Christmas Eve

We had Christmas Eve dinner at Grandma Jackie's house this year

and then returned home for our traditional Christmas Eve activities.

Kaitlyn and Logan opened one gift - pajamas and

then headed out to the front yard to leave food for the reindeer.

Next we read Luke 2.

This year we didn't act it out (no audience).

And finally - sleeping potion!

It worked pretty well this year -

no one had any trouble falling asleep!

Logan Turns 9!

Logan could not figure out what this big present was,

but was happily surprised when it turned out to be a

Vulcan EBF-25 (serious Nerf gun).

He received other Nerf guns also which spurred on some

serious family Nerf gun battles.

(Aylish, Connor and Logan)

After opening presents we ate pizza.

(Connor, Logan, Isaac and Jared)



(Zac, Kaitlyn, Madisen, Mallory and Lauren)

We had planned a miniature golf party,

but since it was raining we went to plan B - Bowling!


(Zac, Logan and Connor)



(Logan and Lauren)

The Group
It was a wild party - but turned out fun!

For one last picture I told them I wanted a shot
of them being crazy, they were more than happy to do it!!!

SNOW in Antioch!

I woke up this morning and turned on the news.

They said there was snow in Danville.

I told Mike I wish there was snow in Antioch.

He called me a little while later as he was driving to work

and told me there is snow in Antioch.

I told the kids to hurry up and get ready -

we were going to go play in the snow!

LOOK - there really is snow!

We didn't see much at first,

but kept driving to see what we could find.

It was beautiful and the kids had so much fun.

You can tell by Logan's face he is starting

to get really cold.

Wonder why Logan was getting cold?

Such a Californian in the snow.

Of course we were late for school, but hey

how often do you get to play in the snow in Antioch!

Thanksgiving

We had a fun and relaxing Thanksgiving

at Grandma and Grandpa Gwilliams house.

Enjoying football and appetizers

Kaitlyn loves to help Grandma make the rolls.

Logan can't wait to get his hands on some turkey!

Grandma taught Kaitlyn how to crochet.

She learned how very quickly.

Fall Leaves

Our neighbor has a big tree that we get to enjoy every fall.

Kaitlyn and Logan love to rake the leaves, jump in them,

bury themselves in them and throw them up in the air.

Turkey Time

We found these cute felt turkeys and decided to

make placecards for our Thanksgiving table.

Kaitlyn did a great job making them -

didn't they turn out cute!

Gobble, Gobble

Scouting for Food

Last Saturday we went Scouting for Food.

Well, we hung flyers to let people know the Sounts would

be by the next Saturday to collect food.

As with most things Logan decided it was a competition

and wanted to finish first. He ran most of the way.

We were done in 45 minutes - it was a fun family event.

Soccer Season

This was Kaitlyn's 8th season playing soccer.

Her team struggled this year, but as always

Kaitlyn had a great time.

Every year at the end of year party her coach

will say how fun it is to watch Kaitlyn play,

because she has a big smile on her face when she gets the ball.

The coach had someone taking pictures at some of the

games with a much better camera than ours.

He got some great action shots of Kaitlyn.

And yes, she does have a smile on her face.

Yes - Kaitlyn is #2 and just missed scoring a goal.

This was Logan's 5th year of playing soccer.

He has had the same coach and a lot of the same players

for a few years now. It's fun to watch them play.

Logan's broken arm kept him out of a few games this season,

but he was able to finish the season wearing a brace when he played.

As you can see he was excited to get his trophy.

Is the team mom angry with the coach or Logan?

Miniature Golfing

Kaitlyn and Logan were out of school for Veteran's Day so we decided to enjoy the beautiful weather and go miniature golfing. It's so nice to have a relaxing day with not much to do every once in awhile. We all had a great day!

Halloween Night

At first we were a little sad because dad was going to be out of town working on Halloween, but we lucked out. At 7:00pm we opened the door to start our Trick-or-Treating and he pulled in the driveway, got out of his truck and said lets go.

What cute Trick-or Treaters!

"Give me all your candy, or else"

Sweet Success!!

Carving Pumpkins

We had a lot of fun carving our pumpkins this year.

Watch out Logan's got a knife (scary).

What a cute pumpkin carver!

The finished products -

Guess whose jack-o-lantern was stabbed with a knife?