Christmas 2010

The girls and their babies and matching PJ's that Santa gave them


I love holidays and the traditions that we follow. I love decorating and bringing the spirit to our home. Some of my favorite highlights from Christmas are>>>>


1) Alyssa staying with us through Christmas day. Love her! The girls decorated christmas cookies with Papa.


2) Caroling with the Young Women in our ward. Their spirits are genuine and beautiful.


3) Lance and Peggy helping to decorate our home. Love them!We are so blessed with their friendship!


4) Christmas shopping with Lindsay. She cracks me up! I love her to pieces!


5) Breakfast with Kayla. Love that crazy teenager!


6) Christmas Eve Lunch with my side of the family at Bootlegger. We had about 20 people! and it was really nice to see Dustin and Melanie


7) Christmas Eve with Whetten's. Santa came and gave everyone including kids Christmas PJ's. We have a yummy dinner and played really fun games. Including the reindeer game, and a gift passing game. We also read the Christmas story scriptures. and we got to meet Carly's new fiance!

8) Touring the neighborhood lights and rewarding the best decorations home with a present and note.

9) Christmas ward party and Papa singing O Holy Night.

10) Progressive dinner with Young women. It was also my birthday so my wonderful husband arranged for everyone to sing happybirthday and eat chocolate cake. I was so surprised!

Joslyn's new shoes Girls got a trampoline



Stairwell tree Winnie the pooh tree and wreath

The "SCULPTURE"

We are so blessed!! Our friends, The Peterson family invited us on a private jet for a 4 day vacation to Laguna Beach. We left on Friday at 11AM and by 11:40 AM our feet hit the sand!! We spent 3 nights overlooking the ocean! It was 82 Degrees outside! The kids had a blast in the sand! Jesse and Rob had some fun as well:) They built a sand sculpture:) (A pregnant woman giving birth. It was hilarious!! People walking on the beach would stop and take pictures. One couple stayed for a good 5 minutes saying they had never seen such a beautiful sculpture and someone in the group must be an OBGYN. Another group asked if we did this often (like we were local artists making a artistic statement) It was so funny. We were all rolling with laughter from the reactions of the mens "Sand Sculpture"
At sunset we saw a family of dolphins swimming right by us. It was such a fun and relaxing vacation. We can't wait to go again:)