Christmas Program

Dakota had his Preschool Christmas Program on Friday.

Last year I remember he just sat there and kind of bobbed his head.
This year he has been so excited about the program...
talking about it constantly and always singing the songs.
I thought for sure that this year he was going to be the star of the show!!!

Sadly.... instead of sitting there bobbing his head, this year he looked like at any minute he was going to burst into tears.
His teacher even had him move over by here because she thought he was crying.

But if you ask him, he was not sad and he sang all of the songs perfectly.
As long as he thought that it went great, I guess is all that really matters!

Santa & the Boys

I knew that there was no way that
Bridger was going to sit on Santa's lap this year...
he is just at that age, but I did not expect him to freak out about even going into the area where Santa was. I thought that he was going to tip the stroller over and bust out of there!
He finally settled on riding the rocking horse
about 3 feet in front of Santa, with a sucker.
He is already huge,
and being so far forward in the picture isn't really flattering for the poor boy.
It looks like it is a picture of Bridger....
with Dakota and Santa in the background!!!
I have to admit though, I was still pleased with the picture!

Up on the Roof Top

Last Saturday I finally got Scott to put up our Christmas lights!!!
I think that there is only one, real prerequisite for
marring into the Patterson Family....
how good are you at putting up Christmas Lights???
Lucky for Scott, he is really good at it:)

Until this year I have never really thought about how hard and scary doing lights on your roof can be. Scott always just jumps up there and does them. Then on Sunday a bunch of women in the ward were talking about how scary it is for their husbands and about how some won't even do them. My favorite was one husband that made his wife put a mattress under the roof just in case he fell. :)

For some reason Scott really wasn't too excited about doing our lights this year.
Maybe it is due to the many years of doing lights for my dad, but I guess I should feel lucky that our lights go up with out too much drama! They turned out great!

Real Meaning of Christmas

I thought this video was so so cute. I found it on a blog that I sometimes follow. This couple had a little girl just a couple weeks older than Bridger who drowned this past summer. Thier blog is always so uplifting and inspirational. It is patrickandashley.blogspot.com .... take a look.

Anual Gingerbread House Decorating

I am pretty sure that Bridger ate a piece of candy
for each that he put on our house :)

It is a Patterson Family tradition every year get together
and decorate Gingerbread Houses.
Everyone is very serious about their houses....
sadly, mine just hasn't been the same now that I have little helpers!
But it is still fun and I still leave feeling sick from eating so much candy and frosting.

Noah's Baptism

On Saturday Noah got baptized.
It was really nice because he was the only one in my parents ward
so our family got to do the entire program.
Scott gave a talk on the Holy Ghost.
He compared it to Noah's blanket because it is a comforter.
I am not sure that Noah wanted everyone to know about his beloved blanket :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving started with The Annual Turkey Trot....
and boy was it cold!!!
Like always, we still had fun and
it helps with the guilt of eating all of that food.

A couple of weeks ago my mom and me went to a
cooking class taught by the owner of the "Chefs Table".
It was all about making the perfect Thanksgiving dinner.
So this year me and my mom did the whole dinner completely from scratch.
I am going to put all of the recipes on theskilletsisters.blogspot.com My favorite part was the mashed potatoes and stuffing. The Cranberry and White Chocolate Bread Pudding was also super good, and not too terribly difficult.

The boys ended the day with a football game,
leaving Scott claiming that he had a dislocated RIB!!!