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Ward Christmas party 2014

Fun shenanigans at the ward party this year. Santa, photo booth, "snowball" fight, nativity story, yummy food….

 

Christmas card 2014

 

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Waiting in line for Santa.

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"Snowball" fight fun.

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R and his pal Jade. He loves her.

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These two.

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The kids got to choose between an angel or stable animal for the primary's Nativity performance. Kaylee was an angel, Regan was a cow, and V was a zebra. The Primary President needed to know what the kids picked, and when I said the V wanted to be a zebra she was more than fine with it. Because why can't there be a zebra at the stable?

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All the parents filming the kiddos.

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Kaylee singing her lungs out.

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Regan flipped out because he wanted to stand by his buddy Gillian and someone beat him to it. So he left the performance to pout about it for a while.

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He got over it and joined everyone when they went on stage.

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Her closing bow center stage at the end cracked us up.

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It was a really fun night out with the kids.

Ward campout 2014

These two were SO excited when we picked them up from school. 

 

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We picked up Sonic for lunch and Subway for the cooler to eat later that night.

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Kaylee was SUPER excited when the tent was all set up.

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Kaylee and I went on several nature walks and just chatted. Her request. I'm gonna miss this in a few years.

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The campground was small so we were able to let the kiddos just roam free while keeping them in our sights. SO nice for them and us. 

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This cutie pie came to visit us during the rainstorm that drenched us. We love Kyle. He is the funniest kid.

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During the rainstorm Kyle's grandpa opened up his fithwheel for all the kids to watch Planes. Kaylee and Regan where the only ones that stayed for the whole movie. Jon and I caught the tail end of it after the storm.

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Jon explaining to Ben how the RC remote works.

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He got the quadcoppter up with no injuries.

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The littles built this rock wall and decorated it. It kept the busy for a LONG time.

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We were the last family at the campsite. Kaylee REALLY wanted to go on a long family hike. So we did.

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The kids tried so hard to climb up this tree, but they needed a bit of help. So I decided that I'd help my shorties out a bit.

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This campout ended much better that our last one. No puking and no vehicles on fire. Everyone had fun. Yea!