Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas :)

This year has been so much fun and we are so excited to welcome our little boy in march :)

Hope you all have a great Christmas. I am loving this video and am so grateful for my Savior

Gingerbread Houses

We had our annual Squire gingerbread house making :) We LOVE this and look forward to it every year.

Here is Brynlee, Avery, Kate and Chloe.

Me and beautiful Lauren

Some more pictures of the cute kiddos.

Oh Brynlee. She LOVE putting the candy on and Avery loved eating the candy.

Chloe was feeding Brynlee is was so cute.

The whole gang. Just ignore that Jord and I are the only adults in the picture. I did NOT trust my crazy girls to hold there house on there own. :)  -we only lost 2 houses this year so that was good :)

Jordan and his gingerbread barn.

Thanks Squire family :) it was a blast as always. Thanks Nancy for making all the houses.

Chatwin Family Party

We had our annual Chatwin family Christmas party on the 8th. There is always yummy food and SO many treats. Avery was sad when she got caught trying to eat her 3rd cookie……

Brynlee loved all the treats.

Aunt Call and Brynlee

Me and the bearded boy…..

Jenna took the girls over to play the games and make some crafts.

Thanks for the fun party- Especially Rona and Jamie!!! It was lots of fun.

Lisonbee Christmas party

We started the holiday season with the Lisonbee Christmas party on Dec 1. The kids love it because there is always a special guest that comes with a present. First we had a yummy breakfast. The girls LOVED it. –Especially the chocolate donuts :)

Some of the cute cousins…..

Me and a couple of SIL‘s.

Avery wandering around while we played a game of “guess that Christmas song”

Waiting for the Special guest.

My new favorite picture of Jordan and Brynlee. SO cute(- yes even with the beard)

My new favorite picture of my SIL Alison….I will have to think of a good caption for it :)

There is always a piñata at the party also. Avery liked hitting it

Brynlee was her usual shy scared self and refused to hit it.

All the kiddos with Santa.

Brynlee and Kate. These 2 girls are the cutest little friends.

Brynlee was SO excited to see Santa and tell him she wanted a train table.

 

Then there was Avery.. I knew KNEW she would cry, and she did not disappoint :)

The girls LOVED their toys.

Jordan ended up filling in for his counter-part in the other cast of SOTW, so he was gone all day.- It is the first time he has EVER had to fill in, so we have been lucky. We had a fun girls day and helped Grandma Linda pack her house.

Festival of the Trees

Last week we headed to festival of the trees. These cute girls loved playing at grandma Linda’s before we headed out.

I love the gingerbread houses. Brynlee had a few favorites…

The It’s a Small World house.

And Rapunzel’s Tower

Jordan liked the Hobbit ones :)

The girls LOVED the trees. They were so good and had SO much fun.

We got Cookies at the end..who wouldn’t love that?

This girl was in HEAVEN with her cookie.

Then in the kids area they got “elf wands” Brynlee quickly renamed them Fairy wands.

This is such a fun tradition. We missed not going with the rest of the squire’ family  but schedules are crazy at Christmas so we are just glad we made it down there.

Lights at temple Square

So on Saturday we headed down to see the lights. My uncle was in town from Colorado and wanted to see them. Jordan had SOTW so my dad was nice enough to drive his car down for him so he could spend some more time with the girls. We went to City creek for dinner. it was CRAZY!!!!! There was SO SO SO many people. After McDonalds we headed over to the lights. it was CRAZY packed with people. Jordan headed to his show and we met up with my family. The girls loved it.

Avery was not a huge fan of the stroller and Brynlee was not a fan of other kids playing with her grandma:) Good thing Pop Pop and Aunt call were there too.

Brynlee’s favorite thing. She saw a tree with out  lights and our conversation proceeded as follows :

Brynlee: “ Mom why doesn’t that tree have lights?”

Me: “ I don’t know, I think it is just a naked tree.”

Brynlee: “ a NAKED tree?”- “ That is so silly mommy”

Every tree we saw after that that had no lights she reminded us “ look there is another naked tree”

They liked all the different Nativity’s

Brynlee and her warm chocolate. She is just so big.

Avery was ready to head home before the rest of us. So I resorted to the “emergency binky” in my purse. She was content.

I can’t believe how many people there were!!! – It was nice that it was not freezing and wet. I am sure we will head down again on another night Jordan has the show so the girls can show daddy the tree’s they liked.