A Christmas Riddle

What has two horns, walks on four legs and only comes out in the wintertime?

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Winter Wonderland or Hoboville?

As soon as we got snow the battle lines were drawn.VS

Anderson had it made...whenever Cayden's snowballs hit the old screen that made up his fort the snowballs turned into powder and Anderson never got wet. Cayden, on the other hand, continued to get pummeled.
So the following day while Anderson was still at school, Cayden enlisted some reinforcements and the fort was expanded.
Their new set up made Anderson's screen look a bit puny.

So if you are driving by my house and enjoying the beautiful snow and Christmas lights...

You might want to look the other way 'cause my front yard looks like Hoboville.

Gifts of Family

My sister Alison was at a Primary Presidency meeting and her friend asked the group if anyone knew someone that could give her a hand with Adobe Photoshop. Alison gave her my name and phone number and boy am I so very glad that she did! The woman told me about a website that she found where you could download a free template of a photobook of the Family Proclamation! It is so awesome. You can change the colors of the background, throw in your pictures and it all correlates directly with the entire proclamation. It took me over a day to complete the book because I did manipulate the template to fit my needs. But in the end I created three different books for Christmas presents; one for my parents, one for John's parents and one for John. The website also shared a new publishing site that is 1/2 the cost of the one's I have used in the past. I haven't received them in the mail yet but here are a few pages from my mom's book:

Here is the website for anyone who is interested: http://www.legacydigitaldesign.com/Photobook/photobook.html

Merry Christmas!

Choir Cousins

MAC's Christmas concert was very good, with the guitar club, bands and choirs performing. Both Anderson and Elizabeth had solos and they all did an excellent job. At the end of the event the band played while everyone in the gym joined the choirs for a sing-a-long. It was very cool to sing both religious and fun carols at a school event. The four cousins have been working on When Christmas Comes To Town for our ward party and Mathews Family Party. Anderson, Kenley, Elizabeth, Haley

A bit nervous before his solo...he said his hands were shaking pretty bad.

4-Wheelin'

STEP 1

Be sure your vehicle and Grandpa are all set to go.STEP 2

Insure that all seat belts are securely fastened.STEP 3

Remind the driver to always keep both hands on the wheel.STEP 4

Make verbal contact with the driver in preparation for take off.STEP 5

As the vehicle accelerates forward be sure Grandpa is making engine noises with his mouth. STEP 6

Grandpa serves an in-flight snack. STEP 7

Take several trips around the room until Grandpa is completely worn out.

The Season of Giving

A Yummy Sucker Just for MeAnd a Small Lick For YouAnd Another Delicious Taste For MeAaaaand One More For YouThen Me Then You

Me!!!

You!!!!!! Life's Lesson's Learned From a One Year Old.

If...

If you are wondering why I haven't been blogging lately, here are some of the reasons.

If you are wondering what we did with our old computer...If you don't give your kids sledge hammers and free reign to "trash" your old hard drive...you are really missing out.
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If you are wondering what Branson and I did on Halloween day...
If you didn't jump and play in the leaves and take cute pictures in October, well it's too late cause it's December now and what leaves are left are all soggy gross.
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If you are wondering what my kids dressed up for Halloween, and I know it has been killing you to know...
If you tell an 8 year old girl she can be whatever she wants, so long as it comes from her dress up box and doesn't cost anything, she will be a rock star.
If your younger sister Alison still has the Teddy Bear costume that all of your other kids wore on their first Halloween, and it is still up in her attic a month after you have mentioned it to her and it is the day of Halloween, than you dress up your toddler as a little green monster.
If your teenager has a dress up party to go to than he probably went as the joker...didn't every teenage boy go as joker?
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If your dress up box is still out and it is the middle of November...

If you don't crawl away really really fast, your Aunt Alicia will dress you up like a very ugly Orphan Annie.

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If you want to know how the Richard Mathews family spent their Thanksgiving Day...

If you are sweet Uncle Bill and you own the Guitar Hero World Tour you don't get your picture taken playing instruments on Thanksgiving because you are too nice and you let everybody else play your game.
If you are Branson you think that is a great deal... since you get lots of Uncle Bill loven'.

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If you think it is too early to decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving than you know that the Cazier family feels like anything after Thanksgiving is LATE...

If you wonder what our family does on Thursday nights...
If you're like Branson and can't stay awake during the Survivor Challenges...don't bother coming to visit us on Thursday Nights, we will be too busy watching Tribal Council.

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If you wondered what amazing story teller was reading Christmas books on the stage at Barnes and Noble...

If you didn't make it you really missed out BIG time...

If Branson is any indication, John was thoroughly entertaining to a sell out crowd...well, uh sell out group...of six...

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If you are ever curious about the political status of the Cazier family....
If you really truly want to know how we feel than don't ask John or Amy. I think the kids got way more into the election this year than we did. They had a ton of fun back when Hillary was still in the game...

If you really must ask...NO I do not encourage this.

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If you didn't get invited to Branson's First Birthday Bash, don't feel bad, no on did.

If you think he liked his presents...If you ever read that "What to expect the First Year" they actually tell you to make a healthy Carrot Cake for your baby's first birthday...I don't think so.

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If your daughter gets a school assignment where she is given a large clothespin and is told to dress it up like one of her ancestors....

If it turns into a scary 1800 French woman....tell your daughter she is beautiful.

If you don't like giving up your Saturday's or weekend evenings...Don't let you boy play AAU Basketball.

If you want to see some good ball handling...come on over to a game with us. Cayden has worked really hard and is now very good.

If you take a toddler to a lot of basketball games...his first word will be "BALL."

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If you want to hear some pretty Christmas music. Anderson has a Solo in tonight McLoughlin concert.

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If you want to know anything else...you'll have to wait til another day.