1st Grade Devotional

The theme of the 1st Grade Devotional was

"I Can Be a Modern Day Pioneer"

Cody did so great. He had 2 parts to memorize and did perfectly!!!

Each boy dressed up in a cowboy hat and bandana,

the girls wore pioneer dresses. Everyone looked so cute!

Here he is saying his last line,

"Latter-day Saints want everyone to know and love the Savior,

to know there is a living Prophet of God on the earth today,

and to have faith and hope."

The message was so sweet!

Here are a couple of pictures of his class all together.

Cute Cowboy Cody!!!

And of course I had to take a picture with him too!!!

Love you son! You did a great job!!!

January--

The last 20 days we have all been sick.

I have really done nothing except blow my nose,

or wipe someone else's.

I'm ready for January to be over so that 2011 can start.

I have yet to even think or come up with my list of goals/resolutions.

I think I'll wait till February.

There are 11 more days of January and I'm glad that we are

finally getting back on our feet. Our boxes of kleenex are empty,

and we are healing--

I'm looking forward to February!

New Years Eve...

For New Years Eve we went to a friend/neighbors house to celebrate

and ring in the new year!!!

2010 is gone!!! A whole decade has passed!!

Steven and Luke opening their poppers!

Me and Dan!!!

For most of the night the kids were downstairs playing games.

Their favorite was the Candy Bar game!!!

Where you roll 2 dice and if you get a double then you have

to dress up in a winter coat, scarf, gloves, and hat and fast as you can

and try (with big gloves on) to open the present which inside is the

chocolate candy bar!!!

It was a lot of fun!!

Thanks Bairds for a great evening!!!

Now on to 2011 and making new goals!!!

Christmas

It was a wonderful Christmas.

It was wonderful to be together.

It was wonderful to focus on the TRUE meaning of

CHRISTmas!!!

Christmas in California - 9

Today the Dad's took the kids to the Church and set up an

obstacle couse for them. They had a blast!!!

Here's Drew!!!

Here's Derek

Here's Steven

Here's Olivia

And here's Cody!

Even the dad's joined in the fun!!!!

Christmas in California - 8

The day after Christmas we went to "Gilroy Gardens"

It is an amusement park for small kids.

And since we have 11 small kids it was the perfect place to go!!

Here are some of the 11...

Luke on the carrousel!

Kyle and Jack on the Goldfish!!!

Talk about NO FEAR!!

These 2 went on everything with a tear!!!

Olivia, Drew, Steven and Luke!

On the Spinning Machine!!!

Kim, Cody, and me on the Banana Split!

WEEEE!!!!

Cody and Olivia on the Roller coaster!!

I think they rode it 8 times if not more!!!

The kids on the caterpillar!!!

Then later there was a show with the Charlie Brown characters.

We sure did have fun!!!

¡¡CHRISTMAS MORNING!!

Santa sure did come!!!

It was a great morning--and reminded me so much of being young in THIS house.

The pReSeNtS!!!!

Derek and Taylor taking their turn to open a present!

Olivia got a Zhu Zhu Pet!!!

Jack was so excited!!!

This really was a Christmas to remember!!!

Kyle also could barely contain himself!!!

Luke and his Batman toy!!!

Steven opening his pack of gum!!

One of the few things he really wanted!

His own pack of Polar Ice gum.

Cody and his new wallet!

Most of the kids---

thrilled on Christmas morning!

Silly Taylor with a bucket on her head!!!

Curtis opening his new shoes!

For Christmas her kids got her new dishes and glasses!!

My dad got her an iPad!!!

Can you tell she's excited???

Kim---also thrilled to get the camera she wanted!!!

John got a set of baseball cards and a signed ball

by the Giants players. So cool!!!

The table with the new dishes!!!

I think I'm going to have to get me some too!!

Another tradition is to have the missionaries over for

Christmas Breakfast. One of the sisters played "The First Noel".

It was just beautiful!!!

Later that night Grandma and Grandpa stayed home and watched

the kid while we all went out to a movie!!

We saw "How Do You Know?" Not the best movie.

But it sure was fun to be together.

All in all it was a great Christmas day!