Saturday, December 26, 2009

J.P.'s new Bike!

Justin finally got a "cool" bike. He has been dying to ride one in the field in front of our house. (Too bad it was recently fenced off for future construction.) We will just have to find new places to ride, Justin!!!




We ended our great day with Mexican Food and the Gremlins at our house!


Bert, JP, and Aunt Renee with Addie&Peanut.




Auntie Em (with her constant side-kick, Rylie) and Gramps!


Cali and G-MA!





Back to Grandma's for breakfast and more fun!












Aunt Renee with her puppies Addie and Peanut!













My 3 wonderful, kind, helpful, sweet, loving, and beautiful girls. I can't wait to see them grow up together and become even better friends! Seeing them together reminds me of my own 3 wonderful, kind, helpful, sweet, loving, and beautiful sisters! I love them SO much. They have been especially generous this Christmas in the most amazing ways - ways that I will forever be grateful for. I love you Emily, Renee, and Julia!
Christmas Morning finally arrived!

(We can't explain Rylie's disturbed look :)






The kids are so fun. Even though there wasn't much under the tree this year, they were still surprised and delighted with what they saw!



Cali got the hang of opening gifts (sort of), but after a couple, she totally lost interest!








Tired face! Cali didn't sleep much Christmas Eve. She must have been excited about Santa coming!














Christmas Eve Part 2


After a wonderful dinner, we had a live nativity while Dad read about Christ's birth from the scriptures.



Then it was time to get silly with our talent/non-talent show. Cali didn't say "Santa", Noah played the Piano, Me and the girls sang "Christmas Bells", Justin played the chimes and the piano (blindfolded, no less), Renee and her dogs ate ice :), Emily played the guitar, and Mom and Dad baaa'ed a beautiful Christmas tune! (You had to be there!)





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Friday, December 25, 2009

We enjoyed Grandpa's front yard while Grandma slaved away in the kitchen making our traditional Sweet-n-Sour Meatball Christmas Eve dinner!


Cali sporting the Christmas colors!












We played outside till the sun went down!


Ellie took all these pictures! That's why she is not in any of them. I'm not in any because I don't get along with cameras, and Rob is missing from our X-mas Eve pics because he was at home suffering from a 24 hour flu bug. Lucky him. He was the last of us to get it (except Ellie who miraculously avoided the nightmare!) We had fun, but Daddy was missed.

A Little Late...

We finally got some good photos of the kids in the fall leaves...on Christmas Eve!

Aunties Em and Julie


Noah in the Skateboarding helmet! The boys love that green thing!













We miss our Aunt Emmy! So Glad she could visit us at Christmas!

Matching Pouty Faces!