Allie the Alien
Drew, Allie, and Wakely on the moon. ( I can't get the picture turned.)
Morning birthday party of bacon, eggs, pancakes, and o.j., opening presents of Heelys, Kung Zhu hamster, desk and chair, sword/gun combo-- all making his morning enjoyable. He then gave a talk on Christ in Primary and ended the day at Aunt Jill and Uncle Kurt's house for a turkey dinner with a triple layer chocolate cake for him. We love our Coop!!!
This year, our entryway Christmas tree was over 2 stories tall. Our entryway is a 2 story vault and it bent over when it touched the ceiling. We got it up in Park City again (thanks Brad and Jen.) We had fun finding our tree. It took us (me) about 3 days to finish our 3 trees. They sure were beautiful and everyone that saw it, thought it was quite the tree. I loved it--I think the rest of the family did too.
Cooper decided he wanted a cousin sleepover for a party this year, so he had Miles and Tyson stay over. We had pizza, watched Santa Clause I, II, and III. We went bowling today, had pizza yet again, and made a shark cake.
Cooper had a Gingerbread House making party at school today. I was asked to help, so Allie was able to come with me. She even had the opportunity to make her own house. They had a lot of fun doing it, as all of the 1st graders did. There was candy and frosting all over the place. After the building of their houses, they sang Happy Birthday to Cooper while he stood in the middle of the room. He had this big grin on his face and would point to himself with the double thumbs whenever they said "Cooper." He is such a ham. His teacher even game him birthday "beatings."
The only picture I took all evening. Our church at sunset.
Maggie has now taken piano for 3 years from Ruth and loves it! Whew!! For a few months, Mags was ready to quit, but I wouldn't let her and fought her on practicing. Now, she practices without even being asked and loves doing it. She did a fantastic job on her piece "Pachabel's Christmas." Maggie's teacher, Sally Standage, came to see her perform. Very proud of our Maggie.
Allie has a very pretty voice...or so her mom and dad think...and I asked Aunt Lucy, who has a beautiful voice, if she would take Allie as voice student. She did and had Allie perform at the piano recital. (Ruth and Lucy are best friends.) Allie sang "When Christmas Comes to Town" from the movie, Polar Express. Allie did a superb job.
Ruth and Cooper
Cooper and his 1st Grade teacher, Tracy McBride
Chris decided he wanted to run the Santa Run in Ogden. There were 700 Santa's running in this race. It was quite the sight and I forgot to bring my camera to the race. Scott Rasmussen even ran it with him. Each runner was provided the above outfit to run in.
Cooper finally lost his first tooth two weeks ago. It was wiggly for a while and finally it came out! He was so excited and he carried it around in a baggie, took it to school, and then lost it when he came home. He wasn't able to put it under his pillow, so Allie decided she wanted to be the Tooth Fairy and put $3 under his pillow and went and told him the Tooth Fairy came. The real Tooth Fairy still hasn't come. I asked him to write her a letter saying he had lost lost his tooth, but he doesn't really care if she visits him.
Having cousins so close is such a good thing. Makayla, Alicia , and Cade came to play today. 
It snowed last night and the kids were out building a snowman before church in their church clothes. Chris helped put the body together. They all had so much fun.
Today was Allie's first Kindergarten field trip. They went to the Nature Center and learned about Indians. Allie's favorite part was grinding corn with the mono and matate. She also loved the Indian stories in the teepee.
