Grandpa Ray

The grandkids all love their Grandpa Ray! This picture from our trip to Montana is proof of that. He was going to read a Christmas book and they all hopped up on his lap for the story. Grandpa looks happiest of all.:)

Christmas in Montana

We spent Christmas this year with my family up in Montana. We had a blast and it was such a thrill for me to see my brother Shaun and my brother Adam and his adorable family. They made it back home to Wisconsin just in time to have baby #5 (Welcome Denali)!

Heidi and Cory joined us later in the week and the guys had to replace their traditional snowmobile outing due to lack of snow. Instead, they took a drive to Lincoln and shot a bunch of guns at empty buckets. Scott has all sorts of pictures and videos from their excursion. They were in heaven - so manly!:) The ladies did our usual lunch and a movie and had a lovely time.

My boys really enjoyed hanging with all of their super cool cousins, who were very accomodating with their new little tagalongs. Grandma Lana spent one-on-one time with each grandchild by taking them to lunch and then to the store to select a special gift. They loved getting to do this and it was a very meaningful Christmas present.

So here are a few of my favorite pics from Christmas. The last one is from our drive back to Utah. There were several rounds of vomiting, due to car sickness and from the chain reaction of watching others vomit. After several stops and lots of scrubbing and changing clothes, we just started to crack up laughing. The picture shows us laughing and doing our throw up faces. Yep, we are strange, but it was a long drive people!

Till next time. . .

Christmas Hats

I love this picture of all of the cousins (on Scott's side of the family) and their new Christmas hats. Can you guess which of my children doesn't like to wear hats?

Mixed Reactions to Santa

Another year, another priceless photo of a screaming baby and Santa Claus. Liam wanted absolutely nothing to do with him, as clearly indicated in the following pictures. Tate on the other hand wanted to make sure that Santa took note of each of the 5 different things that he wanted. Miles just pretty much went with the flow. He was very excited by all of it.

Christmas Recap

Yes, I know it is almost February. But, I am finally resurfacing after drowning in all of the holiday madness and thought at the very least, I should post a few pictures.

These are from a couple of pre-Christmas outings. The boys did their annual trip to see the lights at Temple Square with Heidi and Cory. Liam got to experience it for the first time. It was bitter cold, but they all had a great time. The others are from a live nativity that the boys went to with their Dad, Grandma Kaye and cousins. Liam and I did not brave the cold.