Funny Hahaha

So Sunday morning Darcy and Jordan are in the shower and they are singing Deck the Halls . . . Falalalala. Darcy says "JJ, I can't believe you don't know the words to this song." Jordan says "I only know it in French." Darcy says, "Great - sing it to me in French!" Jordan pauses for a few seconds and then says "well, I only know the Fa La, La, La, La part in French!" We crack up laughing! Despite Jordan doing very well in French Immersion, he will never admit that he "does French". What a kid!

Sadie's Christmas Dance

We got to enjoy another one of Sadie's Christmas Dance Concerts. She performed the cutest jazz number to "Run Run Rudolph". Of course, the costumes are always so cute. Sadie is really enjoying dancing with the troupe and is looking forward to dancing in Disneyland this spring.

Merry Christmas!!

Great Grandma Weston

On Christmas Eve we spent time in Airdrie with the Weston side of the family. Great Grandma Weston was even there to celebrate with us. She has moved into the Old Folks Home in Cardston but is still getting around real well. While cleaning out her house she was asking if anybody was interested in learning how to play her acordion. I jumped at the chance and inherited this amazing music making machine. (Or as Darcy calls, "the noise making machine") I have been teaching myself how to play it and it has been a lot of fun. I brought it with me Christmas Eve so that Grandma could play it for my kids - to show them how it was really done. We enjoyed listening to her play all kinds of music (with no music in front of her as she plays by ear). She is so talented when it comes to music of any kind. We also enjoyed listening to Grandma play Christmas carols on her old pump organ, which Tracee inherited. There is something special about Christmas music!

Decorating Gingerbread Houses

One thing we like to do every year is decorate Gingerbread houses. This year Sonya's family came up for the whole week before Christmas so we decorated our houses with them and Allaina's kids. The kids were paired up and away they went to work on their gingerbread houses.

Kailey and Calli were very precise and detail oriented while decorating their house. They wanted it to look like a real gingerbread house. And then there are my boys - BOYS WILL BE BOYS! Why decorate the house with icing when you can decorate your little brother's mouth instead?

I'm always glad when all the candy is picked off of the houses and I can throw them away. It is such a mess having all that hard icing spread all over the counter as the candy gets picked off.

Kailey's 12th Birthday

Kailey turned 12 on December 22, 2010. She is officially a Young Woman at church and is very excited to be graduated from Primary. It has been a long year for her as she is the last one in her class to move on to Young Womens. For her birthday we spent the day with all of her cousins going to Village Square Leisure Center and then out for Chinese Food with the whole Family. Of course we had birthday cake afterwards. Happy Birthday Kailey!