Merry Christmas 2010

Waiting on the steps, ready to see what Santa brought them. So excited. Denny's parents and sister Alesha came and spent the night to share in the Christmas Morning with us. We were so excited to have Grans, Granddad and Aunt Alesha with us.

Evan checking out his truck that Santa brought him. He loves anything to do with cars or trucks.

Kenna loving her gift that Dallin actually picked out for her. Anything princess will do for this girl.

Evan was so excited about Kenna's barbies, maybe a little too excited, at least for Denny's liking.

Our little set-up after Santa came to our house before the kids got to it.

We had a great Christmas and enjoyed spending time with friends and family. Merry Christmas. Hope you all had a great Holiday season.

Christmas Eve

Kiddos showing off their Christmas PJs. (thanks Grandma and Grandpa Kimball)

Our Little Dancer

Kenna had her little dance performance and she did great. She has really liked dancing. I think she prefers to do her own little thing and freestyle. She loved the fact we did her hair fancy and she actually got to wear make-up for the performance. What a pretty girl. Dallin striking a pose. He was such a good supporter that night.

Happy Birthday Dallin!!!

Happy 6th Birthday to my little man. I can't believe he is already this old. He is such the cutest little boy. He is so sweet and always worried about everyone else. He loves to tell me how much he loves me. He is such a sweet brother to Kenna and Evan. He loves Kindergarten and is such a good reader. He loves to play in the snow or doing anything outside. He is always trying to do the right thing and is a great helper around the house. We love you Dallin....Happy Birthday. For Dallin's birthday we headed up to the "The Incredible Pizza Company" They had a buffet and I would say don't go for the food. It was okay, but the kids loved it. They have a lot of arcade games and bowling and bumper cars. Here is Dallin bowling. Look at that form.

Kenna and Evan enjoying a ride.

Dallin and Denny on the Bumper Cars.

Dallin pulling the tough look on the little merry-go-round. Such a handsome boy.

Love you Dallin and I hope you had a happy, happy day.

Dallin's Wrestling

Dallin started up in wrestling and has loved it. He has done really well and this was his first tournament. He ended up taking 2nd in his little bracket. He won his first match by points, pinned the second boy (pretty quickly too) and lost by a few points on his final match. He is such a handsome little boy. Showing us his "wrestling stance". I love how Evan is looking on in this one. Dallin is a great big brother and a good example to Evan.

Evan showing us his stance. Future little wrestler.

Christmas Sugar Cookie

We didn't make our traditional Halloween Sugar Cookies, so I got some cookie cutters and went to town. The kids loved cutting them out and baking them. Here is a tray ready to go in the oven. Dallin and Kenna did a great job cutting them out. Evan had a lot of fun and sure enjoyed it (even though he ate more of the dough then he got on the pan). If you notice the bottom left hand corner, that would be Evan's contribution to this tray. So cute.

Snow Days!!

It's beginnning to look a lot like Christmas

Setting up the tree. You can see who put most of the ornaments on since the bottom half is fuller and they are all clumped together. Evan showing off "the Kids" nativity. We have this one set up and they can play with it all they want, that way they will hopefully leave my nativity alone.

