Top Ten of Christmas 2010

 10.  Our "ninja-bread men" cookies turned out great! We got the cookie cutters as a white elephant gift from Nathan's work party. Ari insisted on a few pumpkin shaped cookies, too. 

See if you can identify Santa Ninja, Sad Rockstar Ninja (by Robbie), Colonel Santa, Headless Ninja, John Travolta Ninja Man, Green Scrubs Ninja.

 9. A huge snowfall a few days before Christmas--we had fun trekking down to the park for sledding.  Too bad it all melted before Christmas.
8. Nate's superman snuggie from his sister.

7. "Minute to Win It" games on Christmas Eve. Here's me trying to get a cookie down my face into my mouth.

6. The kids Christmas shopping with their own money at the dollar store. It was crazy and fun.
5. A divine Christmas morning brunch at the Capel house.  Kudos to the cook (my sister Havilah).
4. A very nice visit to temple square, with no major catastrophes. SOO much better than last year. Yea!!

3. Reactions on Christmas morning, especially amazement that Santa had actually eaten the cookies we left for him. He is real!!
2. Ari (as a wise man), Abby (Mary), Robbie (Joseph), and Ella (another wise man) were so sweet acting out the nativity on Christmas Eve.  Nathan made a great donkey, Grandpa Morrill was an angelic angel, and Aunt Andrea was an incredible camel.

1. Spending lots of time together as a little family (Nate had the whole week of Christmas off!) and with our extended family.  We love you all so much and enjoyed celebrating our Savior's birth with you.

Let it Snow!

Tuesday's big snow storm was perfect timing:--Nathan was off work and we had wanted to do something fun as a family anyway.  We discovered that the park down the street is excellent for sledding!  It seemed that the whole neighborhood was there, too.  Someone built a great igloo that Robbie and Ari had fun sitting in.

Turning Five

Our little man is now a big five-year-old!  We love you Robbie--you make life so fun and exciting for our family.  Happy Birthday! Here's Robbie this past week at the Tree House Museum in Ogden:

ROBBIE AT AGE FIVE:
Newly discovered talent: telling jokes (check out this fun video of Robbie telling his favorite joke: http://breadcrumbpath.blogspot.com/2010/12/shout-hurray.html)
Personality: super energetic and active, very friendly, never stops talking, imaginative and creative, smart, silly, affectionate
Favorite Food: anything that is not "dinner food", except he does like BBQ chicken
Favorite Pastimes: playing with his best friend Peter, computer games, imaginative play with friends or by himself, drawing/coloring/art, being read to, wrestling with Daddy in the "wrestling room" (our living room), going to preschool
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For Robbie's birthday we had a very fun "Rescue Heroes" party.  Here's his fire truck birthday cake.

 Robbie and Ari with the cute snowman cake my sister made for him.

Oh Boy!

Looks like we're having another boy! He's due mid-April and appears to be perfectly healthy. We're all excited, especially Robbie to have a little brother.