Who's Santa anyway?

Who is Santa?

Does anyone know who Santa is?

Well we almost got caught.

Luckily I had the bedroom door closed,

Makayla had woken up around 12:30 and

went out into the kitchen where Clint and

his parents were wrapping gifts for me.

Makayla asked, "Dad what are you guys

doing?"

"OOOOh! just wrapping some gifts for mom."

Clint said.

"Oh okay", Makayla replied.

She then managed to walk back by my room and tried to

open the door but it was locked of course.

WOW! that was a close one.

I'm so glad that she had no idea what

was going I would have been so upset

if she would have found out.

Christmas was a Great and Amazing day.

We were able to cook an amazing dinner,

hangout as a family, and just like the girls

be girls playing with the toys that

Santa brought.

No tears this year just happy faces!

Santa must have know what he was

doing.

Christmas is in the air......

Sorry, no post for Thanksgiving forgot the good old camera. We did have a Great Thanksgiving we spent the weekend in Montana with my parents and other family members.

Well I guess you could said that Christmas is coming and are we ever prepared? No not really at least for me anyways. But I'm truly excited to spend Christmas at my own little place. It has been a few years since Clint, I and the girls have had a Christmas in our HOME. Well anyways.........
Monday night for family night we whipped out the good old Christmas decor and started at it. It didn't take us very long and we were done but I think that it got the girls in the Christmas spirit.

Smiles, Smiles and more Smiles......

Except for this little monkey.

She wanted to help decorate but wasn't

very successful, unless you call putting

ornament's on the floor instead of on the tree.
What a character!

She has been so excited about the

Christmas lights.
As we were decorating the tree she

was telling us look, I see Christmas

lights.

There favorite part of the whole night was the

candy canes can you believe that?

Of course I can.

"You know visions of sugarplums dance in there

heads", is one true statement for
my three.

All's they can think about

is the candy canes.
They wake up in the morning and that's
the first thing that pops into there
heads.

Makayla the other

day asked me if she could take one to school

for her lunch.

Boy what is the world coming too.

I would have to admit I love those

Candy Canes myself.

Nothing brings the Christmas Tree together

like a Candy Cane.

We even got to put Christmas lights on the house this year. I have always dreamed of a home with the colored lights that light up the house and now I finally had my dream come true. I am truly excited for this Holiday season to come this year. I love the spirit that comes with it, I'm truly grateful for the Savior.

FLYING TOOTH

Well Makayla has been waiting and waiting for one of her teeth to fall out but this one was probably not ready for a week or two. But on Monday night Makayla and Kassidee were playing around in there room instead of going to sleep so I told Clint, go and scare the girls and tell them that they are going to sleep out side. But before Clint could say anything the girls knew that they were in trouble.
Well anyways Makayla had her jammy string in between her teeth for some reason and as soon as she jumped her tooth went a flying. Then excitement went through the house yelling " Dad, Dad you just made me pull out my tooth." Of course she was so excited, she wanted to even take her tooth too school on Tuesday but I told her that people don't take there teeth to school. We thought that we lost the tooth but I seemed to find it so the tooth fairy could come.
But my question is where is a video camera when you need it the most. It was the funniest thing ever. At least she got the job done herself, I guess.

Halloween

This year I decided to dress the girls a like but in different colors and I even gave them names.

Makayla is the SPUNKY FAIRY

Kassidee was the SILLY FAIRY


Then of course the one that stands her ground.....

Dakota was the SASSY FAIRY

The girls enjoyed going door to door and then plus of course we did a Trunk-or-Treat. So did we get to much candy? YEP! But the girls loved every minute of it. I hope all of you had a GREAT Halloween.

Update... Update... Who wants a Update..?

