Jesus wants me for a SuNbEaM!

My little girl is now in the SuNbEaM class at church and I can hardly believe it!

It was a SuNbEaM weekend for Allie, she had her first primary activity Saturday morning....

Meet Your Teacher In Your Pajama's!

And can I just add; this was the first "Meet Your Teacher" breakfast since Jordan and I have been married that I wasn't in charge of it!? Although I miss primary terribly it was kind of nice to sit and enjoy watching the activity :)

I tried, and tried and tried to get a decent picture before chuch but this was the best I could do, enjoy!:

Christmas with the Marsden's

Christmas lasts about a week in our family and we, the girls and I  LoVe it! Since we spend Christmas' in CaLiFoRnIa  it's become traditon to do "Christmas" with Jordan's family the Sunday before Christmas. I'm always amazed at how generous people are!

Allie came home with 2 new bArBiE sets, roller skates, "The Incredebles" movie and candy!

Tryin' out the new skates!

London came home with the Little People Castle and Carriage, a race track, "The Fox and the Hound 1 & 2" and candy!

As for me well I think I scored the best, I came home with this beauty:

and this:

are you jealous!?

Jordan lucked out too and got this:

We had a very MeRRy ChRiStMaS with Jordan's family!

Marotz Family Christmas Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve :)

The annual Marotz Family Christmas Party was held on Saturday and I must admit it was perhaps the BeSt one to date! :) We ate, visited, ate, had Birthday Cake (HaPPy BiRtHdAy to Me!), ate, played basketball, ate, got a visit from Santa, ate, opened some presents, ate and called it gOOd!

Zach, Gage & Allie at the "Kids Table"

Everyone send carma Megan's way to KeeP tHaT nAmE-LeSS BaBy in until we get back from Cali :)

Santa, Emma, Jace, Gage, Hayden & Allie

Gage, Jace & Allie

Allie got Snow White Shoes and a Snow White Crown!

London got a new BaBy

BoYs WiLL bE BoYs!!!

And it just so happens to be that my guy RoCkS!

Oh, Allie playing with Emma's Hair Stuff! I'm pretty sure Allie needs her own "hair stuff" set!

Brittney letting Allie play "hair cutter lady"

Even Gage got in on that action, what a trooper!

All in All it was a fabulous night!

SnOw MuCh FuN!!!

And "SnOw" many pictures! Enjoy...

Jordan perfecting Allie's "sLeeDiNg HiLL"

By the end we had stairs and a "HiLL' smooth enough for London to slide down on her bum!

I thought London would enjoy it more than she did, off day, I guess!

By the end she was climbing and enjoying herself as I though she would!

London's FaVoRiTe part!

PrOOf...

that although we have been scrooges this year we haven't totally neglected Christmas!

The girls opened up their traditional ChRiStMaS OrNaMeNt for the year last night, they were so excited to get to actually open a present.

As soon as I get the camera out she starts in with, "Cheese"

A PuPPy Ornament, was that really a surprise to anyone?

Allie's turn started out okay, until...

She realized hers wasn't wrapped in pink

After a little convincing, and maybe a few threats, she decided to open, despite the hideous ReD wrapping paper. I mean what was I thinking, right!?

Can we say, "Bi-Polar?"

Dance Shoes, YeAh!

In the end I think everyone was happy!

MeRRy ChRiStMaS

From the mouth of babes...

London's prayer tonight went exactly like this:

"Heavly Fadder, sippys, nigh-nights, Awwie, Daddy, Mommy, sweep, Amen!"

Oh. My. Totally melted my ♥! Wish I could trap that moment forever.

Las Begas!

We packed up and headed out with the other 45 members of the Marotz Family for a few days of fun in Las Vegas (or "Begas" if you ask Allie)!

On the AiRpLaNe...how's that for a fake smile!?

A quick shuttle ride to our hotel, the South Point, what cute cousins and best of friends!

BoWliNg, lots of lots of bowling! A favorite new found activity in our house!

Followed by some SwiMMinG...

Friday was "tHe sTrIp" day...

Which included M&m WoRlD...

That provided a 10 minute 3D movie, which I must add was bRiLLiAnT! I wish all kid movies were 10 minutes, it was the perfect length for my girls attention span, loved that!

NaP TiMe...

The Fish Aquarium at the MiRaGE...

My personal favorite, the water show at the BeLLaGiO (it never gets old)...

Some more bowling...

And more SwImmInG (the girls favorite activity!)...

And some stroller action!

And what would a VaCa be without some snuggle time without DaDDy...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, we have GrEaT travelers! They sit in their stroller and just take it all in. A BiG thank you to Jordan's grandparents for another wonderful trip!

GoBBle...gObbLe...

Yesterday was Thanksgiving in our house! As excited as we are to be in Las Vegas  on Thanksgiving we I didn't think a cheap buffet counted as Thanksgiving Dinner. We altered our plans and gave thanks on Sunday! We were lucky enough to have our GrEaT friends Dave, Shay and Levi in town visitng. They helped us celebrate by bringing the dessert and drinks, yumm-O!

We had the works; TuRkEy, MaShEd pOtaToeS & GraVy, SwEEt pOtAtOes, GrEEn beEnS, Grandma Clark's GrEEn JeLLo and RoLLs! Makes my mouth water as I type!

Dave and Shay even put up with our my silly traditions! We went around the table telling 3 Things we are grateful for! We have so much to be grateful for:

London is grateful for:

"Happy, Puppy"

Allie is graetful for:

The Snow

Going to Grandma Mable's Church

Dave and Shay Coming to our house

Annie is grateful for:

An Eternal Family

Having friends to enjoy our day with

Our Health

Jordan is grateful for:

Family

Friends

That we were able to start on the house

HaPPy 60th AnnIvErSarY!

We helped celebrate Jordan's Grandma and Grandpa's 60th Wedding Anniversary on Sunday! Whoa, 60 years, can you imagine!? We have so much to learn from this amazing couple and I feel blessed to be able to be a part of their family! We surprised them by attending their church service and staying for coffee hour which provided a celebratory cake.

a PinK tree in NOVEMBER!?

My cute little girls got this cute little PinK Christmas TrEE for their room. Of course they couldn't wait until after Thanksgiving to put it up (and I totally can't blame them, I was pretty excited to put it up too :)

Jordan thinks we should keep it up all year and change the the ornaments for different times of the year. Now he's thinkin' like his MoTHeR ;) (That's a good thing Susan, we love ya!) But seriously it makes for a pretty cute night light, he may be onto somethin'!