Christmas Highlights....rather late

Finally....I know...I know, I am pathetic. We had a great Christmas. Almost everyone from Gary's family was able to make the very long and boring trek to IDaho, to our house. Gary's parents, his older brother and his family, and his younger brother. We really missed his sister though, maybe next time around we will be able to get everyone. Our house isn't at all on the big side, but we all love eachother and had a blast. It was really fun for Garon and Brisa to have their cousins for 3 days straight, since they have moved to Hawaii and we don't know when the next time is that we can all get together. We had such a beautiful White Chistmas. We had the most beautiful snow all day, weather wise, you couldn't ask for a better day. Here are some of the highlights from Christmas Eve and Chistmas Morning.

The Night before Christmas: Special Pajama Party ( Charity, Clay, Garon, Emma, Brisa)

Brisa and Emma, such a sweet picture, we miss you Emma

Brisa wasn't sure what all the excitment was all about, everything on the couch for her??

When Garon saw all the Santa brought, the only thing that came out of this mouth was " Where is my remote control car" In this picture, this is what he is opening up. Santa was tricky, that was the only present that he wrapped.

Sorry it is blurry, but this is a classic picture. I don't know when Garon thought that we needed to take a picture of everything he got, but he insisted that we do.

Classic...I will Chreish this picture forever, there are not many pictures of Brisa smiling. I think that I should send this to a Dental AD, maybe get some royalities for it.

Brisa loves her Babies, she has like 10 now.

Brisa loves to draw, Santa was very smart in getting this to Brisa

Grandgirls reading with Grandma Dustin

You would think he would look more pleased?

Reading with Grandpa

Family Fun Night

So yesterday it finally snowed. We woke up to about 1-2 inches of fresh powder. It was so beautiful. It started to feel like Christmas finally. To celebrate the snow, we wanted to make snowman sugar cookies, but I could not find my recipe, and I will not make any other sugar cookies. For family night we decided to go with plan "B". We made rice krispie snowmans. It was so fun. The kids really loved it, because they we able to get right into the action. Here are some pictures of there creations, including Gary's, I think he might of enjoyed the activity more then the kids.

note: Try to ignore Brisa's extremely dirty face, I promise it was clean when we started.

Gary's Creation

Every Little girl needs an older brother to tease her!!! :)

Very Delayed Fall Pictures

I would have to say that fall is one of my favorite seasons. I love living somewhere were we get to experience a true fall. Growing up I did not really know what fall was except for the picture on the calendar for October/November that always showed beautiful oranges and reds. Being from Arizona you don't really get that at all. I guess for all the falls that I get to spend here I just have to appreiate the beauty of fall, you never know where life will take us in the next 3 years. Enjoy the pictures. I know that pile really isn't much to brag about, but the kids sure loved jumping in it!!!!