Christmas 2008

Christmas can't start at our house until Doug gets done with his fabulous and famous Christmas cookies.

We made several plates of goodies to give to some of our friends and neighbors

We had a hard time putting these yummy cookies on the plates........but there was plenty to go around. We also made fudge, chocolate covered pretzels, wedding cookies and butterscotch crisps. The kids voted that we should have at least a years supply of white chocolate covered pretzels.......hmmmm.

We always enjoy when Christine comes to visit. Kolten was explaining to Christine about the preset that he gave to her. When he asked my opinion what to give her of course I said jewelry but he gave her a PSP and games (think that is what that thing is called???) Go figure.

Please Dellis take time out of texting for Christmas presents.....dam kids. It was wonderful to have him home with us for a few days and it was super hard to see him leave again. We are glad that the weather was to where he could make the 8 hour trek here. Man why do they have to grow up???Douggy is sooo helpful . . . . . yep he is setting the table !!! The sweat shirt he is wearing was a present from Aubree....we all voted and we think that it fits his personality perfectly..............(sorry hunny still love ya)

Alot of snacking was going on.

Silly kids, and silly faces.......what a goof ball.

Breakfast was yummy Doug made omelets for everyone.....some people in the house even had two but we will not mention any names.Cleaning up is always a task but with many hands helping it is not such a big deal (nice butt Doug....hahaha got ya)
Kolten loves pictures as much as Monica does...............NO WAY HATE THEM

Aubree's Christmas after math in her room. Guess she was just checking out her loot ???

After a early morning, presents and a full belly some people in the house decided to check there eyelids for holes.

Even the dogs were tired of all the laughing, horse playing and lights. We had a wonderful day together. We played together, eat together and laughed. We had a fantastic day. The boys taught us to play Wii this weekend. What a fun game. We really really missed our Brodie on Christmas day, when we called him he was not about to talk on the phone he was way to busy for something so silly. We hope that all our friends and family had a wonderful holiday season.

Swingin & Singin

Aubree LOVES swing choir. This is one of her funnest classes. They work really hard with alot of extra time BEFORE school. But is pays off in the end. Yeap, that is Aubree right next to the speaker.

This year she had a solo on one of the songs but my camera was put away and I missed that shot....hmmmm imagine that.
In Swing Choir they always do a traveling choir show. They spend one day traveling to different locations and singing. These pictures are taken at the last stop on there Christmas choir concert at Lincoln Elementary.

Wall X-Mas Party

For the past few years the Wall family has had a tradition to have a Wall Family get together the day after Thanksgiving. We have usually met at Mike & Colleen's house and had a nice meal together. The kids LOVE to see and be with each other. The girls do the girl thing and the boys play video games (like there is something else to do duh). This picture is of most of the kids that were there, I carried my camera around all night and right when we were leaving I decided that I needed pictures and by that time Mackenzie & Courtland had left and they are not in the picture....(sorry Mackenzie Aunt Monica is not good with taking pictures like your other Aunt is :-( sorry I will do better next time) Aubree, Shawn, Kolten, BooBoo, Zack, Kamy, Andrew, Mady, Jake Douggy and Mike say there final good bye's. We had a wonderful time together. We had great food and even better company. The Wyoming Wall Gang did not want to make the 3 1/2 hour trip home that night but we did. We always like to be with our families. Family is so important and we are so blessed at this time of year that the weather was good and we could make the trip without all the white stuff. Now that we are home the white stuff can come in bucket fulls.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was a quiet day at our home. There was four of us and plenty of food. Dellis was not home with us for the first time in 22 years what a shocker. He was in TX at Rio's father (Rio is his G/F her name is Molly but likes to be called Rio). He called us several times and he was having a blast in TX. There was deep frying, 4 wheeling and guns involved with his holiday. He had a fantastic time. We had a nice day laying around the house. We were actually suppose to put up Christmas decorations but that did not happen. But we managed to get our packing done because the next day we headed out for our next adventure. We got up at the crack of 5 took the dogs to the kennel and headed to Utah. We dropped Kolten and Aubree off to Aunt Colleen's and Uncle Mike's house for the night and Doug and I headed to Wendover.

The weather could have not been more perfect. We had tickets to see Wynonna Judd's Christmas concert at the Peppermill Concert Hall. It was FANTASTIC. I have loved her for many years and when I found out in July that she was going to be in Wendover there was no question that I wanted to be there also. We found out how old we were getting when after the concert (about 10 PM) we were so tired we decided to head to the room for much needed sleep. Thank you Doug for making this time together really sweet and special, we had a great time together. We spent the night in Wendover at the Peppermill hotel and headed back to American Fork for the annual Wall Christmas get together on Saturday evening.

We have been bitten !!!!

