The always beautiful Mesa temple lights!

Two weeks ago Boyd, Jaime, Kason and Hadley came down for the weekend. We got to take the kids to the temple. When we were getting ready to go Shaylee asked "Where are we going?" I replied "To the temple." And Shaylee got all excited and said "We're getting married tonight!" So cute. I love it!
We had a great time. All four kids oohed and aahed the whole time and we went in the visitors center and watched a film on the Savior's birth! I love Christmas!




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Santa at Bass Pro Shop

We got to go have lunch at Famous Dave's (so good) and go to Bass Pro Shop and see Santa! When we were getting ready to go see Santa I was putting Shaylee's shoes on her, some black slip ons. I wore some brown chukkas and then Savannah wore tennis shoes. Shaylee let Savannah know that her shoes just weren't as cool as hers and mommys cause they were just tennis shoes. That made Savannah mad and she told Shaylee "Santa's gonna bring you nothin' but a lump of coal this year 'cause you are so mean."
Shaylee was so excited to go see him she could hardly stand it. On the way she asked, "how long until Santa", about every two minutes.
So when we got up to Santa he was great. First he asked them if they had been good all year. Savannah said yes, then Shaylee said yes and Savannah blurts out
"Nu-huh, Shaylee made fun of my shoes!" Santa was trying not to laugh and then said "Well, that's not sooooo bad, your shoes look pretty spiffy to me."
He sang Rudolph with them and asked them what they wanted for Christmas. Savannah had spotted a pink fourwheeler in the store right before we got to him so that's what she requested. $1700, I sure was glad Santa told her he wasn't sure if that would fit in the sleigh. Shaylee requested a real Palomino horse. Santa was like "WOW! These girls don't mess around." He then gave them hugs and candy canes. What a cool Santa he was. I will definetly take them back there next year. Also, they had such cute decorations with coloring and games. And, they had real Reindeer,(caribou) I think in full mount. You can see one in the back of the picture.

Dancin in a Winter Wonderland

Savannah and Shaylee's Christmas dance recital was yesterday. They have been in a combo, (ballet,tap and jazz) class this fall. They danced in taps for the recital and they were both so cute. "Blue Christmas" by Elvis was the song. They are both getting so good at it and love to dance.
As you can see Shaylee was fast asleep in her car seat before we even made the 2 mile drive home. Lots and lots of fun!

Fun with Nani

Nani and Papa Hulsey came for the weekend to do a little shopping and go to the girls dance recital. We had lots of fun with them, and the girls were so sad to see them go. Nani picked these huge pine cones up before she came down here and then helped the girls decorate them like Christmas trees last night. They had a ball, painted them green, then put cotton balls, glitter and glued the little puffy balls on them. Savannah's is the red and blue and Shaylee's the pink and purple. Thanks Nani!

Now a Christmas game

Just relaxin on a Sunday afternoon

We are home now and hunting season is officially over. It feels GREAT! However the extra money will be missed and it was lots of fun. The girls are sure glad to be home. We had a lazy Thanksgiving. The last day of the hunt was the day before Thansgiving and I had been feeding 20 guys for 6 days and I caught a cold on the last couple of days. So, we just enjoyed relaxing, had lunch at the lodge and then went to Quemado and saw Jared's family for the rest of the day.
The girls are soooo excited about the Christmas season and Savannah has decided that blue and raspberry are her new favorite colors,(previously pink and red). I asked how they want to decorate the tree this year and she said all blue. So we got blue lights, blue glass balls with snowflakes,and blue bows. Shaylee is very in to the Tinkerbell faries and we found some "fairy" ornaments for her. Maybe we will put our tree up and do some decorating tomorrow!

Thanksgiving Memory Game

Halloween

So, here it is, a week late. It was lots of fun, the girls got PLENTY of candy and got to strut around as princesses again! We went to a Trunk or Treat at the church here in Queen Creek. My friend Mary called me the morning of Halloween and we were just chatting,she said she was gonna dress up as a farmer so I said, "what the heck, I may as well dress up to." So the girls and I went to Party City and they chose Cinderella for me. If only we could've got daddy to dress up as Prince Charming!

It's been awhile

Hello everyone. We have been gone for quite a bit this month so the blog has suffered. Hunting season started up by Grants, NM. I went up there with my brother Dalon and cooked for two weeks. We had so much fun. We camped on the back side of Mt. Taylor, so pretty up there. I should've taken pictures. The girls stayed with my mom in Luna and went to school, they are learning so much. I got 1 day off between week one and two and when I went to see them it was pretty dang hard to leave them for another week. Then we came back to Queen Creek for a couple of days (daddy needs more attention) and then it was back to Luna for another week.
The girls love it on the ranch and the mountains. They love being able to go outside and have all the wide open space to play in, something I was lucky enough to do every day when I was little. Uncle Dalon got them a miniature donkey "Pokey Joe", which they absolutely love. He is as gentle as a dog and just their size. We are getting them saddles for Christmas this year, shhhh...They will think they are in heaven when they can ride their donkey with a saddle just their size. Pretty Exciting!

Happy Birthday Shaylee

Shaylee is 3 today! She is getting to be such a big girl.Everything her big sister does,she wants to do. It's so sweet . She started dance (tap,ballet and jazz) on Thursday and is already wanting to know how long until next time. Savannah is in the same class and told me that the teacher had to tell Shaylee to be quiet because she kept talking to the girl next to her. I guess they were talking about their tutus.
"SO CUTE" if you ask me.
We took the girls and our friends Micah, Mary, Amber and Kaylee to Amazing Jakes for Shaylee's birthday party. We had such a good time. The girls rode a frog hopper, a train and some spinning tea cups and then played some other games. It was a Tinkerbell party, which Shaylee loves right now. If we ask her what she wants to be when she grows up she says "Tinkerbell."
What a delight this little girl has been to our whole family. She has such a sweet and fun personality and makes us all smile so often. We love her sooo much.