Merry Christmas To All!!!

We had a fabulous Christmas this year. Between all the fun parties, visiting Santa, and opening presents this was one of the best Christmases yet! On Christmas Eve we went to Grandma Debbie's house for a delicious dinner, to hear the Christmas story, and to open presents. I was so impressed with my nephew Logan. He knew so much of the Christmas story and was excited to share it with us. Christmas morning we got up super early and opened presents. That Santa is a smart guy. He brought the kids everything they wanted and more. After opening presents we headed to Nana Kelli's for our annual Christmas breakfast. As always it was delicious! My kids were spoiled some more and then it was off to home. We spent the rest of the day relaxing and visiting with family. Saturday we had the Curtis family over for dinner, visiting, and a super fun game called the Name Game. It was so nice to see everyone and all the cute babies my cousins have! It was such a great Christmas we had lots of family, lots of friends, and lots of fun. Hope your Christmas was just as wonderful and we hope you have a great New Year!















Kadee and I in our adorable matching aprons. Kadee is so excited to help mommy cook. She even wore her apron to Nana's so she could help her.





The Curtis grandkids. There are 10 grandkids and 7 great grandkids. Oh ya, and a couple spouses, LOL


Here's to an amazing 2010!

Family Pics 09

My mom took pictures for us on Thanksgiving day and they turned out great. I think next year we will plan a little bit better and take them when the leaves are changing colors. My kids love to have their pictures taken and Kadee is constantly posing. I think she learned that from her dance class. :) She rarely just smiles in a picture, and therefore in all of her pictures she is making some sort of goofy face. We love it though and wouldn't have it any other way. Connor on the other hand, wants to do exactly what his dad is doing. If his dad is smiling, he is going to smile. I swear if I let him he would build a shrine to his dad in his bedroom. Speaking of bedrooms, he now wants a Transformers room. Lucky for me, Santa is getting him a Transformers bedspread for Christmas. I want to deck out his room with wall stickers and such... I think I will save that project for the new year.

Anyway, here are a few of our pictures...enjoy!



Take note of Kadee's face, she is such a ham!


The picture in the middle is the actual Christmas card I sent out, I didn't notice Kadee's finger until after all the cards had been mailed... oops!

Oh, Christmas Tree...

On Monday night we put up and decorated our FAKE tree. Rory hates that we have a fake tree, I love it! My mom and dad get the kids Hallmark ornaments every year, so we have made it a Dr. Seuss/ colorful tree. I think it turned out very cute and the kids had lots of fun. Connor even colored a picture, put it in an envelope, and placed it under the tree. I am not sure who the letter is for, but I thought it was thoughtful.

I told Rory and the kids to pose for the camera and this is what I got

Once Every 10 Years...

This year for Thanksgiving we went with my family... This may come as a shock to some of you, since we have had Thanksgiving dinner with Rory's family every year that we have been married. We actually haven't had a Curtis family Thanksgiving dinner in atleast 8 years, maybe even 10 (hence the title). It was so much fun. I am not going to bore you all with the details, we ate lots of food and had lots of good conversation. Thursday night we went to Grandma Archies and ate more food and Friday we went to Kyle and Candee's for fried turkey (yum!). I am finally excited for the holidays and am COMPLETELY finished with my Christmas shopping (I know you are jealous). Here are the pics:



















My cousin Derrick. We aren't going to see this cute face for two years, he just got his mission call to Japan!!!











Cassie and grandma (doesn't grandma look excited to be there?)

I'm Glad I'm Not a Turkey...

and other things my kids are thankful for...

Connor:
1. My mom and my dad
2. and my sister
3. my grandma
4. my family
5. my cousins
6. my friends
7. my bestest friend Cole
8. my best friend Chet
9. my grandpa's
10. I like playing with toys

Kadence:
1. um, hmmm, I don't know
2. my friends
3. when I go to Avery's house
4. after Avery's house I go to Karson's house
5. and after Karson's house I go to Kella's house
6. my cat cuz it died
7. I thanksful for rabbit
8. I thankful for my brother and my mama and my dada
9. and my grandpa, and my grandma Bet, and my grandma Debbie, and Nana
10. and grandpa Earl

Sugar and Spice...

My kids decided to be a Bumblebee Transformer and Snow White for Halloween. There were about 6 other Bumblebee Transformers running around at our Ward party. Connor is so not unique with his costume picking. He just wants to be big, bad, and mean, but still fit in. Kadee walked into the day care yesterday, took one look at a girl named Cheyanne in her princess costume and said, "mom, Cheyanne is prettier than me." So matter of factly, it was so sad. I told her she is beautiful and turned her in the opposite direction. Rory came to see the kids costumes, one of my students, Harrison, pointed to Rory and said, "Hey! You don't have any hair!" It was hilarious.

Kadee is famous for saying inappropriate things. I have washed her mouth out with soap twice (is that considered child abuse?) for saying naughty words. We were reading a story in preschool, parents were there, and Kadee yells, "Stop Swiper the butthole." Yes, that is my daughter, don't say anything you don't want her to repeat.

Sugar (Connor pictured above)....





Spice (Kadee pictured above)....





Sugar and spice...

Congratulations Deputy Bradley!!

For the past 11 weeks Rory has been in Sandy at the POST training academy. He has been doing physical, academic, scenario, and tactical training. This is the third and hopefully final school he will have to go to. He has already completed his Corrections and SWAT certifications. He just graduated on Wednesday, October 21 with his POST certification and we couldn't be more proud of him! He has worked very hard and has made the Sheriff's office proud. They gave him a taser to carrry around (which he is very excited about) and his parents, grandma, my grandparents, and I went in on a new duty gun for him.

We went up on Tuesday after school and went with my grandma to dinner at Winger's. After that we met Robby (Rory has been at school with him this whole time) and Brandie at Chuck E Cheese. The kids had a blast as they always do!

The next day I had a class on how to support my husband the police officer. It was a very interesting class and I learned a lot! I can't believe how much our officers go through on a daily basis, it is so important to support them, but keep them grounded at the same time. I love my husband so much and I am so grateful for all he does for us. He is a great daddy, an awesome husband, and a fantastic cop!


Rory with Sheriff Cordova, Captain Adams, and Lt. Sherman



The graduates/roommates/and very good friends- Rory and Robby Riley



Kadee with Logan Riley. I think they like each other, I want them to get married someday.



Connor was so funny, he fell asleep during the ceremony, but everytime we would clap he would wake up long enough to clap a couple times and then went back to sleep.