Our FAVORITE Movie

I had to post about this movie because it is so fantastic.
We saw this movie in the theater over the summer with some of our favorite ladies, The Farmer girls and our cousin Megan! I had been anxious to see it since I had read some the books as a child and Bryanna was excited since she had read one of the books already too. It was such a good movie- funny, heartwarming, emotional at times, good music, a great family movie. When it came out on DVD I knew I wanted tobuy it so we gave it to the girls for Christmas. We have watched it everyday since and one day the girls watched it twice. I've downloaded a lot of the songs from the movie to my blog.
Today the girls have been role playing Ramona and Beezus with Aunt Bea and Hobart too!! I recommend this movie a million times.
You must see it!
I hope you all love it as much as we do.

Our Christmas

Christmas dresses the Sunday before Christmas.

On Christmas Eve we went to Reno for dinner and some last minute shopping. We rushed home so the girls could open their presents from family. They had been so patient all week.
They are very blessed little girls!

A special present from Gma Pam and Gpa Ian was their very own sewing machine!!

Matching PJ's this year.
I noticed Abby's hand on Bryanna after I downloaded the pictures!! A little inappropriate, sorry. ha ha!

Abby with our famous Thistle Hair the Christmas Bear
After presents we watched a nativity movie and then tucked the girls into bed.

Santa finally came in the middle of the night!

The girls were happy to see they got what they asked Santa for this year.

Our giant sugar cookie for Jesus.

It was a wonderful Christmas full of traditions and happy memories. We are grateful for this season and for the special time we get to remember the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ and His life.
We have been very blessed and we hope to have another wonderful year in 2011.

Merry Christmas

Our family wishes you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
We hope you enjoy many blessings this coming year.

Gracie lost her first tooth!

Gracie's bottom 2 teeth have been loose for a few weeks now. The permanent teeth were already coming in behind them. We were just patiently waiting for the first one to fall out.
The other night I was gone at book club and when I got home Derek proceeded to tell me how Gracie finally lost her first tooth. In true Gracie style, she got upset because she couldn't have something she wanted at bed time so she went screaming into her pillow and bit down on it. You can probably guess what happened. She got up and there was blood everywhere, her tooth was hanging from a single piece of gum tissue and all the girls started crying!!! Derek pulled the tooth all the way out, gave her a washcloth and she put her tooth under the pillow. AAAAHHH! It could only happen this way with Gracie. We love her fighting spirit! Needless to say the tooth fairy came that night and she was one happy girl the next morning, with one less baby tooth!

Duck Hunting with Daddy

FYI:Please ignore the gun my child is holding.

I only wanted to take this picture to document the moment I let my oldest daughter go hunting with her daddy. This was a little hard for me as most of you know. I do have to say she looked super cute in camo!! They didn't get any ducks that day but they had a good time together and Bryanna is ready to go again. Good thing Derek has her!! They woke up @ 5:30 to go before school and they were back in time for Bryanna to catch the bus. She was tired that day but loved it!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We made a Gingerbread House for family night. The girls have been begging since to eat the candy!!

Class Christmas Parties 2010

Bryanna with some of her classmates singing Christmas Carols!

Abby with Gracie during her class Christmas party

Abby and her BFF Gabi making gingerbread girls.

Abby and Mrs. W. The best, most awesome Kindergarten teacher EVER!!

Derek and I went to the annual Les Schwab Christmas dinner/party. It was at a golf course restaurant. It was very nice and the food was yummy. I won the yearly gag gift: a dancing/singing Santa and a $20 Walmart gift card. Derek won some personal products that we won't talk about. Let's just say he was more excited about it than I was:( The girls are really enjoying the Santa....Me...not so much! I need to take the batteries out.
The girls and I went with friends to the Santa Train at the Nevada State Railroad Museum here in Carson. We had done it a few years back and it was a lot colder. This year it was warm and we got to sit in the first train car which happened to be the oldest at 140 years old with the original velvet seats! Santa visited us first and gave everyone a candy cane.

p.s. I just noticed the creepy old guy in the background!

Thanksgiving gone..Christmas here we come!

Thanksgiving dinner at home. The food was great and it was nice and quiet. Don't mind my messy kitchen or Derek's silly face:)

Making our famous candy turkeys. A tradition started by my Grandma Rushton.

Early Thanksgiving morning Derek killed an innocent goose:(
No, that was not on our table for dinner!

Day after Thanksgiving after I went shopping (i don't think I'm up for that anymore) we put up the tree and Christmas decorations.

Trying to get good pictures for our Christmas card. That is a challenge let me tell you! I had to bribe everyone...even the Daddy!

I'm glad to have Thanksgiving over and really excited for all that the Christmas season brings.