Addyson gathering her crops(she is pretending to be a farmer).

Hammering Away!

Ethan milking a cow. There were actually teets that squirted out water!

We Thank thee of God for a Prophet

Nissa, I hope that you don't mind me copying this picture from your blog, but I loved it. I love it because it is a portrayal of some of the great work that President Hinkley did as our Prophet! I know that so many peoples lives have been blessed because they have had temples built nearby. President Hinkley was really the only prophet that I remember but I grew to love him so much! I will miss hearing him speak in conference and enjoying his wonderful personality. I am grateful to be member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and to have a modern day Propet who speaks to God and gives us revelation. I know that it was a great reunion with his wife and eternal companion. For more information on this photo of President Hinkley visit Nissa-Lynn Parson's blo
I also had a friend send me a youtube clip of some photos of President Hinkley set to music. It will bring tears to your eyes. Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvB3z2U8DEo

We had a wonderful Christmas with our little family. It is so much fun with the kids at this age, seeing the excitement on their faces when they wake up Christmas morning to all their presents. The best part is that they are so easy to please. I am excited for each new year we get to make Christmas memories. We had a fantastic time with friends on New Years Eve playing games and ringing in the New Year. I hope everyone is having a great start to the New Year!

My little Pony
Ethan's favorite book!
So excited about Transformers
Webkinz rock!

We attempted to take about a thousand pictures for our Christmas cards but our camera is such a piece of hud every one made us look possessed. We don't take many pictures of the whole family so here is one, even if we look a little scary.

The kids and I made gingerbread houses and Paige wanted to be in the middle of it all. She managed to dump out all of the candy and spread it all over. As you can tell the look in her eyes says just how excited she was!

Dave and I were Mary and Joseph in our ward Christmas party program. The kids thought that it was great! The next day they found some sheets and blankets and created their own Mary and Joseph costumes. Very cute!

Aww, it is Mary and Joseph

Ethan as Joseph

Addy as Mary

Yesterday at Addyson's school, Glen Oaks, they had a Thanksgiving feast for all of the kids and their families. Ethan and I brought Addyson's favorite meal Quesadilla and corn because I knew that she wouldn't eat anything they were serving. She was sad because she saw all of the other kids eating turkey so she insisted that I get her some turkey and bread. Of course, just as I suspected she took one bite of the turkey and said it was yucky! I guess I have to give her points for even trying. A friend took this picture of Addyson with her friends Aubrey and Courtney in their turkey hats. Aren't they so cute you just want to eat them up-Gobble Gobble!

It has been a long time since I have posted anything on the blog, I am a slacker I know. Dave's Mac went down and we lost a lot of pictures. We have had an exciting couple of months with Addyson turning 6, DisneyWorld, Halloween, and our camping trip. The pictures are a little out of sequence but enjoy!

Paige was a mermaid. This was my first attempt at making a homemade costume. I don't think that I did too bad, except Paige kept trying to eat her shells.

Addyson was princess Fiona, I tried to get her to go green but she wanted to be the pretty Fiona. Ethan was Peter Pan. I am suprised he didn't try to fly this year. Last year he was buzz lightyear and he jumped off of everything he could find and said that he was flying.

On November 2nd, we went on a camping with a group of our friends to Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas. There were 8 families and all of our crazy children. The weather was perfect during the day, and night was a little chilly but it was great camping weather. The first day that we got there we went to Fossil Rim animal reserve. We drove through in our cars and fed the animals from our windows. The animals were pretty friendly, almost too friendly. Day 2 we packed up and visited the lifesize dinosaurs near our campsite (not real of course) , took a hike, and headed home. We love our to get together with friends and camping is the best activity to do with kids, it is cheap and they love it!

The ostrich's were very aggressive, scary in fact. We had to roll the window up for this one!

There is the Ostrich trying to get some food from the Deragon's

Careful the zebras bite!

I was so excited to have a giraffe eating out of my hand, even though it was kind of against the rules:)

On the second day of our trip we packed up our campsites and went hiking through the trails. We were able to see some Dinosaur footprints a long the way.

On October 12th we took the family to Orland to go to DisneyWorld. We were fortunate to not have to pay for flights and very little for Hotel, thanks to the Timeshare sales industry(which we did not buy). We thought that it would be great family fun- well, not so much. Addyson was terrified of everything, it is Disneyworld for heavens sake how can you be scared of princesses and mouses! Ethan did pretty well, but he was lacking in the sleep department so it didn't take long for him to stop having fun. It was hot and busy but we still managed to have some fun, fortunately we took the trip with my brother Ken and his family which made it much more enjoyable. We also got some great photos along the way to remember the trip.