Monday, December 28, 2009

Grandma Margaret's Christmas Party


Grandma Margaret hosted her annual Bingo Christmas party.  She served a yummy prime rib and had lots of surprises for the kids.

Ashley and Addison

Whitney, Addison and Chris

Terra and Eden

Carson with his cup/Coke tower

Dawn with tickles for Carson... or is that Quinton?

Eden, Blake and a yawning Tristen

Baby Tristen in his new knit bear hat

Blake, Tristen and Jed

Grandma Margaret made the little girls ceramic tea sets.  Here's Eden opening hers with delight!


Addison and Eden held an informal tea party immediately...I served the girls.



It is always such a fun family gathering.  Our kids love the parties at Grandma's house and we love visiting with our Ogden family.  Thank you for another great celebration Grandma Margaret!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Merry Christmas!!!




Christmas Programs '09


The third week of December marked the week of Christmas programs.  Our kids had programs scheduled three days in a row. Whew!!! Thankfully, none of them over-lapped.  We thoroughly enjoyed them all.

The first grade sang for Peruvian Park Elementary on Wednesday.  Their theme was caring.  Carson told the school, "I show caring by never being mean or hurtful."  Some great advice for everyone!



Quinton joined the Peruvian Park school choir this year, and has been staying after school rehearsing for months.  We loved hearing him sing all the traditional Christmas carols: The Christmas Song, Winter Wonderland, Let It Snow, Silver Bells, I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas, and more.

"I loved it!  I'm definately going to do choir again next year!" remarked Quinton after their performance and pizza party... (I really hope he gets the musical gene from his father, 'cause I surely don't have it.)

After the choir performance, Eden surprised us as soon as we got home by singing, "mommy and daddy are mad...  I'm gettin' nothin' for Christmas!"  We loved that she had heard the choir sing the song and remembered it.  The next day, she sang "I broke a bat on Jonny's head."  We have got to get it on video!!!

Eden's Winner School program was also really fun.  Here she is getting ready for their grand entrance.

Once she came into her classroom and spotted her daddy, it was all over.  She ran to him and forgot about the performance.  Later, we were able to get her to sit with daddy and start singing with her class.





Aren't these two year olds darling?  I've gotten to know them all as their new preschool teacher.  Its been really fun for me, but a little hard for Eden to share her mommy.

Here she is proudly singing Jingle Bells while ringing bells in her hand.

Afterwards, she gave Miss Sharon a big hug!

Her party wrapped up with frosting cookies with pink punch.  Yum!!!
As proud parents, Jon and I, really enjoyed watching each or our children perform.  Their confidence and talents are growing every year!!!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Baby Tristen's Blessing


Beautiful baby Tristen Duane Metz was blessed on the first Sunday of December.  It was a very cold and yet beautiful day in Ogden.  I wish that we would have taken pictures of the baby with his mommy (Whitney) and daddy (Chris), but there were so many relatives at the luncheon that it was hard to get a moment with that special baby.  However, I took these darling photos of Great Grandma Margaret with her third great grandchild!!!





I also captured this great shot of Edie and her daddy. 

Monday, December 7, 2009

Ice Skating at Gallivan Center... Brrrrrr



Our family went ice skating at the Gallivan Center this past weekend! The Center is beautifully decorated with Christmas lights and music.  It was great fun, and super cold.  Both Quinton and Carson are getting to be pretty good skaters!  We could hardly get them off the ice to leave once Eden started freezing...  Absent from all the pictures is Jon, but he was our fabulous photographer, hot chocolate provider, Skittles (for Edie) feeder, and Eden chaser while Quinton, Carson and I skated.  Thanks Daddy!!!  I hope we can make this an annual holiday event.












What a fun way to usher in the cold holiday weather!!!

'09 Christmas Photos of Edie Belle






How to Cook a Turkey...according to a 6 yr old

Carson: "You get it from the store or another way you can get it is hunt it down. How do you cook it? That’s easy! You just put it in the oven for 30 degrees, for…1 hour. And that’s all. After 1 hour, you take it out and eat it."


I found the recipe posted above on Carson's 1st grade teacher's blog and decided that it must be shared.  Thanks, Miss Peng.
      You gotta love that Carson!!!!