December first half

Done with School.

Sun rise at our Rexburg apartment.

In Layton

Malea playing with the train at the Potter house.

Colton fixing the speaker covers.

He had to rip the old ones off and it was disintegrating as he ripped it off.

Punching the old plastic out of the holes.

One year anniversary lunch at Panda Express. Good memories.

Santa came and this was Nellie's first time meeting Santa. 

And this was Nellie's first time meeting Santa. 

We got a lot of cool things. Colton is playing with the steak knife set we got to match our other knifes. 

We also got a really cool hedgehog ornament that was made out of is pistachio shells or pine cone pieces.

Driving to Levan

We stopped in Draper, Utah, to look around IKEA. We had Nellie with us in the car and didn't want to leave her in there for fear of her freezing, so we brought her in with us. Can you see her? She made it through the whole store without incident until we where walking back to the car and she couldn't hold it any longer...

Driving in the snow.

Had to clear off our plate.

Marvin Christmas Party

Sledding with the Marvin cousins at Shepherd's hill.

Malea and Hayley.

Kaleb, Andrea, and Dallin ready for launching.

Kaleb and Andrea.

Sun peaking through the clouds.

Malea helping Brenda, Neldon, and Kaleb get ready for take off.

Climbing the hill was an awful lot like exercise...

Waving goodbye to Ace (Lacy and Willie's second son) who was sliding down the hill on his bum.

Santa Claus paid us a surprise visit.

The children were just in awe and waited in anticipation for their name to be called.

Santa decided cousin Kien was a little big to sit on his lap so they switched roles. Kien was a very good sport.

Dad and Mom Kenison with Santa.

Daddy Kenison is relaxing a little while he mans the piñata rope.

The piñata made it through all the kids and several adults. All the hard candy was pulverized by the time they actually broke the piñata open. This peanut butter cup was somewhat watermelon flavored as a result.

Christmas tree at the Kenison Homestead.

A couple in the ward (Joyce and Richard) invited us all over for lunch on Sunday. They had a really neat Christmas village with a train going around their Christmas tree.

Models trains are obviously kind of Richard's little hobby.

After the excitement of seeing Richard's trains, we couldn't wait for Dad and Mom to open their present.

They were excited to get a "toy" for Christmas!

They promptly set it up and had it going in no time! It is pretty awesome (if we do say so ourselves…)!

November

Rexburg

We had an elder's quorum activity with our married student ward. 

We just found this nice spot in the middle of nowhere and shot skit unto we ran out of amno. 

Colton likes to dip anything he can find in chocolate.  

In Layton, UT

Malea playing in Sam's Club. 

Family gathered to play Werewolf; we all really got into it. 

Conversing with one another.

Preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. Malea and Aubree are folding napkins. 

The places are set and completed with assigned seating. 

Preparing the food. Almost done. 

Everyone look left. Don't know why

Thanksgiving dinner

Heating up leftover food on the flame of the stove. 

Our Ginger bread house making started with a broken foundation. 

Frosting the top to make it look like snow on the roof. 

Little Button kids building their houses. 

Moma Potter baking ginger bread trains to go with the houses. They looked really cool.

Colton was just eating all the candy. 

We went to the Celebration of Christ concert on Temple Square with Andrea and Ma n' Pa Kenison.

There were several choirs of varying ages and denominations. Also, Jenny Oaks Baker and Vocal Point came.

Looking at the lights. 

Traditional lion picture in honor of Grandma Marvin.

Panoramic Horizontal (Inside the Joseph Smith Memorial Building)

Panoramic Vertical

We got a present in advanced from the Kenisons. 

Lots of wrapping paper

It was a nativity.

It took Colton so long to unwrap it, Malea had time to take a photo of her toes. 

Putting little baby Jesus in.

The final product.

The power went out for most of Eastern Idaho and school was canceled until it came back on. We had the time to cook breakfast, but no power so we got creative. What you see here is a homemade stove featuring a Sterno flame. 

  

The eggs where taking to long because the pot was not close enough to the fire. So Colton held it over the fire to cook faster. 

He couldn't hold it for very, long so we got mugs to the hold the pot. 

Then to stabilize it we put the metal grate from our toaster oven over the mugs. Then our eggs where done and we had a hot breakfast. 

Little T entered the MTC on Dec 4. 

This is our little Christmas tree. We had to get something, but we didn't want to get anything big because we will be going down to Utah for Christmas.

Finals are upon us. Here is a part of my Data Warehousing final using MarkLogic. 

We are trying to get done so we can go down to Utah as soon as possible.