Riley's Dance Recital

Riley had her very first dance recital on January 11th!!!  She was so much fun and LOVED every minute of it.  This is a girl who loves being in the spotlight...a girl of my own heart :)  She was lucky enough to get to dance with her cousin Brynn.  They both did such a good job.  After we went with everyone to eat at Bella's.

Going CrAZy!!!!

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More of Christmas 2009 (I just got these pics from my mom!)

Jesse, Arin, Devin and I just hanging out.

Riley and I (Riley is wearing Brynn's hat!)

Jason and his infamous BYU beanie :) He was so happy with all the BYU stuff he got! It made his Christmas.

I am pretty sure I still have more photos to get on here! I have some with Jason's family still to come. We had such a fun Christmas! Thanks everyone for the good time.

A Year In Review

I liked the idea that Kaesy had of reviewing her year...it is such a fun way to look back on the fun things and changes that took place. So here is the Hicken Family's "year in review"

Christmas 2009

Riley and Boston were so much fun Christmas morning! We had a blast. That day we visited The Hicken family and The Nicholls family each twice :) It is a super busy day but so much fun.

Thanksgiving 2009

These are a bit out of order! But I need to get them on here. For Thanksgiving we went out to Stauffer's house. It was so much fun :) They had a pinata (not sure of the spelling on that one!) for the kids which Riley absolutely loved, anything to do with C-A-N-D-Y she LOVES!!! The food was delicious and the company was great. The pictures are in the slide show below.

All Dressed Up

Every year my mom and dad buy the grandkids Christmas outfits :) It is such a fun tradition and we always make sure we get a picture of all of them in front of my mom and dad's tree. So here they are this year! It is really hard to get a picture of six kids and have it turn out the way you want. Boston would not stay in place, he kept jumping forward so this is what you get. Aren't they all adorable?

Ogden's Christmas Village

Every year it is tradition that we go and visit Christmas Village. Here are a few of our pics from the very very cold evening!

Boston was pretty bundled up! He looked like a little marshmallow man :)

My two babes on Santa's lap. Riley is warming up quite nicely to the idea of seeing Santa! Boston on the other hand...well we have to give him the candy cane first thing so that he doesn't cry.

Grandma Dee Dee with Riley and Ashley.

Uncle J.R. and the four girls: Ashley, Brynn, Riley and Kenzie.

Last but not least our little family. Jason is a hot chocolate freak! He had two of them that night and his daughter is taking right after him. She wants hot chocolate EVERY morning with her breakfast.

As you may know, I am a bit behind on blogging! I have a ton more pictures to post but wanted to get some of these on here. Hopefully we will get some of the other fun stuff we have been doing on here pretty soon.

I AM THANKFUL

In copying sweet Lorraine I though it only appropriate to do a post on what I am thankful for this Thanksgiving...so here it goes:

My sweet hubby

My beautiful kids

My dog Faith

My parents

My sister and her family

My brother and Kylee
Jason's Family

All my extended family

A safe warm home

Jason's job

A warm bed

clothes

food

The Gospel

My Savior

My church calling

My wonderful friends

I am healthy!

Music

Diet Dr. Pepper (who could forget that?)

The country I live in

The city I live in

The state I live in

Needless to say, I am blessed with so many things, I could go on and on :) HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Happy Halloween!!!

We had so much fun this Halloween! It is a lot more fun since Riley is getting bigger. She loved Trick-or-Treating and didn't want to stop. She got to wear her costume almost everyday the week before Halloween and told me she wants to be Minnie Mouse again next year....I told her I am sure she will change her mind. Boston was Mickey and he did not want to keep the hat on! He got some good treats Trick-or-Treating as well :) We had fun visiting family and doing fun things. There are a couple pictures of Riley at her pre-school party. I was able to go and help and had a blast. At the end of the party they sang some songs for the parents, it was so much fun. Hope everyone had a happy Halloween!

Jack-O-Lantern

So far our week for Halloween has been really busy. Riley had her field trip, we had a play group carnival, Riley had her Halloween party at school and then we still have the Trunk-or-Treat and real Trick-or-Treating coming up....I have decided to save all the costume pictures for one post. We did however carve pumpkins tonight and it was so much fun. Riley wasn't sure what to think of it :)

Here they are on our porch!

I never claimed to be a professional pumpkin carver! I have never been very good at it. These two are Jason's and Riley's. Jason's is the big one and Riley's is the little one. Jason offered to be the photographer for the night so we didn't get many pictures, he is funny like that :)

Riley's 1st Field Trip

Riley had her first field trip for preschool at Dabb's Pumpkin patch! It was so much fun. She loved the "Pumpkin Man" as they called him which was Lyle Dabb with a Jack-O-Lantern on his head! She wasn't afraid I was so surprised. It was pretty cold and snowed on us for a bit, but we loved it. Riley had so much fun.

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Girl Party (with just a few boys)

During the Priesthood session of conference we had a "Girl Party" with a few boys which would be Boston and Titan! The girls thought it was so much fun. I brought over my foot soak (which I wish I had more time to use), nail polish and some pedicure stuff. I used to be quite regular at giving myself pedicures pre-children! We also made a homemade face mask out of rolled oats and bananas and cut up cucumbers for an eye mask :)

Ashley had just had her spend-the-night with my mom and dad and she picked this little make-up kit, so she did everyone's make-up as well!