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Santa Success!
We have yet to have a year visiting Santa without tears! This year Coen and Ciena promised they were not going to cry. I was pretty sure Ciena would be OK, but it's Coen that is the lose cannon! Ciena climbed up on his lap with ease


here Santa reaches his arm out to Coen as Chad and I stand by wondering what he'll do

Yes, he's made it up! Clutching onto his new puppy pretty tightly, but so far no emotion

Awe, what's this ... A smile cracks on Coen's face!

All kids Smiling and Happy! They even get to talk to Santa and tell him what they want him to bring them for Christmas!
The best was as we were leaving and telling Coen what a good job he did he said, "let's go see the other Santa now" not sure what he meant by that!

My little Wiseman and Angel

Coco and Ena's Pre-school class did a live presentation of the nativity, Coen was a wiseman and Ciena was an Angel. It was darling, except for the fact that they got stage fright when it was their turn to "go on" and didn't do their parts! Oh-well, they still looked cute!

Dre's Christmas Program


Dresden's Kindergarten class sang two songs in the school Christmas program

Christmas time in NYC!

Chad and I celebrated our anniversary in NYC! It was so fun walking through the city and seeing all the lights and festivities! You can't help but get in the Christmas spirit when surrounded with all this plus seeing the Rockette's Christmas Spectacular show. The freezing cold weather was a bit jarring, but just goes with the season! Happy 9th Honey!

Love these guys!


Do I have the cutest Niece and Nephew or what? I can't believe how big they are getting, next picture I take with them they will both probably be taller than me! I was SO happy to take a quick trip to Utah over the Thanksgiving break to spend a little time with my family and have the Thanksgiving food that I grew up on! AWE, there is nothing that can compare to Mom's stuffing!

Thanksgiving in Colorado!

We had a great time in Colorado over the Thanksgiving break! The kids were in heaven playing with all 16 of their cousins and of course Grandma and Grandpa are always spoiling them. No trip at the Whitney's would be complete without a pinata, which as always is a big hit.