Tim & Julie to the Temple

Tim and Julie were sealed together for time and all eternity in January. It was a very special day and we were so grateful to be apart of it.

The happy couple:

Chris & I....
Most of the Nadeau boys and their wives (we're missing Jeremy)...

A HAPPY Chris!

Tim & Julie with Dave & Brenda

Christmas

Only a few pictures from Christmas. Allison LOVED Christmas this year and had so much fun. All she wanted to do was un-wrap....she didn't care so much about the actual presents. After she was done opening them ALL (and there were a lot), she just kept looking for more things to un-wrap. It was pretty cute.
She got a ballerina outfit....so cute!

And is obsessed with her fake fish tank...maybe someday she'll get a real one.

Christmas gets better and better each year when you have a little one to share the excitement with....

Christmas Eve

Usually for Christmas Eve we spend the evening with the Nadeau Family. This year, because of all the snow, the party was postponed and we ended up walking down to my Grandma's house for her party. Every year she makes salmon soup (yummy) and afterwords we sing Christmas carols. It's probably one of my favorite traditions.

Here's our lovely little family (doesn't Chris look excited to be there?)

Mark's such a little stud.
Brian, Becky, and Crystal
Mom & Mia

Beautiful little Kendall...

Chris could only take it so long...

I couldn't tell if Chanel was happy....or not....

I think Kevin and Kendall were done by this point...

But we sang a TON of Christmas carols....

Next....Christmas Day (FINALLY)!

SNOW!

We have had a ridiculous amount of snow this year. It just didn't stop! We spent an entire week at my parents house because we don't have cars made for the snow. This was when it started....

Then we got some more and Becky and I decided to play...
We made snow angels...

And she buried me in the snow (man, that was cold!)

Then, we got even more snow and we all spent an afternoon playing in it...

The boys made this awesome fort for a snowball fight we had. The girls' fort wasn't near as nice, so there was no need to take a picture!

Allison and Mark loved it!

Mark was very proud of his snowman...

Family Fun at Christmas Time

Oh my goodness, I have to go all the way back to Christmas. My entire family was around this year and we had a TON of fun.

We did a little leg wrestling...
Can you guess who's going to win?

Found a stash of wigs to try on....

Isn't mom hot?

Nice, Chanel...

Ooh la la, Becky...

I kinda like it on Sara...

Little Mia figured out how to get through the wrapper...

Mark & Allison were inseperable...

My Dad read the Twilight series (we didn't see much of him):

And Mom played with the Grandkids...

I love spending time with my crazy fun family!

Sorry to be so lame!

Wow - it has been almost THREE months since I last posted. That is a bit ridiculous! Okay, so now here comes the excuses - my laptop computer is awful! It takes so long to post anything, I have to force myself to do it. But I have good news - we're getting a new computer! The laptop finally died, so we decided we needed something a bit more reliable. It won't be here for a little while longer, but once it does get here, I VOW to do a better job at posting (and you will probably get a RIDICULOUS amount of "catch-up" posts - it is what I'm famous for).

Happy Holidays!

We are having the best December! Allison just loves all the lights and everything that has to do with Christmas and it makes it so much more fun for us. The Saturday after Thanksgiving we got our tree and got it all decorated. This was my year for the decorations the way I like them (white lights and everything else red and gold - Chris is all about the colorful lights). It was really fun to put up decorations in the new house.
We also put up a TON of lights on the outside of our house - all multi-colored for Chris! I still want to do our one tree in front, but it needs to be pruned first. We have gotten a lot of compliments from our neighbors - and not just Heather! Allison loves coming home and turning on the lights - then we have to walk up the street to see the lights on those houses and then Allison will let us go inside our house. It's so funny. This picture doesn't do the brightness justice, but you can see the design of the lights...

I took this one so you could see how bright our house actually was - although it's really blurry.

Last Saturday, Heather and I went to Shelton's Christmas Parade. We walked downtown and Allison did so good in her luxury stroller (it's nice living so close to town that you can actually walk).

It was a little difficult with the stroller when we got there because it was wall-to-wall people. Oh well, it was a lot of fun and we finally found a spot to watch the parade.

Heather & her new dog Samantha:

We hope that you are all having as great of a holiday season as we are. We are loving life right now and trying to enjoy every minute! Happy Holidays!