California and Disneyland

OCEANSIDE BEACH

While searching for seashells Brynlee was caught by surprise by a big wave and was soaked from the shoulders down. She was a little traumatized and didn't want near the beach after that.

Taylor stopped by the San Diego Temple for me so that I could get a good glimpse of how BEAUTIFUL the temple is. AMAZING!

North family pictures in front of the christmas tree of our hotel.

DISNEYLAND

Yummy Monstrous Turkey Leg....mmmmmm.....sooooo good. Tasted a little more like ham to me though.
We did the Royal Princess Breakfast with all the girls. Food was DELISH, and the girls had fun staring at all the BEAUTIFUL princesses.

This year for christmas we all decided to buy cheap presents from the D.I. or Dollar Store for each other and make it as funny as we could. We got Taylor's 2 sisters Ashley and Lindsey boxing gloves so we could see the 2 of them box each other. DIDN'T HAPPEN. We were a little disappointed that nobody wanted to try these suckers on and duke it out.

We had a great time in California. The best part of the whole trip was creating new memories with each other, talking, and hanging out. Thanks Mike and Michelle for such a good time!

Christmas

Stocking stuffers: Glitter balls, lots of candy, princess snap bracelets, make-up, bubbles, dinosaurs, horse, and much much more.

Kamryn and Brynlee both got barbie's, games, a doctor set, and play food from santa.

Tayson got a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse tent, game and tools from santa.

Grandma's and Grandpa's were so good to us and our kids this year and probably spent more on us and the kids than we did. We are so grateful for them and all they do. Christmas is so special because of them. Don't know what we would do without them!

This is what we have been wearing to church all month long.

ROCKBAND TIME


Later on in the day on Christmas we went to the Hammer's to play Rockband. Brynlee was so funny and was so into it. She had the cutest little face while playing the guitar.

Uncle Ham was quite the Rockstar that night. He sure knows how to play the drums.

Taylor busted out on a few songs and totally rocked the house. He is soooooooooo funny when he sings. There isn't a shy bone in his body and he lets it all loose.

Kamryn didn't know what song she was singing but she was singing it anyways and she cracked us all up.

Brynlee putting on the serious face and Kamryn singing us a little tune.


The kids were so pooped by the end of the day. They didn't go to bed until 12:30 christmas eve night, they were up at the crack of dawn christmas morning, and had no naps christmas day.....PHEW! It was a great day though and we hope you all had a very Merry Christmas as well.

Ward Christmas Program and Preschool Program

Make sure to pause the music at the bottom of my blog.

This video is at our ward christmas party. Too cute not to record it.

Here is Kamryn at her preschool christmas program. It was so fun to watch all the cute kids and to see Kamryn sing all the songs in front of a big crowd. She has been practicing the songs at home and I was so glad to finally see her and her preschool perform. Kamryn loves to perform and get in front of people but she gets so shy when she is up there. She is so funny! We need to break this kid out of her shell somehow. She is just like me as a kid, shy and quiet.

Santa Claus is comin' to town.....

Took the kids to see Santa. They were soooooooo excited. Tayson was saying "HO HO", Brynlee said she wanted to go for a ride on Santa's sled, and Kamryn was just excited to tell him she wanted a Barbie for Christmas. When we got there Kam, jumped right on his lap and made sure to tell Santa twice she wanted a Barbie, Brynlee just said she wanted presents and wished Santa a Merry Christmas, and Tayson wanted off Santa's lap at first and then he couldn't get his eyes off of him. We picked the right mall to go to as well, NOBODY was in line and made the trip that much easier. I only got a picture of Brynlee and Santa cause she is the only one who would smile for the camera, she is such a ham when it comes to the camera.

Family Pictures 2009

Over Thanksgiving weekend I had my mom take a family photo for us. They worked out pretty good, but when we got home I wanted (with a little help from Taylor) to take more of the kids. I had a few ideas in mind and a few places that I wanted to go to. I am really happy with the way they turned out.

Kamryn loves to pose and smile for the camera.

Two of the best buds in the whole world. They both LOVE each other so much and can't handle more than a couple hours apart from each other (don't get me wrong, they LOVE to fight with each other too).

This is my favorite of the girls and I. I sure have pretty little girls.

This is an old run down canning building that I thought would be perfect for a photo shoot.

This is a picture that my mom took for us in St. George. It is so hard to get all 3 of our kids to look and smile at the camera at the same time. This picture would have turned out ok if my kids would have smiled.

This is another from my mom, and I LOVED this one.......BUT of course Tayson DID NOT want to look at the camera. Uugghhhh! It was such a good picture of everyone else that I considered using it for the christmas card, but didn't use it cause I wanted everyone to see Tayson's cute face.

My HANDSOME BOYS. LOVE EM'.

This is another pic that my mom took. Turned out pretty good, I just wish Tayson was smiling. The weather wasn't doing us any favors either. It was sooooooo windy that day, the sun was shining so bright that it left shadows on our faces or my hair looked like it was glowing, kids wanted nothing to do with pictures, and Kamryn's hair was so staticy that it was sticking to all of our clothes. If we got a GREAT picture of all of us something else was wrong with the picture, like my HAIR BLOWING ALL OVER THE PLACE, or Taylor had his eyes closed (he takes after his dad on this one), or Brynlee was jumping with excitement in the picture and yelling "CHHEEEEESSSSEEEE". Oh well, I was just happy to get a picture for christmas cards and I hope that next year the kids will behave a little better and that the weather will cooperate too hehe.

We don't get pictures taken together very often so we had to take advantage.


Kamryn and my sister Kate found this little melon while taking pictures and all the girls were fighting over it.