I saw Mommy Kissin' Santa Claus!

I saw the real Santa Claus last night!!! No joke! Really I did--check him out! If you want him to come to your Christmas Party you can e-mail him at plattsll@comcast.net or contact me and I will give you the Real Santa's other info!

We went and sang in my good friend, Lynzi and Ben's ward for the Christmas Party last night. It was a lot of fun. And we had a good time on the way home because we all rode together.

I have started a new blog site for our singing group. I still have to post more pics but it is a start. Check it out from my side bar or click here.

Merry Christmas Too!!!!

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Merry Christmas!!!

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Paintball Chicks and Dudes!

So 16, Kirsten, 12, Marc, Aaron, Daniel, and Tynelle went and played paintball. I went to take a few pics and then take the kids back to my house to babysit. I can't wait till I get to play--it looked like a lot of fun.

Thanksgiving at my house!

Oh, how I loved Thanksgiving. We hosted it at my house again. Marc's parents came, my parents, Kirsten, Jessie and her fam, Daniel and his fam and my uncle Jeff and my grandma R. I loved making the food for it and getting the tables ready. 16 was a huge help with the potatoes, gravies and the tables. She made the name tags. I was so glad to have (almost) everyone there. I was especially grateful to have my uncle and grandma there.

We have a tradition of making apple turkeys with all the kids when we get together with my side of the family. It is so cute to see all the kids working so hard to make their turkeys.
We also let the kids ride our horse, we played football and dominoes and watched movies.

Check out the pics.

We set up 3 tables—one in the kitchen, and two in the front room. We fed 22 people.

Here was where we put all the food. There really was no room but we made it work. I cooked each a ham and a turkey in my dutch ovens. Mmm mm.

Mom's homemade ice cream to go with our homemade pies!

Mom and Dad G enjoying pie

9 loves his uncle Joel.

Tynelle doing 2 of her favorite things... eating dessert and checking out ads for shopping!

Here we are making turkeys.



Forget turkey! 9 made a jelly fish!! So much cooler!






Marc and Uncle Jeff

3 is learning how to play football.

Horse rides

Dominoes.. grueling! It was really fun though!

Later my dad challenged both 16 and Kirsten to an armwrestle.
Ya, both at once... he won, both times, hands down!

So much fun. The boys also went that morning to play paint ball. They had so much fun they planned to play Friday also!

Rollerblades at 3!

I just couldn't resist posting this pic. 3's newest pastime is rollerblading. She can jump from the bottom stair of the back porch to the cement and land it. She is hilarious. She loves to stomp around in the kitchen with them too. She looks awesome in her helmet and blades!!

Birth and Death all in one Day!

My very close friend (like a grandfather) died last week and his funeral was yesterday. I sang "Daddy's Hands" for him at his funeral. They had asked me the day before he passed (they new he didn't have long). It was a beautiful funeral and I wish I could say I made it through the song without tears but, my mom had to finish it out for me.

I loved that man... good man!

It was really cool because instead of a hers to take his coffin to the cemetary they had a horse-drawn carriage to take him. It was so amazing! And they had the police block off main street so that the funeral procession could pass through--awesome!

The horse-drawn carriage

The horse with no rider...

Me and Marc at the cemetary

Then we went on to celebrate 9's birthday. So, yes, 8 is now 9! I know, I can't believe it either! So are all of you keeping up with my kids? There is 3, 9, 12, and 16. I made pizza for 25 people. It was just a family get-together but, it was crazy fun! We just ate pizza, opened presents and ate treats. 9 didn't want cake, he wanted nutty bars and chocolate donuts... I will just post a slideshow and you can see the fun we had!