HAVING FUN WITH THE BROWNS

For Liz's Dad's 80th birthday Ken and Janet came from Utah to visit and Paul and his kids came from Alabama. Paul's wife, mary stayed behind to work, set up their new home and enjoy some alone time! We had fun visiting and the kids had even more fun playing with cousins that they had never meet before!

The little rascals

Grandma and Granda with some of the grandkids

Liz with Kin and Paul and crew

Kathy, Liz Ken and Paul and most of their kids

The Utah Browns

The Alabama Browns minus Mary. Mary got to stay home and work and set up their new home!

The Texas Anderson

The Texas Nelsons

Janet gave all of the boys sling shots. Bad Janet, bad!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD, GRANDPA AND GREAT GRANDPA!!!

Today Li's dad turned 80 years old. He doesn't look it or act it but he is 80! So did we have a fancy dinner or a big party or did he and Liz's mom go on a cruise to celebrate? Nope, he was working at the Bishop's Storehouse. in Carrollton, TX. The Bishop's Storehouse is LDS church ran storehouse for those who are having financial problems. Getting a "food order" allow's the person to then to free up money for bills etc. The people who work there are not paid and Liz's parents both work a full 8 hour day there every Tuesday.

Having a break for dinner and a little birthday cake.

Liz's brother, Paul who drove in from Alabama for his dad's birthday. He also worked the night of dad's birthday. If the marketing job doesn't work out Paul there is always retail!

Liz's brother-in-law, Tom was there too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD, GRANDPA AND GREAT GRANDPA!!!

FASHION

Our little fashion model loves all of the clothes that she got from Mom, Grandma and Auntie Jen!

CHRISTMAS DAY PART

This is about the time when I was feeling really sick. My stomach was doing flips and did not want to eat anything. I ended up with the stomach flu and spent most of Christmas day laying down. The next day we had grand plans of cleaning up Christmas and rearanging the office and living room but I spent most of the day asleep and Liz caught a cold!

We set up Liz's lap top so that we could connect via Skype to Dave's sister, Jen and her husband, David and Dave's Mom Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Greg. Everyone had fun watching the kids open gifts!

The first few pictures show how spoiled the kids were by Auntie Jen and Uncle David

Lots of toys for Mr. J and clothes for Ms. B

Then Mom & Dad got in front of the camera and got a beautiful clock with the words "family" "we believe in each other" from Jen & David.

Dave got a wonderful Christmas picture of his Dad and Uncle Bill (thanks for the help Bill) when they were kids! These are the kind of gifts that are priceless!

Mom got us fun stuff for our kitchen

Talking to Mom & Jen

Dad survived long enough to help Jake with his race track from Grandma Kathy. Aftert aht he was done!

Liz and Ms. B did make some fun cookies in her new "Easy Bake" oven.

WHITE CHRISTMAS

After we opened gifts we had breakfest and played in the snow waiting for Grandma Kathy to call. It was fun waking up to a white Christmas!

Dad and the kids got into a few snowball fights!