Blessed

We are so blessed as a family and are grateful for all that we have this year! We are looking forward to Christmas with family this year, and are excited that our kids are getting big enough to understand a little bit about Christmas. We had a funny experience last Saturday! We got the kids all excited a bout the Ward Christmas Party and got them all ready and told them they were going to go see Santa and have some fun. They were so happy until we pulled up to the Church. They thought they had been scammed, and Maddock exclaimed, "This is not a party, this is church". He proceeded to throw a tantrum from there and we ended up having a horrible time trying to get the kids to behave and realize it was supposed to be fun. I was going to post the resulting picture with Santa, but it looks like Bethany deleted it. It consisted of me holding Maddock and him hiding himself with his hands and on my shoulder, and then Jaylee clinging for dear life on Bethany, and then Bethany and I smiling like everything was just great!

We have had a lot of fun going for rides in the car almost every night to look at Christmas lights! We are so excited for Christmas, and anyone that knows Maddock knows that there was no better place for us to take pictures than on the railroad tracks (the kid loves trains!). Below are some of the pictures we took!