Temple

March 2017 I went through the temple for the 1st time.

It was eventful getting everyone there but it was incredible and I'm so grateful to my family for the safrices they made to be there with me. Such a Beautiful experience!

Christmas 2017

We had an awesome Christmas and 4 Day weekend
The day before Christmas all of my kids headed to friends houses to play or to the park ( yes we're at that age and stage where my boys meet friends at the park down the street). I was able to get all of my Christmas wrapping complete before Christmas Eve... A Christmas miracle.
haha

Christmas Eve was a relaxing morning and we headed to church at noon. Christmas Sunday is one of my very favorites they typically mostly have singing and music and I can always feel the spirit so strong and it makes you really remember the true meaning of Christmas to celebrate the birth of Christ.

That night we went to my parents for dinner and presents half of the family was missing since they live in other states and the night started off slow and quiet... Pretty odd for a Sanders Gathering really
But by the end of the night we are having a dance party
Celestial and Kadence even had a dance off ending with both of them in the splits Celestial still got it :)

We opened our Christmas pajamas and headed off to bed

My kids were up at the butt crack of dawn haha
Pete and I made them wait till about 6:30
For the kids as big presents Jaiden and Rylan got new phones and
Kadence a new bike with gears.

We ate breakfast hung out for a bit and then headed to Pete's family's house.
We had delicious dinner and open presents.
Then we headed off to the movies Jumanji for most of us but it's sold out between our group and Kim Greyson and Kaelyn went to Pitch Perfect.
We loved Jumanji

Jaiden and Kadence spent the night at Granny's and Rylan came home with us the next day Pete and I had some work to do for about an hour then we headed back over Pete replaced Granny's garbage disposal and took out her reverse osmosis. Well the kids waited they did a scavenger hunt around the neighborhood then we headed to Buffalo Wild Wings and some geocaching.
 

A good nice 4 Day weekend

Christmas 2017 Sanders

On Christmas Eve we stayed home and relaxed and maybe yummy breakfast.
We got dressed and went to church for sacrament meeting Christmas Sunday is one of my favorite Sunday's of the year the Beautiful music and songs. There's always such a great spirit there and reminds you of the true meaning of Christmas. We went home and relax for a little bit and then headed to my parents for presents and dinner. Half of the family now lives in other states and it seems so quiet at the beginning of the night, but we ended the night with some dancing to bring back the loud wildness and then headed home for a Christmas Eve pjs. I think this is the very first year that I've had all of the presents wrapped ahead of time and setting out presents was so simple.

Gary built my parents this nativity scene. Celestial and Brandon had our name and gave us their gift early for Jaiden's birthday party a ping pong set for our kitchen table but couldn't help get me the I used to be cool bumper sticker for my new minivan haha

And Celestial and Kadence had a dance off ending with both of them in the splits.

Jaiden turns 13!!

We officially are raising a teenager.
Jaiden debating just getting $ from is or having a birthday party.
We took him shopping for some clothes and he had a friends party at the house.
Pete picked our boys and 5 friends from school.
6 to 11 he had friends over.
They played ping ping, basketball, video games, 2 truths and a lie and just hung out.
It didn't get a rowdy as Pete and expected.
We hung out upstairs and spied in from the nest can. Plus we popped down every once In a while. There were 20 kids (12-14)
He paid out with $150 and basketball, a phone game, a video game and flag football.
Not too shabby.
Grayson and 2 friends spent the night and were out at 12:30. They didn't wake up till 8:30