Merry Christmas!

We had so much fun on Christmas! We always have such a good time. We still really miss Grandpa Bill a lot on Christmas, so that is kind of hard. He was such a Christmas guy. I'm sure he was hanging out with though. :) We had a hard time this year because Grandma had to be put in the hospital on Christmas Eve and then transported to Provo for surgery on Christmas day. But she is a trooper and doing great! Even with all of that going on, we still managed to squeeze a really fun Christmas in. Here are the pictures of our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

Kaylen opening the first present of the night!

Four families equals a lot of presents!

Opening Christmas Eve presents.

After Kaylen got his first taste of present opening, he wanted to open everything! He wasn't too happy when we wouldn't let him.

Christmas Eve + Chocolate = Silly Boy! Kaylen sporting his new jammies, slippers and Santa hat!

Jackson & Jess with their Christmas Eve presents.

Kaylen and Jess wanted to help open everyone's presents.

Christmas Eve fun!

Discovering they all had matching p.j.'s!

Matching jammies! Only on Christmas Eve can people get away with this. :)

Jackson & Kaylen helping grandma put out Christmas presents.

Dad & Annie doing some serious thinking.

What Santa brought Kaylen!

What Santa brought Jess & Jackson!

Waiting to see what Santa brought!

Kamie trying to keep Kaylen from running to see his presents. Jess was also hard to hold back. They were so excited!

Making the mad dash to see what Santa left them!

Kaylen got a new Toy Story bike.

Jess was most excited to get monster trucks. He just loves them.

Jackson got a new sled.

Jacks loves his new Jazz hoodie!

Jess loving his cool new car!

Jackson helping Jess crack into his presents!

Jess got some guns and holsters!

Yikes! He's gonna get ya!

Kaylen opening is cool art table!

Christmas fun!

Austin, Annie and Kamie waiting to dive into their presents.

Kaylen opening presents

Kaylen got new ice skates. He loves to skate around the house and watch skating on tv. It is so funny to see him spin and jump.

Okay, this picture is here twice. Oh well. :)

Jess got a new drum set.

Kaylen trying out the new car that Jess got

Making their from Hollie's house back home

It was a very cold, foggy Christmas morning.

The fog left beautiful ice crystals on everything. This is a new bike that was left outside over night!

Frosty Trees

Mom and Dad got spiffy new bikes for Christmas

More cold and fog

Kaylen on his spiffy new bike

Christmas Snow!

Everyone is always dreaming of a white Christmas, and this year we got one! :) On the 22nd it started snow and we got about 7-8 inches. :) Here are Jackson & Jess playing just as the snow started. Jess wanted to catch the flakes in his mouth, but he wouldn't turn is face up. It was so cute!

Yay! White Christmas! So pretty!

Christmas Light Parade & Other Stuff

Here are some random Christmas time pictures and pictures of the Richfield Light Parade!

Kaylen is ready for winter!

Mom, Kamie, and Tricia went to see the Forgotten Carols and left Kaylen with Grandpa. This is how we found Kaylen when we got back. Zonked out in the middle of a doorway. They must have had fun!

Checking out the tree!

Still checking out the Christmas tree!

Jackson, Jess, and Kaylen having sandwiches and watching T.V.

They had no idea there was anything actually in the boxes. It was so funny. We would say, "What's in that box? A toy?" and they would say, "No, it's a present!" So funny. But they never tried to open them!

Jess playing in the snow!

December has been soooooo cold. Here is a picture of the temp, 16 below, as I was leaving for work one morning. Brrrrrr.

In December we went to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Natalie Cole Christmas concert. It was so much fun and the concert was so beautiful. We loved it! Hollie, Jackson, & Jess attempted to shop, but it was too cold and Jess wasn't having fun. So they just stayed in the hotel until everyone got back. :) Sadly, this is the only picture I got of the whole trip. Jess looking bored in the hotel. But we did have fun! The next morning was Hollie's birthday. We shopped and ate a fun lunch and shopped some more.

Kamie & Mom

Tricia & Kamie

Kaylen finally kept his hat on. We had to tell him he looked like Ralphie from A Christmas Story or he wouldn't leave it on.

Austin and Annie looking spiffy!

Annie and Kaylen at the parade.

Kaylen loved seeing Santa at the Light Parade!

Kaylen on his way home from the parade.

The Elf on the Shelf

This year The Elf on the Shelf came to visit Jackson, Jess, and Kaylen. He was delivered in a package that came from the North Pole (with a lot of stops along the way.) The elf came to keep an eye on the boys and make sure they were being good for Santa! The elf flew back to the North Pole every night and had a new hiding place every morning. They boys loved looking for him. They left him notes for Santa and Santa sent them notes in return. We had so much fun and can't wait to see Freddie the Elf next Christmas!

Freddie came in box from the North Pole that had been all over the world before arriving on Grandma and Grandpa's door step.

Opening up the package! So exciting!

Freddie hiding in the Chrismas tree with notes to take back to Santa.

Freddie with the notes that Santa sent back to the boys!

Our very favorite place that Freddie found to hide!

Thanksgiving Weekend

On Friday after Thanksgiving Annie, Kamie, Cecelia, Rachel, & Mary woke up early to shop the Black Friday sales. Crazy. But they had fun. Then we went up to Main Street to see Santa Claus arrive on the fire truck. The boys were so excited to wave at him. Later in the day we went to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what the boys wanted for Christmas. They had so much fun. Kaylen climbed right up on his lap, but Jess wasn't so sure. We finally talked him into it. Finally on that Friday, Austin played in a fooball tournament, so we went and sat in the cold and enjoyed his game.

Jess waiting to see Santa on the fire truck

Kaylen waiting for Santa!


Watching Santa on the fire truck

Waving at Santa

Jess & Kaylen on the way to see Santa!

Kaylen & Santa

Jess & Santa
(Jackson wouldn't sit on Santa's lap this year!)

Annie and Jess at Austin's football game

Austin playing football at the Rotery Park

Veterans Day

This is a little out of order...oh well. :) On Veterans Day Hollie, Jess, Mom, and Dad went to the cemetery to put Grandpa Bill's flag up. The city had people there to help families with the flags. Mom, dad, and Hollie thought it was very cool, so here are the pictures from that day.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this year! We all ate too much, but I think that's what you are suppose to do. :)

Annie, Tricia, Kaylen, & Jackson (hiding in the back ground)

Jess waiting for dinner to start.

Annie, Rachel, & Mary

Cleaning up after dinner with Grandma and Scott.

Grandma Alicia told Jackson she would give him 20 bucks if he did all the dishes. She never thought he'd take her up on the offer, but he did. He spent more than an hour doing dishes. He recruited Kaylen to help (i'm sure he was very helpful)

Jacks and Kaylen still cleaning!

Mom's super fantastic layer Jello. No one dared eat it because we didn't want to ruin it!