Christmas time is near!

 Hallie and some of her closest friends before her choir recital

 Singing her heart out ;)

 This is my hope for our troubled world.

 Puppy is growing...but hating the snow.

This has been the scene at our house for the past 8 days. Influenza....bad stuff. Hit Kayler the hardest, then G.J. and I, then Hallie, and Gavin escaped it's wrath....

I feel so bad, Hallie had a dance recital, but I only got a video...but she did great!

SURPRISE!!!

Take THAT blogger!!!

I figured out how to add pictures and blog without paying.....you just have to add a new blog contributor...which of course is just myself. Tricky tricky I am!!!

We have a herd/flock of 37+ wild turkeys in our back yard. They scare the living daylights out of me....but are pretty cool to watch!

We are the proud owners of this new safe....What is inside this safe scares me even more than the turkeys....but we felt it was needed. It is a gun. I refuse to touch it...or think about it....and I REALLY hope to never have to use it!

 Kayler's wildest dreams came true when my extremely generous friend Stephanie Meier Martinsen and her parents bought this tree for him at the Trees for Charity

 Polar Express!

 Santa!!!

 Kayler visiting so cute with him

 Hallie and Gavin being pretty shy with him

 All the Grand kids

 Kayler and Mrs. Clause

 Swimming at the Hotel

 City Creek

 Zoo Lights

 Temple Square

We went last weekend and enjoyed all the activities shown above with my whole family. Thank you mom and dad for the priceless Christmas time memories!

The end

Sorry folks...I refuse to pay for more storage for a blog that rarely gets read anyways....
I am so super against posting all my personal pictures to facebook...but I guess that is the way it will have to be!

If I can be sneaky or smart and figure out another site, new blog name, etc...I will let you know!~