CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, we did. Yes the fat man came to our house. And we were all jolly about it.

Christmas comes way too early for my bones...

but as you can see the kids were stoked to say the least

Woot woot! Kinney got some juice Every child got a pillow pet. Madison got a dolphin, Carter got a dog, and Kinney got a ladybug Checking out what we got

Carter was pretty excited, even though he doesn't do mornings either!

Yeah a baby! Kinney loves babies Check out her cool "Minnie" winter hat Carter got a tag, to play and read! So did Madison OH MY GOODNESS!!! *SCREAM!*

Yes, Santa brought Madison an "I-pod" (actually an mp3 player)

Can you tell she was a *little* bit excited Carter got a cool remote control monster truck and a skateboard I think he's pleased... Check out Kinney's "Minnie" baby....she loves Minnie and babies! Check out Madison's moves! Shake that thang! Oh yeah! Uh-huh! Boogie on down! I think Christmas was a huge success at our house! Thanks Santa!

Hope you had a merry Christmas as we did

Until the next post....

Temple Square

I think every Utah LDS family has a tradition of going to Temple Square to see the lights. This year we chose a good night. It wasn't very busy considering. And miracle of miracles it wasn't the coldest night of the year. Every other year it seems that we decide to go and it turns out to be the coldest night of the year and we freeze!

Madison wanted to take a picture of one of the nativities

Carter wanted to take a picture of the lights I love the bright red tree And here's the three in front of the Temple

I hope you enjoy your time at Temple Square, we did

Happy Holidays

Until the next post....

St. Nicholas

Every year on the first weekend in December St. Nicholas comes and visits our house if we've been good. I don't know how good we were, but he came anyway.

Hope your holidays are bright and merry this year

Until the fat man comes, oops I mean Santa...

Fall

It's that time of year, when 5 BILLION leaves fall into our backyard! I love fall, the smells, the colors, the sports, the temperature, but I hate that I have to rake and rake and rake and rake some more! It never ends! GRRR!!! Anyway every year when it's time to rake the leaves, we rake them into a gigantic pile at the bottom of the slide for the kids to slide in to.

And away they go... Kinney looks scared, but she absolutley LOVES the slide Carter...Oh Yeah! And Madison...what can you say? I hope you all have a happy fall

Until the next post...

BOO!

It's that time of year again. My favorite time. Except this year and the last few weeks has been so crazy and sad and insane that I didn't have time or money to get me a costume so I was kind of a Bah Hum Bug for Halloween.

I know, I know stop your beating heart that I wasn't excited about Halloween.

Oh well there's always next year.

This year we had a very scary witch, a creepy glowing skeleton and a cute dancing ladybug!

Madison was our witch..complete with fake purple eyelashes! Then our cute little ladybug, complete with matching tu-tu and wings

And then our scary Skeleton and it had to be the green skeleton because then he would glow in the dark...very important for my boy!

McKinley was terrified of Carter, that's why she's crying, yet she wasn't scared of Madison.

Hope you all have a

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Love the Tate Spooks!

Until the next spooktacular post...

UEA

For our UEA we decided to go to the cabin since my mom was in Colorado and I don't remember where dad was, so we had the cabin to ourselves. It was a nice little get away just for our family. We hiked and went over to Smith and Morehouse and wandered around. We soaked our feet in the cool stream. Overall a very relaxing extended weekend. We took a few pictures, Here's Daniel and Carter...I love his goofy face of trying not to laugh Kinney is just so cute, I love her laugh and smile! Here's me and the girls.

Crossing the partly dry stream bed.

Usually in the spring that stump they are on is underneath the water

Getting Kinney to laugh making her look like a moose Getting our feet wet! McKinley was NOT touching the water! Such a happy, Dry little girl They weren't very happy, especially after Madison slipped and got her pants all wet. Drying out and soaking up the sun Time to go...off to the truck Until the next post....

Future Cardinell

We have had Madison participate as a Future Cheerleader. This has not always worked out. Since the Future Cheerleaders perform in February and that is usually when we struggle with Madison falling asleep at 5pm! So she usually is tired, grumpy and crying through the routine. This year we had her participate as a Future Cardinelle. This is great since it's lighter later and she usually stays awake at least through the 3rd quarter. Even then the fourth quarter she usually falls asleep....yes....even with the crazy (Tate) fans screaming and cheering.

Here's Austin...28, 28....Goooooo TATE! And now for the half time show.

Serious Cardinelle face.

Sassy!...It was very fun and cute. We had signed up Carter to be Cardinelle Security and dance, but he wouldn't. He wouldn't even go on stage to be with his class for the primary program. That boy only likes attention when he wants to be the center of attention. Funny kid.

Until the next post....