Christmas Visitors

We got such a treat this year on Christmas night. Nick and Rebecca made their way through Washington and Idaho and were kind enough to go a few hours out of their way on the way back to Arizona to stop in at our house!! They showed up at 7 p.m. Christmas night. We visited for awhile and the next day we all went to Alvin and the Chipmunks together. That night Trent and Nick played X-Box and Rebecca and I stayed up until 3 a.m. chatting. Such a nice treat because she usually heads for bed around 10 p.m. When she went to bed she said, "we set a new record!" I have said it before and will say it again, we are so blessed to have our family be our best friends. My sister-in-laws are included in my large circle of my "best friends" and I love being around each and every one of them. Aren't Rebecca and her girls beauties? And, I am very jealous, no matter when I take family pictures of them they always get everyone looking straight at the camera!! What???

Cael and Cason-3 months apart

Happy New Year 2010

We stayed home for New Year's this year, just the way we like it. There was a big party raging that we were invited to, but we just felt like being homebodies.
We had our friends Jeremy and Sandy over who have 4 boys. We were lucky enough to be invited to their house for Christmas Eve dinner also. We love visiting with them and our boys enjoy playing with their boys so much! We learned peaknuckle, which was difficult for me, but finally in the end I started getting it. We were playing cards and we started hearing firecrackers. I said, "somebodies a little early..." and then checked the clock and it was 12:03 a.m. We are terrible hosts. We didn't even do a toast. But, like I said it was just the way we liked it, quiet, fun and good company! Happy New Year!!

Christmas 2009

Tyler came home from school with this bag of "reindeer food." He just had to dump it all over the yard on Christmas Eve so that the reindeers could find our house with all the glitter.

Cookies for Santa

Letter to Santa:

Dear Santa, Thank you for all the wonderful presents you give peaple. Merry Christmas Santa. Your Friend, Tyler

Santa was here!

Handy Manny for Nate

Star Wars Droid Tank for Tyler

Fisher Price for Cael

More Star Wars

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The BIG ONE-WII

Nate loves to play house where he is the Dad and Trent is the kid. He always asks him what he wants for dinner and brings an empty handful of pretend food. We thought he could serve his "kid" this way.

The shirt, tie and cuff links from Dad. Trent gets this from his Dad every year and LOVES it.

My beautiful sweater from Shelly. This is my new favorite shirt!

A big box of PAMPERED CHEF from my parents. Love it!

I bought my Christmas present in the middle of December because it was the last one in the store. An awesome wool black coat at Kohl's. Yes, I bought my own present. It was a lot of work and I know Trent wouldn't have done it. It was a $180 coat, down to $89.00. The night it was that price it was the last one. I hid it in a rack of clothes because I knew they were having Power Hours the next day. Power Hours it was $71.00 and I had 15% off so it was $64.00. Now you see why I had to buy it :) So I told Trent that was my Christmas and that was all I wanted. He was sweet enough to surprise me with this great CHI straight iron. What a difference it makes from what I was using!
Cael loves this little ball popper thing SO much. If you have a little one around his age they would LOVE it! It was so worth going to Albertsons at 11:30 p.m. Christmas Eve for those darn D batteries that it needed!

Cael with Alvin and the Chipmunks. My parents sent these obnoxious little creatures. They sing 2 songs and the boys just keep pressing play over and over and over and over...

Hansen Family Photos 2009

Our friend Leanne of Price Family Photography took our family photos this year. I am sure you will agree she did a fantastic job with what she had to work with! I have found with 3 boys it is difficult to get everyone looking and smiling at the same time!