There is plenty of bothering between these two, but they had the funnest (loudest) time dancing in the kitchen today to the crazy piano music from the keyboard.  It made my heart smile to watch.        

Christmas Eve was – as always – a magical day/night!  We spent the day as a family running errands and having the best time together.  We started the evening with the 60th anniversary of the neighborhood sing at my grandma's corner…                    You can see Nate even enjoys himself at…

Just a few things happening around these parts leading up to the big day:   morning hot chocolate in their Christmas party mugs:   Showing off the fun Christmas projects they made at school (and Zach's awesome white elephant prize):      Making (and wrapping!) homemade caramels:      Emma is always the driving force…

   I have always wanted to attend a concert at the Cathedral of the Madeline and was super excited when one of their concerts worked out with our Christmas schedule!   The cathedral was beautiful, and the music was lovely.  And, since it was mostly in latin, the 35 minutes of it was just the…

For the cousin Christmas party this year, we met for bowling and arcades at Fat Cats.   (and a little YMCA.)     Carter got a 100 ticket jackpot on one of the games!   Then it was back to the Adams house for the cousin present exchange.  The kids had a fun time together trying…

  We ended up picking the perfect night for our temple square family adventure this year!  It wasn't too cold (Zach was ready to go without a coat, although in the end he was glad he listened to Nate), and it was not busy at all!  We missed the carriage rides this year that they…

Meg's ballet teacher hosts a Sugar Plum Fairy tea party at Christmastime where she lets the girls dance to the nutcracker music with Clara and the sugarplum fairy, and have a special tea party while they watch some of the dancing from the nutcracker movie.  Meg absolutely loved all of it!  I couldn't get her…

The Woodward Christmas party started at Grandma's house with a lovely Santa waffle (and bacon!) breakfast.  Yum!          Zach loves it when I take pictures of him with his mouth full.  :)   The party included the traditional "find the pickle" game, and the treasure hunt complete with instruments and jingle bells to…

In December.  Holding hands.  Pretty much a recipe for a happy mother!  This afternoon at the park while Zach had basketball practice was perfect!     

Even though it was not really convenient, we took the family down for a quick (and I mean quick!) trip to St. George for Zach to play in part of his baseball tournament.  We drove down after trick-or-treating Friday night, watched 2 Cougar games in the FREEZING wind on Saturday morning, took the shuttle into…