XMAS TIME

It's been a tradition to have Santa come by last minute to check and see if he has the list right at our house. I think this Santa gets a little weirder every year as well.
The kids and all my nephews in their jammies waiting for Santa.

So cute.

Drew

Alexander

Olivia

My Nephew Jack

My Nephew Kyle

My Nephew Cody

My Nephew Luke

My Nephew Steven

Christmas Eve.

Grandpa and boys.
Christmas Morning!

Christmas is so much fun with these little ones!

Merry Christmas

Felize Navidad!

I have the best but hardest calling at church. Well maybe not the hardest, but four times a year it's pretty stressful for me. And considering I do it all by my lonesome. No Tyler, no committee, it's pretty hard. I throw parties! What I really love to do, but I really love it when it's maybe 20 people not 150 people! Anyways we had our Ward Christmas Dinner on Friday and it turned out awesome. Great food-Mexican, great dessert-churros, great drinks-Fanta, great music and the jolly old man stopped by.

What a surprise, my wuss child is scared.

Sooooooo glad it's over with and I can rest for at least 1 1/2 months.

Our Ethnic Background

Our conversation today:
Drew- You know Eric (Olivia's friend)? He's black.
Mom- No Drew, Eric is Mexican, not black.

Drew- No Eric is black.
Mom- No your Uncle Curtis is black. Eric is Mexican.
Drew- Oh yah Curtis is black.
Mom- And Drew you are white.
Drew- No Mom, I'm eggnog color!

Cutest little fart.

Utah Business Mag Dinner

I failed to take my camera but we had Tyler's work Christmas dinner last night at Carvers. Tyler is such a hard worker and I can tell his employees really like the new changes Tyler has tried to accomplish since taking over as Publisher. He really cares about his employees and the magazine. Way to go Tyler, 6 months in your new position and you are doing awesome! (Oh and that's not Tyler on the cover, just in case you were confused!)

There's been a murder at the North Pole!

Our neighbors hosted a Christmas murder mystery party! I can honestly say I have never been to a murder mystery anything so I didn't know what to expect. We were all assigned characters ahead of time. It was so much fun and all of our neighbors looked awesome in their costumes! I am not going to post pictures of everyone because it would take too long but trust me they were great!

I was Harpo (Oprah), talk of the North Pole.
Tyler was Icy, rising snowman rapper.

Ooh Icy love Oprah's junk!

Beanie Babies

Not a big fan of Beanie Babies but I LOVE a baby in a beanie!

Today it snowed, A LOT.
I can't do anything about it, so I embraced it!
We have the biggest blanket of snow right in our backyard and the kids were the first to ugly it!

Even Alex enjoyed it.
Even Mom enjoyed shoveling the driveway.
Any exercise is good exercise!