Christmas in Utah

 

This year we decided that we really wanted to spend Christmas with our extended family.  It had been 4 years since we have spent Christmas with extended family.

It was a TON of work to make it happen, but worth every minute.  The kids especially had a great time with Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents, and Cousins.

 

 Uncle Dylan with Mason and Keaton

 

 

 Christmas morning at Grandma's,

 before the present opening madness began.

 

 

 Parker and Dylan T.

 

 

 Grandma's  house after the present opening madness

 

 

 Myia and Aunt Amber

 

 

 Elle and uncle Mike

 

 

 Elle LOVES Frank

 

 

 Elle LOVES Sadie...

Elle loves all dogs

 

 

 Kate and Elle singing Christmas karaoke

 

 

 Mom and me looking at family pictures

 

 

 Parker and Kenny

 

 

 Elle and Keaton

 

 

 We went ice skating and had a BLAST

Kate ended up not using the walker thing. And Elle ended up using one.  Elle loved it and skated around until we had to leave.  She was super fast, and loved it.  It was uncharacteristic of her...so fun to watch.

 

 

Amber and Jordan

I think this was the only time Kate wasn't making Uncle Jordan skate with her.

 

 

Elle painted Uncle Jordans toenails

while He, Brittney, Amber, Myia and I played a card game



Halloween

 Elle was Snow White

 

 Kate was a butterfly

 

 

 Lauren was a peacock

 

 

 Parker was a ninja

 

 

 Lauren and her friend Jo made these cute skeletons that I found on Pinterest

 

 

 

 Kate was grossed out

 

 

 

 

 Lantern craft that the kids made

Kate's, Parker's, Lauren's, Elle's

 

 

 

 

Really???  Your head is in a pumpkin???  Must have been your dads idea... 



Spending Time With the Lee's

 We went to Scheels and rode the ferris wheel. It was really fun.

Nothing is better than playing with fire and getting tackled on the trampoline. :)

Pinata With the Lee's

Before hitting the Spongebob pinata, the kids had to spin around with their head on the bat.

 Nothing better than pockets stuffed with candy.

 Gotta love Mason.

(sorry if anything is spelled wrong)



Fun With the Smith's

 After Brandon's baptism, there was a party afterwards. This is the boys trying to catch helicopters in their mouths. This soon ended when we figured out that there were bugs being knocked out of the tree afterwards.

 

Fun with paint-ball guns.

Utah half marathon

We woke up bright and early (very early, thanks Jordan and Amber for a ride) to get to SLC for the first ever half marathon with my FAMILY!!!!

 

It was a really hard race because there were about 5 miles in the race that were straight up literally.

But we had a great time running together.  Britt and I ran a lot together and had a blast!!