Yuck!!!

I keep hearing about the horrible inversion on the news and that Salt Lake was named as the worst air quality in the country right now. However, when I go outside I see nothing but beautiful blue skies. I had to take a closer look to see what the rest of the valley was experiencing. Look at this horrible inversion that has just settled on the east mountains!

Emma's Winter Program

Christmas!!

Christmas was so much fun this year!

This was the first year that Olivia really understood the excitement of opening presents. What she didn't understand was the concept of opening ALL of the presents before playing with each one. After every present she would say "I wanna play". I would try to explain that she could open another present, but she kept insisting that she played with every present before opening another one. It was really annoying, but funny at the same time.

Then we headed over to Jeremy's Grandparent's house. It's always nice to go there and just hang out for the day.

Christmas Eve

After my family left, we began our Christmas Eve traditions.

First, the kids open up their new pajamas.

The girls still get really excited about new jammies.

Landon...Not so much


Then I read "The Night Before Christmas"




This year Landon kept asking me if Santa was real and told me that kids in his class don't think he exists. Ironically, I caught a picture of Santa in our living room, which was apparently more than enough proof that he does in fact exist. In Landon's exact words, "Wow, I can't believe he's real, it's not like you can just make up a picture like that!".

Christmas Party #2

We always spend Christmas Eve with my side of the family. This year, my parents drove up with my Aunt Nancy, and we also had a few siblings and nephews and nieces. It was really nice to have everyone over and just hang out. We played ping-pong, Wii, and of course exchanged presents.

Mike's Boys. Scott, Jacob & Kurtis

Gary's daughter Taylor.


Hunter, Harrison, Livi & Landon


Mom & Nancy


Chloe & Emma


Gary's Son & Musician Harrison


Grandpa & Landon


Me & My Hunny


Gary, Cristi, Taylor & Harrison


All the Ladies

Christmas Party #1

We had a great time at our family Christmas party with my Dad's extended family. My cousin had a great idea to give our Grandma a machine that will print out our emails and blogs. She doesn't have to do anything but wake up in the morning and watch them print out. Although, when she opened the gift she was thoroughly confused as to what she was looking at.

Our family's tradition is to have all the little kids dress up while we listen to the story of Jesus' birth. For a long time, we didn't have very many young kids since the majority of us were all teenagers. However, now we are all in our 20's and 30's there is no shortage of kids anymore, and won't be for a long time.

Then we watched slides of all of us growing up.
It was fun to take a trip down memory lane.

Then of course the kids got to open presents for
being so patient through an hour of slides.



It was a great night!

Winter Program

Both Emma and Landon had Winter Programs at their school. I wasn't able to make it to Landon's so I don't have any pictures. I'll have to check with Jeremy to see if he took any. However, I was able to go to Emma's program and of course Mom brings the camera everywhere, so enjoy...

Emma's teacher, Ms. Elliott



Emma's best friend Maloreigh


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