Christmas Eve...

My Family's Tradition (growing up) is to sit around the Christmas tree and read stories, sing songs, tell poems and just chat about Christmas....so I was way excited to include my kids into that- so I asked my Dad if we could come over to his house on Christmas Eve! This is Mallory and I getting ready to go....so we went over there a little bit early and played and watched "ELF" and then we ATE, and ATE, and ATE- SO much yummy food! Then we gathered around the tree to tell some stories....

Isn't this the Cutest Mary and Joseph you've ever seen???

We sang Christmas bells, Rudolf the red nosed reindeer, 12 days of Christmas (Inman Style) and Jingle bells! Then we read the ABC's of Christmas (a STANDARD at our house) and Dad told us a Cowboy poem then we read Christ's birth out of the Bible!

After we got home everyone got to open ONE present-- guess what it was?? NEW PAJAMAS- Lucky kids!! Andrew has BUZZ light year and Mallory has Minnie Mouse!

Pedigo Party!

LAST week we went to a few REALLY fun holiday parties...The one I was the MOST excited about was the "Pedigo party" Since our kids didn't get to come live with us until the first of the year they had never met my mom's side of the family.... So I was really excited for them to meet everyone.....

We went Early and watched a movie so they could kinda see people come in little by little- so they wouldn't get overwhelmed with 30 new people!

And as usual it was way fun, lots of fun catching up and hilarious presents, good food and we got to spend some time with our family....I love that everyone lives so close that we can all get together (at least) once a year!

Sealing Invitation/reminder

We are very excited to soon be an eternal family....

So we still have a little bit of time- but I figured with the craziness of the Holidays I should get it on the Calender quick...SO JANUARY 14th We are getting sealed, Please Mark it on your calender! Check your recommend to see if it is expired (like mine was) and get an appointment to get a new one! EVERYONE who would like to come is invited- Please spread the word to anyone you can think of who would like to attend!

Sick kid and Toliet Paper!

Andrew Boy has been sick for a few days....We went to the doctor and he said he is just fighting a cold! There is no infection, he doesn't have a fever....he is just misrable. Poor boy! He basically watched TV and slept all day today!! Hopefully we are on the upswing so he can feel better for all the Holiday parties this weekend!

On a COMPLEATLY different note- check out this deal>>> a 24 pack of Cottonelle retails for $12.49 at Albertsons! This week they were on sale for $5.99! When you buy 3 you get a $5 off coupon...AND I had a coupon that when I spent $40 I got another $5 off coupon....So I bought 9 packages>>>That would have cost me $112.41, but I only paid $58.91 and got $20 back in coupons, so a total of $38.91 so that's less than $4.33 per package, so that's about .17 per roll! That's a savings of $73.50- And I think we are set on toilet paper for the next 6 months or so!

Oh the two packages on top are from Walgreen's- I had some extra register rewards so I got both of them for $1.50 each!

"Baby blessings"

So Andrew and Mallory got blessed this Sunday. Malachi was really nervous, but he did just fine! The kids were REALLY well behaved- we went early and practiced what was going to happen....they were really excited! These are the Two most Beautiful children dressed in white I've ever seen (but I am a little bit bias) .....

Thank you to everyone who came to support us.....We have felt so much love and support throughout this entire process, it was a long road but I LOVE celebrating all these triumphs at the end of this part of the journey!

Christmas Parties!

We LOVE Christmas and try to squeeze as much of it in as we can.... Friday night we invited ourselves to the Swift's ward party! The food was WAY yummy and they had a lovely little Christmas program for entertainment.

Aunt Talitha, Tucker and Penelope were there too...so you know it was a party!

AND those the kids were SO lucky they each got a Candy cane from the Bishop after he read them a story about the true symbolism of the Candy Cane!

Then Saturday was our Ward party "A Night in Bethlehem" the whole ward dressed up in "Bethlehem outfits" and we ate lentil soup and pita chips and sat on blankets on the floor....

We got out water from a well and had a HUGE musical program depicting the birth of Jesus...It was pretty cool!

The whole gym was decorated (the pictures REALLY do not do it justice) it looked GREAT and everyone seemed to have a really nice time!

Reminder:

Today we are blessing Andrew and Mallory in Church!!

Pictures from the Attorney

He finally send us the pictures that the Professional photographer took on our court date!
So this is our Official first family picture...taken only seconds after our adoption was approved! The judge was so nice to take a picture with us!