Christmas Eve

We did our Christmas eve party at my dads house and had SO much fun. We had dinner and appetizers and our great friends The Tora family came over to join in the festivities. We had the kids dress up and act out the Nativity story while my dad read it from the scriptures. We tried to get Justin to dress up but he wasn't into acting it out, he just wanted the cane to play with. The kids did a great job and looked so cute! Delaney was getting fussy, but as soon as we started she calmed down and stayed calm until the very end, she did a great job playing baby Jesus :)

Cute Gabriel as the sheppard boy

Baby Jesus with his gifts (use your imagination..)

Love Daniels beard :)

Daddy, Mommy and Delaney

Me and my mommy..

Our cute little guy Wade

Natilie loves her baby sister!

Daniel, Natilie and Delaney

All 5 kiddo's in their Christmas eve pajamas....

Uncle Randy's visit, Ward Christmas party and Justin

We had so much fun at our Ward Christmas party dinner, I didn't get any pictures but one of our good friends the cute Tora Family, Gabriel knows how to pose for the camera!

I made some chocolate chunk cookies the one day and left them on the stove in a bowl, I came back into the living room of Justin nice and cozy in front of the tv sitting in his chair with all of the cookies dumped out on a cookie sheet that he was using as a tray. This kid can detect sweet snacks from a mile away and has no self control when it comes to eating them all..

My Uncle Randy (my dads brother) came into town from Logan Utah to visit for Christmas. We went out to eat with my dad and uncles cousins on my grandpas side of the family (my grandpa died on my dads 6th birthday) we do not get to see this part of the family very often so when Uncle Randy was in town everyone wanted to get together and it was so much fun!

Uncle Randy and Natilie

Everyone LOVED Miss Delaney and wanted to take her home with them....

Mega Picture Post :)

Snow day off of school Justin and Wade LOVE the snow, Justin got already to go out to play, I guess he thought daddys boots would work...

Justin and Wade kept opening the front door and reaching out to get little handfuls of snow to eat...

I left Wade alone for just a few minutes to walk into the kitchen to this! They had moved the kitchen table all by themselves, knocked the kitchen chairs over and emptied the whole dish of dog food all over the kitchen floor, nice....Wade is obsessed with the dogfood, regardless of what we do!

Justin had his first appointment with Dr. Hull at the Childrens hospital Neuro center this last Fri. at 8am. My good friends the Toras offered to watch Wade and Delaney for me, even that early. Not too many people want to watch Wade because he is difficult with the autism, but we spend lots of time with the Toras, we go walking 3-4 days a week for 2 1/2 hours a day, so Ursala is a familiar face to Wade and who is also familiar with being around kids who have this problem and her husband Patrick works in our church nursery, I usually can never leave Wade anywhere but was so grateful for the Toras with taking him, Wade and Delaney did great! They have ruled out Autism for Justin and said he has Speech Apraxia and there are a few other concerns because of delayed gross motor skills so they are doing a bunch of blood work to see what comes back so its another waiting game on that. I will post when we find out for sure. Wade's appt. is this coming Friday so stay tuned for the updates on him then!

Cute Ursala with the cute kiddo's

Love my baby girls blue eyes, this outfit was Natilies when she was a baby and Delaney looks a ton like Natilie did when she was little, its like De ja vu seeing these pictures...

Gabriel is such a good little man and is going to make a great big brother someday!

Delaney loved Patrick

Ursala with the boys, I love the look on Gabriels face here :)

Patrick tickling Wade who by his the smile on his face loved it

Wade cuddling with Ursala which he did alot and he never does this with anyone..

Look, my baby girl is old enough to sit up, cant believe she was 6 months this last week!

Congrats to my sister and her husband, I have a new niece, Olivia was born Dec. 8th 7lbs 12 oz and 21 inches long

another snow day off of school so we played in the snow and attempted to make a snowman..its kind of a pathetic one but it was fun.

All daniel wanted to do was throw snowballs at us

I love this picture of Natilie!

Delaney refused to eat baby food no matter how many times we did it, and it didnt matter if it was sweet or not, she wanted nothing to do with it, this last week she finally decided that she likes sweet potatos and squash so hopefully she will keep eating it!

love the look on her face here

Daniel loves his baby sister!

We made a ton of pumpkin rolls a few weeks ago to take to friends and our josh's hometeaching families, daniel and natilie had fun in the kitchen

Part 2 Tree Festival

Ursala has an awesome camera and takes some awesome pictures, loved these trees!

Anderson's and Tora's

Ursala, Patrick and Gabriel Tora, they are such a cute family!

Delaney and Gabriel were the only ones courageous enough to actually go up to Santa

Gabriel is just the sweetest kid!

My smiley Delaney girl

Here are some more pictures that Ursala took with her camera since my camera went dead at the festival :)