Our Little Girl is 6!

It is crazy seeing how fast these kids grow up

 They are proud of their building

 Mason is slowly getting more patient when it comes to reading books. Every now and then we make it through a whole book

 What a pretty girl

 Cute kids

 Mason getting the royal treatment (pulled in a wagon)

 Lyza got this birthday crown at school a few days before he birthday and she has been wearing it all the time

 Google just released an app that takes videos on your phone and turns them into comic strip style pictures. It is kind of fun.

 Mason and his mom at the library

 Lyza got this Christmas ornament at school

 Kim loves seeing Mason in these Christmas diapers so much that she won't dress him

 Look at that pose! I think this was the morning of her school Christmas party where they got to wear their PJs and watch a Christmas movie at school

 Nixon has lots of fun with mom when Lyza is at school

 Mason did this for a long time

Silly boys

 Mason is trying to reach Figgie

 Mason loves sleeping with covers over his head

Mason has learned how to act like a pig

 This boy is dangerous

 Kim has been super crafty lately

 Thing 1 and Thing 2 shoveling snow

 On Friday Kim and I had a date attending my work Christmas party

Google thinks we had a year full of smiles

Kim bought this hose head for a white elephant party and the kids didn't like it

Mason practices cooking

 Saturday was a BIG day

Decorating Lyza's birthday cake

 Lyza requested chocolate chip pancakes for her birthday breakfast

 Here she is with her cake

 And what a cake it was!

 Freeze dancing was lots of fun 

 Mason loved watching all of the kids and laughed every time they froze

They played musical chairs and of course the birthday girl won ;)

Here is the bunch (minus Nixon who was having a hard time at the moment)

 What is a birthday without the song?

She barely blew the candle out

 If that face doesn't scream joy, then I don't know what does

 The kids had lots of fun with presents and the hugs were adorable

 They all watched some PJ Masks (the theme of the party) before it ended

 After that I helped Lyza (and Nixon) work on her fossil kit. It was a big chunk of plaster that needed to be broken up (slowly) to find the dinosaur fossils)

 Lyza kept telling us that it was the best day of her life!

 Cat Boy!

 We did some family gifts later in the day and Lyza got a one-of-a-kind dinosaur night gown

 When she found out that he mom made it for her she did this

 I have been telling Lyza that it is likely that she is the only girl in the entire world that has a dinosaur night gown

She also got this robot dinosaur and is in love with it

Mason's reactions are a little more mixed

 That evening Kim and I went to an adult Christmas party and gift exchange

 We found this cool house nearby

On Monday night we organized a Christmas caroling activity with 6 other families. It was a lot of fun

 Get back to work Mason, the snow doesn't clear itself!

 Mason has been obsessed with coloring and fortunately he spends more time actually coloring than trying to eat the crayons 

 The kids got to watch old Christmas cartoons (like Mickey, the chipmunks and Pluto, and Donald Duck) with their mom yesterday and they had a blast

I can't believe that Christmas is only 4 days away! We are excited and hope you are too!

Take care and Merry Christmas!

Christmas Parties are the Best Parties!

Last week the big kids and I went on a "date" to Home Depot to make gingerbread houses

 They were pretty proud of them

 After the paint dried they got to decorate them with stickers

 This boy's hair has gotten out of control

 Lyza and Nixon looking Christmas-y for church last week

 Mason too!

 I have been enjoying (parts) going to nursery with Nixon and Mason lately

 For family home evening we went for a walk around the board walk to see Christmas lights

 Lyza wasn't so sure about this dragon display

Me and the baby

 Mason was happy to get out of the stroller and run around

 Which gave Nixon some time in the stroller

 Mason was mesmerized with these lights outside of the resort

 We spent some time at the fish tank

 Cute fish!

These kids are so silly sometimes

 Kim has been crafty lately

 Every day the kids get to open up a Christmas book. They were so excited to open the one where great grandma and grandpa Bullock read the Christmas story to them

 Kim finally caved and got Mason's hair cut. We had to bribe him with a sucker so he would hold still

 He was a sticky hairy mess by the end so he needed a good bath

 Lyza lost her first tooth (naturally) this week, well as natural as your dad pulling it out of your gums and making them bleed can be

 Mason looks good with his new hair cut!

 We had a herd of moose on our street this week

When you are exhausted you don't care if your legs are sticking out of your crib while you sleep 

 Nixon has really caught the spirit of Christmas. He LOVES using this little gift box and filling it with drawings for us

This is his newest stage of drawing, which is drawing us when we were kids. We have probably got about 100 of this picture around the house right now

We found Kinder eggs at Walmart, well "Kinder Joys" anyway 

 The egg splits in half with a toy on one half

 And chocolate on the other. Apparently you use that scraper type thing to scrape out the soft white chocolate and then there are those two chocolate balls that are akin to ferrero rocher. Not the same, but the kids were still excited 

 Is it possible to any more cool?

 I guess so...

 Phase two of the mud room bench is underway. I got the cubbies almost finished. We just need to decide what we are doing as far as shelves and then trim it all out

Mason had fun playing the piano this week

He might be a little musician when he grows up

This all happened because Kim and I were messing around with the piano figuring out how we could make recordings of her

I am glad we figured it out

 We had our ward Christmas party last night. It was amazing! (the primary/Kim was in charge of it)

Nixon knew what to do with Santa. When Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas Nixon said "money." Smart boy!

 Mason didn't do so well

 This wasn't Lyza's first rodeo so before hand she negotiated an escort as a condition to speaking with Santa. Santa asked her if she wanted dinosaurs for Christmas and Lyza was AMAZED that he knew ;)

 Lyza maybe had a few too many candy canes

 My wife is so beautiful!

 Lyza is looking special as she loses her teeth...

 Mason was chomping on a huge piece of ham and he was in heaven

 Santa narrated the children's nativity (Lyza was a sheep)

 It was a wonderful program

We are loving the Christmas season and hope that you are too

Take care