December Fun

My first Christmas gift this year was given to me by my mother-in-law Dee. The picture doesn't do justice, but it's a beautiful nativity set and it's my very first one. I absolutely love it!

The house all decorated for Christmas. 

Movie and popcorn on a cold December night.

Our traditional Santa Train Ride in Boulder City.

Fun ride on the little train too.

Picture with Santa on the train. Max was too "mature" to jump in.

It was cold. Hanna and Van were sharing their sweater.

We played in the leaves across the street from Danny's grandma's old house in Boulder City.

The kids piled all these leaves together.

And jumped in!

As you can see, they had fun! 

We don't get to play with leaves very often in NV.

We went to Ethel M Chocolate Factory to see the Christmas Lights.

We had an extra little one with us that night, baby Zane.

I bought this beautiful new CHRISTmas cradle and I love it!

Glasses for Hanna

I can't believe my two oldest both need glasses! They both barely need them, but enough to need them for the classroom. Hope it stops there, even though I think she looks adorable with them!

Walt Lost His First TWO Teeth

Walt has waited for this day for 6 whole years!

He was so excited he even asked to get them pulled out. They were so loose, Danny tied each of them to a string on the door and Walt slammed the door.

Walt was happy to see those two little teeth out of his mouth!

School Activities

 Daisy cheered for the school assembly.

 Crazy Hair Day.

 The kids participated in the school fun run.

 Van made a story book pumpkin. From the book Go Dog Go.

FIRE

A few days after Thanksgiving I turned on my oven to bake a turkey pot pie.The house started smoking a little, which I figured it would pass. A few minutes later it was super smokey! I turned off my oven and a fire started inside of it. I had 9 kids at my house so the only thing I could think of was getting them outside. A few minutes later the fire department was there and all was well. They were super nice and helped fan out my house for a little bit before they left. Next time we spill turkey drippings in the oven I'll be sure to clean it before turning my oven on!

Gravell Family Pictures

My Crazy Family!

Grandma Susan with all her grandchildren.

Mom with her children and grandchildren.

My siblings and mom.

Michael, mom, Jenny, Kurt, Rebecca, Greg.

The granddaughters. 

Grandma Susan made all the cute skirts!

Skye, Hanna, Daisy and Ella.

Cute cousins just a few months apart. Clark and Ella!

Thanksgiving 2014

On Thanksgiving Day we had our traditional Thanksgiving dinner at Jeff and Cindy's house with Danny's side of the family. It was nice to have my mom, grandma and Brother Micheal join us.

Then my family came out to celebrate Van's baptism and Thanksgiving with my mom. Van got this new teatherball for his birthday and the boys had a great time with it!

Uncle Kurt didn't like his little brother beating him every game!

The little kids table.

The bigger kids section.

And the rest of us!

It was a great Thanksgiving to have my mom, all my siblings, nieces, nephews, grandma Mike and Aunt Janet and Uncle Tim with us!

We are BLESSED!

Van's Baptism

I can't believe another child of ours has been baptized! 

This means my kids are growing-up way too fast!

 Danny baptized Van, Andrew gave the talk on Baptism, I gave the talk on the Holy Ghost, Hanna and Ruby sang "I am a Child of God"  and Max and Hanna gave the opening and closing prayers.

 Uncle Kurt and Skye were there.

Baxter and Vincent were there.

 Uncle Greg, Aunt Heather, Brody and Ella were there.

  Grandma Mike and Grandma Susan were there.

And of course, Mom and Dad and all your siblings were there!

I was so busy I forgot to take pictures afterwards of everyone that was at your baptism. 

Uncle Tom, Aunt Becky, Taylor, Hailey, Zachary, Ruby, Uncle Jeff, Aunt Cindy, Raquel, Andrew, Olivia, Grandma Dee Dee, Aunt Janet, The Blackwells and The Leavitts were there too!

 It was a beautiful baptism Van! What a blessing it is to have the Holy Ghost as your companion. 

May you always remember how you felt on this day and
strive to follow your Savior Jesus Christ daily!

Family Night

We went out to dinner as a family!

It doesn't happen too often, but we enjoyed the night, for the most part!

Max

Max is growing up way too fast!

First of all he got braces and second of all he went to the 6th grade "ball"!

 All these kids are in the 6th grade and all but one are in our ward! There are even more their age, I guess they just weren't at the dance. I am so grateful he has such a good group of kids so close!
After the dance they went to one of the friends' house for a movie night!

What a blessing it is to be here!

Pink Zebras

Hanna had another great soccer season! She met some good girls and enjoyed playing with her team!
I always love watching her play! She mostly played forward this year and was able to score quite a few goals. They were so close to making it to playoffs yet another year! It was a great season!
Now it's time for basketball, which mom will be coaching!

Daisy

Daisy can ride her bike with no training wheels! 

We had her training wheels up so high for so long now, 

I put her down a grassy hill on Walt's bike and said you can ride it, go! And she did!

 She finally got confident enough to try it on the road.

Walt's been riding for over 2 years now, not sure if I ever documented it.

 Daisy is a Cheerleader at her school! 

She gets to go to practice once a week and wear her uniform every Friday. 

She's a natural!

Wicked

We won 2 lottery tickets at Wicked and got orchestra seating for $25. 

Hanna's name was called at the last call. We had a great time!