Christmas Dolls

Here are a few of my favorite things...

Happy Birthday Autumn Susan Tanner!!

Our little baby is six years old!  I can't even believe it!  She has been a wonderful addition to our family and I can't imagine life without her.  She is such a feisty, sweet, rascal, and we love her to pieces!

To celebrate her birthday, she had a birthday party with her friends on the Saturday before her big day.  She had just three friends that came, but it was perfect.  They had a really great time playing games and making graham cracker candy houses.  On her actual birthday, we opened presents in the morning and that evening took her on her mommy-daddy-daughter date night.  She chose Red Robin (same as last year), and they sang to her and gave her balloons and a sundae.  She LOVED it!  I hope you had a wonderful birthday Autumn sweetheart!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

The first weekend in December, we decorated our Christmas tree.  The girls love to put all the decorations on, and for years I didn't really like to let them, because it never turned out how I wanted it to look.  For the last two years, I have let them have free reign... and it has been wonderful.  We turned on Christmas music and just let them load up the tree.  It was really fun!

Dino-Kid Autumn

Autumn received the Dino-kid award for November!  She is such a great kid, and a great student in Kindergarten.  We are so proud of her!

Thanksgiving week fun

This year for Thanksgiving week, Grandma and Grandpa Elvester came to visit.  It was a really wonderful week... We hung around home for the most part, but were able to go out to shop and eat a few times... Grandpa came with us on a hike one day.  The weather was very nice... not too hot and not too cold.  Thanksgiving day was really great.  We made a turkey with all the fixin's and three different kinds of pie (Pumpkin, of course, and apple and pecan... Yum!).  I didn't get too many pictures, but we sure had fun!

The Music Man, Jr.

November 1st and 2nd, Ciera was in the McMillan Junior High theater production of "The Music Man, Jr.".  They have been rehearsing for a little over 2 months... Ciera put in a lot of time and hard work.  She got her friend Taylor from our ward to participate (he played her boyfriend in the show... "Ooh La La" says Chloe).  The show was great!  They really did a wonderful job.  I was so proud!