Christmas Day

Christmas Day was quite the day for me. Mainly because I woke up and the head cold that I had been dealing with for a week was back full force. Which basically sucked. So we ended up not going to church which was sad because we were really looking forward to it but I couldn't stop coughing. And no one likes to sit next to or listen to the girl who can't stop coughing through church. Anyways, we got Jayanne up and we did present time and talked to her a bit about Jesus and why we celebrate Christmas. I don't think she really cared at that point because she could see her little play kitchen and that is probably cooler to a 2 year old. Anyways, she loved her presents. Her favorite is a toss-up between the play kitchen and the puzzle set my mom gave her.

After presents I had kinda gotten things under control with the help of my medicine so we went over to Brian's parents house for brunch with his family and the present exchange. It was very relaxing. I think the best part was watching Michael and Mckenzie try to figure out if the trip to Disneyland the next day was a serious thing or a joke. Grandma and Grandpa Gave us a trip to Disneyland for Christmas and we kept it a secret from the kids and it was fun to watch them go on the hunt to figure out what the present was. After that we went over to my parents to say hi and spend a few minutes with them on Christmas. We then rushed home so we could start making food for the dinner at Great Grandma Satterlee's house with all of Brian's family and a special appearance of Great Grandma Singleton. It was a great way to end Christmas day.

Christmas Eve

So I don't have any pictures showing what we did Christmas Eve so you will just have to read about it. So Christmas Eve is usually the day that we have a party with my family. This year was especially nice because its the first Christmas that we have had with the entire family home now that Allen is home from his mission. So we all got together at my mom's house and had our little party. We first read the Christmas story and sang Christmas songs since dinner was not quite ready yet. My daddy read the Christmas story while my mom had all the grandkids put together the manager scene as it was read. We then sang, which is no way unusual with my family. We sang at everything. Anyways, we always sing my favorite Christmas song. Its probably safe to say that its almost my entire families favorite Christmas song. Its called Star of Bethlehem. If you have not heard it you really should. Its a beautiful song. We have been singing it for years it seems like ever since the Christmas program for our ward where we first sang it. But its such an amazing song with such a wonderful message. So really, find it and listen to it. You won't be sorry. Anyways, after that we had dinner. We had breakfast casserole. We usually have that for Christmas breakfast but where we all had church we opted to skip Christmas breakfast and just have it for dinner the night before. It was delicious as always. We then did the gift exchange which is always fun. After the party we came home and we did our own little thing with Jayanne. We read her "Twas The Night Before Christmas" and the Christmas story again. It was a great night.

Our Christmas Tree

So we by no means have the most amazing Christmas tree. It is definitely on the smaller side of things but we have had it since we have been married and it works for us and the house since we have a small house. Anywho- Jayanne loved helping us put it up this year.

Helping with the lights

Learning how to put on the ornaments

Doing it by herself

See its by no means amzing but it works. We have yet to find a tree topper that doesn't look ridiculous. Most of them are just huge on top of the tree that we take them back. We also have yet to change the tree skirt from red to silver like we did the decorations but its our little tree.

Brian's favorite ornament! GO RAIDERS!

Daddy's Girl

So there are certain things that Jayanne loves to do with daddy and daddy only.

She loves to come home from church and watch football with daddy. In fact if daddy isn't home we don't watch football. That is a daddy thing only apparently.

She also loves to play Call of Duty with daddy. Her controller doesn't have any batteries in it but she can push those buttons like no other. She always askes daddy if she can play his game with him.

Jayanne loves her daddy.

Fall Time

So the other day we went over to my brother-in-law Chris' house to help Chris with something. Well, Brian helped with something. Anyways, Michael was raking the leaves and Mckenzie was technically supposed be cleaning inside the house but she took Jayanne outside to play instead. They ended up playing in the pile of leaves that Mike had raked but she had so much fun no one really had the heart to tell her to stop.

I think this picture is hilarious. Chris threw her up so high that her head went out of the shot. It was funny.

Happy Halloween!

So I know that Halloween is past but I just wanted to share a few pictures from the holiday.

At our wards trunk or treat. Most of the primary presidency and kids.
Porter, Diana, Jayanne, Kailynn, Tana, and Daxton

Daxton and Jayanne

The parents trunk or treat.
Jayanne, Grandma Stephens, and Zach

Zach and Jayanne

Jayanne as the Pirate Princess

Ok so at our wards trunk or treat they also had a carnival and as a primary we had them play, instead of a calk walk, a candy walk. We have like 85 primary kids and we didnt want to cook that many cakes so we just handed out candy. Anyways, Jayanne loved it! She probably played it for like 30 minutes straight. She didn't want to do anything else. It turned out to be alot of fun.

Having lots of fun. After every number was called out she would run up to me and say that she won and run back to her number. It was funny.

The candy she got.

What she did with the candy that she got....weird right? She does this with everything!

Ready to go!

Pumpkin Picking

So last week we went to get some pumpkins for Jayanne with Brian's parents. And I must tell you that I had no idea how hard it would be to pick a pumpkin. Jayanne went from pumpkin to pumpkin to pumpkin and for a while I thought we were never gonna find one that was good enough. They were either too dirty or too small or too big or something was wrong with the pumpkin. After she dragged grandma around and around she finally admitted to Jill that she was just teasing us and picked out two of them. It was a fun night. The next day we just put the pumpkins on the porch and Jayanne told that she just loved it. So now I don't know if we are even gonna do anything with them since them sitting on the porch is good enough. We'll see.