Sledding

Christmas Day

Christmas Eve we decorated a ginger bread house, had a nice dinner and opened our pj's. We had a friend over who is from Israel. She worked in the mall here and just new Christmas as everyone running around crazy shopping. She wanted to understand the real meaning of Christmas. It was nice to remember the real reason we celebrate Christmas and to be able to share that with someone who had no idea about it. Christmas day was a bit different because I had to be to work that morning at 5. We let the kids stay up until 11:30 the night before hoping they would sleep in. Luckily they slept in until about 11 and I was home by 11:45. It was different then the usual tradition but we made it work. Mylee's favorite part about her stocking was the orange.

Christmas Party

We drove down to Vegas for our family Christmas parties. Ty's family has a tradition where Santa comes and delivers each child a gift. We start by singing songs and then each kid gets to sit on Santa's lap and get there presents. It is always a lot of fun and it was nice to get to see family this year. My camera had died by the time we had my families party so I have no pictures.

Our Christmas Tree

Ty always grew up with a real tree and I always grew up with a fake tree for Christmas. Since we have been married we have had a real tree. This year my Dad was in town and we decided we would go cut a tree down. He thought we were going to go to a tree farm and cut one ourselves. Instead we went up into the mountains with our tree permit and went hunting for a tree. It was a lot longer than usual because we had so much snow. The tree's always look a lot different in the forest then they do when you get them home. Let's just say I was almost in tears the night we decorated it because it was such a charlie brown tree. My dad told Ty the next day while they were out that they may just want to buy me a tree from a lot that was perfect.

Christmas Time

Corn Maze

Here in Idaho they do Corn Mazes in the fall. They are a lot of fun. Donna and Kami came to visit and so we decided to go to one of them here in Kuna. We bought our passes to go through the maze and then found out it was 5 miles long we decided to do a few other things instead because the sun was already going down and we did not want to get lost in it in the dark.

Halloween 2010

I am usually very picky when it comes to Halloween costumes for my kids. I want them all to have a theme and match. I have deicded the last two years have been crazy with having a new baby and then moving this year. So the kids got to pick whatever they wanted to be. Kolton picked a UPS driver and then Trevor gave us the idea of making a "truck" for him. Hannah chose to be a tooth fairy and Mylee well she got to be a zebra. These were the cheapest costumes because we had everything for them already.