Christmas

This Christmas we were able to take our whole family and have Christmas with our cousins and families in Utah. We had so much fun and two solid weeks on fun and play with everyone. We wanted our kids to play with all thier cousins that we so rarely get to see and miss so much. Everyone was so kind and welcoming and always available. We thank everyone for thier hospitality and availabilty to play so much while we were there. Our children have some wonderful memories that will tide us over until we are together again. We love and miss you all already!!

Christmas 2007

The one requirement we had while in Utah was to see lots and lots of our cousins. With all the fun activities that were planned, we definately got to see our fun cousins and had such a good time. Thank you everyone for always playing with us!

Two beautiful girls that became fast friends on our trip.

Izabellas favorite thing of the whole trip was Brooksy, Nanas dog. She was such a patient, sweet thing with Izabella. She let Izabella hug and love her all the time. She even let Bella feed her treats and shared them with Izabella without ever complaining. We miss you Brooksy

Something that seems to becoming a tradition is to dye our hair everytime we go to Utah. These boys love doing it and have so much fun together in the blonde club. They were so pleased with themselves and Aunt Renee does such a great job. Thanks Aunt Renee!!!

One unexpected treat we got this Christmas was to get to see our cousin Austin. He was able to come visit us the night before we left and it was such a Christmas surprize. We love you Austin and miss you Andrew. Cousins are the best!!!

Look at these cute boys!! Jake just loves his cousin Austin. They don't get to see eachother very often becuase Austin lives in Texas, so this was such a treat!!

We had a surprise visitor for Christmas Eve, but Izabella wasn't so sure about him.

Much to mom and dad's chagrin, Duncan continued to ask Santa to bring him a rabbit for Christmas even though mom kept wxplaining there was no way to get the rabbit home from Utah if Santa brought it for Christmas.

We had such a fun Christmas Eve party together with our Selph cousins. We took the kids over to a local chruch house and played games and had a pinata and had all sorts of good times together. Thanks to Uncle E and Aunt Melissa for putting together the pinata for us, the kids just loved it!!

Three fat, cute , dirty girls.

These are the two cousins that were both born within a few weeks of Izabella. She doesn't get to see them very often and it is hard to get a picture with all 3 in the same frame. They are busy girls usually running in 3 different directions. We had to contain them in the bathtub to get all 3 in a picture together.

Bella loves to read!!! She is never happier than when someone is reading a story to her, especially if it is a Dora the Explorer story.

Of course it would feel like Christmas without the chaos of a cousins nativity.Lots of work but very fun and worth the work to remember the real reason for the season.

Joseph and Mary thought they were pretty cool with Jesus the teddybear.

Izabella was an angel and thought she was pretty cool.

The Gingerbread decorating contest was fierce competition. But there were lots of winners, expecially in the 70's style,flat roofed with the Grinch on the rooftop category.

Getting ready to trim the tree with Nana!!

Dress-up is always #1 fun at Nanas house.

Nana and Izabella had a lot of fun together. They were fast friends and mom got a few days out to play with the older kids. Thanks Nana!!