BYU Bowl Game

This year, BYU played in the Armed Forces Bowl Game at SMU, so we decided to go as a family and cheer on the Cougars!  We went with my cousin Summer and her family as well as our good friends the Empey's.  It was a perfect day- about 75 degrees and we all had a blast!

 Nathan and his best buddy, Sam Empey

 Go Cougars!

Ice Skating over Christmas Break

My parents came down to spend a couple of days with us after Christmas.  So, we took the boys ice skating.  They love ice skating and had a great time!

Carter LOVED waving to us as we came around.  It was so cute!

Christmas Day Festivities

Waiting to go downstairs to see what Santa brought!

So excited!

 Love Nate's face in these pics!

Carter checking out what Santa brought him!

Landen showing off his new Electric Scooter he got!

 Probably Carter's favorite thing- pudding!

Grandma and Grandpa- awake way too early!

Christmas was on a Sunday this year, so here are the boys in the new Christmas outfits for Church.  Don't they look handsome?

A very RARE good family picture- before church.

All sat down for Christmas Dinner.  YUM!

It has been a wonderful Christmas!  But, we are all exhausted!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

Making Gingerbread Houses
We have a tradition to make a gingerbread house every Christmas Eve.  This year, ours completely collapsed after we finished it.  Luckily, we had Grandpa Gee here to save it.  With a little surgery, he repaired our house and it actually ended up being our best house ever!

 Having fun making the house.

 The masterpiece!

Acting out Christmas Story

 Mary and Joseph

 Mary and Joseph with baby Jesus and a shepherd.

 Our Wise Man.

The whole cast!

Christmas Pajamas!

Galleria Christmas Tree

Another activity for our Advent Calendar, we went to the Galleria to see the enormous Christmas Tree there.  This tree is the largest artificial Christmas tree in the world.  It's three stories high.  It's awesome!

Boys would not cooperate getting a good pic- so this is what we got!

 Carter wouldn't be in the picture, so we tried to get the older two and still no luck!

Happy 8th Birthday Landen!

I cannot believe Landen is already turning 8.  Time sure does fly.  In a few weeks, he'll be getting baptized.  I do not have a child old enough to get baptized!  (Denial!)  For his birthday this year, he got to have a friend party.  He wanted to have it at Chuck E. Cheese.  Fun times!  :)

Landen opening his presents in the morning before school.

With some of his friends at Chuck E. Cheese.

Allison Hayes, Landen, Jacob Empey and Sydni Lawson

He also had Jaxon Peterson and Landon Walsh as his party.

Opening presents and eating cake.  Landen takes after his mom and like Dairy Queen ice cream cakes!  Yummy!

Winter Basketball- Landen

Landen played basketball this winter for the 1st time.  Phil was his coach.  Landen did really well and had a great time playing.  He even likes it more than baseball.

The had their end of season party at Braum's.  Here is Landen getting his trophy and hanging out with his friends!

Landen and his coaches- Dad and Tommy

Santa Picture

Nathan- 5 years old, Carter- 2 years old, and Landen- 8 years old

Grapevine Christmas Lights Parade

This year, we decided to do a family Christmas Activities Advent Calendar.  So, every night, we do a Christmas activity together as a family.  To kick it off, we started out by going to the Grapevine Christmas Lights Parade.  It was a lot of fun!

This picture just makes me laugh.  It is the perfect picture to show our crazy boys!