Friday December 14th, 2012
Christmas of course! Loving the season and enjoying the moments. After the kids went to bed the other night Matt and I watched the "Joy to the World" video put out by the church in 2003 (I think), it is such a great video on the birth, life and ministry of Jesus Christ, it also incorporates temple square, the Mormon Tabernacle choir, orchestra and live moments of the Christmas season. A great way to fill you with the Christmas Spirit. I decided to bring it to primary to show the kiddos (being five weeks in Dec.) It is 25 min long but it kept the attention of the children and they all seemed to really enjoy it which made me happy that they could enjoy it just as much as I did. I love how people on a whole are so full of Charity, Giving and just plain HAPPIER and more generous and kind in the month of December, if only we had the Christmas Spirit all year long. And what would the Christmas Season be without our family traditions?THE SUMNER SANTA PARADE
Took these pics of the Sumner HS Drum line for Josh who is really into his music, he wants a drum set for Christmas from Santa...will he get his wish, we will see Christmas morning! He had the biggest grin on his face when he saw these drummers...visions of being in a marching band will dance in his head on Christmas Eve.
The Princesses for Brooke
All three girls were in the parade this year for Dancemakers
THE WARD CHRISTMAS PARTYThe primary did the nativity again this year.
Spencer was one of our wise men (in the blue) and due two a few of our planned sheep turned stage-fright Brooke by default ended up as one of our sheep. Ellie was in the chime-bell choir in Sister Pearson's class to "Away in a Manger" on the left of the stage and Josh was in the Star-Choir.
If you look carefully you can see Brooke's little sheep face peeking through the kids.
Here's a clearer pic of Josh on the far right in the front.
The party wouldn't be complete without Mr. Santa Claus himself paying the kids a visit! Jarom and Layton even manned up and sat on Santa's lap to tell him what they wanted for Christmas.
BreAnna and McKenzie (the Beehives) were Santa's elves this year in passing out the candy can bags.
CUB SCOUTS FILED TRIP TO THE RYAN HOUSE MUSEUM
They kept the museum open just for our boys during their cub den meeting time so the cubs had the home all to their selves. A fun field trip!
UNCLE MIKE'S BIRTHDAY and AN ANNOUNCEMENT
Matt's youngest brother had his b-day out in Issaquah last weekend. It was fun to get together for an adult night out to celebrate with his family. They also made a big announcement that they are expecting baby #2, this will make 22 grand kids on the Jackson side, Ashley is 11 weeks pregnant now. Congrats to Mike, Ashley and Levi!
BROOKE and her friend JORDYNN'S Strawberry Shortcake b-day Party!
Brooke was excited to go and had a great time at her friend Jordynn from dance class's strawberry shortcake party. Being three going to a friend b-day party is a real treat, seeing her older siblings with their friend parties on a regular basis...she was happy to have a turn at going to a b-day party and to come home with a goodie bag of fun stuff.
YEARLY FHE NIGHT at THE OLD COUNRTY BUFFET and SPANAWAY LIGHTS
And what a treat, our FHE nights are on Thursday this year (just the way the family schedule permitted.) So lucky for us, Thurs night at the Old Country is FAMILY NIGHT...we didn't even know until we got there but cotton candy and free balloons for the kids and 12 and under eat for 99 cents!
SPENCER'S WINTER CONCERT
The party wouldn't be complete without Mr. Santa Claus himself paying the kids a visit! Jarom and Layton even manned up and sat on Santa's lap to tell him what they wanted for Christmas.
BreAnna and McKenzie (the Beehives) were Santa's elves this year in passing out the candy can bags.
CUB SCOUTS FILED TRIP TO THE RYAN HOUSE MUSEUM
The boys sipping cocoa after the tour.
It was fun to see and hear the tour and the stories of the history of the city we now live in and the ones who were here in the very beginning who helped build everything from the ground up. Look at that fun bike, they also had the Daffodil Princesses from all the years past, it was fun to look at how the hair and styles have changed and evolved over the years. Girls now days look far younger than in the past but maybe it was just the hair styles?
The cubs having fun at the type writer, my how we've came a long ways since the type writer days...these days with the ever changing technology!They kept the museum open just for our boys during their cub den meeting time so the cubs had the home all to their selves. A fun field trip!
UNCLE MIKE'S BIRTHDAY and AN ANNOUNCEMENT
Matt's youngest brother had his b-day out in Issaquah last weekend. It was fun to get together for an adult night out to celebrate with his family. They also made a big announcement that they are expecting baby #2, this will make 22 grand kids on the Jackson side, Ashley is 11 weeks pregnant now. Congrats to Mike, Ashley and Levi!
BROOKE and her friend JORDYNN'S Strawberry Shortcake b-day Party!
Brooke was excited to go and had a great time at her friend Jordynn from dance class's strawberry shortcake party. Being three going to a friend b-day party is a real treat, seeing her older siblings with their friend parties on a regular basis...she was happy to have a turn at going to a b-day party and to come home with a goodie bag of fun stuff.
YEARLY FHE NIGHT at THE OLD COUNRTY BUFFET and SPANAWAY LIGHTS
And what a treat, our FHE nights are on Thursday this year (just the way the family schedule permitted.) So lucky for us, Thurs night at the Old Country is FAMILY NIGHT...we didn't even know until we got there but cotton candy and free balloons for the kids and 12 and under eat for 99 cents!
SPENCER'S WINTER CONCERT
All of the 2nd and 3rd graders at Daffodil Valley.
After the concert, we joined many boys from our ward/cub pack to hotcocoa and hot fudge sundaes at McDonalds for a job well done. The boys all rode in a mini bus, it was alot of fun for them. Members of our ward bought a bus off of craigslist. It's great to tote a large group of people from one place to another. The ladies used it last night also at our Relief Society progressive dinner.
JOSH
Josh with his favorite new thing, my Visiting Teachers brought over this fun M and M's soldier/nutcracker dispenser this week and Josh has taken ownership of it. He wanted Ellie to take these pics of him with his awesome new toy last night...so as we can see he posed for his pictures to the fullest. All's he could talk about last night is how we needed to go buy more m and m's or better yet skittles to put in his machine. He did say, "mom I really want to try skittles in it since I like them better than m and m's but if m and m's cost less we can buy them." Josh is already a penny pincher :)
DL HOLLAND'S FUNERAL
Matt's mom aka Grandma Cheryl went to Utah for the funeral of DL Holland, (Matt's Grandma Donna's brother) who passed away last week. These pictures were sent to us from Sussane Spicker his daughter who is Gary's (Matt's dads) cousin. Looks like a beautiful service and honor to DL's life, sending our love, thoughts and prayers to the family. What a blessing of Eternal Families our Heavenly father has given to us through the gift of our Savior Jesus Christ...























