December Fun

Van spotted at the HS basketball game.

Clark's church drawing of the Grinch.

Clark as the Grinch for Whoville Day at school.

Drawing by Clark. Mom spotted Buddy the Elf at school.

Class Christmas party.

Christmas Sing

Watching Buddy and cute Daisy.

Nativity at the temple.

Ice Skating Fun w/ Clark & Jane

Clark Chimes Concert

Griffin and Clark

 

Our 1st Elf on the Shelf

 Jane was at a friends and said you're so lucky, you have an Elf on the Shelf.

Well the friends mom dropped by a chocolate elf for Jane the next day.

Thankfully, she let the Elf be "naughty" for just one night and then wanted to eat him.

Well, the next day she cried and said she really wanted an elf on the shelf, even though she knows who actually moves it, she still wanted it so bad. 

Clark really wanted to be the one to move the elf so he also begged for one. 

So they finally got an Elf on the Shelf.

Clark Leaves a Message For His Future Self

 Video Message to Clark.

Live Nativity

We went to a Live Nativity, which I always enjoy.

And went to JCW's afterwards.

Sadie's for Walt

 Walt had a great time at Sadie’s. The theme was “Jersey Out”.

6th Grade Egypt Project

This is a huge 6th Grade project and Clark was so excited about it!

 

Clark also loved doing this Dragon in Art last week.

Jane

We have no more SANTA believers.

 

Last week Jane asked me after school, "tell me the truth, is Santa real?" I asked her what she thought. She said, her friend told her to think about it, We give our Christmas list to our parents, they get all the packages, they're the ones buying our gifts, not Santa. I told her the story of St. Nick and who he was. How he was a good person who wanted to bring gifts to lots of kids. Later, many other people wanted to do the same thing. So in a way we are all Santa's, we all bring gifts to one another.  

An old picture of the kids with "Santa" (missing Max).

Poor Jane...

Milton under the tree.

Milton and Mable

 

Uncle Greg & Ella

I just love these pics. of Uncle Greg and Ella cutting down a Christmas Tree.

 

Temple Day

 Danny and I took Van, Daisy & Walt to do baptisms at the Draper Temple.

Van got to do temple work for my Grandpa Milton Gravell.

We took them to lunch afterwards.

Thanksgiving Weekend

When you have a small tree and this many helpers it really only takes about this long to set it up, haha! (Unfortunately, the tripod broke, so not the best timeline video this year).

It was nice having Kurt and Michael join us for Thanksgiving.

Love having my kids home for Thanksgiving break. We played lots of basketball, went to the movies, shopping and the big kids went out to eat to a couple of their favorite places together. They’re best friends and this brings me so much joy. I love this family of mine!