Landon's Christmas Play

Landon was able to participate in the ward Christmas play this year. His character was named Jesse, and he was the best friend of a kid named Nathan.

Nathan and Jesse were shepherds back in the time of Jesus' birth. {Insert a big thanks to Nana and Papa for help with the costume!}

Landon's friend Reese played the part of Nathan. Landon woke Reese up from sleeping and dragged him out of bed to help tend the flocks of sheep. Of course, the angels told them to go and see baby Jesus, which they did.

The gym was set up so beautifully and the characters did such a good job. Landon remembered all of his lines and said them prefectly. I know he was inwardly dying because of his fear of getting up in front of people, but he did wonderfully.

Bad shot here....but here is the entire cast taking their final bow for the evening. It was a really nice program, especially with the music added to the various portions of the play. And, honestly, it was a really nice way to start out the month.

Girls Night December 2009

The last Girls Night of the year I decided to have everyone come over to my house and get crafty. I had a lady come and bring us all of her beads and show us how to make bead watches. From there we all decided to make bracelets and necklaces as well. It got kind of crazy. But WAY fun!!!
Amy, Ellen, and Julie

Yes....two entire tables full of magical wonderful beads. It was heaven!

Michelle, Heather, and Melissa

Paulette is over on the left side of the table with her girls. They helped all of us figure out how to get it all put together and were super awesome. Thanks so much Paulette!

We had a lot of fun that night and I have some really cute jewelry to prove it. :0)

Still no takers for January Girls Night.....hopefully someone jumps in with an idea and saves the day so we can keep the fun going! :0)

Mackenzee's Winter Dance Recital

Maggie and Mackenzee had their dance recital this month as well. They danced to "Roly Poly the Polar Bear" and so they got to wear these headbands with little polar bear ears on them. :0) Very cute.
During the song the words say "Brrr baby, it's cold out here" so the girls are showing the proper way to look when it gets to that part of the song. :0)

Isn't she a cute polar bear?

This is my Landon waiting for his sister's show to get started. Yes, he is reading a book. I don't think he had much expectations for the show.....

This is all of the teachers at the dance studio. Miss Julie is the one holding the microphone off to the left. The next teacher dressed in a brown top and jeans is Miss Amanda. She is Mackenzee's dance and tumbling instructor and Mackenzee just loves her.

This is Mackenzee's class being led onstage for the final curtain call. I know it's hard to tell which one she is, but she is the fourth polar bear back.

Here they are attempting to take a bow.

I think was all we were able to nab of the actual performance. Kenzee would have been to the left of the screen here, but she seems to have disappeared. :0)

Isn't my polar bear the cutest you've ever seen? We had a good time watching her dance with her little friends. It's fun knowing how much she enjoys doing it. If she could go to dance every day she would. :0) We're barely making it through these last weeks of no dance class. Luckily only one week left before class starts back up again! Whew!

Lighting Ceremony

Every year my Grandpa Casperon turns on his Christmas lights at 5:00 pm on Thanksgiving Day. We just made it in time this year to see them all come on and take our yearly walk up and down the road.

This is my favorite part of the decorum. It's such a beautiful nativity set.

Savanna and Mackenzee

Their favorite was the Mickey Mouse figurine. :0)

The lights were gorgeous as usual Grandpa. My kids look forward to your lights every year. I know that have the town of Twin Falls looks forward to them every year too. :0)

Thanksgiving 2009

This year we spent Thanksgiving with Jaysen's family out in Jerome. We had such a good time hanging out with everyone that was there.

This was the "Girls Only" table. Mackenzee was so excited that she was big enough to sit with the big girls. If you look closely in the back left hand corner of the table you will see a hooded figure....
That's just Jordan trying to hide herself from my flashing camera lense. :0)

Mackenzee and I taught Jeremy the fine art of eating olives off your fingertips. He thought it was wicked awesome and I'm pretty sure he ate an entire jar of olives all by himself.

The men folk got serious over a game of Sequence. I will tell you now that Jaysen and I are a bit addicted to that game. If you haven't played it before....you need to get cracking! :0)

Thanks so much Rita for a wonderful dinner. I'm still thinking about your yummy pomegranite sauce you used on the Turkey. So yummy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

New Moon!!!!

I read the first three books in the Stephenie Meyers Twilight series in one week. That was two years ago. Sadly, it took an entire year for the fourth and final book in the series to be released. I read that one in a matter of days. Needless to say...I enjoy them. :0)
When the first book was made into a movie I was super excited.....that is, until I watched it. It stunk. Badly....
Still, I held out hope that the next movie would be better.
For any of you that live in Twin Falls...you realize there is not much to do around these parts....especially when it gets cold outside. Knowing there would be a whole evening at the movie theater revolving around the release of the second movie, New Moon, I knew I had to go. Not necessarily for the movie, because I had no expectations for the movie, but because I knew it would be fun to go and see all of the little teenage girls screaming over Edward and Jacob. :0) It was the event I was dying to go to....
I convinced a few friends to go with me to the midnight showing of New Moon on Thursday night and invited them all over to my house to watch the first movie, Twilight, just before we headed over to the theater. And, because I love nothing more than having theme parties (is that sad?) I made matching t-shirts for all of us to wear too. Who says "old" ladies don't know how to have fun? :0)
I was on Team Edward....Montay (who just so happens to be pretending to bite my neck like a vampire) was on Team Jacob. For those of you who have been closed off to the world for the past several years....Edward is a vampire...and Jacob is a werewolf.

I was going crazy with blood-hunger apparently. :0) Ellen smelled TOO good!!!

Here's the gang patiently waiting for the movie to start....Tiffany, Ellen, Rachelle, Crystal, Fonda, Montay, and me.

Nathan and Crystal....

Me, Montay, and Fonda...(yes...those are glow sticks and I swear EVERYONE else at the theater was totally jealous!)

Rachelle, Ellen, and Tiffany

This was Montay frantically driving us to the theater. See how excited she is? She doesn't even LIKE the books. Yet...here she is....wearing her Jacob shirt...with the Jacob pin on the front....driving her car that was covered in window marker with phrases like "Team Jacob!" and "New Moon!" And, because we are older than the tweenies...we totally parked in the bowling alley parking lot so we could be closer to the door (it was stinking cold outside!!!) and jumped over the fence to get to the front doors. We've got MAD SKILLS!

Do I look tired? This picture was taken at 2:30 am AFTER we had seen the movie.

Here's the group in our wicked awesome shirts....

Can you see how excited I was for the movie? (photo taken courtesy of Mackenzee photography "Say cheese AND smile mom!")

While I was making the shirts for us girls my kids decided they didn't want to feel left out and wanted me to make them shirts too. They both chose to be Team Edward (through no persuasion whatsoever!). We are baring our teeth like vampires in this picture. Don't we look fierce?

I had so much fun last night girls!!! Thanks so much for your willingness to be crazy with me. I've never been so loud in a theater in my entire life (and still had others be louder than me!!!) Can't wait for Eclipse to come out....I hear it's going to be released in June...you guys ready to stay up all night again?

Kaden's baptism

My nephew, Kaden, got baptized this last weekend...on Halloween! The poor kid ended up having to get dunked twice but was a real trooper. He's showing off his CTR bracelet in this picture here.