Gift Exchange with the Ehmke Girls

The Ehmke's have 4 girls just like us and they are all the same ages as my girls(the problem is Sarah is pregnant with her 5th girl and I am not so I am screwing things up.) It is really fun because they all love each other so much. Sarah and the girls came over one night and we exchanged gift. The girls loved it. Hannah and Hailey

Claire and Maicy

Kiley and Grace. Do not mind Kiley she really does have a leotard under that sassy dance shirt.

Santa

Our yearly pictures with Santa. Annie thought she was going to be so brave. She was so excited to see Santa until we finally got to him, after over an hour of waiting, she did not like him. Beverly loves to come with us to see Santa. She is such a special girl, she is 73 years old and she is about 9 years old metally. We just love her so much, she was sad because Santa did not talk to her. I was sad because I did not even notice because Annie was freaking out. What a blessing it is to know her. Maybe next year Annie will not cry. This is 2 years in a row of crying.

Merry HoHo to Mema & Papa

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!! We are so grateful for all of our family and friends. Most of all we are grateful for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What a blessing the Gospel is in our lives. I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who has blessed us so much this past year. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.

PS sorry no cards this year. We still love all of you so much. We will send a card with our new address when we move.

Emmanuel 14 yrs Later

This is for my family members who were with us on Christmas Eve 1994. So on Sunday we were eating lunch and Kiley could not wait for us to finish because she had a performance for us. Well it just so happened to be to the song Emmanuel by Amy Grant. Jack and I were laughing so hard it hurt. She was doing some great moves on the ladder, and then she moved to the floor. The other girls joined in the fun. It was a good laugh. Wished you all could have been here. Ladder dancing.

Dancing with a present

Maicy going crazy

Hailey with Crazy KiKi doing nasty moves in the back ground. She is innocent she has no idea what she is doing.

Annie with her buddy Maicy.

Temple Lights

On Saturday night we went to see the Temple lights. It was great because it was not very crowded at all. It was fun, we ran into Caree and her kids, Jacks mom , and his sister Amanda. Sorry for the demon eyes I do not know what is up with my red eye reduction on my camera.

Nanny with some of her grandkids.

Night at the Prom '08

It was so cute Annie would not take her eyes off of the Nativity. She loved it.

Decorating for Christmas

We put out our some of our Christmas decorations (I did not want to get them all out because we will be moving right after Christmas) and put up the tree last Saturday. The girls were so excited to decorate. They did a great job!! Annie loves to play with it all. Hailey

Maicy and Kiley

Kiley's year to put the star on. Jack had ran to grab lunch so I asked her if she wanted me to help, she said no I want dad to help me. Every year he lifts them up so they can put the star on. It is pretty cute.

Annie, Maicy and Hailey playing. They love my exercise ball.