I guess you can say that I have been super busy. Whenever I think about a Update I swear that something comes up. Well anyways the Wageman family has been enjoying life of course what else would we be doing?
We went to Strawberry a few weekends ago and decided to go fishing. To much to our surprise look what Clint dragged in. Look how lovely that wonderful green stick is. Ha Ha
I almost had to admit that I thought that was the only luck we were going to have that day 'til I asked Clint who's is that pole that is bending over there.... Kassidee's!
And look at what she managed to reel in. This fish was amazing! We were so proud of her for being able to reel this bad boy in. Believe it or not that this fish weighed in at 4.5 lbs. WOW! We even decided to measure the stomach and the length. (Stomach was 13" round and Length was 20" Long.)

Then there was little Miss Dakota just wanting to play with the worms. She kept telling us, " It Funny!, It Funny! She thinks everything is funny. She loves saying those words, if you don't know her at all she is the one that thinks that she is BIG STUFF even though she is the smallest.

We have been enjoying ourselves and having a good time even though the holidays are creeping up on us.

Monte Cristo

Well we just got back from hunting on Monte it was so beautiful up there that I couldn't help but take picture's of the fall colors. This is mine and Clint's favorite time of the year.

1st Baby , 1st grade

Makayla started 1st grade yesterday, to me it is the weirdest thing to think about. Kindergarten was a breeze for me, I guess knowing that I would get her back in a couple of hours was alright. But full days, I still am questioning myself about it. I guess one of these days I'm going to have to get used to it from here on out goodbye half days hello to all day. I think the hardest thing is going to be that she won't be around to help me watch Dakota and trust me her help is truly needed. Maybe I'll just have to pass it down to Kassi even though Kassi doesn't watch her as good but now is a good time to train her. Right?
Well I guess you could say that the day went pretty well yesterday for Makayla anyways for me I worried if she would make it to the bus and find her friends. She wanted me to pick her up but I told her no now is the time to start learning where to go plus she will have her friends to ride with so she finally said, okay mom.

Makayla was so excited the night before school started but as soon as we enter the classroom she got really nervous and didn't even want to go find her seat. But we soon made it there with a little push. I think what made her the most nervous was not knowing any of the kids in the room. But that's what's so nice about Elementary School you make friends easy.

When she arrived home later on yesterday I asked her how her day went and she said it was good. That's about what you get out of her. But then all of a sudden she was like "mom guess what I started crying after you left and school had started for the day." I asked her "Why?" She said that she already started missing me. I thought that weird last year in Kindergarten she was like you can go now, mom I'm fine. This year was completely opposite. That was definately unexpected. But as we were getting her ready for school she was so excited to walk to the bus and go today without me standing right by her side, so I'm proud of my little 1st grader and I hope she learns to love school and make friends like crazy.

It what FUN is...... Lagoon

Clint and I got a discount pass from his dad and decided that we needed to take the two oldest girls to Lagoon since they had never been. We new this would be are last chance since summer was coming to the end and school is about to begin. We always pass Lagoon on the freeway and the girls always yell out, "Look mom and dad there's a carnival going on can we go, can we go, pleeeeaaaase! Little do they realize that Lagoon is there all the time. I guess you could say that they figured it out now.

Kassidee and Clint

Me and Kassidee

The girls loved this ride. They like the feeling you get when you

completely lose your stomach and that's what it actually did.

Kassidee and Makayla

on Puff the Dragon


Tidel Wave
The girls and me




Clint and the girls

Clint and Kassidee

Dragonfly

Kassidee on the Merry go round.

I guess you could say dazed and confused.

Makayla is tall enough to ride on the big ride poor Kassidee wanted to so bad but was not able to because of her height. (maybe next year, hopefully.) Me and Makayla rode the spider together and I guess when Clint was waiting a guy asked him who he was waiting for, Clint's reply was "oh, my wife and my six year old daughter". The guys reply was what? I'm an adult and I sometimes feel like I don't want to do this ride. Clint just started laughing. Clint and I are so proud of are little girls they are pretty brave we say a lot of little kids bigger then them start to cry and not even want to try the rides.

The best part about that day was seeing there smile on there faces and the screams coming from there mouth's. After we started driving Makayla said mom where is that screaming coming from, can you here it. Clint and I just started laughing and said sweetheart it's probably from you screaming all day. What a great day! HUH!

