Christmas 2011

Christmas 2011
Anxiously awaiting to go downstairs to see what Santa brought! Parker had already been down and scoped everything out! He ran upstairs to Amber's room, and we heard him say "Amber, we got a Wii!!" So funny! I didn't think Parker would do that!
A new nightgown for Aubrey! You were so excited you changed your clothes right then and there!

We went ice skating on Christmas Eve (there was NO snow, so we couldn't go sledding). It was SO much fun! We had a blast!

We went to the Kearns Rec Center where they had several Olympic Events held back in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

We also went to Temple Square to see the lights.

It was bone chilling cold! We dressed warm luckily!

We opened up our pajamas at Grandpa and Grandmas. Avery, Emily, Amber, Brynlee, Katie and Aubrey

Issa, Skyler, Parker and Zach

More Christmas presents! Amber got a lion, Parker a giraffe, and Aubrey a Zebra. You also got a book "Twas the Night Before Christmas" We listened to Grandpa read from the scriptures about the Night Jesus was born.

Time to make cookies for Santa! Although not many were left for Santa....you all enjoyed eating them as you made them! I don't blame you...I would have done the same thing!

Parker's Birthday

Happy 5th Birthday Parker! What a little cutie he is! He was so excited on his birthday I'm surprised he slept at all. He was up shortly before 7:00 ready to open presents and eat breakfast cake. We had to wake up Dad and Aubrey to get started.
It's always fun to get the special place mat, special cup, plate and fork on your birthday.




With us expecting our 3rd girl in April, we decided it's important for Parker to have a lot of fun boy toys!

The infamous breakfast cake! I always eat way too much of it and feel sick the rest of the day ):
That night we had a birthday party for Parker. We have Will Rogers, Jackson Loveland, Parker, Kate Martinez, Jake Crowe, Nate Morgan, Will Morgan, Aubrey Deming, Connor Hardy and Max Pohlman. We didn't have a lot planned, but we played a few games, ate pizza, and had a pinata.
Thank you Mandy for again coming to the rescue. I had the craziest two days and wasn't going to be able to finish the cake in time, so Mandy stepped in and made this amazing creation!











It was a great day. When the last little friend left, I headed straight to bed! I was in bed with lights out by 8:30. I was SO tired from a crazy non-stop, action packed week. Two birthdays, two batches of pecan logs, two appraisals, helping at Parker's school, a funeral to help with (for church)...it was NUTS! Parker didn't fall asleep easily, and woke up at 4:00 ready to play with his new toys. We tried to get him back to bed, but at 6:00 he came in our room again. At 7:00 he finally was free to go down and play! Each day since he wakes up early and goes directly down stairs to play.

Christmas Tree-2011

Here is the Deming Family Christmas tree! We went up to East Fork of the Bear on Saturday morning and spent the day finding the perfect tree. The kids had fun sledding while we hiked around trying to find the perfect one. After many tears ("I'm tired!" "My feet hurt" "My hands are cold!" ) we got this one.








Here is the tree decorated (by the kids, not us!). It looks great though. I think it's been decorated and undecorated a dozen times. Matt and I switched up the decorations this year. We decided it was time to let the kids do their own thing, so they literally did all the decorating start to finish.