Christmas Day 2011

I Love Lucy hat (from Grandma)
another pig for the collection (mom and dad)

Sterling with my warm fuzzy blanket.  Thief.
Happy Ann.

Grandma Zee in her scarf and hat.
just glad she dodged the reindeer last night.
it was close.

Shea giving Kamo his dog treats that she made.
happy puppy.

Lance Armstrong Stationary Bike.
Greg the Egg rocks!!

Lucy.

Kayla and Tyson's first Christmas!!!!

Christmas Eve

You would think doing the same thing year after year would get boring.

NOT!

We LOVE our traditions....

The one I never get a picture of (maybe I will remember next year) is also our favorite.  At the end of the evening, we turn give everyone a candle and turn off all the lights.  Robert lights his candle and while talking about the light of Christ everyone's candle is lit to brighten the room.  At the end we sing Silent Night.   This year, Kayla and Tyson spent Christmas Eve with his family and they shared this tradition.

Food.
Of course.
Braden, Shea and Tanner Remsberg

Decorations.

The Present Game
Shea won - again!!

Song trying to win the Present Game

Jazz Boy

Piano Girl

Family Trio
Ding.  Fries are done.

Eating Dessert.

The Nativity.
yes - baby Jesus is a puppy.
I really need a grandbaby!

Angel Sophia

Grandma the Shepherd

Christmas Puppy

Temple Square for Christmas

On Thursday, we went up to SLC to pick up Sterling and Ann.  But we decided not to pick them up on time.  Instead we drove round and round the block of the Marriott hotel.  It just didn't happen to be the Marriott hotel where they were waiting for us.  

It was fun.

Than we had dinner at an Italian restaurant. (along with a few Koreans.  Every Italian dinner needs a few Koreans for fun)

Then we headed to downtown SLC where at least 100,000 of my bestest friends were also gathered.

And it was cold.  Very, very cold.   But it was also very beautiful and amazing.

Merry Christmas!

My Christmas Present

I gave Robert a not-so-subtle hint on this post about this jewelry that is made in Haiti out of cereal boxes.  And I LOVE THEM!!  Kayla gave me the sweater and they are a perfect match.  Lucky me!

lotsa, lotsa Christmas pictures!!

Our family tradition is to celebrate big on Christmas Eve... thus the large amount of pictures from last night and very few from today.  It might also be because we are still in our pj's at 6 pm and I never even bothered to comb my hair.   Just maybe.

two redheads
and one happy mama

my beautiful babies

we miss Andrew!!

Knowles Family
We always have friends over for dinner and to play games

Elder Baker and Elder King

Adams Family
Piper is the cutest thing.... I think I need to adopt her.

The present game

Kayla not winning
(shea ended up winning)



Singing Christmas carols



The boys.

Christmas morning!!!!



Hello World!



Shea and Braden with their Zhu Zhu pets
this was the first year that my kids didn't want any toys.
That just wasn't right so I got them all fake rodents.
made sense in my tiny brain.

We spent today playing Funglish, Settlers of Catan (I only lost by ONE point to the evil professor!!) and trying out the pogo stick.  Eating leftovers and hot chocolate and having a fabulous family time.

Christmas Lights!!

Everyone came.... didn't you know that
smelly dogs LOVE Christmas lights



Nichols Hills is absolutely beautiful with all the homes lit up.
my camera doesn't really show the lights very well....
but we were amazed!



My family!!!
and yes... it was COLD!

makes me wonder what their electric bill is for December

so beautiful!
the lights and the girl

Chesapeake Energy has the MOST AMAZING
lights around their business complex.

So handsome.
the hubby.
not little Satan.

This was right before Braden jumped back into the car.
only problem was that it wasn't our car.
Pretty sure he scared Christmas right out of that little old lady in the front seat.