Building our Gingerbread House

This year's gingerbread house did not go as planned. The grooves on the base were not cut in the right place so the dang thing would not stay together. We did the best we could. Next year I am hot gluing it together before we decorate it.

Maisie's Birthday at Grandma & Grandpa's

December 11, 2011

We ate dinner at Grandma & Grandpa Julander's for the December birthday's. Maisie turned 9 on the 21st.

Polar Express

December 3, 2011

We road the Polar Express, Heber Valley Railroad. The kids has a lot of fun singing Christmas carols and drinking hot chocolate and eating cookies. Our train host made sure the kids had a lot of fun. We found Santa and he hopped on the train to visit all the kids. Both Maisie and Parker freaked out a little bit and couldn't decide what they were going to tell them they wanted for Christmas. Afterwards, we went to Cabela's and walked around.

Cutting down Christmas Tree

Me and the kids went with Kyle & Misty's family and my dad to cut down christmas trees. By the time we had hiked up a little hill to cut down the tree we had all 7 kids a cryin. We found the perfect Charlie Brown trees.

Family Pictures

A few of our annual family pictures. It was pretty cold and getting a little dark, but I think overall they turned out cute. 

Deer Hunting

October 22

We went deer hunting as a family this year. It was pretty fun, other than we didn’t see anything. First thing that morning we saw one doe, but didn’t see anything the rest of the day. It was still nice spending day together in the mountains.

A couple of nice fall shots:

Little Bear Bottoms Corn Maze

October 15

Me and kids went to the Little Bear Bottoms corn maze with Head Start. Surprisingly it was a really warm day. The kids loved the hay bales maze. They had stacked 1 ton hay bales and made a little maze. I think all the kids were more interested in that then the actual corn maze. We tried going through the corn maze, but decided it was too hard. I definitely do not have the patience for corn mazes. When I want out, I want out.