Cupcake Cuties

Are these just not two of the cutest girls EVER?

Cousins that share not only cuteness but the same day being born!

B and Lex

We had a girls night/stay late at Auntie Steph and B's house a couple days before Christmas...Lexi helped B make cupcakes for her class at Pre-School...Thanks for the fun evening Auntie and B!

Here they are in action:

Magic Mountain Monday

Do I have to say anything? I think the pictures speak for themselves...

Except that my kids were like who are they? I barely remembered their character names...Deveon did not want anything to do with them...

And now we have season passes for all Six Flags! Oh and thanks Jesse for coming with! it's always funner with Uncle Jesse and good times at Moose Burger Lodge!

Temple Lights

On Saturday we went to the Los Angeles Temple and did a session while Josh's younger Bro Jesse received hie endowments...Josh and I were married at this Temple 8 years ago and were excited to see it all lit up this evening...It was beautiful...

Me and Josh

Josh, me, April, Eric, Jesse, Kent and Pam Miles

Me and April

Build a Bear...

...with the Valuseks!

I really do hate this place but the kids loved it...so who am I to crush their cute little dreams...Thank you Auntie April for our new bears!

Dalen - Dinosoar with a tent to sleep inside of

Deveon - Blue gem bear with a black motorcycle jacket

Lexi - Hannah Montana Bear with silver hannah jacket

Tada!

Lexi had her end of the year gymnastics performance...here she is doing all she's learned in the past four months...

1-Won-I-One

ONE WORD ONLY...
Were is your cell phone? Purse
Were is your significant other? Lakers?
You're hair color? Brown
You're favorite thing? Laptop
You're dream last night? None
You're life dream/goal? Celestial
The room your in? Library
You're hobby? Lot's
You're fear? Monsters
Where do you want to be in 6 years? Bonusroom
Where were you last night? Build-a-Bear
What your not? Rude
One of you're wish list items? Girl
Where you grew up? Simi
The last thing you did? Seshion/ClaimJumpers
What you are wearing: Toe-ring
You're TV? 55inch
You're pet? Glub
You're computer? Toshiba
You're mood? Positive
Missing someone? Babies
Something your NOT wearing? Bra
Favorite store? Gymbo
Your summer? Pyramids
Love someone? Joshua
You're fave color? Purples
When is the last time you laughed? @EricV
When is the last time you cried? 4Jesse
Your significant other's hair: Lush
You're life in one word: Complete
Now it's you're turn!

Let it Snow...

Today's Forecast: Snowflakes...

Deveon, Lexi and Sarah made beautiful snowflakes today...

And a few more of my favorite things...

My Christmas gift from BFF, she knows I have my eye on the big willow tree nativity so this will tide me over...I think I might like this better, so sweet...she also found the Mother and Child statue from the nativity viewing! see here...good old ebay...see here

A few of my favorite things...

So this year, we did not get a tree because we will not be here for the Christmas week but we did get some of our Christmas decorations out to be cheery...Here are some of our favorite ornaments we placed around the house...

This is our newest family ornament...my mom usually gets these for me...actually, I think she has gotten me every one so far...

This is Dalen's snowy, that my mom got him one day while shopping at Beverly's in Stockton CA...we have the cutest video of him looking for it one day in the backyard (in the summer) as he refers to it as "Where my Nowy, where my nowy?" Dalen was 2yrs old

This isn't an ornament but my BFF Tami gave it to me last year...it's baby Jesus and you place a piece of hay in the crib every time you do an act of service and by Christmas he should have a nice pile of hay to nap on...I did my service by buying a crib for a family and giving Christmas presents to a Family this year...I love Christmas...

This ornament is from our Relief Society Christmas Dinner...I have a few of these ornaments from various wards and they do remind me of the wonderful bonds I have made with people in the different cities I have lived in...

This was Dalen's first school ornament he came home with in Kindergarten...Since Deveon is off track during Christmas he and Lexi will be decorating snowflake ornaments tomorrow...

This gold butterfly I just love, but I cannot for the life of me remember who gave it to me...any takers?

Auntie April gave this to my little Noah for his first Christmas last year...it's been in his room all year long...

My BFF Tami went to DLand this Fall and brought me back a cute gingerbread house ornament...

I also love to make my own Christmas Cards every year...I have to limit my list to 26 or I will go crazy making them, but I do love coming up with something bigger and better than last year...This year's card came with a magnet for your fridge so you can have us all year round!

...and I love receicing them as much as I love sending them out!

I love Christmas and all that comes with...the decorations, the shopping, the stories, the Nativity scenes, and the food and family...I'm so esited, as Lexi would say...to see our family and friends this Holiday season...Merry Christmas