Temple Square Lights

Last Friday we took our annual trip downtown to look at the lights at temple square. It was a reasonably warm night for December in SLC, around 35-40 degrees. It was still too cold for the wee twiners so grandma tended them while we made the trip. Despite the warmer night Phoebs got cold quickly and became cranky in the cold air.

Phoebs wanted to spend the whole night inside this warm visitors center. When we finally left to go look at the rest of the lights be became unhinged. After about an hour it was time to head back to grandma's house to warm up again with some warm soup.

Our Very Hungry Caterpillar Pt. 2

Last Monday while I was sick in bed Cory and Phoebs decided to finish the desert that we set out to make last Saturday before our hungry caterpillar destroyed the brownie.

Daddy and Phoebs did a pretty good job if you ask me, just like the picture next to it. You can see Phoebs enjoying her favorite part of the desert...the whippy.

Our Very Hungry Catapillar

Last Saturday Night was the annual ward Christmas party and we were assigned to bring desert. I chose to make a yummy Chocolate Passion Bowl as pictured below.

But at last this was not to be for we had a very hungry caterpillar in our mists. While we were upstairs changing wee twiners into their party attire our lil' caterpillar was inching a chair over to the stove to eat through the cooling brownies on the stove. She then ran back up to where we were in the nursery and gave us a large incriminating smile with blacken brownie teeth and crumbs on her face. It was obvious what she had done to my desert. As seen below she had no sign of remorse.

After surveying the damage we contemplated what we should do. We could probably still make it and no one would be the wiser since the brownies were covered up or we could quick make some more brownies. In the end however, we opted to take the third choice, stop at the local bakery on the way to the church and buy a new desert, as pictured below.

Once at the Christmas party, our hungry caterpillar didn't stop. Within two seconds of taking off her coat she ran away from us and found the desert table where she stole a chocolate cupcake. She then proceeded to lick only the frosting off of it and then before we could stop her she ran again and grabbed another one off the table. After that point we kept her on our laps where she proceeded to steel all my deserts off my plate when no one was watching. As if she hadn't had enough sweets guess who comes bearing more?

Santa Clause! He had wrapped candy canes for all who paid him a visit, and thanks to our kind neighbor Phil for opening it for Phoebs so she could then proceed to have her 90th sugary item of the night. I am surprised we still managed to put her to bed before ten o'clock after all that sugar.

Gingerbread Men

Last Wednesday I decided to host a gingerbread decorating party and invite all the cousins. We started on Tuesday night by making the dough. Below is Phoebe's contribution, licking the beater clean in her princess dress.

All the cousins sat around the table and decorated with frosting, red&green chocolate chips and sprinkles. The most common type of decorating with the tough decoration. This is done when the frosting spatula goes directly from the frosting into the mouth followed by sprinkles without the middle man (the gingerbread man, that is).

Below is Grandma Fergy with 4 of her newest Fergy grand babies. In order from left to right is: Jared, Cami, Afton & Josh

The Last Fergy Instalment... Kye Craig

Last Monday, December 7th, the last Fergy baby instalment was born, Kye Craig Madsen. He was 7 lb 5 oz & rounded out the 5 Fergy baby to be born in the last 2 1/2 mos. To date he is the 11th Fergy grandchild.

Christmas Extravaganza

Last year we started the tradition of going to see this Christmas light display. It is a program that it 15 min long and it is synced to his own local radio station. We can sit in our own car while Phoebe goes wild dancing to the music and blinking lights. If you live around here I suggest going to see the lights. The location as well as live feed can be found on his website.

Our Fergy Debut

Yesterday was our first time back a church as a whole family in 4 mos. It had been so long since Phoebe was in nursery that she was a bit nervous as I left her. As for me, I was excited to get to dress the wee ones up in their church attire and finally get back in our normal Sunday routine. Josh was hesitant to go as you can see by his screaming pics, but once in his car seat he feel asleep and was out for the entirety of church. Cami was awake for the first 1/2 of church and then joined her brother in peaceful bliss for the second 1/2 of church. Besides trying to walk the halls with more things than I can actually hold (a purse, coat, carseat, diaper bag and a baby who didn't want to be set down), yesterday turned out to be an easy transition back in to our regular Sundays.

1 Month Already

How time flys! As of Nov 22nd, the Fergy twins turned one month old.

Thanksgiving With The Fergy's

As is the norm for the Fergy Five, we spent the blessed food fest with the extended Fergy clan. We started celebrating the day by having Cami wake us up screaming hysterically at 5:45am. We ran into her room to discover her crying her first tears, so sad. After calming her down we had hoped to go back to sleep, but Phoebs then began screaming, "Mommy, Daddy," which she does every morning to let us know she is awake and would like to come out of her room. We then all went downstairs and as a holiday treat had Sister Rhoad's bake and serve caramel rolls. After that it was a blur of baking yams & pistachio salad while Cory played with Phoebs and bathed all 3 wee ones. We had planned on arriving at Grandma Fergy's around 10-11am, but finally at a bit past 12pm we arrived. Once there we waited for the finishing touches on the heavenly smelling meal and took some pics. Below are the twins next to the turkey, which out weight both of them combined, but wait that is not it...

We then added cousin Afton into the mix and yet the turkey still weighed more than all 3 of the wee ones COMBINED. The turkey weighed 25 lbs and the wee ones all together weighed no more than 24 lbs.

Here is our big eater stuffing herself. The first pic is all of the food placed on her plate. The second picture is when she finished eating. Yep that's right, NOTHING was touched. In fact the two pics are less than 5 minutes apart. All Phoebs did for dinner was dip a cracker into the green salad and then run off. The second picture wasn't even the 1st time in that 5 minutes that she left the table. The first time was during Dennis' prayer. She was sitting so reverently, but when the prayer didn't end after 20 seconds she got up and took her chair and left the room. Ugh, how are we ever going to teach this girl about good food if she can't even sit through a 1 minute prayer for the food.

Here the Fergy baby cousins during dinner time; they just got a jump start on the Thanksgiving nap fest.

After the meal was through, we cleaned up and then began the blessed tradition of looking through the Black Friday ads and planing who is going where and when, one of my very favorite parts! At the end of evening we traded our ornaments family ornaments (each yr we pick a theme & then each family makes or buys an ornament to give to each family) this year our theme was snowflakes (my snowflakes were starched and glittered ready made doilies). When we finished trading ornaments and eating desert it was 7pm and our wee ones were exhausted from a great, great Thanksgiving Day, so we headed home for a relaxing evening of our own.

Thankful Turkey

Growing up Cory's family always had the tradition of the Thankful Turkey. This meant that they would take an empty oatmeal container and then decorate it like a turkey with each of their hands as the feathers. Then during the month of November each person would put in the jar a scrap of paper with what they were grateful for. This year was our first attempt at our own Thankful Turkey. Below are listed the items that were written in the jar. We clearly forgot to put something in everyday and as for Phoebs' gratitude, we often would just write the first we could get Phoebe to say after we asked her what she was thankful for so her comments are a bit random.

We Are Grateful For:

Family, Blankies, Jobs, Sparkles, Babies, Our New Van, Colors, Katie & Our Cute Smart Helpful Daddy.