Is it Christmas yet?

I think I hear this almost every day! Kadee is so excited for Santa to come that she can't hardly stand it! Nor can I! This is the first Christmas where she has really gotten into the Christmas spirit. The last couple of years she has been to young to really know whats going on. This year she has loved giving money to the bell ringers and I even got her to clean out her toy box and give some of her good toys to the DI. It was hard for her at first but once I explained to her that some kids don't have any toys to play with she really started to get into it saying "mom I want to give this to the poor kids!" I had to stop her once or twice for trying to get rid of my old Barnie dog that I have had since I was a baby, I let her sleep with it when she was sick last week and now she is trying to give it away. Oh well, we had a great time cleaning out her room and teacher her about giving.

Every year we go out and get a real tree from the mountains. This year it is a little miss shaped but full. I love the smell of real trees but I hate the clean up!

Kadee the red nose reindeer!

Welcome Home Monica!!!

Saturday was a great day for the Jenks family! Monica returned home from her mission in glory! We was very missed and we were all very excited to see her, even though we had to wait in the airport for almost two hours! She was worth the wait. After the airport we all went to Kristy's house and enjoyed some more family time together.

She was really excited to see and hold Rylan for the first time.

Kadee was really happy to have Monica home and didn't want to let her go.

The lower picture is a picture of the whole Jenks family at the airport!Todd and Monica at Kristy's house after the airport. Todd loves his little sister and is happy she is home!

Birthday!

I know I am so good at posting events late but hey, better late then never right? Last Sunday we had a small birthday party for Kadee and me. My birthday was on the 7th of December and Kadee's was on the 8th. I am still having a hard time believing that she is three! We had a great time and my parents surprised us by showing up. I guess they had nothing else to do but make a road trip on a nice Sunday evening. It was a great surprise.