Sledding Fun on New Year's Day!

On New Year's Day we went up to Morgan to go sledding with the kiddos and my sister's family. We went up on my Grandpa and Grandma's dry farm and sledded for about 4 1/2 hours straight...with no breaks. We had a BLAST!!! It was darn cold, but we bundled up good! Walking up and down the hills kept us very busy and warm too. My Aunt's kids also came up with us. All the kids were so happy to be hanging out with all of their cousins! This was the ONLY picture I took of the day, the rest we just videoed. Too much fun to not capture it live! I love going sledding up there, brings back so many childhood memories of sledding down the lane, broken toes, frozen fingers, giggles, playing with cousins, aunts and uncles, LOVE IT!!!! So check out these videos of our day. They aren't very long. One is of Mazzy learning to snowboard. Another is of Mazzy and Ryan sledding together...starting at the top of the hill and continuing all the way down the lane down to my Grandparents house (look closely and you can see them through the trees). And then one of Bronson going so carefully down the hill!

As soon as I get Ryan's pictures off of his camera I will post about New Year's Eve!

Merry Christmas to All!!!!

What a wonderful Christmas we had this year! It was so nice and not at all rushed! Christmas Eve my parent's came to spend the night with the kids so they could be here Christmas morning (they switch off every year with my sister and I, which all the kids love). Maz and Brons woke up at around 8:30 and so we rushed in the front room to see if Santa came.....and he did!!! Mazzy got some of the things she had asked Santa for and so did Bronson...they were ecstatic! We had a great morning with my parents. After my parents left, Ryan's parents came to exchange gifts and to see what all the kids had got. While they were here Ryan brought me and envelope and sent me on a scavenger hunt for a gift for me, which ended up being in the trunk of Ryan's parents car. Well I was very, very surprised because we haven't bought for each other for a good 5 years or more, we've just spent the extra on the kids and family...he broke our pact....but I was thrilled! He got me a copy of The Living Christ, which I had previously memorized this year and the painting that I have wanted for FOREVER! It actually made me cry! Then after the Ry's parents left we headed to Morgan so that we could go to my Grandparent's and then meet up with Scott and Mist (my sis) to give our combined gift to my parents. Also Santa leaves a toy for the kids at my parents....one that stays at Grandma and Grandpa's house, so the kids are always anxious to get up there and see what else they are getting from Santa. It's a fun tradition. We had an awesome day filled with lots of love and family!! I hope everyone else had a very Merry Christmas!!!

Above: Me with my gifts from the kids and Ryan. Below: Ray and Renee (Ryan's parents) with their gift from us.

Below: Another picture of Morgan Valley as we were driving to my parent's house. I was just really excited about the snow...it always makes me feel like I'm home!

Below: My Grandpa and Grandma opening their present from us...LOVE them so much!

Below: I don't know how well you can see this (click on the picture and it will make it somewhat bigger) but there was a pretty little 3 point buck outside my Grandparent's window up the lane. There has been a ton of buck's and elk I guess come down into their backyard. While we were their we saw 4 elk up on the dry farm.

Below: My parent's with their new digital picture frame from My sister's family and us.

Below: I have titled this picture "If Ryan were a doll....."

Below: Sadly....this is the best picture we got of us at the end of Christmas day. Not very good....but it'll do.

Below: Scott (my brother in law) Wearing Fazoodles on his ears and being a total NERD!!!! Love ya Scotty!

Below: Mist (my sis) and Me laughing at the horribleness of our husbands!!! Don't ask!

Christmas Eve 2010!

Above are all the rugrats in their Christmas Jammies they opened from Grandpa Thayne and Grandma Shell. What a bunch of little hoodlums....so cute!!

AWWWWW, there's my White Christmas! Beautiful Morgan Valley!

Then after the Jones party (sorry I know I didn't post pictures in the order of their true events) We headed up to Morgan for dinner and Christmas Eve presents. I was excited because I knew they had snow up there and down at our house it was brown with not a speck of snow! So the 2 above pictures I took while driving in the Jeep of the mountains...the clouds were hiding the peaks, but it was beautiful!
Christmas Eve usually finds us busy driving around to family get togethers. This year it was the Jones' first for a yummy dinner/lunch, then the annual family skits and then the opening of presents. I wasn't too creative this year with our family skit, so I read a wonderful story about Joseph and Mary. Then some of the family reinacted when Jesus was born while Ray my father in law read it from the scriptures. It was cute, funny and sweet all in one.

Above: Josh my nephew played the important part of baby Jesus. Below: The manger scene.

Below: Mazzy and Grandma Nae

Fun Filled December!

There was the putting up of our Christmas tree...I thought it turned out really pretty...the pictures don't do it justice (Above: All lit up! Below: I had to get a pic my new Nativity under the tree.)

December was a fun filled, crazy busy month. Ryan worked like crazy so he wasn't home a lot to help me get pictures off of his and my phone so this is why these are so late. We did so many fun things...even a trip to see Santa, but I don't know how to scan those pictures in. We played really hard with family and friends and it was so much fun! These are just a few of the things we did this past month. Check out Mazzy's piano recital pieces in a video at the end of this post. I also threw a video of her cute Christmas Play that the whole 2nd grade put on for their families. She was a Christmas Doll and is the first one in the line walking out on the stage. Hope everyone had a wonderful December.

There was Ward Christmas parties that Ryan and I got to play the part of Mary and Joseph (somehow...I do not know why or how!) (Above and below.)

There was making and decorating of cookies for Santa Claus. (Below)

There was the making of a snowman. (Below)

There was making and eating of CHOCOLATE at Grandma Shell's mmmmm!!! Above and below pictures.

There was cookie exchange and crafting parties thanks to the hosts my mother in law Renee and sister in law Gena!!! And all my other sister in laws who were there!!(Below)

There was school class pajama Christmas Polar Express parties with yummy hot cocoa. (Below: Bronson always turns his cup as he drinks hot cocoa and always ends up with chocolate between his eyebrows.)

There was haircuts (Above: After)
(Below: Before and the pile of Bronson's hair we cut off.)

Below: A trip to Temple Square with the Young Women and Young Men. Ryan proposed to me in front of this statue and Temple Square so I had to take a picture.

There was piano recitals. (Below: Misty (my sis aka Maz's piano teacher) and Mazzy.)