Christmas Outfits and New Year's



My cute kids and their cute cousins!  The rocking chair that Eliza is sitting in was actually made by my Great Grandpa (small Grandpa), my dad fixed it up a few years ago.  

Ben and Nathan
These 2 cute cousins love playing together!  Love it!

These two are just too cute!  This is Ben's best friend and future wife Isabelle.  We had her over for a fun sleepover, and here they are cuddled up watching a movie!

My kids love sledding!  Off for another sledding/snowboarding adventure.

Happy New Year!  We had my family all come over to celebrate New Years at our house.  We played games and ate great food and had so much fun.  Amazingly the kids all stayed awake for the party.

Christmas Day with the Marsh's

Ben got a crystal bakugan from Santa and Hailey got a Tinkerbell set.  This is the after everything was unwrapped pile. 

I got a surprise with a new beach cruiser bike!



The cousins sledding in Mormor's house

I love this picture, because all around the cute newlyweds (Jake and Bri)  there is mass chaos and they are just snuggling.

My kids can't get enough of sledding, especially with Mike!

Eliza decided that eating snow was the best thing about sledding!

Eliza playing with her huge chunk of snow!



Okay, so we all got these awesome monkey pj's that have footie's and everything.  Here is a picture of me riding my sweet new beach cruiser bike wearing my pj's.  Our neighbors got a good laugh!

We had such a fun Christmas Day.  The kids were so excited to see that Santa had come and unwrap their presents.  We went over to my mom's for a delicious breakfast and opened more presents there.  We have a new tradition of sledding with Santa on Christmas Day.  We did this last year and the kids loved it!  This year we had to go up to the canyons to find enough snow.  Unfortunately, Santa had a really bad sledding run and hit 2 major bumps going down.  Bump 1 he lost his hat, bump 2 he lost his glasses and beard.  Surprise to our kids that Santa was grandpa Buddy!  We quickly explained that Santa was tired from delivering presents and Buddy was his helper.  Our kids understood, but I'm sure we traumatized all the other kids sledding on the hill with us!



Christmas Eve with the Wootton's

Mike's mom playing Christmas carols and Hailey singing with Grandma Margaret and Grandpa Bert

Ben after the fun candy cane hunt!

These 2 pictures are my favorites.  All the kids got zhu-zhu pets from Santa.  Eliza made this cute and crazy face every time she caught the zhu-zhu.  We just kept sending it her way because it was so funny!

We had such a fun Christmas Eve with Mike's family.  Their family has great traditions.  The favorite is Christmas Bingo, complete with Bingo cards made by Mike's Grandma Margaret.  The kids and adults love the prize bucket for bingo.  We also added a candy cane hunt this year, and the kids loved it!  Eliza was so cute and excited about everything.  I love Christmas with kids, it is so fun seeing their excitement over everything.

December Fun

This picture was taken at night, so it looks a little crazy.  But, this is Ben and Mike's snow bunny

Ben wanted me to take a picture of his cool transformer block guy.  I was impressed with his block building skills



Ben playing on his snow fort



If Ben watches almost any commercial he thinks he needs what is advertised.  Ben has been asking for a shoes under for along time!  I was going to give him one just for fun for his birthday, but he got spoiled with his snowboarding gear.  So, I decided to buy both kids a shoes under and we had the 12 days of shoes under!  We put wrapped little toys in each of the shoe slots & the kids got to open one a day until Christmas.  They loved it!  We had that countdown, countdown blocks for the month of December, and chocolate advent calendars.  Ben and Hailey are at the perfect age, Christmas was so fun & exciting this year!



Where's Hailey?  We had a fun but very cold adventure in the Draper Park.  We went on a candy cane hunt!  The kids loved it and got fun toys afterward.  Eliza only lasted a few minutes.  It was snowing the whole time. 



After the candy cane hunt we surprised our kids with a trip to Incredible Pizza.  This was our first trip here and will definitely not be the last!  All 3 kids had a great time, this is a Ben getting ready to race!  Eliza was so cute and loved going on all the car rides and watching the kids play.

 12/4/2010-12/20/2010