~Christmas Piano Recidal~

I do not know how to play the piano, and we never had anyone play the piano in my house growing up, but I love listening to Hunter play the piano.  He may complain about playing, and practicing but he is pretty good at it, and I love listening to him play.  For his recidal he played "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Up on the Housetop".  He did a great job!

~Candy Making~

We have a lot of holiday traditions.  One of them is the girls on the Wangsgard side get together to make chocolates.

We make chocolate covered caramels, nut clusters, chocolate covered cinnamon bears, chocolate covered pretzels, etc.  They are delicious!  It is usually just the girls making the chocolates, but this year Christian and Mitch joined in at the end.  I'm not sure if us girls liked that though, cause Christian had some weird ideas on what he wanted us to make, lol.  One of them was a mint covered caramels.  He made several of these, as well as sprinkling candy canes all over the good chocolates we made.  Maybe next year we will just stick with the girls making the chocolates, hahaha.

~You Can Count On Us~

I always love watching the kids school programs.  Mckell just had one all about Math.  They sang songs to help them learn to count by 2's, 6's, and even 12's.  This will really help them with multiplication in the 3rd grade.

Love these two!

~It's That Time of Year!~

After Thanksgiving dinner, our little family has a tradition of going to a movie.  After the movie, our special elf, Fred, always comes to visit us for the holiday season.  He brings Christmas pajamas with him for everyone.  The kids were so excited to see that he's returned to our home.

Now that Fred is here, it's officially Christmas.  Bring on the holidays!

~Thanksgiving~

This year we were all sick over the Thanksgiving holiday with the flu.  It started with Mckell, then hit me, Hunter, then Dave and Garrett.  Lexi lucked out and didn't get sick.  Luckily we all felt ok on
Thanksgiving day though.  We spent it with the Ropelato's this year.  The kids had fun playing with their cousins and we enjoyed socializing with family.

Thanks Dawn for the pictures!

~Halloween~

Halloween this year was a little skipped over.  Since we were moving into the new house over Halloween, we didn't go all out like we normaly do, however we still had plenty of fun.  This year Hunter was a dead basketball player and a scary cloaked man (not sure what to call it), Mckell was an angel, Lexi was Jasmin, and Garrett was a tiger.

Lexi, Melyn, and Rowan at the school Halloween parade.

Lexi on our new front porch.

Of course you can't do Halloween without carving the pumpkins.  We always do this a few days before Halloween at my parents house.

We had a Great Halloween!

~Home Sweet Home~

Things have been crazy busy for us the last month or so.  On October 26th we moved into our new home, Yeah!  It has been over a month and we are just now starting to feel somewhat settled.  We love our new home!  Everyone loves their new bedrooms, we love the new smell, and  love that the kids have their own bathrooms to get ready in as opposed to using Dave and my bathroom,  We love the new house, but really do miss our old house.  We drive by quite often, and all get a bit teary eyed because we miss it, lol.  We had a lot of good memories there, but I know we will make good memories here as well.

Here are some pictures of the house being built.  We love our builders and really had a good experience.  If we ever had to build again (which we are not ever going to), I would use them again in a heartbeat.

We are so happy with the final result.  It is a gorgeous house!  I am extremely happy to not have to run around town picking out tile, rock, paint, and all the other decisions I've had to make.  I know my kids are happy to have there mom actually home and not constantly running over to "the lot" to meet someone.

So here is to our new "Home Sweet Home"