Broken Leg Update

BEFORE: The kids all had a great time coloring on Ellie's cast, including Ellie! I had a hard time keeping the magic markers away from them.

Ellie got her cast off last week! She's doing great and was walking on it within an hour of getting the cast off. She runs, jumps and does whatever she wants. She still has a slight limp every once in a while, but it doesn't slow her down much!

AFTER: We went swimming last weekend, that's Ellie on the left!

CHRISTMAS...finally!

It's only January 19th...we just got the christmas lights down and the boxes put away yesterday! So here are the christmas pictures...finally.

Ellie is on the left, Payton in purple on the right.

We were so glad that Grandma and Grandpa Woolf came to spend Christmas with us! (Shame on all you other Woolfs that didn't come!)

Ellie and Payton love their computers from Grandma and Grandpa Woolf and their crawling/laughing/farting babies from Angie and Nathan. What a hit! They love to play with those babies!

The girls also love their new quilts from Grandma Mano! (Mom, now I see that Payton's was the pink one...I'll have to remember that!)

And of course, the giant Millenium Falcon! Whew, Christmas was so much fun!

But a few days ago Max was thinking about all of his new toys and said to me, "Mom, what did you get me for Christmas?" Oh Max, you weren't supposed to notice that!

Even more Holiday fun...

We finally made it to the Bellagio's Christmas display and were not disappointed!

Payton especially enjoyed trying to figure out how she could get to all of that chocolate in the chocolate fountain!

We went to Utah for New Years and the kids had lots of fun with all of their aunties, uncles, cousins and Grandma and Grandpa.

New Christmas Traditions

We've tried a few new things this year and we've been having lots of fun! We had some friends over to act out the nativity. We dressed up the kids in whatever we could find and read Luke 2 as they listened for their part and gathered around the "baby Jesus". It turned out really cute and very fun. Max was a shepherd complete with jedi robe and golf club staff! How do you like our other shepherd with his light saber (Charlie) and the rifle wielding wise man (Jake)?

We also went christmas caroling with a couple other families in our ward and that was really fun too. Even though we're not that big on singing, we wanted to try it and we had a great time!

The other fun thing we've been doing (and hope that it becomes a holiday tradition) is having lots of visitors! Grandma and Grandpa Mano came last week, Taryn and her friends came for the BYU game and Grandma and Grandpa Woolf just got here to spend Christmas with us! The kids are in heaven!

The Santa Train

We took the kids on the Santa Train in Boulder City. It was a short ride, but Santa and Mrs. Claus came through and talked to everyone. It was fun. Max enjoyed talking with Santa (although he's getting a little concerned that there are so many different Santas) and the girls still would rather not get too close!