Must be Santa, must be santa...

We have had an eventful few days! First was Sunday the boys got see Santa at a family Christmas party. Consistently they are both asking for a play kitchen so they can cook things, but not real food, it's just plastic. (their words)

On Monday was Asa's little school program. He was such a good little boy. He sat patiently waiting for the program to start. He had a small speaking part that was "the stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicolas will soon be there". Out of the 20 ish kids that were there he and only about 4 others had their parts memorized. he did such a good job, and spoke perfectly into the little microphone.
They sang fun songs like, Must be Santa, Feliz Navidad, Christmas chopsticks, and a few others I can't think of right off hand. The sun was shining into his little eyes the whole time, so he would mostly look this other way.
After the program he got to sit on santa's lap again and ask for a toy kitchen again :)
Here he is with his cute teacher. He absolutely and completely adores this woman.

O Christmas tree O christmas tree....

We've always had an artificial tree, so I thought it would be fun to change it up this year and get a real tree. I knew heading to the mountains to chop our own would be out of the question, but I really wanted that experience. So I found a happy medium in Alpine. There is a tree farm up there, and it was a great deal. We walked all around looking at a ton of trees till we finally just said...okay that one's good.

We got the guy who cuts it down and hauls it to our ride with a 4-wheeler.
Daddy straps it in while the boys get excited :)
We bring it home, set it up and....Uh...oh.....It's WAY to tall.
So Daddy cuts of about 2.5 feet

After the trimming, it was still rubbing the ceiling. WHich is why we have no star on top.

Getting a real tree was a lot of fun this year. There were multiple trips to walmart because we didn't have a stand, then not enough lights, then not enough ornaments. But it was fun and I'm glad we did it.

Big 5 years

I can't believe Asa turned 5 this year. He decided he wanted a Spiderman Birthday. I found a bunch of Spiderman paraphanelia at Partyland and the house was decked out!

I even attempted a spider web cake! It turned out pretty cute I thought. And it was delicious. The best cake I think I've EVER made!

I figured 5 was a good age to have a friends party. So we invited several friends over. We played pin the spider on the web, and spider spider who has the spider (button button who has the button)
He had a great time with his friends. It was a great birthday

Halloween

We had the luxury of spending Halloween in St. George this year. The weather was PERFECT! We spent the day Saturday at a fun Halloween party and then the evening trick or treating. Coen decided he wanted to be a "bampire bat" and Asa Spiderman. Luckily my Mom had already made the bat costume, so I didn't have to :) We had a great time!