Christmas Activities

We had a blast this season celebrating with some fun activities. The boys made Christmas trees, and wrote letters to Santa. Donaven even wrote a sweet letter to Jesus.

Donaven and Emerson loved our new advent calender to count down to the big day!

 

Donaven made this beautiful Nativity ornament at the Primary Activity.

We even got to see Santa again at the Fire Fighters Christmas Party!

The big finale… wait for it…

 

My favorite Christmas Activity…

 

Our own special Gingerbread house!

It sadly didn’t last very long, the walls caved in and daddy’s fire truck quickly arrived on the scene to save the day!

Family night : Christmas tree

Tonight for family night we talked about a few symbols of Christmas. The evergreen tree representing eternal life and the lights on the tree symbolizes the light of Christ. I shared a few scriptures and we did a little Christmas tree craft. The boys had a lot of fun decorating their own tree. I hope that this holiday season that when they see a beautiful lit tree their thoughts might turn towards the Savior and the great gift he has all ready given us.

Buddy Walk

This is our sweet friend baby Austin! His family invited us to participate in the Buddy Walk this weekend and we really enjoyed being apart of his team Austin's Texans! There were bouncy houses, balloons and lots of fun for everyone take a look.

   

The boys were even given medals upon completion of the mile long walk by none other than kind firefighters. How cool is that!

Hopefully next year Brandon will be able to join in on the fun with us.

First Day of Fall

 

(cute pic courtesy of pinterest couldn't find the original source though)

 

It’s officially fall! And what did we do on the momentous occasion you may ask? Well we did what many other Texans did on this sunny 90 deg. day and darned our swimsuits, headed to the local splash pad and celebrated a friends 3rd birthday. We had a pretty good time together. My favorite part would have to be catching this rare moment on camera.

“Poor bruder you didn’t get a lolly pop from the pinyada, here have a yick of mine!” If that’s not love, I don’t know what is!

Wishing you and yours a lovely Autumn season and maybe just maybe we can will the cooler weather our way.

First for Everything

 

This weekend our family got four free tickets to our first ever…

I was a little reluctant about going in the beginning. My boys do NOT do loud sounds very well and crowds can be a little overwhelming. In the end we decided to just give it a try and see how it went. I am so glad we did!

The boys really enjoyed being able to go right down in the pit crew, meet the drivers and see the trucks close up.

They became quite hypnotized by watching some crazy fun RC Cars do all kinds of tricks. I think they would have been quite content to watch them the whole time.

Of course Donaven wanted one of his very own. We were not quite committed to the $500 RC Cars and opted for a nice plastic Monster Truck toy instead. He was none the less elated and has been playing with it none stop!

The moment we had been waiting for arrived when they announced over the loud speakers for the drivers to start their engines.

 

With our protective gear in place we cheered on each driver as they revved their engines.

We watched several stunts and the boys lasted quite a bit longer than we thought they would. In a few years we may even be able to stay for the whole thing. We were very grateful to Brandon’s co-worker for the tickets. Lesson learned to try new things with the boys because they may surprise you with a quite enjoyable evening in the end!

I hope you had a lovely weekend full of family time. I am so loving this cooler weather! As I type this I have the windows wide open, listening to the rain, enjoying a cool breeze and feeling blessed.

Until next time friends,

xoxoxo –Felicia

Lively Labor Day

 

How is your day going? Ours has been quite enjoyable we met up with some family at the splash pad, tried out some new goggles, and soaked up a few rays. It’s Texas we can still do that here in September! When we got home we all enjoyed a round of nesquik and are just having a lazy afternoon waiting for Brandon to get home from his clinicals at the ER. For family night we will be watching the Lorax and popping some popcorn. I hope your Labor Day has been just as lively as ours. 

Pioneer Activity

Last night our primary put on a perfectly pleasant pioneer activity that the kids just loved! The deal was sweetened about 15 minutes before we left when Brandon phoned and let me know he would be joining us!!!

Our little group of Nursery, Sunbeams, and CTR-4 aged kiddos started out at the Nauvoo station where we built temples out of sugar cubes.

  

We then made our way over to Winter Quarters and enjoyed yummy snow-cones.

  

The perilous trek then led us to cross the Sweetwater River.

    

The boys really enjoyed flexing their muscles during the stick pull games.      

What trek would be complete without a few turns in an authentic handcart!

 

Kudos to everyone who had a part in this great night. Fun was had by all and it was a great wrap up to summer, remembering our heritage in the process!