Happy New Year (14 days late!)

We decided to have a New Years shin dig at our house this year. I am sick of never having plans so darn it I made some!!! We invited a few familys over to our home and had food, played games and talked till midnight. All the kids came and played downstairs. At about 9:30 we popped in movies for them and hoped they would fall asleep. No such luck. A few tuckered out at about 11:30, and Ambra was the only (big kid) awake at midnight. She thought we were crazy with the bubbles, pots, pans, and screaming! It was fun. THanks to all those that came to our little party. Plan on it next year!

Happy New Year's First Kiss!

Bring it on loud baby! We didn't have any fireworks, but could see a bunch from our house.

Keep those goals and live it up!!! Happy New Year!

Christmas Day!!!

Santa left his bag at our house!!! Wow, this was huge. Ambra ran out in the living room and said "MOM!!! THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE! SANTA LEFT HIS BAG HERE! We must be VERY special and we must have been the last house!" Then Cole says, "No, I think it was becasue I was so, so, so, so, so, so, so, KIND!" Too cute. Yes, Santa left his bag at our house this year. It had lots of fun stuff inside and then it magically dispeared when we weren't paying attention. I guess he needed it back.

Santa brought Ariah a doll swing and some blocks.

Here is Cole's cute little Woody horse. He has a Woody costume too. Very cute.

Santa brought Ambra some scrapbook stuff, a coloring book and Little Pet Shoppe stuff. Cole got a spiderman transformer, a coloring book and the Operation game. Pretty exciting!

That evening we went to Alex and Jill's for Christmas with the Hacker side. Jill made a wonderful Mexican Christmas dinner and we had a lovely time.

Here is Grandma opening her gift from the kids. They made her some ornaments.

Grandma made Ariah a new blanket.

We were so blessed this year. We had a wonderful Christmas with very generous family members and friends and neighbors. Thank you to everyone for making our Christmas a wonderul one.

Christmas Eve Festivities

I've got the pictures backwards on sideways here, so sorry in advance.

Here are the Santa goodies. We've even got cauliflower on there for the reindeer.

We had a little Christmas pagent. Miss Ariah is the sheep.

Starring Ambra Hacker as Mary, Grandpa as Joseph, and Uncle Josh as the famous donkey. Gotta love it.

Mr. Colie was the angel we have heard on high. I was a shepard, and my mom was a wiseman. Grandma got to be a wiseman, and Adam was narrator. This was so fun.

We played a present game. You know, the one where the present is wrapped like a million times in a million boxes with duck tape and all.... well we played it with oven mitts too. This was so funny. My bro Josh won the prize (hence the Rocky dance above.)

We did the funnest thing that we are definitley making a tradition. It is called the yarn game. We each drew names and bought eachother a present. Then we took that persons stocking a tied a ball of yarn to it. Then we took that ball of yarn and went all over the house, up and down stairs, under beds, in closets, bathrooms...everywhere. Everyone is doing this so your house becomes this huge web of yarn. It is totaly crazy (you need to be limber to do this) . At the end of your ball of yarn you hide the present. THat person then starts at thier stocking and rewraps the yarn to the end where they find their present. It was SOOO FUNN!!! And totally hilarious. The kids loved it. HEre is Adam crawling under part of the web.

We took the kids over to see Santa on Christmas Eve morning. Ariah wouldn't have anything to do with him, and they wouldn't let me take a picture with my camera. Here is an illegal not so great one.

Christmas breakfast table.

Here is grandpa in our yarn game. This was seriously so fun, and hilarious to see everyone trying to get around this yarn.

Ambra's Glitter and Glam Spa Party!!!

My little Ambra is SIX!!! We had sooooo much fun at her party! Her invitations were these sleeping masks that she and I made. All the girls thought these were pretty cool. She invited every girl in her kindergarten class (only 9 girls) and all her church friends. They were to come in their jammies, robes and slippers.

Here is Miss Ambra before her little friends showed up.

Doesn't she look so grown up. I can't belieive it. She is so pretty. This was by far the favorite gift of the season. She got a makeup kit from grandma and grandpa. Lots of sparkles, lip gloss, polish and eye shadow. She totally loves it and uses it every day.

The buffet table for the glitter and glam party.

Look at these beautiful girls! This was part of their fashion photo shoot after they were pampered. They each got to switch between three stations: One - we made body glitter. They got to choose what color they wanted and then got to take a bottle home. Two- they had pedicures and manicures - color of choice of course. Three - they got their hair done with sparkles and curly ribbon and got lip stick. They of course thought this was great. We ended with our photo shoot and then did buffet table and presents. They were each to make a bracelet to wear also. They were so cute and Ambra got spoiled rotten. It was SOOO fun.!

Showing off thier pedicures.

All Dressed Up!

Well here are my little darlings and thier Christmas clothes. My mother was so kind as to get these for the children this year. Isn't that the nicest ever! They look so beautiful (handsome in Cole's case.) I love Christmas dresses. They are so pretty.

My little ham. Anytime she sees a camera on or off, she gives me the biggest cheeser. She is such a doll, and we enjoy her so much.

My handsome little Colie. I will share some funny things he has said to me lately:

He was listening to that song by New Song the Christmas Shoes (for those of you that don't know it is about a little boy that wants to by his mom a new pair of shoes because she is about to die and he wants her to look nice for Jesus. He doesn't have enough money and a stranger pays for the difference - depressing yes). Well, he was listening to this song and suddenly he says to me "Mom, if you get really really sick..... Your just going to have to wear socks!"

The other day he came home with a candy cane and shared it with Ambra. I asked him why he didn't eat it and he said, "Mom, I am not going to eat candy anymore. I am really trying to eat healthier. Actually, I am trying to grow bigger so I can ride the mouse next year at Lagoon!"f

Tonight at a Christmas Party, there was a 13 year old boy there, Cole asked him how old he was and then said, "Wow, that is alot of years... So your trying to be a man huh?"

My pretty little girl is going to be six in two days! AAAAAHHHHH. It is breaking my heart that they are growing up so fast. I love them so much and want them under my wings forever! She loves kindergarten and has so many friends. She is definitley a leader and is so grown up in so many ways.

All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth!

Ambra and some of her cute little friends put together a performance to Alvin and the Chickmunks song, "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth." They were the cutest ever! They performed at our ward party and at our Relief Society party. They had a song and dance and totally stole the show on both accounts. I wish I knew how to get sound on my video on my camera (help all you camera video people). Anyway the cutest part about it is that most of them are missing there two front teeth. (Ambra is missing her entire two top and two bottom!)

Singing Christmas carols with the primary.

Am I a terrible mother?

A wonderful thing has happened! The children can officially build a snowman by themselves! Yay! This is something I should enjoy to do with them, but I will tell you I enjoy it alot more when I get to go outside and check it out after it is all done with no help! (Am I a terrible mother?) I love to do other things like baking, sledding, craft projects, reading, etc., but I am very excited about this new development. Isn't it the cuteset little snowman ever??? I just think it is darling, and even more darling because it was done all by thier cute little selves!