The Gingerbread Village Decorate-a-thon

A Gingerbread house challenge was issued to the Koyle family at large and here is our entrant:

 

Lance

 

 

Jenifer

 

Chad

Erin

 

Grey

 

The destruction of said entrant:

 

 

 



The Tree!

We put up the Christmas tree!

 

 

Lance's lego ornaments.

 

Chad being creepy...

 

Under the tree and dreaming!

 

Everyone approves!

 



Random Photos From The Past Few Months

Et Viola!

 

Grey on a class field trip to the Bird Refuge.

 

 

Chad and Erin trying on Thanksgiving hats.

 

 Oh yes I did!!

 

The Church Chilie bake and social. Chad's chilie won 2nd place!

 

Lance on a field trip studing rocks and fossils!

 

 

Erin posing at Target:

 

 

I got a new (to me) SUV!

 

 

No more front teeth!

 

 

Our new cats!

 

We went to see the Weber Alumni Choir sing at a local Catholic church as a Christmas activity. Beautiful!

 

 

Erin at the Treehouse Museum on a field trip.

Grey getting ready to go to the temple.

Grey's first concert playing the violin.

 





 

I was gonna take a sweet pic of the cat watching Chad play his guitar but then the cat turned around.

 

 

Keep in mind most of these were taken on my phone so the quality ain't all that.

 



the Boys' Birthdays 2012

The boys both chose to have a dinner and activity with mom and dad instead of a birthday party. I much prefer these to a regular party...much less stress!

 

Lance got several Lego related items and a trip to Toad's for laser tag and mini golf! We had a blast together!

 

 

 As for Grey, I only have a few photos. He got an MP3 player that does everything a smart phone does without the making calls part. For his 'activity' we went to see the Hobbit! Grey loved it.

 

Our seats for the first day of the Hobbit!!

 

 All in all a good birthday season for everyone involved!

 



Erin's Birthday 2012

As you all know my kids have their birthdays at the end of November-beginning of December. So within a three week period I finish all of the kids birthdays.

Here are Erin's birthday pics:

 

Her birthday was in two parts. She opened her present from us (a camcorder) on her actual birthday and had a party and presents the weekend after.

We had an arts and crafts party! We had a chalk board, mini easles and canvases, plastic canvas to sew on, and DIY bracelets.

 

Chad created a beautiful rainbow cake that was awesome!

It was the perfect day for her!