Curt's 37th Birthday

Sunday December 11th was Curt's 37th birthday.  This is what he got.  It's not the best picture but hopefully you can still see.  He got a new drill that makes manly sounds (he said his other one sounded girly), a "noisy cricket" Nerf gun and a big bag of Reese's Pieces.  Happy Birthday!  We love you!!!

Shelby's Christmas Choir Concert

On December 6th, 2011 Shelby was in her Christmas Choir Concert.  They did a Celtic song and had tryouts for four girls who would do a Celtic dance during the song.  Shelby made it and practiced and practiced and practiced to be able to get it right.  Doesn't she look great?

It's a little hard to see her but she's on the very end of the left hand side on the bottom row.

What's a cutie girl!

Ward Christmas Party

Well we just got through with the Moss Family Christmas Party and now onto the 18th Ward Christmas Party.  We had a wonderful dinner and the primary kids sang songs and then we had Santa come again!  You can't beat talking to Santa twice in one day.  So Austin just made sure that Santa knew what he wanted, presents and treats.

Here is Austin's best buddy, Bryce.  He lives behind us and they love being together.

Here is Kaylee going over her "Get Well Kit" just once more.  I don't know if Santa understood either why she wanted a wheelchair for her doll.  Unfortunately we missed Carson since he was one of the very first ones and got done before we could even get the camera ready.  He really knew what he wanted and was all about letting Santa know about it.

Santa needed a couple of helpers so here they are.  Are they the cutest helpers you've ever seen?  They even made their own aprons!

Moss Christmas Party

On Saturday December 3rd, 2011 it was Grandpa Moss' 90th birthday and also the Moss Family Christmas Party.  We always love going to these.  It's fun to see our cousins and get to visit with Grandpa.  We are so lucky to have with him us still and look forward to many more times with him.

Curt and Grandpa Moss.  There's a bit of a resemblance there.



Also at these parties Santa always drops by.  Carson asked for a 3DS.



Austin was funny.  He asked for presents and treats.  He didn't care what was in the presents or what kind of treats although I have noticed that he's not much of a chocolate fan but more of the sugary candies like Starbursts and suckers.  His wish was not going to be very hard to fulfill!

Kaylee wanted a "Get Well Kit" for her doll (or daughter as she corrects us every time we say that!)  A "Get Well Kit" is something from American Girl and it includes a wheelchair, a cast, some crutches and Band-Aids.  Curt thought she was crazy!

What cute kids!!!



What a cute group of fun cousins including Grandma and Grandpa Nye!



We love this picture of Porter.  He was completely FREAKED out by Santa Clause.  It doesn't get better than this!!!

All the Moss girls; (from left to right) Barb, Pam, Lynnette, Marilyn, Luann, Tam, Bev.

Carameled Apples

On November 21st, 2011 for Family Home Evening we decided to try making our own carameled apples.  It was our first time carameling a whole apple instead of just dipping the slices into the caramel sauce.  We learned a lot like it's easier to dip the slices in the caramel sauce and skip the whole carameled apple!  It was fun to do once though!

Some of us wanted nuts on our apples.

"My teeth are stuck!"

"Grrr!"

Austin wanted nothing to do with the caramel.  He just wanted his apple sliced up.  Yummy!

Another First for our Family

So on Sunday (of course) November 13, 2011 we had another first in our family.  But let me digress a little.  It started out a nice Sunday morning.  I was taking a nice relaxing bath and Curt was watching TV before we had to start getting ready for church.  Then the calm was shattered by Kaylee hysterically knocking on our door and yelling that Austin had cut his head open and I thought she said that he had fallen down the stairs but that's not what had happened.  I hurriedly got out of the tub and got dressed while Curt had already gone out to see what was wrong.  Apparently the kids were playing "horsey" and while crawling on all fours Austin somehow lost is balance and fell forward hitting his head on the corner of our banister making a small but pretty deep cut in his head.  I got a wet cloth and tried to get the bleeding to stop while Curt got dressed so he could take him to the doctor because we both agreed that it needed to be looked at by more experienced eyes than ours.  Kaylee was so freaked out that Austin was going to have brain damage or go into a coma or even die and Austin was freaked out not because of the pain but because he had blood all over his hands and his pajama pants.  He didn't calm down until I got the blood off his hands and changed his pants.  Then he was better.  So Curt took him to the Insta-Care in Syracuse.  I stayed home with the other kids and we all got ready to go to church.  Before we left though I got call from Curt saying that they were not going to put stitches in but they were going to put a staple in his head.  I guess they do that when they don't have to worry about a scar and so they wouldn't have to shave his hair off in that spot which makes sense but it just sounds awful!!!  Curt said that they put some stuff on his head to numb it and he didn't even flinch when they did it.  They even had to do it twice because the first one didn't go in the right way...ugh!  But here are some pictures of our first stitches/stapes for our family.  So this makes a broken bone and stitches/staple all in three months with the same child.  Got to love him!!!

At the doctor's office...look at that cute face!!!

Before 

After

Halloween 2011

So on Monday, October 24th, 2011 since it was the last Monday before Halloween it's our tradition to carve our pumpkins for Family Home Evening.  This year we got out pumpkins from Black Island Farms.  Here they are all ready to go.

This one is Curt's pumpkin.

This one is mine...I wanted goofy and not scary.

This one is Kaylee's.  She did most of it all by herself with the exception of me cleaning it out a little bit better and drawing the stencil on her pumpkin.

This one is Shelby's.  She did everything herself.  Good job, huh?

This is Carson's.  He did some of the cleaning of it and most of the carving.

This one is Austin's.  He did absolutely nothing on it but just get in the way.  Curt did all of his but he still claims it as his pumpkin...which is just fine with us.

This is our big family pumpkin that we got.  Curt carved this the day before Halloween.  He did a great job!

Here it is all lit up.

The day before Halloween of course we had our Nye Family Halloween party.  This is Curt in his costume.  If you can't guess he is Zombie Michael Jackson.  Love the glove!

All the kids dressed up...and of course Curt.  Austin was a Prince, specifically Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty; Carson was a ninja, Kaylee was a vampire (again) and Shelby was a zombie prom queen.

This is what we wished Austin was for Halloween but he would have nothing to do with it.  We had to beg to even get a picture.  We called him "Austin-dog".

Here is Katie and Brad doing the annual "Witches Brew".  They are so good at it.

It was a great Halloween and thanks to everybody who helped to make it so.