A different New Year's Eve

This year for New Year's Eve we stayed home because Abby was running a fever. Dan went and rented Horton Hear's a Who. We had finger foods and played the Wii. We let the kids stay up as late as they wanted. At about 11:30pm Parker asked if he could go to bed and Bryson fell asleep at 11:45pm. Britton stayed up until the New Year and wasn't ready to go to bed after that. It was a quite night at home, but it sure was fun.

Dinner at Grandpa and Grandma Mack's

We got together and had dinner and exchanged gifts. The kids had fun playing upstairs and were all very happy with all their gifts.

Look at mom she is so fun to buy for because she is always so happy with whatever she gets.

Lunchtime with Grandpa and Grandma Gardner!!!

We went to Grandpa and Grandma Gardner's for lunch and had clam chowder and ham sandwiches. The kids got to see the cousins and visit the horse.
Sysco is doing great.

Christmas Morning!

Christmas morning started a little late this year. Parker and Abby didn't wake up until 8:30, Britton and Bryson were so excited I thought that they would explode. Once they finally woke up we had such a great day.
Bryson opening his pirate treasurer chest.

Parker opening whack-a-mole.

Abby opening a princess phone.

Britton so excited about everything he opened.

All the presents were opened and then we found three more from Santa. Santa brought the family the Wii, controllers, and Mario Party. The kids were so excited. Thanks Santa you made the kids have the best Christmas ever.

You all are so cute.

Abby

Parker

Bryson

Britton

Christmas morning before all the kids woke up.

Christmas 2008 was one of the best Christmas's we have ever had. We had such a great month. We started our christmas countdown and read our scripture, story and song each night. We went to the lights at the Temple, the park, Syracuse, and Thanksgiving Point. We had lots of different parties for work and family. We had baking day, craft time and game day. We had a month of miracles that have touched my life forever. Thanks to everyone for helped make our christmas season so absolutely perfect.

Christmas Eve!!!

Christmas Eve was at The Sandberg's house this year and we had such a wonderful time. We had such a nice dinner. We enjoyed singing carols, having Grandpa read Twas the Night Before Christmas, watching the kids act out the nativity and just enjoying each others company.
Enjoying dinner.

Pajama night

Sandberg Family

The McCormack Family

Mom and Dad McCormack

Grandpa and Grandma Anderson

Daddy with his sweet angel

Grandpa, Grandma and Britton all reading Twas the Night Before Chirstmas.

The kids all dressed up as the nativity

Fondue Night!!

This year we decided to have a fun new night. We called it game night. We had fondue for dinner and had lots of different finger foods. Then we started with Parker and everyone got to pick a game to play. We had such a fun night. We played 123 Diego, Go Fish, Monopoly, Operation and War. Then we read the Three Trees and watched the Joy to the World dvd.

The boys all ready for the movie.

This has been such a memorable christmas season.

Bryson's preschool christmas program

Bryson did such a great job. His program was so much fun to watch. He sang and danced all around. Miss Angela works really hard to make everything so special. We are so proud of Bryson and all that he has learned this year. Thanks to Grandpa and Grandma Mack, Amy, Ethan, Sarah, Cassie, Carter, Ellie and Hallie for coming and making his day so special.

Gardner Family Party

Tonight was the Gardner Family Party. Britton and I couldn't go because Britton had the stomach flu. So we stayed home and played games and watched Christmas movies. Dan took Bryson, Parker and Abby to the party and had a great time. They exchanged gifts and had a lot of different kinds of food. We are so blessed to live so close to so much family.

The Laundry Helper

Abby loves to help sort the laundry. This time I think that she might have gone a little to far.

Anderson Family Christmas Party 2008!

Our yearly family Christmas party. We were very sad this year because the Anderson family was unable to come. We missed them. We had a nice time with all the cousins. We had the traditional ham, potatoes, green bean casserole and salads. We sand christmas carols, read a few stories and the Bull family brought the bells. The bells are always so fun to play and listen to. Thanks to everyone for the great time.
Grandpa and Grandma Anderson

Starting the program

Britton with Grandpa and Grandma Mack.

SnOw FuN!!!

The snow has arrived and the kids were so excited to go out and play.

Abby loves the snow so much. She loves to eat it. She doesn't like to keep her gloves on and that is a difficult situation, but she'll learn.

Parker also loves the snow. He likes to have snowball fights and make snow angels.

Bryson enjoys the snow for about 10 minutes, then is ready to come in and have hot cocoa.

Britton loves, loves, loves the snow and would stay out all day.

Ward Christmas Party!!!

Our ward Christmas party is always so much fun. We always have such a great turn out and get to visit and have a good time. The ward served us breakfast and we sang a few songs and then we have a special visitor, Santa Claus. He brings all the kids an orange and a candy cane. We have such a great ward.
Britton - 7 yrs. old

Bryson - 5 yrs. old

Parker - 3 yrs. old

Abby wouldn't have anything to do with Santa.

Police kid party!!

They had a kid Christmas party at Classic Skating. All the kids had so much fun. They can skate or scooter on the skating rink. Or they can play on the blow up toys. This year they could even play lazer tag. Santa comes for a visit and brings each kid a present and a bag of goodies.

Abby didn't like Santa but she wanted a candy cane, and her present so she made the effort.

Bryson was very happy to sit with Santa.

Britton and Parker's pictures didn't turn out. They both were excited to visit with Santa. They all had a great time playing in the playland.

We went to Layton Park to see the lights. The kids love to walk the lights. We all bundled up so good that not one of us got cold. The favorites were the lion, dinosaurs, and the bears. We went with Grandpa and Grandma McCormack, The Parkins, and the Sandberg's.

Papa and Mama.

All the kids

All bundled up. I think that each person had three layers on.

Festival of the Trees is always such a fun night. I know that I look forward to it more than anyone in my family but it just starts the Christmas season for me. We always look for the Jazz Tree and get ideas for gingerbread houses. This Grinch Tree was one of the kids favorites.

We all loved this gingerbread house. I can't believe how creative people are.

I love gingerbread stuff so this was one of my favorite trees.

Thanks for the fun night.

Carter and Macy's birthday parties!!!

Carter and Macy celebrated their birthdays on Friday night. We all got In-N-Out and had a Super Star Party. They played guess that movie and the kids acted it out. They had so much fun. Cassie and Lisa did a great job making such a fun night.

Thanksgiving Day!!!

Tanksgiving day. The men all played football early in the morning in the rain and mud. Britton got to go this year and he was so excited. He had a blast. The entire family was at Julie's this year. Everyone stayed at Julie's except for Brian and Hillary. Dad, Mom, Julie, David, Kevin, Tyler, Kyle, Trevor, Megan, Michael, Lisa, Macy, Jake, Gavin, Amy, Matt, Ethan, Sarah, Cassie, Ben, Carter, Hallie, Ellie, Dan, me, Britton, Bryson, Parker, and Abby. That is 29 people all in one house. Crazy you might say but it was so fun. The kids all got along well. We played games every night and laughed until we cried.
Parker

Britton and Megan

Bryson

Abby

All the family

And more family.