Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Merry Christmas!

December was such a fun month: Christmas caroling, Gingerbread houses, visitors and trips! Here are a few of the highlights. Crew loves making Gingerbread houses and is the perfect age for these already assembled Costco ones. All he has to do is decorate- the best part.

We were so excited to have Katherine, Devin and Clara come and visit us for a couple days. Matt and Devin went to the BYU game and the boys and I loved being able to play with this cute little girl. Of course she was armed with numb chucks and a sword within 5 minutes (we corrupt any girls!) but the boys loved having her and she really enjoyed them too.

Crew's kindergarten did a big Polar Express the last day of school. They all had to make their own trains and then they paraded around the school in front of all the big kids. It was so cute and this little man looked so good in his Christmas train.

I love that we still get fall colors, even though they are pretty late.
We did make a quick trip over to Arizona to spend Christmas with Matt's family. Crew and Graham both loved cousin time. Crew and Sammy did a Christmas puzzle.
Grandpa taking kids to the park

This was such a cute pic of Remy
A family game of wiffle ball.


Riding home in style

Look at Graham torturing poor Baylor. He LOVED Baylor and Gunner

Cookies for Santa
Santa's note for the boys about their big Christmas gift

Christmas Day some of us went to the Wildlife Zoo. It was so much fun!
Matt feeding, or getting slobbered on, by a giraffe
Matt with his sister Buffy and her husband Chris
All the animals at this zoo wanted attention! It was so much fun to see them all so close. This little guy was one of our most favorite

Roasting marshmallows by the fire pit
And coming home to Santa's big surprise! A major hit! (May I remind you that this is a rental house and that room came this color.)

Graham's birthday is soon to come!

4 comments:

Rebecca said...

Great pictures! Christmas with all the family together went way too fast! We loved having you and everyone with us. By the way Crew's train in the parade was terrific!

Katherine said...

We loved visiting! Wish we could do it again!

Lynnette said...

Such cute cousins!

Lindsey said...

You guys have the PERFECT location. Living in Cali....awesome. Living within 7 hours of family...perfect! I am so jealous to see all of the cousin time that your kids get. You are all always doing such fun things and you are such a great photographer. I love Crew's little parade, that is so awesome. And that penguin game, didn't you have that too? I swear I remember playing something similar. I also love those bunk beds. Boys were born to sleep in bunk beds!