Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas on the 30th in our home, we got back from our trip to Utah late on the 29th.


Checking out the baby toy!

Shan, Haylee & Maycee, Mary & Dad, me

Us again with Mom


Lucy and Logan playing in the snow! Logan will probably shoot me one day for having him wear a purple coat!

The older boys setting up some tanks!

Tasting all the candy canes.

Lucy and Shan's cute twins!

Playing with cousins from ID, we only got to see 1 of Joe's siblings.

Me and Paula at dinner!

Shawnette and Kristy

Matt & Lori

Keith, Angie, Heather, Stacie, Jon

Lucy & Logan

Spenc and Joe putting together his K'nex ride

Painter posterity, Gma made them all hats. Trevor, Logan, Brady (I think--Luke was asleep?), Jace, Maycee, Brigham, Spencer, Taylor, Timarie, Mary, Lucy

Lucy liking her tupperware.

more presents at Gma Great's (Painter)

Christmas day at Gma and Gpa's

So many kids--it was fun!

Christmas morning before everyone else got there.

The boys checking out a car.

The babies on Christmas Eve.

All my parents grandkids.

Christmas Eve chaos!

Getting to see our new Maycee for the first time!

Turkey shoot on Christmas Eve. Spence and Gpa

Plane ride to UT!

We almost took the whole row!

One more Christmas dress that I didn't get on Lucy in time.
I still have more pics--AHHH! We had so much fun on our trip. We didn't get to see everyone but we had a great time with the ones we did. Thanks so much Mom and Dad and all. My sister's little boy got so sick the day after Christmas so we are sad about that, he is in the hospital now so hopefully he gets better soon. We had a crazy week but feel so blessed. One of our dear neighbors passed away while we were there, I was thankful to be able to go to her viewing and see her family. (Charlene Della Lucia) She will be missed. So much to write I will have to do another post!

Zoo

Lucy was hilarious, she wanted a pic with each kangaroo, her eyes were shut in each one. :)

They had a cute farm section.

This rhino was so funny he was beating that tub up!

The flamingo's were so fun to see, they look so fake when they aren't moving.

We had a really fun day, the weather was perfect. We didn't tell the boys, we will have to take them next time.

Christmas Parade!

More holiday dresses!

This is how our neighborhood celebrates X-mas, we had a parade, face painting, limbo, candy walk, cookie decorating, food and a fire engine. It was lots of fun and really nice weather!

Instead of Gingerbread houses this year I found a house cookie cutter, they like sugar cookies more than gingerbread so .... and it was easier!


Brigham is the artist, his looked really good!
What a fun time of year, we love having all the parties and get togethers. We love hearing from lots of family and friends. We are so excited for Christmas! We are so thankful for Our Savior Jesus Christ and his birth. We also got to go to Waxahachie to Return to Bethlehem. It is this awesome thing their whole town puts on. They set up a whole park to look like Bethlehem and they have real camels and sheep, goats, donkeys, and people everywhere in costumes staying in character the whole time. It was really fun for our boys especially and they got a better idea of what it may have been like when Jesus was born.

Fun Day!

Mary's 1st glimpse of Santa! I didn't put her on his lap since I was alone with the kids, but she'll have several more opp's this week.

Lucy didn't cry! Yeah! This was all in a train, I think we got to go through 3 or 4 cars. It was so awesome. Spencer said, "it was more than fun!" Our neighbor works for the railroad and he told us to go early. It only comes to Wylie about every 5 years. It worked out great, we didn't wait long and it was still warm while we were in line. When we left it was a different story.

Each car was decorated different, there were awesome electric train villages in two of them. Then they gave us treat bags at the end with all sorts of fun stuff. The best part was that it was free. Joe had to work, we missed him, but we still had a good time.

Lucy helped me make bread today, she did way better than usual, she actually got most of the flour in the bowl!

This cracked me up today, she was so tired but didn't want to lay down, so I let her watch us make bread, she sat there like this for probably 15 min. LOL

Here are their cute Christmas clothes, Thanks Mom! I wasn't lucky enough to get a good pic this time. :)

Crawling!

We had a fun weekend putting up Christmas and getting better from our colds and ear infection. Joe is the only one without a cold so on Saturday he did a half marathon on the eliptical sp? in an hour and 51 minutes! Good job babe! He has lost 30 lbs. since we moved here in the summer. Mary is crawling and so fun.