Santa Claus

Samantha got to go see Santa with her class.......he is not 'favorite'.

Anderton Family Pics

We took a family picture on Thanksgiving, first time in a long time that we have all been together. These are in the stream behind my Mom's house, isn't is pretty. We are so lucky to have grown up here. It will be sad when my parents sell their house, if they ever do, they have been threatening to for years now. :( My Mom was pretty excited that we took these in 'her stream'. Isn't she cute. I thought everyone would enjoy seeing the fam all grown up. Enjoy!

Big Girl Bed

Mantha has been throwing a fit every time we put her in her crib lately and I have been having a hard time with her sleeping in general. She still gets up to eat at least once a night anyway (her short-gut requires her to eat more often than a normal kid). But, I was a little hesitant about switching her to a toddler bed because I had heard so many horror stories about kids climbing out of it all night long. But, we decided to try it! We found a toddler bed (for $20 on craigslist!) and set it up this week and she is doing GREAT. She was so cute, right we when got it up she put her little stuffed animals on her bed (thats what her cousins do, I couldn't believe she remembered that). So far, so good....fingers crossed.

BYU Folk Dance Ensemble

We went to the BYU folk dance ensemble last weekend with my family and had so much fun! They did a dance for every different country around the world, it was fun to see the different cultures and outfits. The dances were fun and different for each place, the dancers were very full of energy and they even had a live band with a fiddler, drummer, flutist, and singers.




We ate at fuddruckers before the concert...yummy!




My Dad got to meet the 'Blues Brothers' while we were at Fuddruckers, he was pretty excited, he seriously was but doesn't smile for pictures :).

'Lets go to the Movies'

We took Samantha to her first movie in the theater last night with Adam and Kristen and she LOVED it! Why did we wait so long? We should have been going to movies for the past year and a half! She loved eating popcorn and licorice and drinking soda, her eyes were glued to the screen the whole time.

















Then we let her play on the racing game at the arcade (thats another favorite). Wonder where she gets these genes? ......Dad?






Apparently Erin got the same gene from Adam.

Anderton Thanksgiving

Friday morning early I went shopping (for the Black Friday sales) and got lots of good stuff and then we went to Adam's house again to watch Ben's brothers football game (A&M). It was so good, they won their rivals (Texas) and it was the last home game and since Mike is a senior, his VREY last home game, but they should go to a decent bowl game and that will be good.
So, we didn't get to the Anderton party til 6:30ish. We had EVERYONE there from my family, even the CO brothers and their families. And G'ma and pa McDonald and G'ma Anderton was there.









Kristie and Katie from WA came, and here is my Dad and his Mom.












Samantha loves phones, here is my Mom and her Mom!












G'ma with the little girls, Mantha videoing. :)









G'pa Mac and Jeff, Nat and G'ma Mac.
























Jessie, April, Elisa......LOTS of cousins.









Mantha and Abe.









Ava, Brooke, and Abi sang primary songs for us, SOO cute.
Porter and Mi-Mi.











Brooke and Jen, G'ma Mac and G'ma Anderton-great friends (their husbands flew United together after WWII, and their families have been great friends ever since....so my Mom and Dad grew up together.)





















So, my Mom has kept all our homemade ornaments from grade school and decorates her tree with them every year (it usually looks pretty bad). So, this year Jen had a great idea for her Christmas present. Each sibling (well, all the girls) got 20 color coordinated ornaments to decorate my Mom's tree. Then Friday night after everyone went to bed, we decorated her tree, then we woke her back up because we were so excited to show her and couldn't wait til morning. It was funny cause my Mom wanted to stay up and play games with us all night and we kept trying to get her to go to bed, we finally had to each pretend we were going to bed, then when she really thought we were asleep she went up to bed. So these pictures are at like 3am. Remember, we all woke up at 4am that morning to go shopping, so we were on very little sleep anyway! Here is the finished product, pretty good huh?

Corey Thanksgiving

With Benj's parents being Mission Presidents in Indiana we had the Corey Thanksgiving without parents which was hard, different, and weird! I was in charge of organizing it and Adam and Kristen hosted it. I was kinda stressed about it, but it turned out fun, we had a turkey bowl at the park, ran to the airport to pick up the CA Corey's, then went to Adam's and ate, then played the wii while we digested, then the boys went to a church for some intense, competitive basketball, and we just got to talk and keep eating all night! (wow, long sentence)


Kristen was the brave one who cooked the turkey! She gets a medal!



































The kids had so much fun at the park!







































Addie and Timothy were so cute boxing each other on the wii!