Never a dull moment

Poor Brian has had a rough year when it comes to accidents. Less than two weeks before Christmas Brian blew out his achilles' and had to have surgery a week later. He is super bummed because it happened right before Christmas and because he will have a long (3 month) recovery......we love you babe, you still work hard even though you have to hop around.

Pre-surgery

In the recovery room....

Pre- Christmas Programs

Isaac's class had a little Christmas performance. It was so cute. He did a great job.

Typical Isaac, just loungin' around because he is tired (or maybe just lazy)

The kids sang at the Ward Christmas Breakfast and did a great job.

Santa came to visit and the kids did great...well expect for one....

Claire HATED it.....after this she was afraid of Santa for the rest of the month.

Ohh Piggy Piggy

Too cute not to post...Claire's hair is now long enough for piggy tails. I love them.

Christmas Tree Shopping

As always, Christmas Tree shopping is always great fun! Lizzie joined us and we got a winner within 3 minutes.

The Christmas tree lot had Santa's sleigh, reindeer, hot coco and a hot tub. True story. We only enjoyed the sleigh and reindeer though.

Shortly after Isaac touched the deers rack it bucked it's head pretty hard and just about gave Isaac a heart attack.

SoCal for Thanksgiving

We had so much fun at Rob and Tina's in Thousand Oaks for Thanksgiving.

The kids spent A LOT of time in the hot tub/ pool.

Brian is walking on water....teeeheehee

Liz and I took Olivia and Leila to the American Girl Doll Store. It was so fun.

We tried to get family pictures, pretty much impossible with three little ones.

We went to the beach and although the water was cold the kids had a blast.

Coming home...

Not sure who Claire is hiding from.

Ski Date

The weekend before Thanksgiving Brian and I had a ski date. We spent the night at Alta Peruvian Lodge and then went skiing. We had a great time together and sitting in the hot tub after a day on the slopes was definitely a highlight.

Fall Fun

As always, Fall in Utah brings wind, leaves, rain and snow. The kids have fun playing in all the different kinds of weather.

Raking leaves wouldn't be fun if you couldn't jump in the leaves after there are all in a pile.

Isaac didn't understand what was wrong with this picture.

She's not sure what she is about to get herself into.