Festival of Trees - Dec. 2009

We went to the Festival of Tree with our friends Jeff, Julie and Anna. We had a fun time looking at all of the amazing trees, watching the talent acts, making crafts and seeing Santa. Afterward, we went to dinner with them. We always have a fun time with them!

Santa was asking if Jacob had been a good boy.

Well, Jacob is a bit mischievous sometimes, but he is awfully cute!

Baumgarten Childrens Christmas Party - Nov. 28, 2009

Each year Grandma Gerry has a Christmas party for all of her grandchildren. It often includes taking blankets that she usually makes with each of the families in advance to the hospital for the children and babies that are there. This year we started by delivering our blankets to UVRCM in Provo.

Then we went to Cheryl's house for creating fun! We made gingerbread houses.

I think that Jacob are more candy than he put on the house!

Uncle Karl has model trains that the kids get to drive. They love it!

This is the way Jacob and Addy play house!
We had a great time hanging out with our cousins and family.
We always have so much fun together!

Baumgarten Photo Shot - Nov. 26, 2009

Since Mark's brother, Alan and his family were in town for Thanksgiving, Grandma Gerry wanted to try and take family pictures. Well, my brother Nathan came over after Thanksgiving dinner and took pictures of the big clan. It was almost an impossible task to get that many people looking at the camera, without being silly. Well, here is what we ended up with.

Here is all of the group.
The grandchildren that were missing from the pictures were: Samantha & Joe (they were with their Mom), Carrie (in Texas), Luke & Dianna (they were SLC) & Jeanette (in Colorado).

Grandchildren & Great Grandchildren

Gerry & Children
Back row, L to R: Mark, Alan, Paul & Steve
Front row, L to R: Cheryl, Gerry, Jeanne, LeeAnn
Gerry, her children with their spouses.

Happy Thanksgiving - 2009

For family night, we made posters to show what we were thankful for. I had collected a stack of old church magazines and the kids cut out pictures of things they were thankful for. They created a collage on their poster and afterward we had each of them show and share their poster with us. It was so fun. It gave the kids an opportunity to practice bearing their testimonies. They were very thoughtful and descriptive about the things that they talked about. We then put them up in their rooms as a reminder about those important things.

We had a fun thanksgiving full of great food and desserts! We ate at my Mom's house and had dessert with all of Mark's family. The big kids were at their Mom's for thanksgiving this year, we missed them. Mark's brother, Alan and his family were here for the week. It was fun to spend time with them, especially since we don't get to see them too often. I also learned how to make yummy curry from my sister-in-law, Sharry.

I am grateful for such an awesome family and all of our extended family. We had a fun thanksgiving weekend. We are so blessed!

David & Lee's Wedding - Nov. 21, 2009

David and Lee got married in the Fountain Green Theater on Nov. 21, 2009. We had a fun reception afterward in the Dance Hall. It was such an awesome day. Everything was beautiful, especially the bride. Jacob got to be the ring bearer. He was so adorable in his tux! We are so excited to have Lee and Kinlee join our family. We are thrilled that David found himself the love of his life. We are excited for their adventures ahead!

If you look closely at the center layer, you will notice that
the swirly designs are 4 wheelers.
How awesome is that!

4 wheeling fun - Nov. 2009

David is teaching Jacob the fine art of A.T.V. fun. He even got a power wheels 4 wheeler for him. David can always find a deal and he ended up buying two power wheels for a killer price, so he gave one to Jacob and one to Kinlee. We are keeping it at Grandma Linda's house for now, since we live on a hill and also have a neighborhood full of bigger boys who we are afraid might ruin it. Jacob loves to ride his 4 wheeler at Grandma's house no matter if it is dark or cold.

Halloween fun 2009!

We started off our Halloween fun on Oct. 19 at Shelly's house for a party with all of our cousins and friends. Jacob was a monkey again. I know not original, but the costume still fit from last year and he wanted to wear it again, so we went with it. Joe was a football player and Sammi was a hippie. We had great food, fun games and prizes! It was such an awesome night.
Last year we learned of fun Halloween traditions in Fountain Green that we never knew of before. We have had the house in F.G for almost 20 years now and we never knew that Halloween could be so much fun. Our day started with carving our pumpkins. They turned out awesome!
Then we went to the school Halloween carnival. They had blow up slides, a climbing wall, games and yummy food.

We then we trunk or treating at the park. Those who live farther out in the country come and decorate their trunks and pass out treat at the park. We then went trick or treating with some of the cousins around town. Sammi went with Olivia, Bailey and their friends from Fountain Green. The rest of us went together. Nathan totally decorated the yard and had scary music and his fog machine. Some of the kids were afraid to come up to get a treat.
The teenage kids in town gather up all of the pumpkins and decorations in town and take them down to the post office. They put them all on the roof and decorate it. The next morning all of the towns people go down to check it out before it is taken down later that day. They didn't take our pumpkins. We hope they do next year, because we are hoping to make F.G. a new Halloween tradition. One great thing is we didn't get as much candy because the houses are more spread out. We always have leftover candy at our house that we finally throw away because it is so old. So we had great fun without getting too much candy!