Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Darringtons

Jeff and his sister Tara

Breken and Uncle Bob Maylee and Gracie got darling matching dresses form Grandma



What a crew



Daddy and Gracie

Jeff's parents gave us all wii's we were soooo excited!

Here is Drew trying out the wii

Maylee doing Aunt Ami's nails

The kiddos running thru the snow and jumping in the hot tub.(only at Grandma's huh)

What a crew we have here, we have grown there were 3 new babies in 1 year!

The kids had so much fun playing with there cousins we got to see them for 3 straight days and they loved it. We stayed

really late and had a bawl with them!

Sunday before Christmas

We took these pictures after church, as you can see Gracie was not in her dress at first she was not feeling good so I brought her home early and put her jammies on, we put on her christmas dress so she could wear it to Grandma Robertson's christmas party!

Christmas DAY

Here is Christmas morning, at about 9:00 I went and asked the kids if they wanted to go see what Santa brought, Maylee rolled over and said no, Braden said yes I do! They were all excited to come in the living room to see, Gracie loved the ribbons and bows ofcoarse! Braden got the football he wanted and May got her Hannah Montana guitar!

Snow Fun

We were so excited that we got to stay home for most of the day today, we got our house ready for Santa and then I took the kids sledding, Gracie was not sure about the whole idea I put her in a big girl carseat in the back of the ranger with Maylee and we pulled Braden on the sled, he was practicing his surfing on a sled trick they had so much fun, Gracie fell asleep she looked cute in her snow suit she woke up by the time I got it off of her I think she enjoyed her 1st sledding experiance.

Gracie is 8 months

I had to ask Jeff is Gracie

really 8 months, she is growing so fast she says Dad DAD dAD dad DAD DAD, I think it is so cute she loves her Dad! She is still just inch worming she has not figured out the knees with crawling which is fine with me, she is a happy baby and is pleased with whatever we are doing for the day! She likes her saucer toy the best and watching Braden and Maylee is a hit anytime!

ROBERTSON PARTY

As you can see we like to party at our house, this is the party at my parents house we always have dinner then my Mom takes all the grandkids in her room to get dressed up for the nativity, my Dad reads the story and they come out and are so good and quiet during this time, (the second the costumes are off it is not so quiet), we then exchange presents, my mom got us girls all a making memory slice (the newdie cutter) I was soooo excited thanks Mom! This year all the kids got to spend the night and have a Christmas sleep over they had a blast, Jeff and I went to Twin and finished up a little last minute shopping, thanks a fun night!

Maylee's Dance Recital and the Gillette Party

Maylee had her first dance recital tonight she did so good, she did not want anyone to watch so once again we snuck in! She looked so cute in her cute dance jammies, she got right on that stage and did not miss one step!

Gillette party

We went to my Dad's family christmas party after Maylee's dance recital it was lots of fun to see everyone, we had a Mexican fiesta dinner, the kids sang songs to us and we played our traditional trade 3 times gift exchange.

Christmas at Uncle Tim's and Aunt Jana

Every year Jeff's Aunt and Uncle do Christmas Fireside with dinner. It was so cool this year they asked us all to e-mail pictures of us with our kids teaching something about Christ, they made a cool slideshow with music, Jana told a really fun story and we ate yummy soup. I loved this night it was so much fun and was a reminder of the Savior at Christmas!

Ward Christmas Party

Gracie and Santa

Braden and Santa

Tonight was our ward party, it was lots of fun they had Santa and dinner, then each organization put on a skit or play Braden kept telling me that he was Joseph I did not know if it was for the party or for Sunday, I asked him what he had to do and he said I just have to stand by Preslee that's all, well if you see these pictures you can tell that he did just what he was told, he stood by Preslee and did not sing a word, after I asked him why he did not sing he told me that he was told all he had to do to be Joseph was stand by Mary! Now if it was that easy with him all the time we would have something for sure!

Uncle Denton's Christmas Party

Every year Denton invites everyone over for a fun yet different kind of party, he is the senator and goes to lots of conventions and receives all sorts of fun little prizes for example, notebooks, hats, pens, fans, coasters, bags, waterbottles, and much much more. He runs the party a little different each year this year the kids drew numbers and got prizes according to there numbers, then at the end he holds up an item and if you want it you raise your hand, it is a blast to go see the fun treasures he has collected, the best part is seeing how excited he gets!

Making Gingerbread Houses

We made Gingerbread houses for the first time this year. The kids loved it, much to my surprise and joy when we opened the kit the house was pre-made, so we made the frosting and they decorated like crazy! Gracie enjoyed watching and trying to grab the house a couple of times!

Maylee's Christmas Dances!

This was today at Park View I had to hide in the corner so she did not see me watching what a silly girl, she did really good today! I did not know my camera could not video turned this way.

Festival of Tree's

This year Braden's kindergarten class sang ant the festival of tree's they sang tons of cute Christmas songs and had actions to go with them, his favorite was five little jingle bells. Maylee danced also, the night before was her first performance at Highland estates she ws so excited to get her costume and makeup on we got there and it was time to walk out and she grabbed my leg and froze then burst into tears, I gave her to another mom thinking she might go out with her oh no instead she screamed, the 2nd dance her teacher took her out and she cried and went and sat in front with her teacher, talk about major dissapointment I think I felt way worse then I needed to! So the next day is the festival and I am telling her all sorts of things like you can't take dance if you don't perform, I am going to half to take back your costume if you don't dance, and any other ting I could think of, well we came up with an idea we would have my sister take her and see if she would dance, Maylee seemed to be okay with the plan little did she know we were all following her to watch we set in back and sure enough the little poop danced her heart out she sang every word and did not miss a beat! The funniest part is her face when she came out and saw us all sitting there, So I guess my sister has a job taking May to her performances! Maylee did not love Santa
Gracie and Fallon were very curious

Milk from Santa?????

Maylee dancing like a star!

Braden performing with his class!

ABB Pattern

I was asking the kids what they wanted to get each other for Christmas and they were telling me different ideas and Braden said, " Mom are you going to keep having ABB Patterns for babies?" I said what, and he said you know ABB patterns like boy, girl, girl, he then asked are you going to have another boy, then a girl then another girl just like an ABB pattern. So if you have a kindergartner or have had one you know that they learn different patterns and they have to color coordinate them to I think he is defiantly learning in school!

Sleeping on Daddy's lap

Fast asleep

This is where I want to be!


cutie pie

Gracie fell asleep just like this, it was so cute she goy comfy and crashed! She is growing up so fast I can't believe it! She is still inch worming around the room, she finally will eat baby food, and drink juice!

3 IN A ROW

I had to take this picture, it is rare that they are all 3 this close. I can't remember what they were watching but they were all in to it. Gracie has to try hard to keep up with these 2, she loves to sit next to them and just watch there every move!