Santa our Guitar Hero

I had to post this one last Christmas picture because

I'm sure it won't happen for too many more years.

I'm glad it happened this year. He asked for Guitar Hero.

How about THAT...

Maybe there is some magic to that ole' St. Nick!

Merry Christma$

Christma$ was lots of fun as usual.

I know my girls need clothes, however they never like what I give them sooo...

this year I gave all the girls a crisp $100 bill to buy their own. It was GREAT! They all loved it and enjoyed the shopping. The only question is How do I surprise them next year. Natalie was pretty cute. She was the first to discover the $100 and the excitement was priceless. Brittney didn't want any Christmas morning pictures. Personally I think they are adorable and don't need makeup. But I sure enjoy her excitement at Christmas. The little girl peaks out every so often!

I know we are the VERY last family in the whole wide world to get one of these!

We are sure enjoying it...

The guitars are now a permanent fixture in our family room.

Natalie made most of our Christmas Dinner

which was GREAT fun for her and GREAT fun for me. She did a great job also, everything was VERY Yummy!

We sure enjoyed having the girls home and I know Grandma and Grandpa enjoyed them as well.

There is nothing like a good ole Christmas at home!!!

More Christmas dipping chocolates....

One of my favorite traditions is dipping Chocolates.

Of course I have the idealic view that they love it too,

but not soo much now that they are teenagers.

Teenagers WOE IS ME!!!

Christmas...

I always give the kids and ornament. THis is a tradition my Aunt Kathryn started me on at Brittney's first Christmas. So someday when they go they will have a nice collection of ornaments. This year I found this old photo of me and had it make into these darling porcelin ornaments.

I LOVE christmas!

I love having the house transformed into a Christmas wonderland.

I love giving and making Christmas gifts.

I especially love time together as a family

more Thanksgiving

Finally I finished uploading Thanksgiving pictures. We had such a good time. We saw Brigham Youngs house Jacob Hamblins House ( I think that was his name) and we saw the tree lighting ceremony at the St. George Temple. So the pictures are in NO particular order. Notice the Teenagers at the tree lighting ceremony! How did we ever survive without cell phones!!

The cell phone companies should use this for a comercial. How did we ever survive???

Uncle Dell's favorite thing to do is Dog Pile everyone on Chandler!

How funny is this picture! Chandler is forever trying to get into the pictures!

Thanksgiving in St. George

So we went to St. George for Thanksgiving so we could meet Brittney, Collette and my sister and brother and their families. We left VERY early on Thanksgiving morning 3AM and got to ST. George in time to rest and then go to a restaurant to eat. I think it is a GREAT way to do Thanksgiving! NO dishes and NO Cooking. Actually the food was great. Here is a piture of our feast and family.

Later we did pool shuffle board and swimming. Grandma and Grandpa were at a nice camp Ground which was lots of fun!!!

I LOVE this picture. Chandler is always doing the funny faces on the girls pictures. So Brittney did a nice job of getting back at him. More of Thanksgiving after lunch.