Christmas!

There may not be two things I love more than Christmas and my family. To get them all together in mass quantities this year just made my little heart burst! I love, love, love Christmas! This year was no exception. We went up to my parents to stay the night on Christmas eve. We enjoyed a delicious dinner, small Christmas program and stories, and Christmas PJ's.

Man do I ever love this baby girl.

Bug getting her Christmas jamas.

She was so excited!

This girl loves Ariel!

Grammy Grams.

Ju-ju.

The Fam

Liam riding our oh so sweet and patient dog Bear, Christmas sweater and all. Poor thing.

Christmas singing although I was completely without voice! :( I look forward to performing and singing carols on Christmas eve for months! I was bummed but it was still fun.

Christmas morning!

Coach opening the calendar we made him.

Bug getting very excited about all her princess paraphernalia.

Nana!

Margaret and Bob came for breakfast that morning. I love Etta lovingly strangling Liam and his face in reaction.

It was a super fun holiday with family, friends, music, and presents!

I love Christmas and all it stands for. I love being reminded of Christ and the reason we're all here on earth. I love being with my family at such a special time. It's just so magical and special and I can't wait till it comes again!

Shutterfly

So I've never sent out holiday cards but this year I was thinking why not? AND I never did a baby announcement for little Liam so it seems the perfect opportunity to show him off.

As I was looking in to it I ran across this sweet little deal from Shutterfly.

You can get 50 free holiday cards! So that's just what I'm gonna do, what are you waiting for?

Now I just have the impossible decision of choosing one!

Monstrous Christmas Time Post

First pic with my new camera Christmas morning...my sweet, sexy hubby surprised me with the new Nikon D3000. I was super surprised and super excited! Now I'm just psyched to learn how to use it...I got him a video camera that we took some good footage with that I'll hopefully have up soon.

This is actually later that day trying out her new bike just before we left for Benihana. :) We did such a huge meal on Christmas Eve with a small program after that we decided to do an easy favorite with no prep and no clean up for Christmas night.

Etta loved her bike!

Christmas morning was fun with my parents, rob's mom and bob, and my little sister. We had cheeser eggs, country potatoes, bacon, and fresh cinnamon rolls...mmmmm. It was so yummy and the perfect way to start the morning.

We then opened lots of presents and had fun goofing off and posing for the camera.

We all met up at the aquarium during the break, always a fun activity.

Little Mason

Aunt Jacqueline

My sweet little family.

Etta's cheeser face.

Aunt Juju

Papa!

Lovin the aquarium gift shop...

Love this baby!

Oh my cutie...

Little nephew Mason givin me a snuggle...

I'm ready for my newborn!

We had such an awesome time having all our family in town. We did all sorts of fun activites, celebrating, eating, playing, shopping, and just hanging together. Thanks to everyone for such a fun time.

More and More Christmas Pics

So I still have more Christmas pics, we just had so much fun! I can't get my video to upload again so keep holdin your breath.

Christmas Has Come and Our Goose is Definitely Fat

Christmas was fun this year as we celebrated with family for Etta's first big Holiday. James moved out here this year and since Jacqueline and I already live here my parents and Julia made the trek out to make it easier on all of us. Andrew was very missed but otherwise we were all together. We had all sorts of fun outings, family activities, and Christmas craziness. Pretty much everything we had planned didn't happen but because we were together it was still a blast. The snow made it interesting for us to go to salt lake everyday but what is Christmas when it's not white. Margaret threw a fun little pre-Christmas party on Monday where we enjoyed of course good food and Christmas carols somewhat drowned out by crying and sleigh bells. :) We had so much fun helping with the homeless dinner at Magleby's then having everyone at our house for Christmas Eve dinner. The next day we opened presents at James' where Etta got a couple fun toys and a couple cute outfits, Rob got an Ipod along with some other man gear, I got some beautiful clothing items and namely a sewing machine, and we played Rock band all day. We are so grateful to our generous loving families for all our gifts and cash donations alike. :)

Our Adorable little fattypants.

We love LOVE you guys and are so grateful to have spent this time with you.