Christmas with Grammy

Tonight we celebrated Christmas with my mom cause Sophi and Rich are leaving for Utah tomorrow to spend Christmas with Rich's family. We enjoyed each other, great yummy food, singing songs together, we went caroling to Grannie's neighbors together (that was a scary sounding sight!) :) Jake was so much fun, singing super loud, the missionaries were with us and I heard them say when they were walking behind me to the next house, "that guy is nuts! But, so awesome!" haha Oh, so much fun just being together!

 Lucy loved her puppets Grammy got her, she was eating them, they were so very soft! SO CUTE! :)

 The chaos begins, opening presents!

We are SO grateful for our mom, for our Grammy!

Mammoth...

Look at this sweet baby, Corbin, my nephew! I LOVE this picture of him, his first time in the snow...I just love him!

LOOK at all the SNOW!
Funny story about these boots. Ashton has black snow boots but I got out these pink ones that used to be Sierra's because Lincoln needed a pair to take to Utah and we were looking at all of our options before new boots were purchased. Ashton saw these boots and wanted to wear them, HE wanted Lincoln to take his black boots because HE wanted these PINK boots. He was insistent. So funny! He loved his pink boots!


This mountain of snow was right out in front of the condo.

and then we drove and hiked to our original location and had so so much fun! Notice I'm carrying Rossi and a sled. :) Us aunties gotta do what we gotta do.







Sierra and Nixon were snowboarding...on a sled!


kids found several secret hideouts this time in the trees because there was so much snow...can you see Ashton?

snow was so soft, hard to make a decent snowman but we did it and it was tiny

I just loved these babies the whole time...Luke left and Corbin right


Uh oh!! Rossi's blanket got dirty!

until next year!

Merry Farm

My mom is awesome!!! She heard that we could get discount tickets at Knott's for $15 each and they donate the money to Toys for Tots. She wanted to take all of us. So Monday, off we went!


Sierra made this shirt special for our trip. Isn't it so cute!!! :)

Aunt Sophi won this giant Frosty, the game was tricky too and she DID it!!!









The boys played a game and each won a tiger and then Sierra played a different game and won these 3 bears, she was pretty happy and Grammy is so nice!





We stayed till the bitter end and then we went to IHOP down the street where the kids eat free. Then we headed home. Thanks mom!!! Such a FUN FUN day!

Staycation!

I love it when my brother and sister come into town because we feel like we are on vacation...he got here last Monday and it is instant FUN! We went to the beach...

We made candy necklaces




jumped over Uncle Norris


Lincoln boogie boarded for the first time with Uncle Norris' help

Rocky played so content by himself in the sand and even talked to himself while he played :)

Ashton boogie boarded for the first time too!




Brenna brought her girlfriends and they were so fun!

Who needs an umbrella to find shade when you have Uncle Norris as a tent!



The boy's were sitting way over there and we had no idea why, then Sierra joined them. So cute! They told us later that they were choosing which house they wanted to live in when they grew up. I asked Ashton "which house do you want to live in?" He said "the one next to you!" Melt my heart, little love!:)

He built a fort at my mom's house and all the kids spent the night with him and Brenna, we went swimming almost everyday, Brenna took Sierra shopping...today is their last day and we went treasure hunting (geo caching)we found two...look at our treasures...