Aubree and I are HUGE HUGE HUGE fanshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1GbukZnl1Y
I took her and a friend (Kira) on Friday to see the movie and we LOVED it. We were 5th in line to get into the theatre and the last out of the theatre. I will say the book was better but they usually are alot more detailed, but the movie was fantastic!!!!! I am almost done with book two and Aubree is SOOOO close to being done with the fourth book. She asks me daily what part are you at and what do you think....silly girl I LOVE to read and these books you can't put down. We have decided to see every one of the movies as they come out !!!!!!! Look out we have been bitten....hehehehe

Brigadoon

This is Aubree, Kilie & Kelsey after the last performance of Brigadoon. It was exciting and fantastic. They did such a good job. Aubree tried out for the play in August. They have practiced there butts off. They ended with three performances 13th, 14th & 15th. This was a High School play and Aubree is in the 8th grade going to the Jr High.

This is most of the Brigadoon cast. The members were so excited they kept jumping in and out of the pictures while I was trying to take them. Aubree is next to Adam in the red vest in the back row.

Another cast picture.........crazy kids. Brigadoon was a Scottish play and even included a bag piper it was great.

This is a picture of Aubree and some of the crew. What a great bunch of kids they embraced her and loved her for who she is...... We are sooo proud of her she did a fantastic job with her speaking and singing parts. She LOVES LOVES LOVES doing these type of things we think she has found her new love. Her brothers have always called her DQ (drama queen) hahahaha oops shhhhhhhhh. These kids worked HOURS and HOURS on this play and did a fantastic job. Now that this is over she informed me on Friday that she has made it into Student Council...........AUBREE !!!!!!!!!!!!! :-}

Yummy Honey !!!!!

Yep he is caught again in the kitchen again just him and his mixer. This mixer was a valentines present because I love him and I know how much he LOVES to bake. O yeah and he loves to grill.

This is another attempt at a two layer cake. I think he is getting the hang of it what do you think?
This is the inside of his delicious creation. It was sour cream cake with huckleberry filling. O my it was fantastic and hate to say it but the cake saver could not save this one. The family is already making orders for him. I think so far he has two very specific orders.

Yes, Yes he is cleaning up his own mess.....what a guy. I wonder since he is finally back to work full time if we are ever going to get these "I am soooo bored" creations again ???? Now if he will start to work on the sugar free, fat free, calorie free version then life can be perfect. Love ya honey keep up the good work. :-}

Scary Girls

Heading out for some treats, look out the scary vampire is looking for more than candy tonight.....

The group before they headed out to have fun. The weather was absolutely beautiful. We don't remember a Halloween like this ever here is WY.....it is usually snowing and the wind blowing wildly.Aubree, Shelby, Kira, Taylor and Shelby's mom Sharon

Sharon the personal trainer....this costume was hilarious....they had a blast !!! Thanks Sharon for being a good sport and taking the girls they had FUN

With the weather being so wonderful on Halloween night we did not think that we had alot of trick or treaters. Kolten and Kevin was sick of passing out candy by the time we turned out the lights and we did go through the candy pretty fast.......hmmmm wonder what happened to all of the candy.......................KOLTEN !!!!!!!

Douggy Crocker Strikes Again

Doug is SOOO bored that he attempted to make a multi layer cake like he seen on TV...

He says it is not as easy as we would think it would be. He was SUPER mad that the cake fell apart after it was cooled. He said that he was trying to turn it over and it fell apart. I told him that it looked beautiful.

The cake was SUPER DELICIOUS and he was told to STOP being bored in the KITCHEN. We love him !!!!!

Brodie & Nana's Boots

Brodie found Nana's boots and he tried and tried to get them on himself until Pa helped him.
He was showing me what a big boy he was and needed no help.
When I called his name and he looked up this was the adorable face that I got from Pa and Brodie
He was trying to walk on the counter but the boots were stopping him. . . . . . silly boy
We love this little guy and LOVE when he comes to hang out for the day. We love that he calls Monica Nana and Doug Pa........we are REALLY going to miss him. Lakewood is not that far away but too far for a day trip. He loves to talk on the phone and when Monica called to talk with him the other day he was too busy with chips in his mouth....silly boy

When it was time to take the boots off he was REALLY REALLY REALLY mad!!!!!

Another Day at Play

Brodie came to play on Sunday and he LOVES to go outside for walks. He talked Aubree into going with him.
He was wondering around the front yard and avoiding coming into the house. We discovered that he can get out the back door and out the back gate......
He was loving the outside even though it was windy and cold. He did not care he was OUTSIDE !!He is sporting his new dinasole shoes that Nana bought him for Christmas and she did not wait to give them to him. Cruizing was the only thing on his mind.