Christmas stuff . . .

Then Sunday we acted out the nativity, Spencer gets to be a sheep for the ward party so it was good practice.

The Peterson Family came over to watch my favorite Christmas Movie, White Christmas with us. We had a great dinner and turned the Air Con on and had Hot Chocolate.
Oh and here is a cute picture of our friend Flor. We met Flor last summer and she is vistiing us for a couple of weeks. She is awesome with the kids and loves to clean my house :) and doesn't mind sharing the bunk beds with Spencer! She'll be celebrating Christmas with us.

What We do for fun. . . .

Marianne tries to copy Spencer

Spencer learns gymnastics while waiting for the elevator to go up to the eleventh floor

Marianne likes to put herself into just her size boxes

Marianne tries to take a bath with her clothes on. . . .

Sport'n the Pony

I put Marianne's hair in a Pony tail for the first time. I thought it was cute. Although I do love the the curls in the back when they are all down.

Devin's Work Christmas Party

Devin's Law Firm had their Christmas party at the top of the Marina Mandarin Hotel, Pool side. We had a beautiful dinner Catered, a few speeches, and a few games. One game was trivia. Playing games with Lawyers is hilarious. First they had to confiscate everyone's blackberry's so that no one would cheat- this took about 20 min since everyone had to debate over why they shouldn't have to give up their Phone. And then with each question there was a debate over the details of the question and what would and wouldnt count. - really these guys were just Lawyers.

Highlight was Devin playing twister!
Here we are with a beautiful View of the Marina Bay Sands in the background.
Do you like my new dress?
Meeting the Partners. Don't you love the dress, I tell you I absolutely know these guys get paid well enough to buy themselves some decent clothes to wear to a 5 star hotel- not sure what the problem is.
Here is a preschool party we had where we made snowman out of marshmallows and Peanut Butter.
On a side note the kids were really excited about this display of the care bears at a new by mall.

Wagstaff Christmas Letter

Merry Christmas from the Singapore Wagstaffs

That’s right the biggest news this past year is that we moved our family to Singapore. We got here in September and will be here for several years. We are truly enjoying the move! Singapore has been a wonderful place with wonderful people and lots of fun things to do for our family. We have enjoyed the Zoo, swimming, exploring other cultures like Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Indonesian, museums, parks, malls, and tropical rainforests.

Devin has a great job with the law firm O’Melveny & Meyers as an Associate Lawyer. He is working way too hard and too many hours but finds the time to be with our family. He is also teaching the 6 year olds in Primary on Sundays.

Naomi is home with the kids exploring every aspect of Singapore, and making friends from all over the world. She loves to blog, sew, and read in her free moments. She is serving as Relief Society Secretary in our ward.

Spencer is 3 ½ and talking unceasingly, the taxi drivers her call him a “Chatterbox.” He is taking swimming lessons, going to Joyschool, playgroups, and learning how to be a great big brother.

Marianne is 21 months, she loves, animals- dogs, horses, chickens etc. . . which she refers to each one fondly as their sound they make, like neigh-neigh, cluck-cluck . She is starting to talk lots and has quite the personality coming out.

Other news from this year includes:

Graduating Law School from BYU in April!

Studying for and Passing the California Bar!

Visiting San Francisco, Lake Powell, Washington DC, and Prince Edward Island, CA with our Families.

We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. Come and visit us soon, we have room for guests!

Love,

Devin, Naomi, Spencer, and Marianne Wagstaff

Christmas is coming

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . .

Ben and Cheryl left us this tree which we were grateful for, it is adorable, it makes me think of a Charlie Brown Tree -the top is leaning you cant really tell, but it is ours, we have collected ornaments from all over the word and it is always fun to open them up and see ornaments from our honeymoon, to having new babies, to other trips.

I am beginning to collect Nativities, here is one from Spain, we have one from the Philippines, and are going to get one from Singapore next week.

This Week- preschool, thanksgiving, Breaking Dawn

It has been a fun week in Singapore, we had Thanksgiving Thursday with a few families from the ward and preschool where we made Christmas ornament and then I had a girls night out and went and saw the awesome Breaking Dawn!

I love these girls, here is Jane- my Australian friend, Cleia my Brazilian friend, and Jenna my England Friend. We all went and sighed, swooned, cried, and whoo hooed, at the right places. IT was great, can't wait for part 2!
Here are the kids riding home from Jane's house on the LRT, which is a miniature MRT train (subway)
Marianne and Desdmond
Here is Spencer and Jake enjoying their Thanksgiving dinner
Our friends the Gatlin's hosted Thanksgiving we brought homemade rolls and Potatoes, and we had the best pecan pie. They live in a nice home which made it really fun for the kids to run around.

We Passed the Bar!

Devin is now an official Attorney! He passed the California State Bar!

We are so proud of you, what a huge accomplishment! He never has to take another test again!

This week. . .sick kids. . . long week

You can't see it but I took this picture because it was raining outside but the sun was shining (that doesnt happen in Ut) bright and everything looked like it was sparkling with diamonds, just a memory I wanted to remember today.
Here is my sick baby this week, we have been reading books a lot. Wed she had a temp of 103 but we are now on antibiotics and feeling better
Devin worked from home last night so I could go to the grocery store I just went across the street- here is the loot I carried home, I look rather ridiculous cause I hate going to the grocery store so i try to get as much as I can, the crazy thin is I am usually carring all this with 2 children tagging along. Other times I will go to a bigger store like Giant or Fairprice Finest and take a taxi and then I just have the bags and bags to log from taxi to elevator to hallway to kitchen. that is sort of easier.
Marianne feeding her neigh-neigh
Giving one of her dirty looks

Pillows

I have been wanting to make some pillows to match our bedspread, I had extra fabric so I have been trying to experiment. here is a couple that I made

I saw this one on Pinterest and thought it was adorable so I thought I would try it.

http://pinterest.com/pin/143411569353665225/

So i did not make this I found it in SG at an Indian store- i thought it was gorgeous. and it was only $10.00
But I did make this one, which I love, I bought the form at DI in the states for $2.00
I have one more blue one that I am working on, that will be small with ruffles.