The Collings Family

sweetest baby ever... She is smiling and sleeping...what more could I ask for?

Luke "just wanted to refresh myself a little mom..." He did his hair special for me this day and "spruced up his outfit too!"

Family Christmas picture attempt #2...still nothing. Why did I even bother to get them matching outfits?

Makay (sister/aunt) introduced my children to the gaming world this summer and Luke fell in love with Mario. He talks about it all the time and counts the minutes until Makay will bring back the beloved nintendo. The other day he decided to make believe Mario world and took his sister along with him.

Have you ever tried to get 4 children to smile at once? How about just look at the camera? Impossible. You'd think that at least Luke would be a pro...and he's the hardest one! Anyway, this is a snap shot with Santa at our ward Christmas party. Boy was that an event to remember...200 kids full of sugar, running circles around the tables where the adults were trying to enjoy a nice dinner.

I was very heavily involved in our stake's Christmas creche this year-what is a creche you ask? Check out our website: www.mvchristmascreche.org! It took nearly 1,000 hours to plan but it was amazing. We had over 400 nativities, live Christmas music and 2,200 people from all over attend. The pictures are of us with Eliza in the live nativity . We had a last minute cancellation for the live nativity and so I called Dave and told him to run over with baby so we could play Mary and Joseph. It was a very spiritual experience...definitely the highlight of my season!