Austin had his Christmas program at preschool and it was the most precious thing to watch. He loves to sing! He was one of the three wise men. He was so into it and at times we could hear his raspy little voice...but he was definately not the loudest! (video below)

Cameron is playing basketball this winter. It's quite an experience watching their 'beginners' team during the games! Luckily they have the most patient, loving and calm coach to teach them the basics of the game.

Austin turns 5

He was so excited to have another birthday. We had a simple family party and he was thrilled to wear his happy birthday pin to preschool.

I went with Austin on his fieldtrip to the pumpkin patch.
hayride

this little piggy got rolled into a ball of hay...

silly faces

Colin had his first band 'concert'. It was more of a demonstration for parents and I learned how to play hot cross buns on Colins clarinet. He loves playing this instrument. This is the same one that Chris played over 25 years ago.

October 2011

The high school Colin will attend is a new school and is currently in the 3A division. We made it to a game and for a team that has seniors on it for the first time they did pretty well. Here's to growth and learning! We can only get better....it is football and we do live in Texas!

We were also able to attend our first FC Dallas game, thanks to some great friends of ours. It was a lot of fun and very entertaining. We all had a wonderful time. Oct. 2011

Fall

We got together with a few other families and had a special FHE the night before school started!

During Halloween time we enjoyed decorating cookies, faces and haunted houses!

While the dads were at the priesthood session of conference, a friend and I took our kids to get some frozen yogurt and then for some outdoor fun. There is a great hill close to our home that is fun to slide down on cardboard boxes.

Shortly after school started we found out we are expecting our FOURTH CHILD!!!! We are so thrilled and it was even more fun to see others' reactions about Chris being on board with it. We were both comfortable with our little family. Austin turned 5 in October and will be starting kindergarten fall 2012. For most of this year I've had the baby bug though. We both got serious about praying to find out if this is really the Lord's plan for our family. We received a peaceful answer and were blessed to get pregnant soon after.

Colin loved playing flag football this past fall. He had three other boys from church on his team, and they seemed to play really well together. He's hoping to play in the spring again as well. He's still deciding whether he wants to play tackle football in middle school next year.