How much can I cram in this post?

I looked back and realized that I haven't published since last year! How embarrassing! I guess I've resorted to just posting pictures on FB. So, I will attempt to hit some cool things that have happened since last July (most of these were probably on FB already).

Emilee started kindergarten in August 2014. She was really excited for school to start.

Rachel turned one on August 21. She was a little sick, so she wasn't super interested in the cake. But she did okay.

I can't find pictures for September right now. Maybe more to come later.

Most of us went up to Utah in October while Emilee had a break from school. We threw a baby shower for my older sister.

The spread of goodies

Happy gals

One of our activities was decorating onesies

A cake I make

We went to the Phoenix Temple open house as a family. It was beautiful! It was also pretty neat to be there with my whole family. I know that our family can be together forever. I hope that my kids are learning that as well.

Halloween also happens in October...busy month, huh? We went to a few Halloween events which the children enjoyed. I hoped to dress up in coordinating costumes, but we ended up just pairing up a little.

                  

Not too much in November. But we definitely had many blessings to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.

I got to eat lunch with Emilee at school for Thanksgiving.

December was busy, yet again. Emilee's school had a gingerbread night for Kindergarten. My mom got to come with the kids and me. The story of the Gingerbread Boy was read to the kids in the library. Then everyone went to the cafeteria where each kid could decorate their own gingerbread boy. We had fun eating the cookies at home, and the kids still talk about that event and gingerbread.

We had friends over to build graham cracker houses shortly after.

 

Then more creations. We tried for building trains at our next get together. This is the adults' train.

Christmas was good. We were able able to spend time together as a family which was the best part. It was really fun seeing how excited the kids were this year about things. I don't feel like any of the pictures really do justice to things. Just trust me that Christmas was very good.

We decided to finally try going to the train park for their Christmas lights. We enjoyed it. The kids loved seeing all the lights as we rode the train.

I will stop here to close out the year 2014. The next post will pick up where I left off.