Christmas Festivities started off at Brad's moms house, we opened presents from his mom & dad, the grandkids got their presents and we ate yummy food...

... we then headed home, opened Christmas jammy's, .....

Read scriptures and set up the nativity...

started our new "gifts to the Savior" tradition.... {everyone wrote down what gifts we could give the Savior and we put them in a stocking}

Then we hung up our own stockings!!!

Set out Cookies & Milk for Santa, checked out where he was and headed off to bed!!

Brad & I had a fun evening, wrapping presents, eating yummy snacks, watched White Christmas and got ready for the morning... the other tradition we started... we blocked the view of the front room ... covered the door way with wrapping paper... (leaving a "parent flap"} so we could crawl through... I wanted to be on the other side when they busted through!!!

Christmas Morning

the kids got a present from Iverson {our elf} and a note reminding them to be good all year, and saying goodbye until next year!!!

"its a pillow, it's a pet!!, Its a Pillow-Pet!!!" they all got good ol' pillow pets!!

Santa Presents...

Max got NFL xbox game

Bron got all the Indiana Jones movies...

... Parker got Lego Harry Potter xbox game....

... and Reese got this little mirror.... she loves to LOOK in the mirror she thinks she's so cute!!!

Bron thoroughly enjoying his Christmas... laying on his new pillow and watching his new movie...

Reese also enjoying a Christmas present... her NEW chair!!!

Fushigi!!!! Sooooo were suckers for the advertised toys on all the cartoon commercials...it's fine.... although I must say, Fushigi "the magic gravity ball" is a  waist of $20 bucks, for a kid toy, if your a total nerd and have hours to spend watching the DVD to learn and practice all the 'tricks' it's great and pretty cool, but a 5 year old will not be able to do any of these FUSHIGI tricks... just so ya know... but they were excited they got it!!! Now I'll got flush $20 bucks down the toilet... {but I'm not bitter}

Christmas at Grammy & Pa-Pa's.... all the grandkids took turns opening their presents... we opened presents, we gave presents, we ate yummy food, etc. etc.. it was fantastic!

the kids, or us, opened something and it turned into a dog pile, wrapping paper crazy bash in 0 seconds flat... it was quite funny!!

We had a really great Holiday, lots of fun, layed back, lazy, relaxing day enjoying family and remembering the birth of our Savior!!! I LOVE Christmas!!!

Reese's Photo Shoot

Reese had her "6 month" technically 7 months pictures taken a couple weeks ago, they of course, turned out sooo cute!!! RRRerrr I just love my baby girl!!!!

adorable dress provided by my friend Holly!!! Thanks Holly,

she was obsessed with her cute bracelet,{that Holly made to match the dress perfectly... } we had to take it off cause she kept chewing on it... then she kept chewing on her wrist after we took it off, thinking it was till there, it was so funny!

I wanted Broke to get this shot, cause it shows how cute, and long her hair is getting!!! It's really starting to come in now, it's sooo stinken cute!!!

my adorable dimpled girl!!!

Thanks B, fantabulous once again!!!!

Girls Night!!!

Every year me seasters and me go out to dinner to Cheesecake Factory then shopping at Fashion Place Mall, It is a total highlight of my holidays!! We always have a blast!! I know Brooke didn't want me to post some of these pictures but I just couldn't resist!!! Ha ha, I'll keep it to my blog only B, no one reads it anyways... but seriously.... tooo funny!!!

Brooke got tired of walking around, the only place to plant it was this NEW RIDER LAWN MOWER!!!!

the first picture was {not good} so I took another one!! ... thats better :)

ha ha ha and another nice face by Brooke, {and me & kara??}} ha ha .. Kara was gonna wipe this on Brooke's face, Brooke spotted it out of the corner of her eye, just in time, for our waiter to snap the picture.... {she was smiling until she spotted the cream} I'm in mid laugh cause the waiter said "say facebook" ... it was funny....

after dinner, shopping, then back to Cheesecake for Cheesecake... Kalli and I were still in the mood to party!! So we headed to the 10:30 showing of {The Tourist} while the other party poopers went home... it was a good little flick! {how could it be too bad, with Johny Depp in it ;) }  FUN, FUN times!!!!

busy, busy, busy....

Go, Go, GO, {seems to be how it goes in December} I'm not the only one who's been busy, Bron & Reese have been up to a lot as well!!!

Reese is crawling around {real crawling on all fours!!!} ALL over the place, I turn my back for 2 seconds and she's gone!!

She likes to play with the tree, she will sit right by it and play with the needles, or lie underneath it!

... and she has waisted NO TIME, and has started pulling her self up on things, her favorite place is the fireplace because it's low enough for her,I had to lay a blanket on it, so we don't have any injuries...  {ready or not,... I better be, cause she's a moven}

these last 7 1/2 months have seriously flown by!!! It seems to have gone by faster with her, than any other child.... :(

 she is sooo cute, and lots of fun!!!

.... and our Bronny has been busy as welll, taking care of Reese, I walked into the room the other day to find these two just hangen out! watchen  the tube!

notice the blue skin, (he got busy and "tatooed himself" } I had my back turned and he was saying "tatoo" over and over again, to my surprise every time he said tatoo he was drawing blue marker all over himself... (from a blue rolly pen he got from a birthday party, thanks Meggie! ha ha ) he seems a bit old to be doing this, shouldn't he know better?

He's also been busy drawing pictures for everyone... and wrapping presents, he gets random things from around the house and wraps them up! And I just loved this picture he drew, I was very impressed, it's him, fishing!!! ha ha, sooo cute!

cute kiddo's, they keep us busy, and stay busy themselves!! sometimes keeping up with them  is overwhelming but they do cute stuff like this and your reminded why we do what we do!! It really is so fun to watch them grow and learn and do new things!, and at such a fun time of year!!!