Mannheim Steamroller

For my mom's birthday, My dad got tickets to the Mannheim Streamroller Christmas Concert. Since Jordan and I helped him get these tickets we thought we should tag along. I thought I would share some of the pictures we took. It was so fun to hang out with my parents and my brother and have grown up time. Thanks Jen for watching my kids.

Santa Claus Came to the Garls!

It was our lucky night! Santa Claus came to see the Garl Kids and some of their friends. My Dad should earn award for being the best dad ever for doing this. He was so cute! I am not sure if in this picture Gordon is realizing it was his Papa. Hayleigh was still kind of scared, so Grandma was showing her he was ok I think she was a little to lovey dovey with Santa. JK
Hayleigh finally realized he wasn't that scary

Daddy's Christmas Tree

We started this tradition last year. We go to Joann's and get a little tree and then I let the kids pick out little ordiments for Gordon's Christmas Tree. The kids have had so much fun with doing this. As do I. I just feel bad it is a fake tree. We all know how he felt about that. Here are a few pictures from our morning.
As you can see they were so cold. We didn't get to stay very long. I know "where are their coats" In the car!

Disney on Ice

Disney on Ice came to town and it was all of the Disney Princesses. Hayleigh has been so excited to go. Her face says it all. She wanted to wear her sleeping beauty dress, I tried to talk her out of it, but her fight was all of the girls in the commerical are wearing theirs, so I need to wear mine. How can I fight with that.

The Perfect Sat Night

Today and this evening we got a lot of snow, well I don' t know how much but it kept coming down. So I decided to put someone else's life in danger and order chinese food and we had a little pinic in the family room and watch polor express. As you can see I have a nice big thick blanket underneath them to protect my carpet. It was really fun to do this with my kids and just to sit back and relax. Gordon and Hayleigh loved this movie.

Salvation Army

For Thanksgiving and this last Saturday I was able to set up times for the Young Women to go help at that Salvation army. I remeber when I was in high school, my mom would always have the youth in our ward walk over to the Salvation army and help out after school and it was such a great experience for me. For Thanksgiving we delivered meals to older people that couldn't leave there homes. It was a reminder me on how blest I am. This last Saturday we cleared off the shelfs behind us and packed boxes of toys. It was the perfect thing to do to start this christmas season off right.