Finishing 2018!

So just a couple pictures to finish 2018.

Hannah's birthday is the day after Christmas.  She will probably hate it when she gets bigger but it worked out nicely this time.  We went to McDonald's for breakfast to meet up with one of my high school friends.  Hannah loved playing in the toys.

I made brownies and peanut butter frosting.  We had to keep the cake treat away from Hannah while singing.

She went to town with her brownie and ice cream.  There was a very messy girl when done.

Hannah had lots of practice opening presents from the day before. 

This phone present has been a hit - just not by its intended owner.  Adam has claimed this phone as his own and even calls it 'Johnny'. 

Then a few days went by and it was New Years Eve.  Will had to work during the day but we went to the stake family dance that evening.

Dancing with some friends from the ward.  It was super cute watching the girls dance with their friends.

So this was technically on New Years Day, but it is tradition for New Years Eve to play the candy bar game.  You roll dice and try to get doubles so you can get a candy bar and then hide yours so it won't be stolen.  Everyone had fun and got plenty of yummy candy.  Thanks for the fun game.

It is hard to believe that 2018 is over and we are well into 2019!  It was a great year.

A Very Merry Christmas!

We had a fabulous Christmas in Pasco.

My mom has a lot of Christmas decorations but this Santa is one of the favorites.

Great Grandpa puts a bunch of presents on the table and people get to take turns picking one.  The youngest get to go first.  Hannah was a fan of her huge jar of cheese balls.

Look at this cute family.

Stockings are always first on Christmas morning.  This time my mom wrote nice letters for everyone and put them in the stockings.  That was a nice surprise.

Present time!!

Megan loved her new panda bear.  I think it is called Rosie but the name keeps changing.

These toys have already been well loved.  I think they have all been tasted - just to be sure. 

Yummy Christmas dinner.  Hannah was enjoying her second "first" Christmas.  Jell-o is a funny thing.

Later on Christmas we acted out the Nativity story.  Can you tell who everyone is?
It was a great Christmas.  Thanks to my parents for always hosting it.  We love you.

Pre-Christmas

Once again, I am a little behind.  Here are a couple pictures from pre-Christmas activities.

I took the kids to the library for their Christmas party.  Mrs. Clause came to read a story.  Hannah was not in the mood to sit in her lap.

They had some crafts for the kids.  Everyone loved making Fruit Loop necklaces ( I am still not sure how Christmas-y it was).

We decided as a family to go look at the beautiful Christmas lights around Hermiston.

I thought this on someone's garage was kind of cool.

We tried our hand at making gingerbread houses with graham crackers and frosting and lots of candy.  It tasted yummy but the houses kept breaking.  So I will need to have a new plan if we decide to do this again next year.

We went on a Journey to Bethlehem.  I always enjoy that.  Poor Adam got bit by a sheep though.

The reason for the season.

We went to grandma's house a couple of days before Christmas.  The kids really liked making ornaments.

And we went caroling to several houses.  So lots of fun traditions at Christmas time.

Children's Museum in Walla Walla

I have never been to the museum in Walla Walla.  It is a kids museum that has one free day a month.  I took the little kids there to spend the day with grandma and their cousin, Annabelle.

The favorite part of the whole museum was the water table and the dirt table.

Hannah loves anything that gets her messy.

Do you think she wanted to taste a little bit of the dirt?

This was a station where you could make a track for balls and watch them go.  The kids liked this.  I think all the adults liked this more.  No child was bonked during this demonstration.

Hannah liked the rock wall.  But thankfully too young to try to climb it.

She did try to climb the slide.  Thankfully, she didn't get far up that one either.

Adam in the light up peg room.

There were a lot of make believe areas.  Adam and I played cook for awhile.

He also made a good veterinarian. So the museum was fun.  Maybe I will try and go again this summer when the older kids can come.

And one more picture of Hannah.  It is almost her birthday.  She has been walking for about a month and has become really good at it.

Haunted Halloween

We had a great Halloween here in Hermiston.  Lots of fun and candy and more candy!

We went to the pumpkin patch for Family Home Evening.  The kids had fun picking one.  They have to be able to carry the one they pick.

Then we brought home all those pumpkins and spent a lot of time deseeding, carving, and then roasting the seeds.

Adam was proud of his Paw Patrol pumpkin.  He loves Paw Patrol even though he has only seen it a few times.

To honor the evening I decided to make pumpkin muffins for dinner.  I have never made pumpkin anything and wasn't sure how they would turn out.  They were not such a hit by my kids.  Hannah seemed to like hers though.

We decided to have a Halloween party at home and invite a few friends over.  Here is the mummy relay.  Poor Megan ended up completely covered with just one eye to see.

We also had a costume parade with judging and awards.

Decorating sugar cookies with Halloween frosting and candy.  It was a fun, simple party.

I took the kids to trunk or treat in Umatilla.  We thought this car was cute.

One of the Umatilla businesses did a haunted house theme.

And here we are dressed up for our ward's Halloween party.  Hannah was the lion.  It was hard to keep those ears on.

Adam is the munchkin.  Isn't he adorable?

Megan got to be the star of the movie - Dorothy.

Rachel was our scarecrow.

And Whitney got to be the tin man.

I wanted to be the good witch, but who has a dress like that laying around?  So I was the wicked witch. 

And Will was the Great Wizard of Oz.

We ate soup and then played the games.  This cupcake walk was fun. But one of our kids could not seem to get a cupcake.  I eventually just stole one after we had been there for like 20 minutes.

Trying to throw a ball to land into the cup and earn a prize.

Then here we are actually trick or treating.  Will stayed home with Hannah and passed out candy.  I took the other ones out around our neighborhood.  We got a lot of candy.

And for your pleasure I had to show you Hannah's halloween shirt.  "Don't Scare Me   I poop easily!"  We loved Halloween.  I hope everyone else enjoyed the holidays.