Burt Family Christmas Party

Baby Jesus in the Manger.

The Wise Men (Uncle Jackson and Alex).

Seeing the baby Jesus...which he later stole.

The Shepherds (Daddy and Ty) and angel (Aunt Holly).

Mary (Brooklyn) riding her donkey (Uncle Matt).

Joseph (Luke) and a wise man (Alex).

Luke was so excited to play Joseph.

We had a great time doing the Christmas Nativity with our kids this year. They loved it and of course all the parents and grandparents let out many an " ooh" and "awh" and "oh". Our kids are adorable!

The entire cast.

Christmas sleepover at Grandma's

The Sunday before Christmas we had a sleepover at my parents house. We went to church with them which the boys enjoyed. We attempted to get some good pictures of us in our new Christmas church clothes...this is what we got. Poor Ty had fallen asleep in church and was not a happy camper when we got home and tried to take some pictures.

12 Days of Christmas

A tradition that we have carried on from Jake's childhood is the 12 days of Christmas. Every night we do an activity together as a family. It was Jake's idea this year for me to draw a picture of the day's activity and post it on the front door. Then when the kids came down in the morning they could figure out the activity based on the picture. Luke LOVED this.

Some of the things we did:
shopping and seeing Santa
Movie night-Princess and the Frog
Game night-New Yahtzee Jr.
Temple Square to see the lights

to name a few. Unfortunately I didn't take very many pictures...oops. But I did get some of us making candy trains with the Speredons.

Luke's train.


Ty REALLY enjoyed this. Surprisingly he didn't eat very much of it, but was intensely focused on making his train. He worked on his the longest and enjoyed every minute of it.
Notice all of us in our BYU stuff. The BYU bowl game was that night. Go BYU!

Snow Buddies

Mostly they just like to eat the snow. But they are having fun this winter playing in the snow.

3 Months Old

Can we say "double chin?"

Lily is now three months old. I can't believe it. She is such a good baby. Already sleeping through the night. (Usually from 9 p.m.-7 a.m.) Great eater, always smiling, rarely crying. She is such a joy and a blessing to us. She is just starting to giggle and coo which we would argue are the sweetest sounds ever known to man. We are so in love with our "Lily girl", "Silly Lily" and our "Pretty Princess". These have become our new nicknames for her. The third is what Luke calls her. Ty the first two. But he can't say l's so it comes out "siwwy wiwwy" or "wiwwy giwr". Ty absolutely is the most enamoured with her. He LOVES her so much and is always very worried when she does happen to cry. The other day he picked her up when I turned my back for a second. He then accidentally dropped her. She cried pretty hard which is to be expected, (good thing he is short so it was a short drop). But Ty cried just as hard. He came to me and said, "Hurt, Lily...I sorry Lily". It was really sweet. Too bad it didn't cure him of his constant urge to hold her/pick her up. I have to watch really closely.

Thanksgiving

The guys watching football.

Grandma reading a story.

We spent Thanksgiving with my parents. It was nice, quiet and slower paced because we got to be the only house guests for the day. Great food and the kids enjoyed their time with Grandma and Grandpa. Thanks Mom and Dad.

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!

For those of you who haven't seen my house, our living room is the size of both stories. It has a loft looking over into it, but needless to say it is a very large room. Our previous 6 ft. pencil tree looked sadly pitiful in our new house. So this year we invested in a beautiful 9 ft. full Christmas tree. I LOVE IT! Thanks babe for indulging me with new decorations too.

"A" You're Adorable!

Random recent pics of my adorable kids!

Lily's Blessing

Our Pretty Princess.

Grandma's girl.

Grandma Faye Ball and her little Lily Faye. We named Lily after my Grandmother because she is one of the kindest and sweetest women I know. I hope Lily will always know what a honor it is to carry my Grandmother's name.

Four generations of women. My mother's mother, my mother, me and my daughter.

Our Angels!

Uncle Jackson (holding Ty), "Uncle" Joey, Bishop Carlson, Uncle Matt, Uncle Elvin

Brother Cragun, Daddy, Lily, Grandpa Ball and Grandpa Burt.

Our Family.

Daddy's girl.

We had a great morning Saturday blessing Lily. We did it at home which was really nice and relaxing. I wish all of my favorite people could have been there, but we had almost everyone that lives locally. We took a ton of pictures so I just posted a few of my favorites.

All Hallows Eve

Princess Leia, R2D2, Yoda, Han Solo frozen in carbonite and Darth Vadar.

What a crazy day on Saturday. But a lot of fun. We got a lot of comments on our costumes. I love the theme idea. As long as our kids are willing to be seen with us and coordinate I am all about that. One year I am sure we will no longer be cool enough to hang with. But, this year at least Luke LOVED IT!