Trip to Pinedale

About a month ago Justin (my brother) asked me if I wanted to go to Pinedale this year and go camping. Of Course, I told him that I would love to go. Growing up as a kid we would go there every year because my GREAT Grandma Wright had a cabin there but eventually my parents bought a place over there so we went quite often rain or shine. But a few years ago my parents sold there place there and bought a place in West Yellowstone where they live now. I love West Yellowstone but the memories that I have of Pinedale will always hold a special place in my heart.

As we were driving there we past these mountain that I alway remember as a kid saying " Those have got to be one of the coolest mountains". Don't get me wrong I love the Utah mountain's but the color of these ones always catch my eyes.

We got camp set up and then the girls could not resist the beach and the water, they headed down there. We had the beach right by our campsite so it was so nice for the kids to be able to just walk down and play in the water.

The first thing that Dakota did was grab the stick and started playing with it. The girls were not sure if they wanted to get in the water but later on they decided too.

You see this water is not the warmest water ever. It's like taking an ice cube and running it down the middle of your back. So the best thing to do is just run and get in and then scream a little for the shock of it all and then just start kicking to keep your body warm. But for me I don't know if it gets any warmer. The longer I stay in the more I shake.

Makayla at the Beach.

Kassidee

Here is Jared's (my brother) Sawyer. I tell you one thing this kid has no fear. He loved laying in this water. I have never seen such a little kid love the water like he does. We were at the dock's the first day and he just started walking and walking into the water like it was no big deal. He is so cute!

We found him one time in the road flagging down the cars and telling them to stop. I guess the people he was flagging down were just kinda laughing.

Makayla, Levi (jared's), Katelyn (amy's)

Here is Kayla watching the baby's.

Piper (her's) Dakota

I guess you could say that Dakota's not my baby anymore but she is to me 'cause she's my last little one.

Kassidee playin' at the beach.




Dakota not liking Grandma Becky to much.

Yes these is me about to get thrown in by Clint. As you can see I was hopeless in this department. It doesn't help when your husband is twice the size as you. But he was nice a enough to not throw me in all the way. Man that water is seriously cold. Men only have one part on the body to worry about us women have the bad end of the deal.


Grandpa James and Grandma Becky took all the kids out fishing for a little while.

Here is Kassidee. I guess you could say washing off in the lake didn't help to much 'cause they would just end up all dirty again.

Megan and Justin

Thanks to there tradition of going there every year!

I know we will have to plan on the next year trip, too.

Josh and Kayla


Kylie and Cody

The trip was amazing Clint on the way home said he had a blast up there. We were glad to have water that close to us for the kids to play in, the kids at heart Justin, Clint, Jared, Josh, and Cody of course

Friend Party

We decided to try out the whole friend party this year for Makayla's 6th Birthday today. I thought that it went pretty well. The kids started off by jumping into the pool and being crazy maniac's.
Then we continued on the rest of the day playing a few games. We were up to trying anything this first year to see what the kids enjoyed the most. Here is one:

This is Sydney trying to hold a balloon full of water between her legs and making it around a bucket and back again. This one didn't last that long cause the kids gave up fast. The balloons kept popping. It was pretty funny to watch the kids try to walk or waddle I should say.

This was the line up.

Here is Brynlee playing Don't drop the Egg. Brynlee was actually pretty good at this game she managed to run the fastest on this game.

Makayla

Lauren running down to the other bucket to try to fill it with water. There team managed to win this game twice with one less player to play with.

Makayla empting the sponge full of water and boyed did she managed to get every ounce of water out of her sponge. If the game was to play it that way she would have one the award for that.

Line up again!

On your mark get set........... Go!

This is when they were all lining up for who had the best jump into the pool.

Lauren of course did the best, she has a little bit longer legs for that one.

Pizza was what was for lunch and of course that didn't last long and they were off to the water.

The party started at 12:00 and ended up lasting 'til around 6:30 that night but I was good with that, Makayla seemed like she was enjoying the company and I'm sure she won't forget this Birthday Bash.

Happy Birthday Makayla!

We love you and hope you enjoyed your wonderful day!