ceLebrate gOOd times

Grandma Sharon made all the boys wall hanging of their Favorite thing. Most of the boys were into super heroes so there were transformers, spiderman and ironman. The girls also got a homemade magnetic board to display pics in their rooms. SOOO CREATIVE.

Grandma(mommy's mom), holding little Vance.

Grandma and grandpa got our family a big basketball hoop. The cute part was that they wrapped the basketballs seperate and the girls got a pink one and the boys got a orange one. Too bad it rained all night!!

twas' the night before......

paRty, PartY, pArty.....

Our Allen family party was @ our house again. It is fun and crazy to prepare for a large group of people like we have. I decided that it would be cool for the kids to make scarfs to wear during the winter. The girls had blue snowflake scarves and the boys had multi colored striped scarves. I hope the kids will enJoy these.

We had to get a Santa to come to our home. Thx Ryan for the great job of pulling off Santa! Thx to Tenneal for spray painting his hair white for the event.. way to go the extra mile! They totally ROCK!


We had the kids all exchange names and each buy eachother their favoRite candy. This was a nice change to the regular tradition of gift giving. Who doesn't like candy, right?

christmas...... train park

Early Christmas with Uncle Ricky and Sara... The kids opened gifts first then all the grow ups did a $5 exchange..this was fun!

The Scottsdale train park was next on the list. This is another one of my favorite holiday traditions! We have never been able to ride the REAL train because it's always a super long wait so we ride the dinky lil' train. We get some warm /hot drinks from Starbucks and then walk across the street to the train park. We had some sleepy kiddies this year.

LeTs cOOk

HAppY 7th Matz!

x-mas program @ preschool

How aWesome this was. It is such a great feeling to see a child PERFORM! Davin was so cute. He and his class sang Christmas songs they had learned in class to all the eager parents. Ms. Jennie let me know in advance that Davin really gets into the singing and sings louder than all the other kids! Boy did he! She thought he may not do it as loudly with all the people watching, but that was not the case. He sang really loud with his cute little voice... i couldn't stop smiling the wHole time and Dason just kept smiling and laughing. He glowed after this performance and anxiously showed his lil brother around his classroom.

dEAr SANTA,

They recieved letters back in the mail... so cool!