the trouble to put this on every year so that my kids can experience it too.






Saturday, December 5, 2009

The Prayer of a 4 yr old.

Easton
Dear Heavenly Father,
thank you for this day, thank you for our house that we could live by grandma and grandpa. Please bless us that we could be big and strong. Please bless us that we can sleep good tonight and I could be a baseball player in the morning. Please bless me that I can ride my horse with my cowboy boots. Please bless Murphy (the dog) Please bless that Santa's elves will find all the ones who are on the noddy list, bless me that I will be on good list. Please bless that when we play football Trent won't tackle me anymore. Bless that when we wake up in the morning the toy room will be clean and that we can get a drink of water. Thankful for all of our blessings.
Say these things......
Afterwords, Jason and I were laughing so hard that we almost cried but yet it was the most heartfelt prayer ever. He wouldn't accept any help with it. He wanted to do it all on his own. He makes me so proud and laugh so hard all at the same moment. Only my Easton, can't help but love him.

No Flu Shot for Trent....Almost.

Last week I took the kids to get their flu shot. Unfortunately, Trent overheard me talking about it on the phone so he started dreading it early in the day. As we were waiting for our turn Trent tells me he has to use the restroom, which is just in the same room as we were in. Just as he goes in the bathroom the nurse tells us that she's ready. So first up was Easton, he did great, no tears. Then Bryn Leigh got poked. A little fuss but she was still pretty tough. We have one last shot but no Trent out of the bathroom yet. This is the conversation that followed.

Mom: "Trent you need to come out"
Trent: "I'm not getting a shot"
Mom: (thinking I could outsmart him) "Easton needs to go potty, please come out."
Trent: Tell him to find another bathroom.
Mom: tries not to laugh.
Trent:"I don't want a shot."

It just so happens that the health dept doesn't have a key to this particular door, or at least not that anyone can find. So for the next 20 min the nurse is frantically looking for a key. I try my best to persuade Trent that we can "talk" about whether he will still have to get a shot after he comes out. Not that I'm a talk-it-through kind of mom but I tried that tactic. All the while trying my best not to let on how humored I am by this little incident. Finally he comes out. I threw him over my shoulder and while he kicks and screams about not wanting a shot the nurse pulls down the waist band of his pants and gives him the shot. As I set him down after all was done and he says to me,
"Mom I really don't want a shot".
I said "Trent you already had it.
To which he gives me a puzzled look and says
"I did?"