Temple Square

Saturday morning we left early so we could spend a little time at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. It was a beautiful morning!!

In the tabernacle....
Shea trying to be happy....

We took a photo of a Korean Book of Mormon

for Song and Sophia

I love this wall....

This is a beautiful place.....

and I'm so glad we took the time to visit.

Sledding

I love to sled and Logan Canyon has the absolute best sledding in the world at a place called "the sinks".

Shea, Christa, Bryce and Braden

the (world's best) moms...

Robert getting ready to give a little push...

Christa and Shea goin' down!

Bryce and Braden

Dad & Shea

Shea trying to see out of her hat...

LOVE this photo!

Tammy screaming down the hill...

Tammy dead at the bottom....

Playing games and Swimming

We spent three days up at Bear Lake with the Law's....



playing games.
eating.
swimming.
sledding.
getting sick.

the boys.

trying to kill each other.

it didn't work.
the hot tub.

the kids.

Shea, Christa, Braden, Tanner & Bryce

Best New Year's..... Ever.

Shea got the flu on Tuesday.
Robert and I woke up Thursday (New Year's Eve) with the bug.
A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 24 hours.

Happy New Year to us.
Thanks to Tammy for taking care of us while we were sick :)

Shea and Fozzy.... sick together like best friends should be.

From here to there and then back to here again.....

We left Christmas day right after talking with Kayla (yay!!) to drive to Utah for a week. I've got lots of photo's to share....



Shea took a few pictures out the window as we were leaving Lubbock. Lubbock is home, but the scenery leaves a little to be desired :)

We spent a few days in Smithfield and then drove up to Bear Lake.... I was praying to get snowed in, but as you can see from the second photo I was sadly disappointed!

Then back to Lubbock! 17 hours each way, but after doing it in one shot this summer (which was TORTURE) we stayed half-way in New Mexico each way.

Home-Sweet-Home. Sometimes it does seem like the best part of going away is coming home.

Merry Christmas!!

7:00.
Not bad.
We've had earlier.

Now we are waiting for Kayla to call!!!!!

Then it's two days of driving.

So we can freeze.

Fun!

Merry Christmas.

Christmas Eve

Nothing like starting Christmas eve
with a Boogy-Woogy Snow monster!!

On to sweeter things....
Andrew and Lexus

The rest of us...

The Oler's...

The Griesdorn's...

The Hogan's....

The Nativity...

Elder Bawden

Saying I love you to his family -I emailed these to their parents back home

Elder Root...

Snowball fight!

A Christmas Miracle!

About 4 a.m. I woke up wondering why our bedroom was so bright..... thinking someone had left outside lights on I went to the back door to check. It had snowed about 4 inches!!

The kids are thrilled to have snow on Christmas eve. Good thing we had all the snow stuff out for our trip to Utah tomorrow! Here are a few shots of our backyard.

Jack is in serious dog-heaven!

Don't they look soooo happy??

and it was only 7:30 a.m.!

It's not too often you get icicles in Texas :)

Action shot of Shea and Jack

Music....

Here is a bit of Christmas music for you....