Gingerbreat houses

I almost forgot to post our gingerbread house, thanks to Nick you all get to see it :) So here it is the beautiful and amazing Powell Family Gingerbread house. We had a lot of fun making it and putting it together. Emma insisted on wearing a princess dress while doing this, I'm not sure why. Pobably because she knew there would be pictures. It took a little bit of work and a lot of patience, but we got it all put together and we had a good family home evening learning about the first christmas.

Santa Claus

We visited Santa Claus and the picture says it all. Emma was in heaven and Maggie would love to be anywhere but on Santa's lap. Emma reminded me in line that there are in fact 2 santa's. The one in the North Pole and the one in the mall who remembers what we want. I love hearing kids' theories on how Santa works. Emma is still working it all out, but I'm sure she'll let us know in the next few days. She's excited for christmas and ask every morning, just one day until christmas right? Poor girl, it's been a very long month.

James & Jerrica's Wedding

Last saturday, (December 15th), James and Jerrica were married in the Salt Lake Temple, bright and early. We had to be to the temple by 7:50, we barely made it! The ceremony was awesome and they had to add 2 rows of benches to hold everyone, I think we set a temple record. It was so neat to be there and share that with them. Of course we had to do pictures afterwards, but then we rushed back to Sandy to get the luncheon going. Much to my protesting, Mom decided to make all of the food. And she did a wonderful job! Someone even asked who had catered it for us. Made us feel good! Mom did an aweseom job decorating and the church looked beautiful. We had just enough food for everyone, truely. I was the last to sit down and I got the last piece of chicken. It was a nice luncheon. Then we rushed to take things down and get down to Nephi on time for pictures and the reception. We didn't make it on time, but we still beat the bride and groom. Whew! The reception, like the whole day, was beautiful. It was so nice to have our whole family there. We got some fun pictures and made some great memories. Just a quick one to share, Emma had decided earlier in the week that she wanted to have a pajama party instead of going to the wedding (who knows where that came from!), but I told her there would be dancing and she immediately changed her mind. She went and loved it. Her only complaint was that she didn't catch the bouquet. But Alyson being the awesome aunt she is, gave Emma her flowers. Like I said before, the whole day was beautiful and I'm so excited to have Jerrica as part of our family. Congrats James & Jerrica, we love you both.

LET IT SNOW!

So here we are in December and Emma is loving the snow. Everyday it snows she thinks it's Christmas Day. So last saturday when it snowed, her and Nick went outside and built a snowman and played. They even tried to ring the doorbell by throwing snowballs at the door. They were never successful. But they had lots of fun and made some good memories. .