WE MISS TYTAN!

After having this precious boy with us for most of his 1st year we are MISSING HIM!
Lizzy and Dallas left to go back to Grenada... We tried to get them to leave him...Yeah yeah yeah! He made us laugh every day and now we just kinda wander around... bored!
Can't wait to see him in April!
Clockwise: Hair Cut Grandpa with Ty - Sitting at the window watching Ebony the horse! He Loved it!
Making us laugh one night at dinner!

Opening Presents on Christmas Morning

It was a bit harder to do Christmas morning and our traditional breakfast...because of Church. Everyone has a different time and so we didn't all get together at the same time. But it worked out pretty good.

Ryan and Kel putting Millie's scooter together

Sadie opening her pogo stick

Max loves his car... lots of buttons to push and fun to ride on!

Brig and Abby and Sadie and Audrey with their Christmas gifts

This year I started working on our kids gifts in May. I scanned over 600 of our old photo's to put into books for the kids. I worked on it just about every night at work and at home when I could. It took hours and hours...but it was truly a labor of love! They each received a large 12x12 book with all of our family photo's in it...and then one of Hal and I each growing up. I hope they will be a treasure to them.

Opening the books



Lizzy

Max and Tytan with Angie

Brigham

Tytan

Cookie Party

Our Cookie Party was a hit! Santa as usual was a BIG HIT! Santa couldn't come to our Family Party this year...because he was off to Minnesota for a game...I hear! We are just glad to get him whenever we can! We LOVE our Santa!

Jett was enthralled and not too scared!

Max was not a fan...but he did pretty good!

Tytan was NOT going to sit there at all!

Mason

Brigham- He ran across the room and jumped on his lap as soon as Trey was done! No Fear there!

Trey

Abby

Millie... she loved her Santa!

Macie

Audrey was completely charmed!

Oaks

Sadie

Preston... Santa was thrilled that Preston was on his team this year!

All the kids wanted to make a tunnel for Santa.

What a fun Santa... He got right down on his knees and crawled right through the tunnel.

Trey even got tickled for having such a fun idea!
The kids were beyond thrilled! What a great guy! Look at Sadie!
This is my favorite Santa in all the world!
Good bye Santa! We Love you!

All the crew with Santa! What a Fun Time we had!
Hot Chocolate bar... again!

Making our Reindeer Cookies!

I found this cute idea on Pinterest... Love that site.
Lot's of fun!

They turned out so cute.. and supper easy!
After we were all done making the cookies and having hot cocoa... All the kids sat down to hear a few stories about Jesus and about the true meaning of Christmas!
Worn Out... real good!

Polar Express Party

I had most of the grandkids over since they were out of school for the Holidays. We had pizza, a hot chocolate bar and cookies and watched the Polar Express and had a sleepover. You can tell by the crooked pictures on the wall...that a wild time was had by ALL!

We were still missing 7 kids... I don't know where I would have put them!

I love all these little ones so much! They are the best part of life!

Trey Man with Tytan

Audrey and Mason are always up to something funny :)

Opening Presents!

Tytan loves books!

Our Little Max in his "football Helmet"!

Jett got some books too!

Mason loved this!

Audrey

Taylor with the cute skirt Lizzy made her!

Amy

Nate and Jen

Matt and Angie

Cousin Eddie with his new dutch oven

Becca and Levi!

Liz and Dallas

Mckay was NOT sure about his box of Pop Tarts... There was money inside...but he was a bit stressed for a minute! Ha Ha!

Taylor got a watch necklace...she saw mine and loved it! I was so excited to give her something she would love!

Hunter got some portable Ipod Speakers!

Glenn Beck's new book! Love it!

All the girls and Max and Jett!

Hunter and Tay with Audrey

My two oldest grandsons! Adorable huh?

Jaxson and his new pogo stick!