Gifts for the neighbors...

If you are my neighbor...NO PEEKING!! This is what I am giving as my neighbor gifts, as much as I love baking, it's just not in the cards right now with little babies that are still so demanding and needing constant attention, it wouldn't be enjoyable. But I thought that they turned out cute! I bought damaged cans of Stephens Hot chocolate at the Stephens wearhouse in UT for only a $1.50 which is cheap compared to the store that sells them for $5.00 And they are just normal cans of hot chocolate that fell off the pallet and got dented! I got these cute snowman embellishments at the craft store. The white plastic screw on lids I got at Walmart in the canning section.

Erin and her new Beau came to visit!

They are only dating and not talking marriage, I repeat they are only dating! It was so fun having dinner and playing games last night with Erin and her boyfriend Ben. She is such a cutie and our kids just love her to pieces! Can you believe we have known her since she was eight years old! She remembers us only having two children, that was a long time ago! They are both going to BYU Idaho so they are close enough to come for a visit. In this bottom picture our kids look like they could be hers with all the red heads!

New Glasses

Here they are! His new glasses, finally! We've been trying to get him to wear his glasses for a while and yes his eye's have gotten worse. No one would know this but his really blind in his right eye, we didn't find out until he was eight though and by then it was pretty much too late to do anything about it, we tried the patch therepy but that was miserable. So the doc this time told him that he has to keep his glasses glued to his face to protect his left eye because that one is good and he said that with the strong prescription in his right eye if he were to damage his good eye he would never be able to drive, Ever! So this is what Dash will look like, Forever! Doesn't he look handsome?

Our Baby Is ONE today!

Happy Birthday our sweet little ray of Sunshine!

She truly brings in the sunshine when she's around. We all do this, when we are feeling like we need a smile or sunshine in our life we go and find our little girl and pick her up and hold her because she has an amazing calming spirit about her that makes us feel at peace and happy! She is our sweet little girl and we are so grateful that she came to our family!

BYU-Idaho First Christmas Concert

Sloane and I waiting for it to start, don't you just love my groovy glasses, yes I am blind!

Me, Sloane and the Hildebrandt's went to the first Christmas Concert at the new Conference center at  BYU-Idaho. It's featuring singer was a Baritone Broadway singer Brian Stokes Mitchell. It was wonderful, and he had a wonderful voice! We have never heard of him before but I guess he's famous in NY, he's featured in the NY times for being the next leading broadway singer. It was inspiring, he talked about the song Little Drummer Boy and he said how all of us should be poor in spirit and bring our best gifts to the Savior, then he sang the song and it was so touching and inspiring and made my really think about if "I" on a daily basis bring my best gifts to the savior. Then at the end he sang in his opera voice "Joy to the World" and both Sloane and I were teary eyed, it was powerful. It was a fun night with fun friends that we enjoy! Before the concert we went out for my personal favorite, Mexican food, Yummy!

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The Conference center has a neat story to it and it goes like this. A Group of people  from all the different BYU's got together and were talking with President Hinckely and wanted to build mini conference center's on their campusa's. BYU-Idaho came up with a plan to build one that just only fit the needs of the collage, planning on fitting maybe 6,000 people or so and then the other BYU's like Hawaii and Provo put in their plans also and then Hinckely came back with a plan that shocked them all. He said that he would only physilitate  the one BYU and it would be the one in Idaho and they would use some of the tithing for that building and we would make it to fit 15, 000 people. The other BYU's had to come up with the funds for their mini conference centers by other means. The main shock here is that the conference center holds bigger and better than they originally planned. The one in Utah holds 22,000 people, so not mini at all! They said that it would be used in times of need as a place of refuge. That gave Sloane and I goose bumps and made us teary eyed when we heard that, I love this church they are so inspired and it goes to show that the Lord truly cares and loves each and every one of his spirit children.

Our little bug!

 Look her hair is getting longer, so cute!

We just love this bug!

Our house for mom

My mom wanted to see my house rearranged and decorated for Christmas, so here it is!