Build A Bear

The girls got to go to Build A Bear to get the songs inside the bears fixed.  They were SO excited.  They wanted to buy every outfit there for them, but this trip was just to get the music fixed.

Cute sisters.

Afterwards, we made another stop and they had

to sit in these fun cars.

Random December Pictures

More random pictures...

School pictures!  First and fourth grades.  I LOVE them.

 Addy not feeling well.

 This poor girl couldn't catch a break.  She was coughing up

mucus and was having a hard time breathing.  The nurse suspected

pneumonia.  We had her lungs x-rayed, and luckily she didn't have it.

Poor thing.  She also had the most bizarre thing happen.  She could not

stop sneezing.  Like literally, every few seconds, over and over.  She was

sneezing hundreds of times a day.  I started to panic that she had some

weird disease lol.  It was so bad, she was starting to go a bit crazy from

it all, poor thing.  It's so heartbreaking when your kid is sick and you cannot do anything.

 Feeling better and playing school.

Working out haha.  Our kids LOVE

to workout with us.

 Ready for the school Christmas program.

 Pictures with Santa at Bass Pro.

 Mailing letters to Santa.

 Haha...playing Santa at home.

 Addy learning money.

 Ward Christmas breakfast party,

making jingle necklaces.  Our ward

had Kneaders catered, it was SO good.

 More working out!

 Addy's class getting ready to go caroling to the

other classrooms.  This was SO cute!

Addy and her classmate, Mailee.

 Addy LOVES the go kart!

 Addy and her little friend Maylee, who lives down the street.

 Morning hair....so cute!

Christmas!

We had a great Christmas!  We had a nice, relaxing morning at home.  Later that day, we went over to Jim and Gwen's house for the usual Petersen get together and gift exchange. 

 Putting up the tree.  We actually  put it up before

Thanksgiving this year!  Every year, we get more

and more excited to put it up.  And this is our old

tree, handed down from my parents.  A week after putting

it up, Jaren bought a brand new one off of an auction

site for $50.  So, down came this tree and up came the other one.

 And here is the new tree.  It changes

color from white lights to colored lights.

We have always had white lights, so the

change was nice!

 It so nice that our kids are at an

age where we can put some gifts

under the tree without them getting

into them.  At least, as far as we know haha.

 Breakfast Christmas morning.  It was hard

for the girls to wait for presents while

we made this and ate.

 Cute sisters!  Every year Santa strings lights

from their bedroom to the tree.  I love this

tradition we have!

 Daddy and the girls.

 Hailey was confused as to why she got

a rock in her stocking haha.  She was so

happy when we explained that it was

a geo rock. She couldn't wait to break it open.

 This cutie was SO excited to find this

tiny Beany Boo in her stocking.  She had

seen them when we went to park and swap

a few weeks before.  Jaren and I went back

later and got her one. 

 Mood rings for this girly!  She was beyond

excited, and has been asking for one

for quite some time. 

 A play washer to go with their play

kitchen.  Too bad it's not real haha.

 Bullets for daddy!

 A cute little charm making kit.

 Grandma Lois knitted them blankets

and gave them new stuffed animals with

a little prayer card attached.  They LOVED them!

 Hailey wanted a poop emoji pillow so bad haha!

 Barbies to go with their Barbie house.

 New shorts for daddy.

 A baby that drinks and pees!

 Hailey really wants to learn how to sew.
I am definitely not a sewer, so she's out

of luck with me teaching her.  This is more

of a felting machine, but I'm sure she'll love it.

 Haha...little momma changing a diaper.

 Daddy opening his big gift!

 A shaved ice maker!  This will save us

a lot of trips to Bahama Bucks!  Jaren

LOVES his shaved ice!

 The girls big gift...a Barbie house!

 Haha...this is how I found Ken later that day.

 Playing with her shrinky dinks.

 Making rainbow loom bracelets.

 She made a cute little pillow with her felting machine.

 Remi relaxing.

 New dress and jacket.  She looks so grown up!

 She broke her geo rock!

 Playing a new game we got, Bug in the Kitchen.

This thing is MASSIVE!!

 This was at the Petersen gift exchange later that day. 

 Hailey got this cute little lip gloss kit.

 Elsie and Addy got little tablets
that you can draw and erase on.

 Kids playing Boom Boom Baloon, such a fun game.

 My pictures are so out of order, but here
is our tree Christmas Eve.

 Stockings.  I wish we had a fireplace to hang them
on, but the couch will have to do.

 Santa did a good job hiding the Barbie House!

 Clay charms that the girls made.  They turned out so cute!