Christmas

Sorry it has taken us so long to get any pictures of Christmas posted. We finally were able to fix our Internet problem so we are all up and running again.

This year for Christmas we were able to have Court's mom, sisters and their families at out house, and I don't know about them but we had a lot of fun having everyone over. It was nice to spend time with everyone and just relax.

Every year my Grandma has a big get together with all of my family where we would eat and then all the grand kids would break open a pinata. This tradition has stuck with us and we decided to do the same tradition each year with our families. I think the kids loved it and we had fun getting the pinata ready (thanks Brock and Court for your engineering skills and fabulous wrapping job).

Reesey taking a whack...

...and Tatum

Christmas morning!
The girls going through their stockings and Reese showing her big chocolate R

Tatum posing in front of the Christmas tree

Notice the candy in hand while opening each present

Tatum and Reese's big princess tent

The princess fashion show with Tatum's new dress up clothes.

Thanks everyone for such a fun time!!!

Weesey Turch

In a conversation with my sister Reese has figured out every one's last names, but got it a little confused. With my maiden name being Dye and our last name being Church, it can be pretty confusing for a kid. She came and had to tell me what every one's name was.

Here's what she said--

"Momma, I Weesey Turch and Memie died(Emy) and Deagan died-- Buggar died(her uncle Tyson) -- Audrey died but Tatum not died she go turch and daddy is Tortamey Turch, we not died we just go turch." I just said yep your right good job. It was pretty cute. She really has such a funny personality. You cant help but fall in love with her. Our lives would be so dull without her keeping us on our toes. Even though at times she is such a little turd, she fills our hearts with joy and laughter. We are so lucky to have such wonderful girls, they inspire us each and every day to be better people, and remind us what life is really all about.

Saturday

The girls had a blast picking out different CD's and looking at the covers.

Then we started going through the discount bin and finding all kinds of fun stuff. Tatum even found a brand new Cinderella dress up dress.


The girls showing off some sweet over sized Hanna Montana glasses

Earlier in the day we taught the girls how to slide down the stairs in sleeping bags. They had so much fun and ask everyday since then if they can get their sleeping bags out and slide some more. Who knew 1 sleeping bag could provide hours of fun.

Court even decided to get in on the action. And realized it hurts a lot more than he remembered.

Talents

We are so proud of our girls and their many talents!!

The Eye!!

This started out with Tatum leaning over to Court and I in the middle of Sacrament Meeting with her one eye crossed and said "Hi mom and dad." It took everything we had to not burst out laughing.

Then It went to the girls sitting in the back of the car while we were going to the store and Tatum saying "that's it, yeah you've got it Reese." I don't know how but some how Tatum taught Reese the same beautiful talent

This is both of the girls showing off. The funny thing is that when they look at each other it looks like they are doing the same eye

Tatum's Drawing Talent

Thankfully Tatum has inherited her dad's drawing talent and not mine. Here are a few pictures Tatum has drawn. They are of all the Disney Princesses. And of course being the mom, I think they are pretty creative.

Rapunzel

Ariel

Belle

Jasmine

Sleeping Beauty

Snow White

Cinderella

Happy Halloween

Here's a few pictures from Halloween. This was before the festivities began. Nana bought them these shirts and Tatum thought she was so cool because hers "glued in the dark"
This was Reese's costume. She was Tinkerbell/fairy, I didn't have any green material so we improvised.

And of course Tatum was Cinderella. Does it surprise you that she was a princess?

This is the girls Trick or Treating at Aunt Hailey's house. I don't know why but our kids think when you take a picture you have to contort your body and stand so uncomfortably




And the sugar coma following the night. Notice the glazed eyes.

Our ward had a trunk or treat so we went to that and afterwards went to all the Grandma's and Grandpa's houses. The girls had a blast except for when Reese saw the creepy skeleton mask with blood dripping down the face. She instantly went into survival mode and clung to her daddy's neck. All in all it was a big success.

More pictures from Seattle

This is the huge tower made up of guitars. It would even play music.
This is me working on a few of my tracks. They had a room upstairs that you could play the guitars, pianos, basses, and drums. And then little recording studios that you could record your own music video.
This is the football game just as it got started. Notice the huge crowd!
And after the Seahawks started loosing.
This is Jimi Hendrix grave site. They were just finishing renovating it and I was supposed to be done the week after we left, but really cool anyway.

"Getting Out More"

A couple of weeks ago Court and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary by going to Seattle to a Packers/Seahawks game. We got really good airline tickets and really good seats at a pretty good price to the game. We left the girls with my mom and just went for the weekend. It was hard to leave them, but we had so much fun. It was really nice to get away with just the two of us. I love it in Seattle, I've been before when I was younger but Court had never been there, so it was some what new to the both of us.

My sister and brother in law came up from Portland to hang out with us for the first night. We ended up going on a fairy ride to a little island for dinner. Which was really cool, we left seeing the sunset and came back to the city lights (highly recommend it). This local girl had told us there was a casino on the island with a really good 2 for 1 buffet and restaurant and if you stayed there for at least 3 hrs than they validate your fairy ride, so we thought we would try it out. Well to make a long story short there wasn't a 2 for 1 deal that was on Tuesdays, and you have to have 3 hrs of active play time or 50 points and your "players card." So after hanging out for 3 hrs and playing a few games we ended up with 7 min of play time a piece and Court was the high roller with 3 points. I on the other hand had a whopping .2 points (note to self don't ever take me to Vegas). It was a lot of fun and we walked away with double Courts money and a lot of good memories.

The next day was the game but first we went to the Experience Music Project Museum. I didn't think Court would ever leave. It was really cool. It was mostly focused on Jimi Hendrix, but they had a lot of displays of other bands who got their start in Seattle. They had a really cool section on the whole grunge era. I wish I had more pictures but they wouldn't let you take pictures of anything behind glass.

After that we headed over to the game. It was the loudest stadium that I have ever been to. We did find out though that Seahawks fans are not so loyal to their team. They were going crazy when they were winning and towards the end when the Packers were winning they got up and left. There was still a whole quarter left and I think they were only down by a touchdown. I was a lot of fun though, a much needed vacation for the both of us. I have some more pictures but for some reason my computer will not let me download them. I will have to post them later.