Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Morning at the Millers

Christmas morning dawned bright and early at the Millers! What a fun morning!
The whole Miller bunch!
All lined up and ready to go in!

Holy Cow Look what we got!

Lizzy and Dallas with the kids!

Oaks got a new Scout Shirt!

These are the cutest boys! Opening together...

New Shoes!
Mason's gift was the hit of the morning! He got this on and didn't take it off. All of a sudden he was missing and we started feeling a cold draft...and he was out in the snow in the back yard weed eating! It was hilarious! What a cute kid!

Baby Jett just slept and smiled through the whole event!

Here we are... What a fun morning!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Cookie Party 2011

Once again it's time for the "Marchbanks Cookie Party"! This year we had an extra special guest come! Santa was of course the hit of the party! Santa was in Minnesota for our Family Party...so he said he would fly by on his way back to the North Pole to pay us a visit! WE LOVE HIM! First off we started with a fun nativity craft project! Small blocks we put sticker pictures of the Nativity. They turned out so cute! Ya gotta love Relief Society for finding me cute ideas!

Carefully cutting out the stickers!

Brotherly love.... these guys are too cute!

Mason has is safe in his take home bag!

Then on to the cookies! (and pizza!)

Lots and Lots of sprinkles!

And more and more frosting and sprinkles! A little cookie with your sprinkles?
We had to get out the shamrock sprinkles! Ran a bit low on the others!

Then a bit of pizza with our cookies!
Then back to more cookies!
Then at just the right magic moment.... WHO ARRIVED?
Yup! Santa! He is our favorite!
Audrey is so surprised!
Macie is the first to jump on his lap! So brave!

Millie wasn't too sure!

Mason was totally gone over this guy!

Abby...

Audrey....

Trey...



Preston was all smiles!

Oaks...is still hangin in there!

The Miller crew! Jett is NOT Sure about all of this!
Here are most of my adorable grandkids...sadly missing our up North bunch!

Santa is checking up on Rupert! They had to bring him in! Rupert told Santa all sorts of stories! The kids love Rupert!

Here is Brigham... he was sick and not feeling well! He wasn't sure about this whole Santa deal!

He finally warmed up and gave him a High Five! Good Job Brig!
This year for Christmas.. Dallas's family gave us a beautiful Christmas storybook!
It was "The Night Before Christmas". Suzan spent a lot of time making some darling little mouses for us to eat after the story! They were adorable! Thanks Suzan! You made it so special!
Storytime....

Jett checking out Grandpa!
Time to eat the mice! What a fun treat!

How cute are these? A chocolate covered cherry for the body... a Hershey's kiss for the face 1/2 a peanut for the ears... a couple of nerds for the eyes! TOO DANG CUTE YUMMY TOO!
Mason and I checking out the cute little guys!
Millie is going to have a big bite!
Mason is fascinated by these mice!

Presto
Take a big mouse bite!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Back to Build A Bear

Abby and Sadie both have December birthday's! They were all excited to head on over to Build A Bear! They decided to wait until they could go when Staci could go with us! She is the Build A Bear queen! She was also kind enough to share her discount with us-so we could get away with buying a lot more! We headed off... and Audrey was about to be heartbroken...if she couldn't come...and so I say... "What's one more"! It was a fun morning! We met Staci and she helped them create their very special bears and one horse! We love Staci and she made it an extra special day for all of us!

Stuffing our animals!

Rub the heart on your cheek! Give it a kiss!


Rub a dub dub! Bears getting washed and all cleaned up!

Now Staci is helping them make their birth certificates!
All done and posing out front!
Then it was off to lunch at the food court! Yummy!
Staci had to head to her other job... so a big group hug! Thanks Staci! We love you!
Then it was time to make letters with our Pretzels...of course!

"U" from Abby
"C" from Sadie....

"L" from Audrey

Grandpa made a good effort...an "E" from a french fry!
"J" from Me
After lunch with the girls!
A goofy pic!
Now with the Animals!
Dragging those boxes through the mall!