Christmas 2009

AHHH..Christmastime. It's my favorite holiday and I love this time of year, BUT there is so much time, preparation and anticipation and we get all hyped up for that one day. Then it's over in a blink of an eye. So December sure is the most busiest month of the year. With ward parties, work parties, friend parties, school parties & FAMILY parties. I felt like I was baking goodies all month long.

This is the Oliphant Family Christmas Party

Our Nanny Wanny


We took our family party to Nanny's Nursing Home this year, it was a lot of fun.
It's a busy time. It seemed like I ran out of time in the month to get things done. Marvin will tell ya that I just put to much on my plate. One of my goals for next year is to SIMPLIFY.
Then there's the Christmas shopping. I think Christmas shopping is the reason I don't like to shop all year round.
BUT I tried to remember the REASON FOR THE SEASON. Tried to constantly talk to Kaia and Deion about the birth of Jesus Christ and it was because of that special day that we celebrate Christmas now.


This was Christmas eve..Kaia was so excited for Santa to come,
that she was worried he might mistake her for one of his Reindeer.



I was proud of myself for taking at least a few photo's Christmas morning.



They were excited to open presents. The first thing Kaia said was that Santa had come because the milk and cookies were gone.



This is the aftermath of Christmas morning.

The Moore Family Elves

Merry Christmas

Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for. I personally am thankful for my Family. Not only am I blessed with an amazing husband and beautiful healthy kids, but my parents and grandparents. I'm thankful for my parents and all that they've taught me about my heritage and the gospel, that's made me who I am today. I'm thankful for my grandparents and the legacy they've made. It was them and my Dad who joined and brought the LDS church into our lives. With My Nan in a nursing home we brought the Thanksgiving meal to her this year being her fist year in there.

This is 4 generations.

Nas and his girlfriend Jen.

Kaia with her Auntie Melahn and
cousin Tyler.

Last by not least I'm thankful for this gospel and the knowledge that we have to be able to return to our Father in Heaven, and that our Familys can be together forever. I'm thankful for our Savior Jesus Christ and his love and example and sacrafic he made for us. Also I'm thankful for Marvin and the amazing man he is. He's thoughtful, hard working, fun, spiritual, smart, and he made it possible to have the two most beautiful kids in the world...Sorry I got all mooshie on ya, but it's just a glimps of what I'm thankful for.

Trick - or - Treat

Wow..Halloween is a crazy time. These days there's not only trick or treating a couple of hours on the night, but it's like Halloween last for like a week. With all the school parties and friend parties and trick or treating at work places and nursing homes and shopping malls. Kaia and Deion dressed up quiet a few times. They had inside and outside costumes. Don't get me wrong it was heaps of fun, with all the candy and dressing up. Who wouldn't?

Kaia was our Blonde Cheerleader a couple times.

Deion wore Daddy's du-rag and hip hop chain and was
Diaper Fly Boy.

We went to Nanny's Nursing Home Halloween party.

And then went trick- or - treating.
Like always Kaia was a pro while Deion had issues.

The Pumpkin Patch

Yes we planted a garden this year, but NO pumpkin's grew. So we went to the The Pumpkin Patch to get our Halloween pumpkins. We had so much fun. The weather was nice and there were so many different fun things to do.

There were all sorts of activities for kids & a bunch of different size Hay slides

Like always Kaia enjoyed herself

and Deion had issues

There were different musical instruments

made out of farm materials

Got to feed a few animals & ride a farm train.

The corn maze was a lot of fun. Deion & Kaia loved it. We had to run to keep up so we didn't loose them

After spending a few hours having fun with all the activities we then took a tracker ride out to pick our pumpkins

2009 Utah State Fair

So we went to the state fair this year. We're going to try to make a tradition to got to the State Fair every Sept. The kids had fun. Kaia and Deion got to go on a bunch of rides like a train & a balloon ride and the big slide. They saw cows & goats & pigs & Rabbits & birds and we smelled them all too.

Kaia had a blast on a car ride and got to ride a Pony.

A Spotlight on KAIA

Our little girl started Preschool this September. The beginning of the rest of her life. There's no turning back now. She'll have school forever now. ( well it seemed like forever to me). She attends a private Preschool just 4 houses down on our same street. So it's nice she can walk. Deion and I walk her there 2 days out of the week. She's really enjoying herself with the other kids and she is actually learning and retaining what she learns there. They focus on a different letter every week and learn and do all sorts of fun things about that letter.

This is Kaia on her first day of school







She has been wanting to go to school ever since she first saw yellow school buses.

This Kaia's with her school bag and her new bike Daddy bought for her

KAIA has also been dancing in our Kapa Haka group. We're called KO NGATI HIONA (the people of Zion) We Sing and dance about our heritage from New Zealand. In the summer months we have alot a shows. We usually dance for festivals, church groups, companies, neighborhoods, weddings, pretty much anywhere people want a Luau. Sometimes we cook the traditional food (pork and potatoes in the ground) or sometimes just the show.
We have about as many kids dancing as adults. Kaia is the second to youngest one who dances. I have to say she totally steals the show. She is awesome at the words and the singing loud but just needs to work on smiling more and sticking to the actions and not getting distracted.

This was at a festival that happened to be by somes fields with a few cows or horses in them. Well right between somes songs Kaia said kinda loud "eeww it stinks". Well the mics totally pick that up and the croud and us cracked up.

I'm so proud of her. She actually enjoys getting up in front of hundreds of people and performing. This is her swinging the Poi Balls.