Christmas Party!

Don't we have such cute little Primary kids!  Our branch president read Luke 2 and the Primary kids acted it out!  We had the kids sing which was my favorite part!  Children just bring such a special spirit into it all.  I'm so grateful for my calling! 

We are the Champions!!!

Raymond coached the "Midgets" (5th & 6th graders) this year in Basketball since the High School still doesn't really have a team and he had so much fun! He had a great group of boys this year.   It was fun to watch Raymond coach too...I had to keep reminding him that the boys were only 5th and 6th graders!  He could definitely get into it!

 They won the championship this year!  We were so proud! The first quarter of the game we were a little nervous cause they couldn't make any shots but after a little pep talk from "Coach Wads" they pulled it off 39 to 20. Go Eagles!!!

So now that basketball is over Raymond is going to start coaching wrestling!  He's never wrestled before in his life so i'm sure it'll be fun to watch! :)

The Nutcracker!

My friend Tricia has a ballet studio here in Lander and she asked me to help her this year with the performance.  It was so much fun seeing all the cute little girls in their costumes and they did such a good job! I was sad I didn't ever get to really see it being backstage but I definitely can't wait to have little girls of my own!  I even got Raymond to come...just to give him a little taste of what he has to look forward to!  Secretly he's excited! :) But in his words he's fine with all the girly girl stuff as long as they go hunting with him too! (My dad tried that with me too...didn't turn out so well) I just hope that when we do have little girls of our own we can find a teacher like Tricia!  I only took one picture at the end since I was so busy but a lot of other girls I know from Primary and school were in it too and they did such a  great job! Here's Tricia with her girls...

Halloween in December!

I'm totally late with this post seeing that it's December but I was looking through my camera and I realized I never put these on! So here they are for my mom! :) Our friends the Johnson's had a spooky backyard for Halloween which was so much fun! Raymond loved it because they had him dress up to scare the kids as they went through.   I was sad that I never got a picture of him all dressed up on my camera... but it was such a fun night!

Cute little Ruby!

 I loved Linda's costume!

 Ava & Josie!

Raymond and I were kinda boring this year on Halloween and we didn't start carving our pumpkins till six at night.  But for being thrown together, they turned out pretty good! Happy Halloween...in December! :)

Willoughby's Visit!

Raymond's sister Marinda and her family came to visit us and we had such a good time while they were here!  We were so glad for no snow too!  On Sat. when they got here we went to Riverton to go to the Pumpkin Patch and the Corn Maze...Noah was loving all the Pumpkins!

 Especially the ones he could carry!

And of course Raymond had to take him to go see the "trac-too"

This picture makes me laugh every time I see it! Raymond told Emmie to be tough!

Noah found some dried corn and started eating it! :)

We went to Sinks Canyon on Sunday, it was cold but the kids had so much fun exploring...especially Kirk!

Ethan & Emmie

How gorgeous!

They loved all the big fish! Too bad you can't catch them! :)

We made Monster Tacos  that turned out pretty darn cute I think!

Marinda has a lot more pictures from when I forgot my camera so I'll have to put more up but we are so grateful that they came to see us! It was so good to have family close by even if it was just for a weekend! We miss you guys already!

Primary Halloween Par-Tay!

My new friend Emily Vorwaller and I are in Primary together and we had a halloween party and it was a HUGE success! Having 32 kids show up probably doesn't sound like very much to most people I'm sure, but for our branch it was amazing! We have seen such a huge growth of kids coming to primary these last few months.  It just makes me smile thinking about all the little miracles that are happening! We had such a good time! We have such cute kids in Primary!

We made Pumpkin Spiders...

Had Face Painting...we're so lucky to have an actual artist in our branch, Sister Cox.  She was the definite favorite of the night! The kids loved it and she did such a great job!

We had relays, decorated cookies, played pin the nose on the pumpkin, ring toss with a witch hat, and had such a fun night!  I'm so glad to be in Primary and to have Emily here now too!

Josey and Ruby, my friends adorable girls!

Only YOU can prevent forest fires!

We had the firefighters come to school this past week and the kids were SO excited! We saw them in the morning and I don't think they stopped talking about it all day! We had such a fun time!

They were so excited to see Smoky!  I was laughing so hard though because they kept asking,

"Are you really a bear?"  "If you're a bear...what do you eat then?" 

(We had just been reading about bears and what they eat...)

 I bet Smoky didn't think he was going to get an interrogation! :)

They were so excited to see a rainbow! They were showing the kids how far the water can go from the truck! Aren't those cute little Jr. Fire Chiefs!

The kids were beaming on that truck! I stayed behind with one of the girls who was really scared!

My cute kids! No matter how tired I am when I get home, those little smiles will always melt my heart!