Trey's orange-stripe.

Trey has been working so hard trying to earn his orange-stripe. He finally got it and was such a happy guy!

Cooper's 10!

It is so crazy how fast kids grow! Cooper is 10 years old...CRAZY!!! He had a lot of fun he invited some friends over and had a late-night playing outside and playing the Wii. Boys are so fun! From L to R Andre' , Cooper, Brekken Hall, and Ethan Shaw
His birthday fell on a Sunday, so we had cake and ice cream with Grandma Lisa and Grandpa Keith on Sunday.
He had so many candles he didn't even get them all out...look at Trey's lips I think he is trying to help.

Family PIctures

Tucker Joseph - 5 monthsTalee Dawn - 3 yrs.
Dayson E - 5 yrs.
Treyden D - 8 yrs.
Cooper Shon - 9 yrs.

A Wonderful Christmas!

I still put the pictures on backwards, someday I will get it right...This was the kiddos on Christmas Day, after church. They had already started taking stuff off, so it's not the best picture, but here they are... Tucker is happy.
Talee would grab a present then go sit down and say, "mom, I'm ready." She thought we needed a picture of EVERY present being opened what a cutie! She also got a bike that she was absolutely crazy on! She drives like a wild woman, super cute!
There's Coop giving the boys the run-down...he had been up since 2:00 a.m. and was dying for the day to begin. They got a Wii this year from Santa and they were super excited!
We had a great Christmas Eve. During the day we went to the new Chipmunks Chipwrecked movie. We had a nice dinner and went looking at Christmas lights. Before bed we opened p.j.'s and had hot chocolate and watched the Nativity movie. It was a great day!
This is Tucker eating his pajama present. Cooper laid him on top of it he was so excited to taste it!

Christmas Activities

Tucker got to sit on Santa's lap twice at Dayson's preschool program. I thought this picture was better because he was looking forward, but the other one is funny. Tucker eating Santa's beard.
Reindeer Dayson telling Santa what he wants for Christmas. Dayson sang so good and loud at his program it was a lot of fun!
Mike and I and the big boys went caroling with the scouts. We were on a donkey-drawn trailer. It was a lot of fun. Grandma Lisa watched Tucker and Talee so they wouldn't get cold on the trailer.
This is after Talee's very first dance recital. It was so much fun to watch her! She had a great time and was so cute!
Talee with her cousin Gracie before the performance began. Notice Talee's cowgirl boots, she loves them and wears them all the time!

cRaZY mOThEr!

I am going to post more of our Christmas activities, but I had to put this on real quick, it's pretty good. Trey's primary teachers asked me if I would sub his class this week which was going to be the first week in their new class. I said sure and both Trey and I were excited. He said he was the luckiest of the whole family because he gets mom for a teacher then he said, "Dad, you will have to sleep downstairs with Tucker, so mom can get some sleep because she can't be cranky at my class." He was dead serious and both Mike and I laughed and laughed. Mike did not sleep downstairs with Tucker, but I tried really hard not to be cranky. Trey was awesome, he put his chair right next to mine in class and sat by me the whole time. I also took the automatic candy machine that Aunt Kira gave the family for Christmas, so Trey thought I was a hit.

The Christmas Season!

Grandma Lisa brought the kids gingerbread houses, they had a lot of fun!

We had a Hall family Christmas party. The family is so big now the only place we all fit comfortably is in our garage. We ate dinner and the kids performed the Nativity then they painted an ornament and had treats, then they all went to the typical crazy Hall family wrestling! We had lots of fun!

Cooper was a Wiseman.

Talee was super tired, she would not be in the Nativity, but she had fun painting her wooden ornament, which was symbolic to Christ and carpentry. (She always wants her hair taken out after church on Sunday, it is usually even wilder than this!)
Dayson wanted to be an angel which I thought was awesome considering his angelic temperment.
Tucker was baby Jesus and ate his swaddling clothes the entire time.
Trey was a shepard.
Talee's preschool performed at the Festival of Trees. Again, the poor girl was super tired, I wish she would nap when I put her down, but she has not been doing very well lately. This was a picture of "Santa Baby" she had a lot of fun.
There was a boy over on the side that was very spunky! She was checking him out.