New Year's Eve

 The girls wanted their hair in curlers.  My mom and I did a hair parlor for the girls.  They were all giggles.

The madness before the ball dropped at 9pm on the East Coast.

The fun continued after Christmas.  We stopped by Mortensen Manor on the way home from Utah and my sister and her husband wanted to keep the kids.  So Damon and I enjoyed a few days by ourselves.  BYU won their bowl game.  Always a plus.  On New Year's Eve there was a little something for everyone.  There was yummy food, a shooting range, games, Just Dance in the basement and a whole lot of fun.  The best was when the boys did a dance to C&C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat.  We were laughing so hard when they all started singing the words.

A fun picture from Nana's.  The boys watching Pirates in Nana's bed while eating ice cream.

More Chirstmas

We did have a lot of fun in Utah.  Here are some more pictures from our trip that we wanted to put on the blog.

It was nice spending Christmas Day with the whole Afualo Family.

 Christmas Eve dinner.  We did Italian this year.  It was a lot of fun.

Nana's new Christmas toy.  His name is Tyler.  He talks.  Lily like to stick so many candy canes in his pants that they would fall off.

Christmas Chaos

We had a lot of fun at Christmas, but our day was busy.  One of these days we will figure out how to make Christmas not so busy, but still Merry!

Twas the morning of Christmas and all through the house, everyone was stirring even a mouse. (somewhere) The children all woke up as bright as could be in hopes that the presents were many to see.  We unwrapped, and unwrapped with cheers of delight.  We said Thank you, gave hugs til our sides were to tight.  We ate food, went to church, sang some Merry fun carols, made 2 turkeys, two trips to the airport and had filled laughter barrels (hypothetically).  It was a Christmas to remember because it was so cold we will not forget it even when we are old.  (Yes, another Christmas Poem!)

We did have a great Christmas eve and Christmas day.  Our traditional Christmas Eve program was even more fun because Auntie Dara was with us.  She was able to join in the silliness.  I couldn't play carols to well because of my thumb, but we made the most of it.  We watched Santa's travels on Norad and played Christmas games.  We also made cookies for Santa and left him some milk.

Christmas was crazy, but it was nice to have all of Damon's family together.  Even if it was only for a few hours.  Now it's time to bring in the new year!

The Snowmen Family

We did this last year as a family and the kids begged all December to do it again.  We wanted to share the making of the snowmen family with Nana and Papa so we waited until we were with them to do it.  So here is our snowman making experience. 

Papa didn't feel like making the snowman.  He just ate it.  Out snowmen looked rather like French snowmen this year.  We thought that was funny.

 Even my cut up, sewn back together thumb couldn't stop me from building the snowman.  It did cause some problems though and no one would let me near a knife.

A week of Craziness

This past week was super busy.  Well, just 2 days in the middle.  We had a band concert, swim team, ballet dress rehearsal, choir concert and a ballet performance.  On top of that we have had school reports, work and the rest of the day to day stuff.  We survived however and our 3 stars all did fantastic jobs!  We are so proud of them. (no pictures from Adam's choir concert.  There was only video)

Now the parents need a vacation.

Christmas happenings

We've been busy this Christmas season.  It started a little late due to the leaky pipe situation, but we finally got the house decorated, the lights up and have started to have a little fun.

Treekid Party-we had the treekids over for a party.  We played wii, watched a movie and decorated sugar cookies. 

We wrote letters to Santa.

Christmas Party at church and the Christmas program at church-no camera

We went to Christmas Card Lane-we also didn't bring the camera

We decorated Gingerbread houses with the Woodard's

We made treats for our friends and neighbors and spread Christmas Cheer!

We are so glad it is the end of school for a bit!