Tiff Did It!!

If you remember, Tiff had one small cavity to take care of. Actually, a couple years ago she had two that she just wouldn't let us fix. The doc at the time, said she was too little and so were her cavities, so we could just wait and watch. Well, He ended up moving to a different office and so did I. We really like our new Dentist, Dr. James Keddington, right here in Bountiful. It also helps that Melanie works there, too!

Anyway, I just didn't want to make an appointment and try to trick Tiff into going. So I told Melanie to just call us when they had some down time. She called last week. I turned to Tiff and said, Melanie said she's ready for you to visit her at work, you ready?" She wasn't too sure, she hesitated. Then Beth, said "Oooh, cool!" and Tiff took the bait and was excited!

We got there and again she was cautious, but Melanie did great to ease her into the chair. Dr. Keddington and Melanie played with her squirting water and air, and the suction straw. It was small enough we didn't need any numbing, cool! So it didn't take very long. She did awesome!!

At one point she was complaining about the light being in her eyes. Good ole Melanie, quick thinking, went and grabbed some sunglasses! Did the trick just fine! When I asked him about the other cavity, he looked again and said there is no sign of the second one!

Yeah, for Tiffany, no more cavity bugs!!!

Christmas Eve Jammies!

We do the "you can open one present of 'Mom's choice' on Christmas Eve", tradition. Most of the kids have caught on, but not the younger ones. Therefore they usually get to open first.


Of course it's the Christmas jammies!




Then of course, we have to get some pictures in thier new jammies.

This is more realistic!! LOL

I'm trying to take a picture of the tree, this is only one of several shots I got. She wouldn't stop until she found out I actually got one without her in it!! LOL

Look at those muscles!!

It's fun to see the excitement of what are they going to look like on their faces, and the satisfaction when they like them!

I'm probably going to use one of these in my Holiday cards. (People who get cards from me know that it could be anytime in Dec or Jan! That's just the way it is!!) I just don't have a full family picture to replace last July. One of these will have to do.

Trimming the Tree

Even though we had our tree up the week after Thanksgiving, we finally got around to decorating it only two days before Christmas. In my defense, I'll explain!!

1. I just think the lights alone are so beautiful it really doesn't need anything else. And...

2. The kids are always bringing home ornaments from school, I let them put them on there. That usually sparks them wanting to make more ornaments at home to add to it too. If I decorated the tree before hand, the tree usually gets overloaded and just looks too busy. So if I don't put anything on it to begin with, then it's just right.

Anyway, the kids let me know they wanted to decorate the tree. School was out and I knew no more things were coming home so I said go right ahead!

Melanie decided she wanted to string popcorn. We haven't done that for a few years and thought it would be fun.

And sure enough, it was! It was a little scarey letting them use needles and actually do it, but the ones who were interested did great. The younger ones were very content just to eat the popcorn!

The tree turned out so pretty!!

12 Days of Christmas, continued

On the 7th day of Christmas, my true love (secret friends) gave to us...

7 swans a swimming!








On the 8th day of Christmas...8 maids of milking!











On the 9th day of Christmas...9 ladies dancing!








On the 10th day of Christmas...10 Lords a Leaping.
We figured there were gingerbread cookies in there, so they were the Lords a Leaping. It's a stretch, but it works!! I love the question mark on the paper. :)









On the 11th day of Christmas...11 pipers piping.

On the 12th day of Christmas....12 drummers drumming.

We had so much fun getting our gifts each night!

Aaron Has Turned 8!

Yesterday was Aaron's Birthday! What a way to kick off Christmas Break!!

We were so busy Friday night he didn't go to bed until just after midnight, so I wished him a Happy Birthday as he went to sleep. We had to go wake him up just before 11 o'clock!

He started off his day with his traditional chocolate chip waffles with icecream and chocolate syrup! Yum!

He opened presents, ate pizza and cake and played! What a day!

8 is a special birthday at our house for more than one reason. Not only do they get to be baptized, and get their Quads, but they are now old enough to take a day on the kitchen duty rotation. Aaron has been looking forward to this almost as much as the first! He's been coming in and helping others with their turns for several months!! Today was his first day! He's done a fantastic job! The excitement usually doesn't last very long, but with Aaron, I think it will last longer than usual! He just love to help!!

12 Days of Christmas

We have been selected to enjoy the 12 days of Christmas by someone. We have no clue by who, but it 's so fun to see what they are going to bring next. We are having such a blast, even though we're not done yet, I just had to post what we got so far!

On the 1st day of Christmas my true Love (secret friends) sent to me...

A partridge in a pear tree (We actually got 4, but we have been eating them!)








On the 2nd day of Christmas....two turtle doves!












On the 3rd day of Christmas...3 french hens! We had spaghetti the next night with garlic bread! (We only found 2 loaves and was wondering if we lost one somewhere, then realized these people are very smart to be thinking ahead, it could very easily get out of hand!!) LOL









On the 4th day of Christmas...4 calling birds! (hilarious!)












On the 5th day of Christmas...5 golden rings! (We thought we would get glazed donuts, but these were better!)








Last night, On the 6th day of Christmas...6 geese a laying!








We can hardly wait for tonight, what will it be???

This is our second year in a row, we feel very blessed, to have such wonderful friends and neighbors. We're really going to have to do it next year for someone else, if I can just remember to plan ahead enough!

Haircut

Kimberly has been bugging me for weeks, maybe months to cut her hair. I finally gave in and took her yesterday!!

We took off 11 inches to donate to Locks of Love! This is Kim's second time. I love it because it makes it easier to cut it off when it goes to a good cause. It doesn't hurt that they don't charge me for the haircut and style when it's donated, either!! I don't know why it's so hard for me to cut their hair.

She was so excited, can you tell!!