Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Love,

Dylan, Carson,

Shawn, and Hailee

Here is our Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we went to my Grandmas house in Provo.

Now you have to understand that my Mom's siblings have not all been together for at least 4 years.

So on that note; This thanksgiving was a very loud, exciting, crazy, laughing so hard you cry, and a walk down memory lane one.

I remember as a little girl the same thing would happen when they all got together.

There was only three of my cousin not there and my little brother Kevin.

(The total number at dinner was 31 family members and 7 dogs. We were also missing 7 dogs!! WOW what a fam.)

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We thought it would be funny to have a life size Kevin made up.

We found out if we did the body of Kevin it would be $100 but if we use a famous persons body it was $30.

So yes that is Kevin's head and neck but President George Bush's body.

(good job dad on cutting Kevin's head and neck out to fit on the body)

I decided I need to take a picture of my Mom's family.

I call everyone in to get their pictures done. Right this should be easy, no they were terrible, it was like trying to get 12 three year old's to hold still.

So this is the best picture I got of them.

Back row: Gary, Cindy, Keith, Chris, Christopher, Ann, and Brad.

Front row: Grandma Sandy, Grandpa Les, Jan, Jeff, and Tammy

The names in bold are my Grandma's Children.

Here is one of all my cousin. They were much easier to get their picture and there was almost double of us. My brother Justin and Me are the only ones married and I am the only one with kids. That is until June.

My brother and his wife Emily are having TWINS!!!!!!

I had a great Thanksgiving!

How was your Thanksgiving?

Better late then never

Carson

Shawn Dylan
Despite the rain on Halloween it turned out to be a really great night. The boys and their cousin made it back to the house with their bags full of yummy treats.

Easter

Well the Easter bunny made it to our house.

Leaving behind lots of candy, new books, shirts, and kites. Shawn was really funny this year. He was with my mom at the store and this is how the conversation went.

Shawn: Grandma I want some candy

Grandma: The Easter bunny is going to bring you some candy in a couple days

Shawn had a very serious look on his face. You could tell he was thinking of something.

Shawn: but bunny's can't walk.

When my mom told my that I was laughing so hard.

Then after that Shawn would tell me that the rabbit is bring him candy

Carson was really excited for Easter. This year he wanted the Easter bunny to hide the eggs inside the house. As a kid I hated when we had to do Easter inside but Carson wanted it. I think he was very happy

Dylan got the book Lightning Thief. He was really happy about that. His friends told him that it was a good book. He also wanted Easter inside. He said it was because they was more places to hide the eggs.

Later that morning we went with my parents to Skull Valley. We rode their horse, shot guns, had a picnic, flew kites, and just had a hole lot of fun.

My parents also did a little Easter egg hunt out there for them.

Once again lots of candy!

I don't know who had more fun with the kites my boys or my brothers.

*On just a little side note Kevin leaves for England exactly one month from today :)

Just so everyone knows his farewell is on April 25th.

5,4,3,2,1 Happy New Year!

So here's how our New Year's night went.....

We went to Mark and Monica's house and had really good food and Live entertainment.

We thought it would be fun to have two Wii' s going;

the biggest hit was Band Hero.

The Go-Go Girls

Grandma and the Tots!

So sweet!

The Rolling Family

Carson and the boys

and The Deis Brother's!

(Watch out Jonas Brother's)

The whole family was able to have fun playing. I might not be the best guitarist, but I have to say everyone else did really good.

Maybe we should start up a real band! LOL;)

Band Hero is such a fun game!

I am so glad that my parents bought it for us for Christmas!

Christmas time!

Christmas time is so much fun! We are so blessed to live by all our family and friends. That makes the holidays so much better. We were able so many Christmas activities.

Along with Dylan's Birthday parties. Yes I said parties, 4 if you are counting. I am so glad to only live a few minutes away from the temple. The temple square light are so beautiful. I just wouldn't recommend go the week of Christmas. It was crazy busy. But we were able to go on a tour of the Conference Center. That place is amazing. We have never been in there before.

Wow gorgeous.
Along with the lights, birthday parties, Christmas's parties, there is making ginger bread houses. Oh what fun. I am just glad the mess was at my father in laws house. He had all of us come over. That's 5 adults, 8 grand kids (7 of them boys.) Like I said glad it wasn't at my house.
On Christmas eve it's waiting for Santa to come. And of course lot of food. We went to Blair's grandparents in Plain City for dinner. Then home to watch the Santa tracker. We saw Santa in England than make his way to the USA. As soon as he came in the US, I told the boys it was time for bed. Santa was only in each state for 2 minute's, so he was making really good time;)
Before the Boys woke-up!

After the boys woke-up.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Halloween

Halloween is such a fun holiday.

I just can’t believe it is already over and now we are on to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Which are really fun Holidays too but man what happened to the year!

The boys had so much fun carving their pumpkins. The only part I really had to help with was getting the guts out and helping then think of a face to carve. I attacked the Dylan and Carson with Halloween paint. Don't they look good? Good thing they have a good sense of humor!

For Halloween, the boy’s cousins come over and go trick or treating with them. I stay at home handing out the candy and making nice warm soup for when they come in. This has been a really fun tradition we started. I hope we do it every year.

Dylan as a gross, and scary zombie. He was so scary that he made a couple of his cousins cry. Little Shawn, as a cute but, scary skeleton. Shawn didn’t want his make-up done. Maybe he was nervous about how I did the boys make up earlier.Carson wanted to be the grim ripper. I think I did a good job on the makeup. He was happy.

The boys had a really good Halloween. I can't believe how much candy they got.