Seeing Santa

The kids all enjoyed seeing Santa after I practically had to throw them on his lap. Mary was quite leary of him and asked me if he was the real Santa. I asked her what she thought and she said" I think No!" but we talked about it for a minute and decided it was probably one of Santa's elves helping Santa out.

Gingerbread Houses

We made Gingerbread houses the other day with my mom. When we were growing up we would go over the my mom's Aunt Kae's house and make gingerbread houses. The last couple of years she has given us some kits to make houses. The kids love it. Mary has been asking me for a couple of weeks when we got to make the "man house" We had a great time and had lots of candy.

Thanksgiving

We had a lot of fun spending Thanksgiving with the all of the Stephenson's family and his aunts this year. As alway it was yummy. The kids had a great time at the cousin table. Macie and Emily are spoiled by their favorite Aunt Jeri.

Disneyland

We went to Disneyland a few weeks ago with our friends the Ropers. The kids loved it! James could ride all of the rides and Mary could ride most of them. They loved seeing all the characters. We also got to visit the Jensen's on the way down. We also visited one of Jim's cousins and they took us to the beach before church. We all got caught in a big wave. James thought that he was going to be in big trouble because he got his church pants wet. The kids keep talking about when we can go again.

Halloween

Sorry I am slow getting these posted. We got a new computer and I am still getting used to it. We had a great Halloween. The kids had lots of fun!

The Coats Cousins (we are finally starting to get some with two more on the way)

The Toy Story gang!!!

You should hear Emily tell you who she is "JESSIE" She loves it! She is quite a good Jessie with her red hair.

Buzz and Woody - Morgan and James are best buddies. It was very fitting for these two. I wished I had my camera when we were trick- or - treating and they were walking down the middle of the street (you can do that here) James with his arm around Morgan, it was quite cute.

Mary and her friend Shayda were both Silvermist. One of the faries from Tinkerbell.

Family Pics

Yes, we are still alive. I have been slacking on blogging. Life has been crazy in August. We had family pics the end of July and they turned out pretty good. We also have big news. We have sold our house for real and have moved into the upstairs of Jim's parents house. We are getting ready to build and hopefully we can get started before the snow. We can hardly believe it. So our computer is in the basement of the dental office and I have not got down there to download pictures. I have to find the cord, so if I don't post very often that is my excuse.

James has started the 1st grade and has lots of his friends in his class. He is also playing soccer and plays football everyday afterschool with his cousing in the front yard. He loves living at Grandma's and that it is a 1/2 block to his cousins house.

Mary is in preschool and loving it. Oh, the pigtails in the picture are no longer. She decided to play beauty shop with her cousin and she now has a new hair style. Hopefully this will help her hair grow faster. Up unti this point she has only had a couple of trims and all she wanted was one ponytail. The morning after the new haircut she cried and cried that she could not have pigtails.

Emily is growing so fast and she thinks that she is just as big as James and Mary. She is lots of fun and misses the kids when they are at school. It was so cute today. Jim and I were in the car and she was in the back and started to sing "I know that my Savior loves me" She sang the whole song all by herself.

July Fun !!

4th of July Parade

James was so proud of himself to finally knee board.

He's 6 years Old!!!!!

James turned 6 years old on Tuesday. On Monday we celebrated at the pool with family. It was lots of fun. On Tuesday we went to Toy Story 3. James loved it until the end when he started to cry because Andy was going to college. James is going to take all of his toys to college when he goes. He is such a fun little boy and we are so happy to have him. A quick little story about James that happened a few weeks ago. James' cousins grandma died and James and Mary were asked to sing with them at Grandma Sandy's funeral. They were singing the new primary song "I know that my Savior loves me". During the song Mason started to cry. One of the members of the stake presidency told us that James reached over and started rubbing his back trying to comfort him. He just keeped singing and none of the rest of us could see this. He is such a fun little boy, who is growing up fast.

Emily is a little fish who is not scared of anything, but it scares me.

Mary a bit more cautious was daring enough to go down the slide once.

Cannon Ball !!!

Aunt Andrea's Back Flip