Ally's Song. Dance, and Tumbling Class

Ally wasn't sure completely about what the class was going to be about but she was hesitantly excited. She followed all of the teachers instructions and really absorbed what she was supposed to do. In the end she was really excited to go back the next week....but that is another story!

Ally's Birthday Party Part 1

So today was going to be the day for Ally's birthday party, unfortunately Ally woke up this morning with pink eye. So we decided to postpone her pool party with her friends and just do the family party. You could tell Ally was miserable because she didnt even mind that she wasn't going to be able to swim! So we had a nice dinner of spaghetti with homemade sauce! Ally really wanted flowers on her cake so she had picked some out and I used them to decorate her personal cake and also the cake we had for everyone else.
She then sat on my lap while she opened her presents and was more subdued than usual. It was a nice quite night with family to celebrate out beautiful not so little girl!

My Beautiful 4 Year Old!

My baby is 4! She is growing into such an amazing little girl! There is the occasional attitude, but she is such a lover that those moments pass quickly. I don't know what I will ever do when she decides to stop being my cuddle bug! Happy Birthday Princess Ally! You are such a light in our lives and we love you, I can't wait to see how much more the next year brings you!

Hotrum Christmas

This year I was lucky enough to host Christmas at my house! So as everyone descended on the house the pile of presents grew to astonishing heights! It was a wonderful day of food, family, and of course the presents! After dinner, and a little nap for Jude we decided to tray and get a picture of the 4 kids together. You can see how well that worked out! We are so blessed to have such amazing family to spend the holidays with!

Merry Christmas

We always spend Christmas morning with just the 4 of us. This year was no different. Its nice to have a couple hours to just open our presents to each other, enjoy breakfast and be together. The kids were most excited about oping the presents they got each other, Dylan so much that after he opened the presents from Ally he wrapped her up in a HUGE hug! I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband and two amazing kids! Merry Christmas!

Hass Christmas

Tonight we celebrated Christmas with my side of the family like usual. This year though we were blessed to be able to go to the candle light service at our church. It was wonderful! We then came home and ate a wonderful yummy dinner of Ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and of course rolls! Then it was time for PRESENTS!! Unfortunately my brother and sister in law were not with us this year, but we celebrated with Poppa Mike, Grandma Jo, Uncle Roger, and Grandma Winnie! The kids had a blast playing "Santa" and handing out all the presents. They were spoiled this year!

Church Christmas Program

This year the church did a musical. Neither of my kids were old enough to be in the main program but they did get to be animals in the Nativity and sing on the last song with everyone. They both sang out great and had a wonderful time! The second service when they did it I was sitting on the ground a few rows back and could hear Ally belting it out above the rest of the kids! I was so glad they were able to participate and have a great time! Here are my little sheep and bull!

Dylan's School Christmas Program

This was Dylan's 3rd year doing a school Christmas program and every year he gets a little more comfortable with it. Notice I said "a little," he still tends to lean towards the shy side but it makes everything that much cuter! They sang "Happy Birthday Jesus" while holding pieces of cake with candles! It was so cute and very uplifting.

Ally's School Christmas Program

Tonight was Ally's first Christmas program at school and she did so well! She sang and did all the hand motions. It is incredible how God uses our children to bless us and remind us to have that childlike faith. What a blessing it was to experience all those children singing songs about God and reciting memory verses!

Soap Making

Today we made some soap. This is going to be little gifts for the kids teachers this year. They got to help with putting the glycerin in the pan and then we just let it liquefy, added a scent and some food coloring. then poured it into our little snowflake molds. After letting them cool a few hours we popped them out of the molds and....TA-DA!

Christmas Tree!

We went and got our Christmas tree tonight. We always go to the BiMart parking lot to get it. The one year we went and actually cut our own tree down it fell down 3 times. So we stick with what works now. This year we got a 6 foot Noble. Here are some pictures of decorating and my little elves.