Christmas Wishes!

Merry Christmas from our little helpers to yours!

These Santa shirts were just too cute not to make Christmas cards with. I LOVE this one of Mr. Grant! Love my little sleigh my mom talked me in to buying last year. What a sweet girl Kiersten is. She is busy with school and many after school activities. She is a straight A student and always has been! She loves being in company dance. She takes four dance classes...........jazz, tap, ballet and hip hop. She loves all the extra practices and performances that being in company requires. She just loves to dance and we always have people tell us that she is an "eye catcher" on the stage! And we agree! This year she started taking gymnastics on top of her dance classes. She wants to become one of the dancers that get to do all the flips and stuff in the dance routines. She amazes me with me with her dedication and drive for everything she is involved in. She loves playing the piano and violin. She exceeds at both and recently got 1st place at the fair talent competition for playing her violin! She is a wonderful help to me and has recently started babysitting for short periods and has been so responsible with that job. She loves being on the swim team each summer and does really well at it! She loves her friends and cousins a lot! She has a fun personality and is just a wonderful person! I love you Kiersten! I feel so blessed to have Kiersten as my only daughter. She is more then I ever dreamed a daughter would be! Hunter is just a sweet heart! He has a funny personality and always makes us laugh! He can sometimes be too funny but is always quick to apologize if he gets out of line and I just admire that about him. He is always sincere when he apologizes and I think that's a quality we all could improve on. He loves playing the violin and tolerates the piano! He does love his piano teacher, Tracy Brown, so that helps a lot! He loves school and is a straight A student and always has been. He just loves Math and his teacher Mrs. Moore tells me all the time that he is constantly asking her for harder math problems. She tells me often what a great helper he is and that while she was on maternity leave Hunter and one other girl were the two kids she told the substitute to ask to help her if she had a question. Hunter recently became interested in horses, roping and rodeo stuff. A couple of months ago he was in his first rodeo and got to ride a sheep. He just loved it and had a great time! He loves riding quads and the dirt bikes. Of course his continued love is LEGOS and he just loves his lego bedroom!

Hunter is going to be a wonderful man one day and I am blessed to be his mother!

I love it when he gets in his "chatty moods"......it really is like talking to another adult. He is way beyond his age! I have a really good friend who has told me several times that, "Hunter is an old spirit in a young body!" And I agree he isn't the average 8 year old when you really get to know him.

I love you Hunter!

Logan is just a performer at heart. He loves to make people laugh and loves to be the center of attention. His true love is dancing..........hip hop that is! He just loves dancing in front of a crowd and especially loves getting to perform on the big stage! He is loving Kindergarten and is doing wonderful at school! It is wonderful to see him reading little books all on his own.....he is so excited to be able to read like Kiersten and Hunter!

He loves going to gymnastics and is pretty impressive with his head stand! He loves riding quads and being outside. His newest comment, and one of my favorites, is when I ask anything of him 90 % of the time he says happily, "YES MAM, NO PROBLEM!" Thank you Mrs. Willis for the "yes mam" part.

Logan is just a character! He loves people and every one that knows Logan loves him as well!

It is such fun to be his mom. He constantly gives me hugs and kisses and is a very loving boy!

What a great kid!

I love you Logan!

Looks who's gettin' nothin' for Christmas!

Mr. Grant has definitely hit the terrible twos! I have to say I am impressed with the fits he can throw :)

I do adore this little guy and that keeps him from getting beat....ha, ha!

He can be sweet as candy! He gives great loves. His little guy is a talker! He talks really well for his age and I constantly have people tell me what a good talker he is. He is so much fun. He loves, loves his sister and brothers! He isn't quite as happy when they are all at school. His favorite game lately is getting the toy guns and having mom help him go through the house shooting "monsters." He just gets so excited to play this game and we have a fun time together playing it! I have to say Mr. Grant is the messiest toddler I have ever had. He throws food, dumps cups of water, colors on things and just generally makes a mess. It often drives me crazy.........but it does often make for some good stories!

He was really in to the hiding pose during this shoot!

But he is still cute when he did it so I had to post them!

He is still way better then most two year olds, or even three year olds for that matter, when it comes to taking pictures!

I love this picture and I LOVE my Mr. Grant!

I love the message on the back of Mr. Grant's shirt..............."When I grow up I will be....jolly"

My hope is that we all can "grow up and be jolly!"

I hope this Christmas post finds you and yours healthy and happy. We are especially thankful this time of year, for the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We are grateful for this holiday season that reminds us of Him, His life and the Atonement. We feel so blessed to have the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives and to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are grateful to know of our Heavenly Father's Plan for us. To know where we came from and to know the purpose of this life. We are blessed to have wonderful families and friends that make our lives so rich each and every day!

Justin and I are grateful for our marriage and for the love and kindness we show each other. It really is a dream come true to be married to my high school sweet heart! I am thankful for his example of serving a mission, honoring his priesthood and respecting his family and wife. Even with all the trials we have had and the challenges life has thrown us this year..........we are blessed beyond what we deserve.

We hope you all know how much you mean to us and the difference you have made in our lives!

We love you!

Have a Blessed Merry CHRISTmas!

One last picture of our baby that's not a baby any more!