Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Our lovely vacation in Utah has come to an end. We had so much fun spending time with our families.
We went to the Up house, made rock album covers, played a lot of board games, went and saw 4 movies in the theater (I would have to say Mission Impossible was my favorite). We ate at Cafe Rio 4 times, shopped til we dropped ate lots and lots of junk food, watched the first and only season of the T.V. show Outsourced(very funny show) and did I metion we played a lot of board games?

This year we spent Christmas Eve with Conrads family. We had a big tastey dinner then we all shared our testimonies. After that the grandchildren acted out the story of the birth of Christ while it was read from the Bible.

Violet and Preston as Joseph and Mary

All the cousins

We spent Christmas day with my family. We woke up early opened our presents and went to church. It was a nice relaxing day. We watched movies and played games and lounged around in our pajamas.

Off to Church.

Amber and Chloe. Chloe was a big hit with my mom and sisters.

My mom LOVED Chloe. Ha ha this picture makes me laugh.

Best friends!

We spent New Years Eve with Conrad's family. Every year they have a big party with lots of yummy food and fun games. Around 10:00 we had fake New Years for the little kids and we did the count down with them and blew the horns for about 10 minutes. By the end my ears were ringing ha. After the kids went to bed we palyed games and rock band and brought in the new year with Ryan Secrest and Dick Clark.

The kids blowing their horns in Conrads face.

Every year Conrad gets two horns and blows as hard as he can. It sounds like a dying duck it is so funny and yet annoying at the same time.

Happy New Year!!!

It was a fun vacation but now it is back to reality. I will finally start my new job next week which I am both excited and terrified about. Conrad doesn't start school until the 30th the lucky duck. I am slighlty jealous okay maybe really jealous.
I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.