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.

Fall at the Hall's

I know, I wear this hat way too much, but what can I say, then I don't have to do my hair... Since we didn't stay in Kanab I decided to take Talee on a date we went to the temple lighting ceremony and to Target to let her pick out Dayson's Christmas present. We had a lot of fun.
This was the only picture I have of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was kind of a bummer. We had planned on spending the whole weekend in Kanab, but Mike ended up getting the stomach flu and staying home, so the kids and I just went out for the day.
This year Mike and I have been married 12 years. We had planned on staying home and keeping it simple for our anniversary since we have a baby, but we got offered free BYU tickets. We decided to take them since the game was on the same weekend as our anniversary and Hurricane's state football game. Cooper rode up to state with Uncle Daryl and Grandpa Billy. Mike and I took Tucker to Aunt Diana's house where he was loved and taken great care of. The Hurricane game was amazing! They won and it was so much fun! The snow was awesome! The next night Mike and I again took Tucker to Diana's house to be loved by the Harmon family while we went to the BYU game. Our seats were amazing, but it was so so cold!!! We called Di at half time and Tucker was kind of fussy, so we decided to leave early. This started quite the adventure where we ended up walking a couple of miles before finding a taxi to take us to our van at the mall. I thought it was hilarious, Mike was less than thrilled. Tucker was kind of fussy the whole weekend so it kind of put a damper on things, but it was still a fun experience.
This was us on the bus on our way to the game.

His stance is awesome!

My kids have all been super busy this fall. Before Cooper's football was over all four of them had something every Wednesday. Now Dayson's wrestling has come to an end too, but I wanted to post a picture of him. Paul's son Karter and Dace were both in wrestling for the first time this year. Paul was awesome helping out these two wild boys. They loved to kick, hit, fight each other most of the time, but they had fun!

Halloween 2011

A few days before Halloween IHop was offering free scary pancakes for kids. I thought my whole family would have a blast doing this, but apparently Coop and Trey are getting old because they wanted to stay home and play with friends, so I took Talee and Dayson over and let them get their pancakes. They thought it was super fun.


Misty and I took our kids that aren't in school to the library for story time and a Halloween parade. They had a good time and got to make balloon spiders.
Dayson was so cute with Talee. After I got her dressed he told her she looked beautiful.
Me and Tucker were very quick getting ready. I had such a short time to get ready I even asked Dayson to try to put T's costume on him. Sad, I know, but you got to do what you got to do. I figured he was already crying what else could happen.

My kiddos Halloween night. T's whiskers didn't last very long. After nursing and sucking his fingers they were gone pretty quick.
The week before Halloween we went and got pumpkins for family night. I am kind of a lazy Halloween mom, it's not my favorite holiday. Instead of carving and gutting five kids pumpkins I chose to use these poke-in-faces. Cooper had to add some horns to his pumpkin, hmmm, I don't know why...
Treyden always chooses the biggest pumpkin he can. When we were at the store they had to bring out a bathroom scale to even weigh the thing because it was too big for their weight at the check stand. That is why his pumpkin's face has so many parts on it, oh yeah and why Tucker has nothing.
Dayson was very excited about his pumpkin. He loved it and was excited to use mostly green parts.
Talee had been sick. That is why she is looking kind of rough. We were pushing it just taking her out of the house to buy the pumpkins.
Tucker got whatever was left. He doesn't need a nose, right? It was funny when we went to buy the pumpkins all of the kids were more concerned what Tucker's pumpkin was going to be than what theirs was. Mike finally had to grab one and say, "this is Tucker's, now all of you choose your own." The boy is well loved by his brothers and sister.