Four Season's Christmas Party

Sorry, these pictures are totally out of order. Every year Wayne's work has a Christmas Party for the kids. This year was a lot of fun. We actually stayed for the entire thing. They played musical chairs. Shea has never played before and she got 4th place!

They also had a pinata this year. It was a lot of fun. When Shea got up there and swung. Everyone started cheering and laughing. She whacked that thing!! It was so funny. She is a little slugger, as you can see.

Santa gives the kids presents every year. This year Shea got Tinkerbell.

And Rylee got a little computer.

Shea didn't cry at all this year. She even told Santa what she wanted for Christmas.

They got a lot of toys there.

Gingerbread houses!

Cookie Decorating.

Lunch

In the Lobby.

Pulling up the the hotel.

At home getting ready to PARTY!

I love my stinkin KIDS, and dogs!

Mini Cheer

A girl that I work with is a cheerleader at the High School. They are having Mini Cheer classes to try to earn money for new uniforms. So we signed Shea up. She had a lot of fun, but it was only because she got to play with kids! She didn't really care to much about the dancing part! They performed at the High School Basketball half time. I was so impressed with Shea, she new some of the dance moves. It was really cute to watch. They had to wear their hair in a curly ponytail. This was the best we could do. She loves getting her hair done for special events.

We had to sit for a long time just waiting for half time. Shea actually took this picture of Rylee.

Shea waiting for her performance.


Taisha and Shea

Almost time!!!

Getting ready!

They learned a dance and a cheer. Here it is!!

Halloween

This Halloween we had to celebrate it without Dad. He had to work the evening shift at work, so he missed Halloween. We had a lot of fun though. I wanted to share this picture of Mack because I thought it was so funny. I have never seen him watch TV before. He only watches the Bark Off commercials and only the part with the Golden Retriever. It is really funny too see. He turns away when another dog appears, but as soon as he hears the Golden Retriever bark he will hurry and look again. So cute. We sure do have a good doggie at our house.

The morning of Halloween I had to work. She loves coming to work with me and coloring. She sets up a coloring station all by herself and gets to work.

Sorry, these picture are out of order. Here is Rylee!

Being Halloween and all, she drew a lot of Halloween pictures. Here is a monster with a lot of heads!

I thought this one was the best! She spelled Halloween at the top. She asked me how to spell it and from the other room I told her. She wrote it all by herself with no mess ups. I also love this picture because a the bottom of the paper she spelled her name, but each letter she made into something scary. The S is a snake. The H is a bat. The E is Tiger. The A is a saw. She is so creative and we love her to death.

This year Shea was a tiger. She wanted her face painted, so we went all out this year. It was funny because her preschool had a Halloween Party and all the little girls were Tinkerbell, a Ladybug, a princess but not Shea! She was a Tiger! ha ha.

Showing off her claws.

My little Dragon and Tiger.

I thought it was the cutest thing to watch Rylee try to get up after she fell.

And she is UP!

All the wards in Victor do a Trunk or Treat for the kids. After that I took Shea to a neighborhood and let her do a little door to door. It started to rain, so she was only able to do a couple.

Like I mentioned before, Wayne wasn't able to be with us for Halloween. During Trunk or Treat I didn't want the kids to come to our car and pour the whole bowl into their bag. So I looked this up on the Internet. I decorated the trunk like a monster. While I was with the kids going to the other cars. I put a sign up that said, "Reach in for your treat if you dare." I guess it worked because when we were done, we had a couple more treats left. So I let Shea hand them out. She loved it. ha.

By the end of the night, she looked like this! I only let her have 5 candy's and it was off to bed. Am I mean or what!

It was a long day. We also lost a friend last week. My bosses daughter was killed in a car accident two days before Halloween. She was killed by a drunk driver who was driving on the wrong side of the highway and hit her head on. She was only 21. It's one of the saddest things I have gone through, seeing a mother hurt so bad. I can't even imagine what she is going through losing a child. Wayne and I were able to go to the funeral yesterday and say goodbye to Shantay. It was one of the best funerals I have been too. They did a good job honoring and saying goodbye to her. I am so grateful for the atonement and the peace that it brings knowing that we all will see her again.

Our little getaway!

The girls and I went to Vegas with my mom, sister and little brother. We all needed a little getaway for the weekend. We were up all night trying to think of were to go with kids, and nothing was fun. So we decided VEGAS. Guess who drove most of the way. Nope, not mom, ME!!! Not sure how I got stuck with that job.

The was the picture most of the ride down there. Shea didn't shut her eyes once!

We finally got there, and we went for a little walk around the hotel.

Thank goodness for Brooke, who pushed Rylee around!!

Nascar Cafe

I was really nervous about the girls being in Vegas, but Circus Circus was right next door. Great place for kids to hang out, (and Ryan). We just made sure we were in the hotel room before the sun went down. Shea was the first one to hit the jackpot with this game. Ryan hit is about 5 times after that!! We had a lot of tickets.

Shea also won playing tic tac toe. She had to throw softballs and try to get tic tac toe. She was so proud of herself after that. She was a monkey.

We also went to the Shark Reef. (FYI: very expensive for not a lot.) But Shea liked it.

We all had a fun trip. When we got home grandma, grandpa, and Rylee all were sick. Not fun. Thanks family for letting us tag along. Nothing new has been going on with us. I still have 2 very silly kids. Rylee just loves wearing these glasses.

Shea absolutely loves her animals.

Family Pictures 2010