December Fun!

December is nuts but oh so fun!  The boys went to the Home Depot Kids club with Mike and saw Santa...sorta:)!

 We made a traditional Czech Christmas dinner (minus the carp....)

 The kids all made home made gifts again this year.  This year was fun and fairly simple which made it even more fun for mom!:) LOTS of home made shrinky dinks this year.

 Nick spent a lot of time helping me cook.....and he is convinced that having a towel on his shoulder helps the onions not sting his eyes:)

And of course family Christmas parties.  Or Staten party was at the hotel again...we ate pizza swam and came home and didn't even think to take a picture!

Our Horrocks/Wittke party was at Mom and Don's again and it was a fun night filled with a lot of excited and hyper kids!  Each kid got a book and their reaction was the best I've ever seen.  They all were SO excited!  I love that they all LOVE to read!

AWESOME Nutcracker!

Matt was given an assignment in school to make a nutcracker.  We had just gone to see the Wizard of Oz at Bonneville High School so Matt decided to make his a Tin Man.  AMAZING.  Simply amazing.  He made the coolest tin man ever!  I was so excited to add it to my nutcracker collection but then his teacher asked if she could keep it and he said YES!  I was so sad!!  But they did let me take pictures!

Preschool Christmas Fun

I love preschool in December.  First we hit the Ogden Christmas Village (in the POURING rain), had a fun little party and then put on the Christmas Pageant.  They were so great!  We had to borrow a girl though because no one wanted to dress up like Mary:)  LOVE our group of all boys!

The Tree Hunt

One of our favorite things to do each year is to go and pick out our Christmas tree.  The kids LOVE it.  Every once in a while we talk about getting a fake tree.....and then the kids mutiny and we go purchase a living tree.  Picking it out and decorating it is one of my favorite family traditions but it can get pricey.....So this year we decided to see what they had in Home Depot's tree lot.  The trees were BEAUTIFUL and HALF the price of the normal lot!  SCORE!

National Academic League AKA "NAL"

It's been another great season for Tyler on the NAL team.  He studied really hard and ended up being one of the highest scoring kids on the team!  They ALMOST made it to the finals....it was such a nail biter!  Way to GO Tyler and the TH Bell NAL team!