More pics for the Aunts

Adalyn's cake was really neat. There are three figurines of girls in white dresses. They were on my cake the day I was baptized, twenty one years ago. Thanks mom for saving them!
A special picture with Nana.
Grandma and Grandpa Norris made it also.

Baptism week

Here are some random pictures that my mother in law took while she was here visiting. We had a great visit with her!

We will miss you Uncle Ron

The week of Adalyn's baptism my Uncle Ron (my Dad's only brother) was kind enough to spend two hours with us, taking Adalyn's pictures in her baptism dress. He took 180 pictures and they turned out so beautiful. We had a great time! He took the picture in the previous post of her with the black background. A week later, he was killed in a tragic accident in Arizona while returning home from my great uncle's funeral. He was changing the tire of my other uncle's car and a driver fell asleep on the freeway and went off the road and hit my Uncle Ron. He died at the scene. It is so sad and tragic. We will miss him dearly. He was a wonderful man. ALWAYS giving and serving and doing things for others. I will treasure this picture forever. Thank you Uncle Ron.

Adalyn is eight!

Well, Adalyn turned eight this month and she has grown into a little lady! I am amazed at how much she has grown up this last year! She is still full of life and loves to have fun! She is the little mommy at our house and the boys follow her around everywhere and want to do everthing she does. She is into everything girly: fashion design, hair, the color pink, music, art, baby dolls, lace, dressing up, talking on the phone, cooking, sewing, jump rope, dancing, long skirts, giggling, twilight, boys, singing and the list goes on! She is such a joy in our family and has so much love to give. She is such a sweet heart and we just adore her!

Snow day!

We have had several good snow days this winter. The kids have had a great time building snow houses with their kid size snow shovels that Santa brought. Treston enjoys standing at the door watching the kids. He has only had one chance to play in the snow, and he learned really quickly how important gloves are- He kept pulling his gloves off repeatedly and Mom would quickly replace them. He did catch on to what they were for, and eventually started to bring them to me when they would fall off.

10 Months

Here is our little Treston at 10 months. He walks and babbles, is full of personality and he grins every time he sees the camera! He is so happy all the time (with the exception of getting dressed-cries every time). He is such a joy to have in our family. He is so easy to love and makes us all smile!

Merry Christmas Everyone and a Happy New Year!

Norris Grandkids

On the Plane

Denver here we come!!

Christmas Morning (a little early)

So, our kids surprised on Christmas Morning and slept in. We had to wake them up so we could catch a plane after we tore through the presents. Santa was good to everyone this year and Joshua was really good to me. We really enjoyed our little family Christmas.

Christmas program at school

The kids had a Christmas program at school.
They were so excited about it. They did a great job singing! Right after the program we took them home for our family Christmas eve before we left for Denver. We made sugar cookies, watched the Polar Express and had a fantastic Christmas Eve dinner.

Adalyn wrote a note to Santa telling him that we have a cat named GIGI. I think she wanted to make sure that GiGi didn't get left out. Well, Santa left a can of tuna for the kitty. Thanks Santa!

Halloween

Our first Halloween Party was a carnival at the Retirement Home that my Great Aunt Elma lives in. She is 100 years old! We promised her we would take her to the Carnival and we had a blast. This scene was so cute! Caleb climbed up on the couch next to Aunt Elma and snuggled right up to her. They are looking through his loot together. So cute! She just adores him. She takes his little face in her hands and they both get a huge smile.
Treston is sporting his new teeth! He got six teeth in a few weeks, ouch! He is not wearing his costume because fleece costumes don't mix with 90 degree interior temperatures to keep the Grandmas and Grandpas comfortable!
Freaky!
Happy Halloween Aunt Elma! This was her 101st Halloween.

The kids had a Halloween parade at school. FORTUNATELY for us, there was four different days we got to wear costumes!!! Carnivals, school, ward party and Halloween night! Ethan was a skeleton, Caleb was a lion (Can I just say he was ADORABLE), Treston was a monkey and smiled for everyone! Adalyn was Glenda the Good Witch. I just want to say thank you to my Mother because I now know what it is like to spend hours and countless trips to different stores to find all the supplies for a very special little girl costume! We really had a good time creating this costume! It is a good thing that the boy's costumes were store bought! (this is Adalyn with her 2nd grade teacher)

Carving Pumpkins

We carved pumpkins for the first time this year. I don't remember it being such a pain! The kids weren't hip with digging out the goo, but they LOVED cutting the pumpkins into tiny pieces with knives! Doesn't get any better than that!