Christmas Fun 2008...

This year I had another great Christmas. Ryan and Alisa came out for Christmas and stayed a couple of days with us. Here are some pictures of Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. Ryan, Alisa and I all got new PJs on Christmas. I still love that tradition! Christmas morning was a lot of fun and Mom and Dad did manage to surprise me with the family gift...we got a Wii!!! I am SO excited and so far it has proven to provide hours of fun for us (we have even had Mom and Dad playing with us!)

Here are some random shots of the family on Christmas. We were able to have everyone there and it was a lot of fun. We were very grateful that the snow stayed away from our area until until Christmas night.

We all know how Christmas goes with the sweets and then the comes the sugar high. Well, Seth had just a little sugar high and was very entertaining with all of his energy. Here a few of the random shots that I took of him running around. After presents Seth sat down next to Tanner and he was asking Tanner about the car that he had. It was really cute.

Carter still loves "Cars" and he got a "Cars" vest for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa so here he is modeling it for me.

The Crooks gave Dad this moose that is dressed in camo and he sings "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." It is so funny, he even taps his feet while he sings.

Here is the birthday girl, Jodi!!! It was great to be able to spend time and celebrate her birthday with her. Happy Birthday!!!!

Snow, snow and more snow!!!!

Yesterday was a day of SNOW!!! It snowed most of the day and we had big flakes, it was SO pretty to watch but not fun to deal with. Here are a few pictures I took yesterday of the snow. This is what my car looked like after sitting at work all day, and then the next picture is the "after" picture because I have this thing about not driving with snow on my car, it annoys me! Then I have a picture of our deck and the snow piled on it. One of our measuring stick out on the deck, just about 9 inches. And then some of the front of the house. I love Christmas lights in snow I think they are SO pretty!!! Isn't Mom's Snowman on the house too cute? Today it only snowed for a little while, we need the break. But they are saying a POWERFUL storm is heading our way for Christmas day...so we are having a White Christmas! (Stay tuned for more snow pictures.)

December Birthdays...

Sunday we celebrated part of our December birthdays, Talmage and Dallin. (Jodi's we will celebrate on her actual birthday.)
It was fun to have almost everyone together just chilling and hanging out. I was kind of a slacker and only got a couple pictures. Happy Birthday boys!

Candyland...

It's tradition at work for my team to decorate for Christmas. This year we have a new set up so we did things a little different and just did one theme for the whole team. Welcome to "CSR Candyland!"

Just another picture of the start...

We decided that we needed to have candy in Candyland and we also have a Coco Latte machine for the visitors to enjoy as they journey through Candyland...yummy!!!

In front of my desk we did a Ginger Bread House. Once again, the easiest way to show all the pictures is in a collage. I think it turned out really cute.

Then as you journey on down the row you will run into Hot Chocolate Falls.

Then on to Peppermint Stick Forest...

Then we have a Christmas tree...

And you end up at Santa's Village.
It was fun to make and have something different up for a little while. It brings a festive feeling to work.

Thanksgiving 2008

Last week we had a great Thanksgiving at Mom and Dad's house. With Thanksgiving being so late this year Mom already had her Christmas decorations up. It was fun to have some fall decorations and Christmas up at the same time. Here are the adult tables all decorated so pretty.

Janna made the name tags, aren't they SO cute?

I think that Seth is really excited about Thanksgiving dinner, don't you? But he at least got to sit at one of the adult tables.

Here is the "kid" table...Abby, Sydney, Brenna, Peyton, Dallin, Carter and Bailey.

This was the adult table 2...Matthew, Sandie, Michelle, David, Jason and MIA are Claire and Janna. (It was Claire's nap time, need I say more?)

Adult table 1...Dad, Amy, Seth, Dave, Me, Debra, Aunt Diane and Mom was taking the picture. It was a great meal and fun to visit with all the family.

Here are a few random pictures from the day. I had to take a picture of Seth eating the whip cream with a tool, it just made me laugh. Jodi's family came out later in the day, and it was fun to visit with them for a little while. Then we have David's family, the looking of the ads to see where everyone is going for Black Friday, Sandie and I, Seth and I, Mom and Dad, Dallin, McKay and Talmage. We missed Ryan and Alisa who were with Alisa's parents. Thanks everyone for the yummy food and great company!