Friday, January 7, 2011

Christmas Eve 2010

We had Christmas Eve at our house in Springville, Utah. This year we had three families join us- Deren, Liz and Drake, Trina Guy and children, & Marenda, Sam and their children.
After eating food furnished by each family, we had a program where each family contributed something.



Marenda, Addie and Kasen sang and had everyone join them.


































Then Marenda led everyone in "Must Be Santa Clause"



























Liz, Deren, Sheridan and Trina looking on.











Hardings contribution was called "Pick the Best Santa"

They had cans of Rediwhip and those who wanted got Santa beards. I must say the beards didn't last long so the pictures had to be fast but the boys all enjoyed licking up what didn't drop off onto the floor.


Marcus was the first contestant.













Santa Drake



















Santa Mitchell


















Santa Caleb


















Santa Kasen
















And last of all, Santa Sheridan. Actually Guy also got a "beard" but I didn't get a picture.



















Deren's contribution to the evening was to read to the children
"The Twelve Robots of Christmas" It was a challenge for the children to sing along with the new words.







THEN CAME PAJAMA TIME





Kasen Brown modeling his basketball pajamas




















Addie Brown modeling her Daphne costume from Scooby Doo


















Mitchell Harding with his alphabet pajamas. Z is currently his favorite letter in case you can't tell.
















The most challenging pajamas this year go to Caleb Harding. He ask for "owl" pajamas.


























Our two little girls,
Nyah Brown and Eve Harding got look-alike pajamas.



























Drake wanted a tunic top and Marcus picked this lovely dragon motif from the clip art on the Internet for his pajamas.

















The Harding family: Sheridan, I am holding Eve, Caleb (behind), Mitchell in front and Marcus













Drake seems pleased with his pajamas

















Kasen, Nyah and Addie. It was a real challenge to get these children to pose for a picture.















Garth spent a couple of days helping Trina make this cute "kitchen" for Mitchell and Eve for Christmas.

















Just before Christmas a sad thing happened when the Provo Tabernacle burned and was totally gutted on the inside. This is what remains.








Snow, Snow & More Snow 12/21/10



We didn't get snow for Christmas but this was the view just 4 days before Christmas.






Thanksgiving in Utah 2010

This year we had Thanksgiving at Trina and Guy's home in Provo. Kendra was the organizer of how things looked.

We started with a few things to snack on at the table where the pies were displayed.





The tables looked quite lovely.



















We each had an acorn with our names on indicating where we should sit.

















The children had their own tables.











Serena is holding Eve Harding






































Trysten Reynolds with Jasper Hickman


















Kendra asked Serena and me to make some bread cornucopia for vegetables. It was a challenge but this is what came out.







General shots around the tables

Guy, Trina, Shanda and Preston












One of the childrens' tables with Caleb, Kira, Marcus and Trenton









Same table but Trenton says "hello"











The little kids' table. Tessa, Talia and Mitchell














Kendra, Kalen and Trysten












Stephanie and Mellissa Rosenhan with Jasper Hickman












Garth, Serena and Blair. (Blair doesn't look too excited to have me taking pictures).









Hello Barry & Kendra














The last look at the beautiful pies before they are devoured. They are Apple, berry, pumpkin & pecan.

Hansen Girls' Get-away 11/24/10



Serena & Blair came to Utahfrom Michigan, Kendra, Barry & family came from Phoenix, Arizona and Shanda, Preston and their children came from Colorado for Thanksgiving. The sisters decided they needed some "Girl time" so they invited the adult granddaughters and met at our house for the evening and ended up all spending the night.

Back: Serena, Kendra (with Alec), Trina, Shanda (with Jasper) and Marenda (with Nyah)
Front row: Mellissa & Stephanie Rosenhan w/ Talia Hickman in front, Kalen with her "child" 'MeMe & Trysten Reynolds


















Shanda, Marenda and Nyah












Mellissa and Stephanie












Trina and Serena













Tysten, Kalen and Kendra

Sleep-over for Addie and Kasen -11/11/10



In November Marenda asked if we could have Addie and Kasen come over Friday evening and spend the night and most of Saturday with us to allow them to make a doll house and set of blocks and a box for Kasen for Christmas.

We happily agreed and enjoyed these two lovely children very much. With Thanksgiving approaching, we decided to do some Thanksgiving activities. With a little help from Kasen Addie and I made these 5 Thanksgiving paper sack puppets.














The children wanted to get outside so Garth took them out and raked up leaves for them to enjoy.

Janice even got into the act.