Christmas

Christmas morning, Kris went in to check on the kids and Peyton was laying there with her eyes wide open. When she saw him, she whispered "Daddy did Santa come?" He said "yes". Then she hopped out of bed to come see what was under the tree. I love how excited kids get at Christmas time. I never could have guessed what the hit of Christmas was going to be....

Pre-opening presents

The kid's Christmas tree (it's seen better days!)

Daddy with kiddies

Mom with kids

Blake's blue mouth

Blake's tool bench

Peyton opening presents

The Highlight of Christmas 2009...

A touch n brush! Peyton was so excited!!

Peyton helping Trey opening presents

Trey's first Christmas

Kids on Christmas morning

Our little winker

Me and Mom

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a lot of fun as usual. We started out the day making cookies for Santa and his reindeer. Daddy found a really cool website that we could track Santa and see what country he was in and where he was going next. We went out to Papa Tk and Grandma Keet's house for dinner, and other activities. Then we came back to our house to finish getting ready for Santa to come.

Papa in his BYU snuggie with the girls in their new robes

Peyton with Papa Tk

Happy 7th Birthday Daisy!!

Peyton's new Barbies from the cousin exchange

We thought it would be fun to start the tradition of acting out the Nativity with all the kids. Blake was Joseph. He bolted before we could lay the babe in the manger!

Aunt Kera read the story of the Candy Cane
(One of the dogs must of cracked one off)

Dad with kids on Christmas Eve

Trey's 1st Christmas Eve

Our family on Christmas Eve

Mom and our Little Trey

Dad and Peyton tracking Santa

Kids putting out reindeer food

Sprinkling our reindeer food

Santa's cookie. We put pretzels on them to look like Rudolph

Santa's magic key to get in our house

Twas the night before Christmas

More pictures with Anna

So, I've decided that having my family around makes me realize how much I miss being around them. This has been two full weeks of family. We've already had Christmas twice, and it's not even Christmas yet. I am grateful for my family. We all have our "things" but when we're together all "things" put aside, they're the best family around!
I love you all!! Merry Christmas!!

Some of the family didn't make it to the Party, so they came over before Anna left for the airport.
Aunt Nancy, Amy, mom, Brittany, Holli, Khloee, Anna, Katie and Peyton

Aunt Nancy, Mom, Anna, me and Peyton

Mom and girls

Girls in our family

Aunt Anna, Grandma Ali and best Grand kids around!!

Party at the Dommer's

One of my favorite things about this time of year is getting together with family. We had a Christmas party at the Dommer's house which was especially fun because Anna was here to see everyone. I love that we all get together after months of not seeing each other and pick up from where we left off. Family is great even with all its ups and downs!

Some of the girls: Lauren, me, Annd, Abbey, and Amy

All the cousins
(minus Alison, Shea, Andrew, Kris, Holli,Patrick, Marilyn's boys and Donnie's girls)

More of the cute cousins

Cousins, spouses and kids

Hopefully with three pictures on here, there's one that we all like of ourselves
Love you guys!!

Aunt Anna Comes to visit

We got to have another visitor from our Michigan family...Aunt Anna. Aunt Anna had to come to Utah for business, but got to stay with us for the weekend. We love Aunt Anna and had so much fun being with her for a few days.

Chillin' with Aunt Anna

Sistas

Aunt Anna and Grandma took the kids to see "The Princess and the Frog".
Then they got to bungee jump on the trampoline in the mall.

Peyton's view from the top

Peyton's boomerang

Jumping Jacks

Whenever family comes to Utah, we have to go to jumpin' jacks. They all think it's fun to watch the kids go crazy in all the jumping things. The adults like it too!

Peyton posing

Dad being silly

Going down the big slide

Peyton taking pictures

Papa Pat and baby Trey