Merry Christmas!

We had a good Christmas! We are so very blessed! I'm so grateful for all of our family and friends, and for what a wonderful life we have! I'm especially grateful for my little family, and my sweet husband! Christmas is so much fun with little kids around. They were so excited and loved all thier gifts! What a wonderful time of year! .......Now for all the clean up! :)

Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful gifts! I hope that everyone had a great Christmas!

I will try to post pictures soon!

Our Cutie!

Isn't he Darling!!!

WINTER WONDERLAND!

For the sake of our Family in Arizona...it is a winter wonderland here! Everyone who is here...

knows this! And we are all trying not to get into car accidents when we go out in it! There is a ton of snow, and just when we think it will be over, it snows some more! But it is BEAUTIFUL!!! And the kids are having fun playing in it! I'm just glad that Jared has a snow blower, and is keeping our path clear! I just hate driving in it!

The Gingerbread House!

Making A Ginger Bread house with Grandma!!

Because we went to Arizona this year, Joshua missed the schools, "Grandparents Day". They missed making Gingerbread houses as the activity for it, and so Grandma came over to make one at our house instead!

Me and Breanne made one also (because she wasn't to be left out of all the fun and candy!) It turned out to be really fun! We used Grahm Cracker though! And We had a hard time making "peaks" on our houses, but flat roofs are just as yummy! Thanks Linda, for a fun time with the kids! Joshua loved it!

And now the kids are eating bits and pieces off until Christmas, after which they will be able to go at the whole thing!

Setting up the Christmas Tree!

The kids and I, set up the Christmas tree finally! I love getting out all the holiday decor, and turning on the radio to listen to Christmas music! It really is "begining to look a lot like Christmas!" And oh what fun it is! The kids are especially loving the candy canes that we hand on the tree, and then eat occasionally through the season!

Chad and Janice invited us up to Snow Bird to share in their time share experience. This was a pretty tree that was in the front entrance, and we got a quick family picture! Merry Christmas everyone! And thank you Chad and Janice, for a fun time at Snow Bird. We wish we could have come for longer.

Thanksgiving with other family!

After we had dinner with Jared's family, we went to my mom's house for some more festivities! My sister bought a pinata for the kids! It was pretty funny, because it was so unusual! But was all agreed, that they should make it a tradition, and bring one again next year! The other tradition that we were actually able to do, was to watch this crazy show from the 80's (called "The Babysitter") that we would watch with my cousins every year on Thanksgiving growing up. It is halarious! And we were all quoting it, and everything! That was really fun! Plus it was fun to have everyone there! Usually we are missing someone, but this year, everyone came! So it was a really good Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving With Jardine's

We had a special treat this year of Seth and Caroline coming to visit for Thanksgiving! It was a lot of fun! We had a good visit! The kids all played so well together, and the adults had fun laughing and talking! Joshua and Luke played a lot, and all of the little girl cousins played well together, but the biggest surprise, and the funnest part of the whole week (for me anyway) was Luke and ELI! Eli loved Luke! And with his little Eli voice he would call for him, and defend him. One time, Ella pushed Luke, so Eli went up to Ella and while pushing her, said, "Don't push Lute!" (I know I miss spelled Lute, but that is kinda how Eli sounded.) It was so fun to watch Eli with his big cousin Luke! Good Thanksgiving! Good food, and better company!

On Friday, just the girls all went out for

lunch! It was fun! We had a good time

together!