It's the most wonderful time of the year..............

To sum it all up....
*Brooklyn looks cute even with wild morning hair!
*She had fun opening her presents
*She wanted to open everyone's presents, not really caring what was in them
*She got lots of toys and clothes(yeah for clothes)
*Got together with our families and exchanged gifts
*Went home and Brooklyn showed Grandma and Grandpa Gerritsen her toys
*Rested, then made dinner
*Had a huge dinner at our house, (which i ate....yippee finally a big meal i could eat)!!!
*We eventually got a smile for pictures from Brooklyn
*Had a wonderful Christmas!!!!! Thanks everyone! Love you all.

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B-e-a-utiful Brooklyn!

Brooklyn doesn't seem to like to wear dresses these days. After lots of persuassion from mommy, daddy, and Heidi....she started staring at herself in the mirror and saying.....BEAUTIFUL DRESS......BEAUTIFUL DRESS....and spinning around. She is our little princess...and i think she KNOWS it.....Oh well! We love her!!

Cookie & Candy making day!!!

Here we are....another year at trying to attempt our Christmas candy. It was mostly a success, but consumed most of the day. We didn't make all that we had planned, but was fun. The Buckley's joined us this year and the kids had a blast in the flour. We always look forward to this time of year!

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We have been elfed!!!!!

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Quite funny!
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I spoke too soon!

So we did get the snow...mostly melted now, but we got it! Hopefully we can get some more this weekend. Andy had fun shoveling it.




We also had some fun taking pictures in the snow. Hurried though.....just a wee bit chilly!

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Christmas is in the air.....

Well....it's cold, but no snow. It's hard to believe that we just had Thanksgiving and 29 days until Christmas. We have been getting out Christmas stuff at our house the last few days. I love this time of year, especially when we can be with our families. We love you all!!!
Happy Holidays!!!

Our spooky Halloween....

We had a fun halloween this year. Brooklyn is at this fun age so it was fun to watch her and dress her up. She didn't like her costume all that much, but i must say she looked cute!!!! We actually had a surprise birthday party for Shelby on Oct 27, but made it our Halloween party so she wouldn't know it was for her. It turned out to be so fun. We had the kids play some games and they all wore their costumes. On Halloween we went to our ward's trunk or treat. Brooklyn loved getting all the candy, she thought that was the coolest thing ever. We decked out our yard this year (thanks to all of Lori's stuff) and had a few trick-or-treaters come later in the evening.....Then Lori and Andy made me watch the Halloween movies....i am a wimp!!! I have my hands to my face and they are sitting there watching it like it is a comedy! It was fun though! Here are some pictures of our fun Halloween. Now time for Thanksgiving!!!! We love this time of year!

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The Great Pumpkin....

Charlie Brown: I supposed you spent all night in the pumpkin patch. And did the Great Pumpkin ever show up?
Linus: Nope.
Charlie Brown: Well, don't take it too hard, Linus. I've done a lot of stupid things in my life, too.
Linus: [furious] STUPID! What do you mean "stupid"? Just wait 'til next year, Charlie Brown. You'll see! Next year at this same time, I'll find the perfect pumpkin patch and I'll sit in that pumpkin patch until the Great Pumpkin appears. He'll rise out of that pumpkin patch and he'll fly through the air with his bag of toys. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him! I'll be there! I'll be sitting there in that pumpkin patch and I'll see the Great Pumpkin. Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown, the Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him...

I just wanted to add that movie in....so cute.
We went to a pumpkin patch this last weekend. It was so much fun to pick pumpkins and watch the kids run around. They had pumpkins as far as you could see, which made it fun to find the perfect ones. Andy (of course) found the "odd" pumpkin out of the bunch. Brooklyn loved pushing the wheelbarrow....didn't care to much about picking a pumpkin, just wanted to push them. This will be a great tradition to do every year.
We also attempted Gardner Village....took a few pictures then left. It was the Harvest Festival (which we did not know) and was super busy! I bought some hay and cornstalks and decorated outside the house, cute place to take pictures with all the pumpkins around. I love this time of year!!!

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1...2...3....cheese!!!

These are some of my favorite pictures that we have taken with our new camera. We are loving all the things we can do with it and are learning alot! The header picture of the flowers was taken from my flower pot out in the front yard!!! It helps to have such cute kids to take pictures of!!!

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Dance..dance...dance...

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!Thanks Terra!!! That is so much fun!!!