Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Dear Santa . . .

We have been good this year please bring 
Marin a stuffed animal and a bath robe, 
Samantha a sparkle dress and a princess flash light,
 and Ben a big ball. 
Please bring mommy peace on earth
and daddy good will toward men. 
Love,
 The Simons family

(The kids were worried today that we hadn't written Santa. Don't forget us Santa!)
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Christmas Program





The girls had Christmas programs at school this week. The girls go to a Lutheran school hence the alter in the back ground in case any of you are wondering. I love their teachers and the people in the church are so nice. They put on such a nice Christmas program. I will miss it next year when Marin goes to the public school. The last day is all about singing, a party for the parents, and a gift exchange for the children in the school.




Marin is such a nice singer, I mean this in the sense that she loves to sing, I am not sure who well she sings, but that's not point. Sammy on the other hand did sing Away in a Manger, and then decided that was enough and rang her little jingle bell for the rest of her program. I got to go two days, lucky me, one day for Sam for the Tuesday, Thursday classes and once for Marin for the Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes. Since I am really over baking in my kitchen this season :) I brought a few left over cookies from the primary activity for my goodies. I love this program and look forward to it every year. When I look back on Christmas this will be a very special memory.



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Primary Activity





On Wedesday I had all the primary children to my house for an activity. We decorated cookies that the activities days girls baked the day before. They had such a good time. Who doesn't like to decorate cookies around the holidays? I was a little overwhelmed after the activites days girls left my home the Tuesday before because I realized that the fifty cookies they had just made were really for the youth to take around on Wedesday night to familys in the ward and they were not going to be any cookies for the children to eat. Okay, well we know right there that wont work so I turned around with the help of Sammy and made cookies for the children to decorate and eat. Lucky me I had punch left over from Sammy's birthday party and a few other goodies.




The kids had a great time and we told them to bring their snow cloths so we could build snowmen outside, but it was too cold for snowmen and not quite enough snow. But hey when you have 20 kids and there is snow on the ground they enjoyed playing with each other just as much! All that mattered was when they went home they had eaten cookies, played in the snow, and had fun with each other!











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Friday, December 12, 2008

Sammy-Doo Sammy-Doo!!

(Samantha at ballet on her birthday)


Samantha Winnie turn four on the third this month. We had a birthday party for her today, which we, well I, have been planing for a few weeks. With the craziness of the holidays I didn't fit it in until this week. It was so much fun. She helped me bake over 100 sugar cookies yesterday and then clean the kitchen only to turn right around and make 50 cup cakes. She refused to go to school and I can not say that I blamed her . . . SO I let her stay home with mommy.








Last night we wrapped all of the goodie bags into little packages for her guest and today we made a Christmas tree cupcake cake that turned out darling.






We ran to the store this morning and got a few balloons and came home for Ben to take a nap and to finish cleaning the house. I needed to make the Rudolf for the game and Sammy sat by me for an entire hour telling me who much she loved me and that I was such a good mommy.




I know she was a little tired tonight, but she was so excited all day. Even Marin reminded her first thing this morning that her party was tonight. Everyone had a great time and although it was a lot of work on my part I was so glad I did it. I realize that birthdays are not big to some people, but I have very fond memories of my birthday's as a child. My mother's parents where in the amusement park business . . . need I say more. My birthdays were full of rides, food, and arcade games. I realize we are all different and that wont be my children's memories, but I do go extra out of my way to go the extra mile for them on their birthdays. Here is a vute picture of Sammy-Doo at her party and four of the best reasons I love my Sammy.


1. Samantha will always share, even when she says she wont, she will.
2. Samantha has started making Ben call her mama, she loves it. Her and Ben have a special relationship, if Ben gets in trouble he goes right to Sam for hugs and loves.

3. Samantha is a Fancy Nancy. She loves, that is an understatement, to dress-up and play princess. Samantha usually wears at least two dresses, one right over the top of the other. I stopped arguing with her about it and just except it as Samantha now.

4. Samantha loves to help me make dinner. She will go get the stool and will mix that eggs and spread the cheese. She loves to cook and I have no doubt will inherit her love of cooking from her mommy.

*She told me tonight that I "put on such a great party". OH, I love you! I did it all for you Sammy-DOO!*

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas!

Right now there is so much Christmas going on at our house I think the house might be made of ginger bread and it's so sugary sweet you might get diabetes! Yes and I haven't even been Christmas shopping this week. We started off by making a ginger bread house last Thursday night,









AFTER I had made 11 batches of my grandmothers toffee in the morning. Friday, I made another 16 batches while we put Samantha in charge of watching baby Jake (Jake's mommy and daddy know how to enjoy Christmas, they went skiing),





Saturday I worked on my Christmas cards, ran to Wal-mart and bought Christmas church shoes for my children (which come Sunday morning I will realize that Ben's Christmas shoes are both right footed shoes and neither are the same same size! OH!), Sunday the primary chorister and I were the only ones there so I had my hands full of Christmas songs wrapped up with a Christmas tree sharing time. Monday, we baked ginger bread cookies for family night and took them to friends houses, but not before we had to stop at every home that had Christmas lights,







and Tuesday was another 10 batches of my grandmothers toffee with the help of my friend Amanda (Thanks Amanda, it wouldn't have happened with out you baby!) and an entire day of wrapping the 36 batches of candy into baskets that Steven will give out to his larger clients. (I couldn't help my self, here is the finished project.)








Wednesday I need to reclaim my kitchen after the sugar, butter, and raffia mess that was created by the baskets, Thursday night I have our Enrichment Christmas dinner, Friday I have Samantha's Christmas Birthday party, full of more cookie decorating, presents that are not even for Christmas and last but not least a pin the nose on Rudolf game. Saturday I need to go Christmas shopping and Saturday night is our ward Christmas party for which Marin has been memorizing, "Christmas in the Manger," to recite at the talent portion of the party. I think I have heard her recite this book more than four times a day for the last two weeks. There is Christmas everywhere! And I am not even sure when my cards will hit the post office!
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah . . . Hallelujah . . . Ha' ll'e' . . .lu' . . . jah!!


We got family pictures taken!!!! For a sneak peak at our Christmas cards check it out!


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Thanks and Giving

Thanksgiving weekend we took off to Utah and had so much fun with our family and friends. We didn't get in until Wednesday. I took the kids over to see my grandmother who is a little sick. She loved seeing them and especially loved, Hello Mr. Turkey how are you? song that the kids sand to her. I then took them over to the Dinosaur Museum where they didn't last as long as I thought they would, but they still had a good time.




Thursday I got up and made 4 dozen rolls, one pumpkin cobbler, and a giant green bean casserole. I don't know how one person could cook that meal all by themselves, hopefully I wont ever have to find out!! But we had sooo much fun with Steven's family. I am not sure how many there were of us, but too many to count. We had such a good time with everyone.






On black Friday I got at 3:30 and made it in time to Sam's to snatch a few goodies while my brother and sister in-law radded JCpenny for me. I hit Tai Pan, Toys R Us, Cabelas', Old Navy, Gap, Einstein Brothers for a snack, and then it was home again home again! My blessed mother in-law watched my children and I ran home in time for my mother's Thanksgiving dinner with my family!
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