Christmas Lights Parade and Caroling

Every year our little town has a Christmas Lights parade and with Midnight Madness sales at all the local business. It's so much fun. Different business hand out free hot chocolate, the kids get to see Santa Claus and there are usually lots of good deals to support our local stores. The kids loved it, even though it was FREEZING! We had a lot of sub-zero weather for a few weeks, but they still enjoyed it.













The Y.W. and Y.M. got all bundled up and went caroling in the sub-zero temps. Man it was COLD!! Layers was the key! In some of the pics my camera was fogging up. It was lots of fun! We had a truck and trailer going around Jenco and Rocky Mountain. Then we all went back to Youngstrom's for some hot chocolate and yummy cinnamon rolls. Everyone stayed warm and we got to spread some Christmas cheer to a few families in the ward.

Halloween 2009

Wow, Halloween lasted a LONG time this year! I'll explain....First, the big girls had a Daddy-Daughter Costume party for Achievement Days a week and a half before Halloween. They carved the Tinker Bell pumpkin that you see up above at the party. Not too shabby! ;) We had to have our Ward Trunk-Or-Treat the weekend before Halloween because we had Stake Conference the weekend of Halloween and the Adult session was the Saturday night we originally planned to have the Trunk-or-Treat. We couldn't do it on Friday night because there was a Halloween Carnival at the elementary school that we also went too. Ugh. Then the week of Halloween there were things happening, a party and parade for some of the Kindergardeners (like Joe) in the middle of the week and one on Friday for the rest of the school. Plus I signed up to help with Grace's class party too. Then we still went Trick-or-Treating on Halloween night! I was glad when it was all done. I really do like Halloween, but it was a little much this last time. I did carve the Snow White pumpkin for Emmalee, that was the one she really wanted.



This one was a pain in my rear end! This is the 2nd year in a row that I've carved Lightning McQueen for Joe and I need to really remember next year that I refuse to do it again. There are so many little cuts and details, it takes HOURS! It looks really neat.....but I don't think I can do it again for awhile. He's just going to have to pick out a different pattern.



Our Pumpkins!



The Ward Trunk-or-Treat and Grace's class party.


I LOVE that Gary finally dressed up in a costume. I bought this one for him about 3 years ago and I finally got to take the tags off of it so he could put it on. The things that you'll do for your kids! Hehehehehehe. I love Grace's striped tights that she wore with her Witch outfit. Sierra is all about the warm and comfy!



Yes, I have my own prirate outfit that I wore at least 3 times! It was fun though. The kids love to dress up and get so excited about it....it's hard not to catch their enthusiasm!

Grace's Baptism

On October 10th, 2009, Grace Nicole Bagley was baptized and comfirmed a new member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She was so excited to be baptized! She loved her dress too. It was Sierra's baptism dress....with a little bit of pinning so it fit her a little better. Every time she put it on she said that she felt like a princess! It makes me smile every time. She's such a poser! I love her so much and I'm so proud of her and her decisions. She is such a good kid! She is so loving and has such a tender heart, but can be as feisty as they come. She definitely has a lot of spunk in her.



Her hair turned out really cute. It was difficult to come up with something that would stay down in the water with her shorter hair. Plus I really wanted to use that ribbon that you see. It worked out great....no floating hairs!



Grace was really excited that she got to be baptized on the same day as her good friend Kassie. Her Grandpa Bagley was the one to baptize her. They all look so happy! It really was a great day!




Here she is with her Grandpa Jeppesen. He was the one to confirm her with the gift of the Holy Ghost. He is such a great speaker, I always love....loved....listening to him. He looks so good there.



After we got back home, Grace ended up with a few more gifts to open. She was so excited! It was almost like her birthday celebration lasted for 3 weeks! Lucky girl. ;)









Luckily for my little house it was a beautiful day that day! Most of us spent most of it out in the sunshine and enjoyed one anothers' company. We roasted hot dogs in the fire pit and I had made a crock pot of pulled pork. Add to that salads, chips, drinks and goodies....no one went home hungry!



It was lots of fun to hang out with our family and friends on that special day!



And here is Grace missing her two front teeth. She had just pulled them out the week before. She kept singing after that "All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth". She's pretty funny!

Emma's Stitches

So, on September 19th, while I was getting things ready so we could go to Green Canyon for Grace's birthday party, Gary took the training wheels off of Emma's bike. She was doing GREAT! She could whiz around like a crazy woman, she was turning pretty good and even stopping all by herself. Then we let her big brother out to ride his bike. That's when things turned bad. While they were riding their bikes, he ran right into her and her face went into her handle bars and pretty much put a hole through her lip.



We put some butterfly bandages on it and kept it clean. We weren't sure if we should get stitches in it or not. So we went swimming, trying to keep it as covered as we could. But it just kept seeping because it's on the lip. Her saliva kept coming through and no bandage would stay on it for very long. After we got home, we decided we should take her in and lo and behold, she gets 2 stitches right there on her lip. She did such a good job! They were able to put the numbing gel on there and that was enough. She didn't have to get the numbing shot first....Thank Goodness!! She was so tough. She never cried or anything and she sat so still for Dr. Curtis, whom she still talks about to this day....especially if we pass by the Community Care here in town.



She just cracks me up! This is her funny face that I just "had" to take a picture of. She made sure of it!

Grace turns 8!

I can't believe it, but Grace turned 8 on September 18th. Where does the time go?! Here she is with her good friend Sammy, opening her presents. Sammy got to spend the night. She is over here all the time. She lives right behind us and they are such good friends. We love having her over.



Grace was excited to get her scriptures with her name on them.



Here is her Littlest Pet Shop cake that she wanted. She helped me decide how to decorate it and then put some of her Pet Shop toys on there. It turned out really cute.



The next day she invited a couple of friends and we all went up to Green Canyon and went swimming. Then we roasted hot dogs and had cake and ice cream outside. It was a beautiful day.



Grace and her friends and Joe and Em waiting for the cake!




Grace getting ready to blow out her candles.



Grace with her friend Jessie and her Grandpa B. and Joe C.



Grace and Kassie



Grace and Sammie. We had a great day....for the most part, but I'll explain all that in the next post.