Halloween 2010

Happy Halloween. We had a lot of fun this year, despite the rainy conditions. We got dressed up little early, just because it was fun to go around to all of our neighbors who have never seen this side of Denny and catch them a little off guard (this is not his first time dressing up like this, but we like it because of how much of a contrast it is) He talked me into dressing up with him, and there was a last minute costume change for Evan so he could join the family. We thought this picture was funny with the Goth family, transfomer, and then bright, sparkly Cinderella in the front, who would never consider being anything but a Princess.Dallin has been so excited to wear this costume. He had a little parade at his school and loved being able to wear his costume to school. Evan didn't care what he looked like, he just loved this concept of "Trick or Treating" and had been practicing with his pumpkin for a couple of weeks.Sweet little Kenna. LOVED the idea and getting her hair done special and being able to wear Make-up, what a girl she is. Funny story. Dallin kept taking off his mask when we went to go visit people so they would know who he was. When we got to Denny's mom's house, Kenna walked in and took off her crown, then looked at Denny's mom and said "Grans, it's me....Kenna!" Good thing she clarified that. What a beautiful girl she is. Made a perfect Princess. Our little Gothic Family....aren't we precious. I think Denny was trying to make a scary face or something.We were able to meet up with some of our cousins and they did a little trick or treating around my parents neighborhood. Isaac the bat...not batman, Kenna-Cinderella, Sleeping flying monkey-Hayes on the couch. Evan-?, Julianne-the peacock. Lydia-50's girl, Sayer-Elfaba, Dallin-transformer and Ava-as Nessa Rose. They had so much fun being together.Here is Evan before the transformation....he is such the cute boy and such a fun age.And the other tail end of it, trying to rinse it off. We got most of it off, but the hair dye stayed on his scalp for a few more days and look really strange.

Hope everyone had a great day and emjoyed it as much as we did.

Boise, Idaho Trip

This last weekend we were able to drive up to Boise to visit Denny's brother Jason and his family. We have been looking forward to this for awhile and we had a blast. We drove up on Thursday night, so we didn't get there until around midnight. The next day we went up the canyon to build a fire, roast hotdogs and make smores. This is Evan on the way with the wind in his face. My little cheese ball. Along the way there was this sign for "Macks Creek". We got all of the boys, since they will carry on the Mack name.

Denny and our boys.

Evan was in Heaven.....dirt EVERYWHERE. Here is a live shot of him doing what he does best, throwing it.

This is the shot when I asked for his smile. You never know what to expect.

Evan helping gather fire wood.

Connor and Dallin doing their part.

Uncle Jason, Dallin and Connor rolling the bigger log.

Tayley and Kenna posing around the campfire. I'm not sure why Dallin is sad in the background.

Evan enjoying a camp-fire cooked hot dog. When they were putting out the fire, there was a lot of steam. Some of the kids and Denny were making scary noises. When they did it again, this was Kenna and Evan trying to be scary.

The next day, we went to a couple of places and Brooke took our pictures. This is Evan once again, throwing things. If you look closely, you can see the rocks that he was throwing.

We had so much fun and Dallin even said he wanted to live in Idaho at one time. I'm sure he liked Idaho, but I think it was more of the company. Thanks Jason and Brooke for letting us come play.

Cornbelly's

The beginning of this month we all went to Cornbelly's. We had planned a trip up to Idaho for later in the month and it happened to be on Dallin's first field trip. He was such a good sport about missing it, that I thought we could go as a family. We had never been before and we had a lot of fun. Of course, we started off in the princess section. Kenna was loving the fact that you could dress up in the dresses there. Look at what a cheese ball Evan has become. They sure are cute.

Kenna posing with the pumpkin princess whose name just happens to be McKenna.

Denny wasn't sure about a picture of his boys on top of a glittery horse, but it was better than them getting dressed up.

Getting ready for the tractor ride. Other side of the cart.

Evan wanted a ride but Denny couldn't steer unless Evan was on his shoulders. I thought this was a cute picture on the tractor with the corn fields in the background.

I loved this picture because it was a real smile and not his cheesy grin. I can't believe what a little boy he has turned into.

Denny and the kids jumping on the big pillow.

When they told everyone to get off to get ready for the next group, Evan took off and was loving having the whole thing to himself. I know, I know I should have grabbed him and got him off, but he just looked so cute I had to get a picture first.

The "Cow" rides. The had pig races and called up a volunteer to represent each pig. Dallin's pig was named David Letterham and he won the race. Dallin got a cute pig nose to take home. He was pretty excited.

Playing in the "Corn Pit"

Evan wasn't as big of a fan being buried in it.

Do you love how Dallin is trying to act sad.

We were there for a couple of hours and in ran into Evan's nap. While we were in the corn maze, he had had it and gave in. We had a lot of fun and I'm glad we were able to go all together as a family.