Happy New Year 2010!!!!!

Happy New Year to Everyone!!! We hope that you all have a great year. We are excited for this year and have started off with a blast...well it was raining new years eve so didnt do fireworks this year...but we wanted to...we have a great New Years together and were glad to have Heather back...yes she is driving now and doing a great job:). As I said before we had a great time hanging out with the kids and they seem to enjoy hanging out with us...Amber Heather and Clint played guitar hero, rock band and rock band beetles all night. It was fun to watch them. Don't ask me why I didnt take any pictures...we watched the new year come in and then hung out for an hour or so then went to bed. It really was a fun time. We are so blessed to have each other. This is going to be a great year!!!!

Snowsuit??

We did have a bit of snow during the holidays so we had to break out the snow clothes...well apparently Corey had grown this year....

He did wear clothes under it and made it work but we all got a real laugh out of him..he keeps up laughing...it was a great Christmas break and we loved every minute of having the kids home from school. I am always just as sad as the kids when they have to go back to school...I LOVE having them home!!!!!
We were busy all the time though and on the go...Corey enjoyed every second though...he loves his sisters and brothers!!!

Emmett fun....

So....guess what!!! Heather took drivers training over the Chistmas break!!! Yes she has her drivers permit now. She spent all of her Christmas break over in Emmett. We missed her very much and had to visit her....

So while we were there Craig stayed over a few days too to play with cousins. They built a snow fort and Grandpa pulled them on a car hood for a sled....fun memories made by all of them....what great times we have in Emmett!!!!

More Airsoft

Day after Christmas Andrew and Katie Bell came over for a visit(Nina too), some of our most favorite people!!! Of course Andrew had to join in on the airsoft fun so we had to get pictures...the video is great too....fun times!!!!
Thanks Andrew and Katie and Nina for being great neighbors and friends!!!!

Christmas.....

So...Craig and Corey were our early risers but they all were up by 5 so we were finished with Christmas by 5:30 and had the rest of the day to play and have a great time and that is what we did. It was a terrific Christmas as usual...We are so thankful for this time of year to reflect on our Savior and the love he has for us. We are so blessed to have the Gospel in out lives. We are so thankful to have a forever family and we are so thankful that Heavenly Father has entrusted us with our beautiful amazing children. We so enjoy being aroung them...even though we have teenagers we have so much fun with them and even though they tell us we are old and goofy they spend time with us and have a good time with us...we are so thankful for their willingness to hang out with us and have these fun times. We really do have the greatest family and this has been a great year!!!

I did not take a lot of pictures during Christmas...we got a new camcorder and took lots of video though....we had agreat christmas even though there are not lots of pictures :)

We all got Airsoft guns so we had a few wars during the day...thankfully the weather was not that bad....Robert and Kristina even came up and joined in on th fun...it was great exercise too...I DID take tons of pictures here....
I am thinking this is a great Christmas or New Years Card...what do you think??



Later in the afternoon we had visitors....

All in all it was an amazing Christmas...we had lots of family around and we were thankful for that....

Christmas Eve!!

We have a tradition of getting pajamas every year for Christmas...in fact last year we tried to switch it up a little and get a fun game and the kids didnt let up get away with it!! Pajamas it is!! Well this year we thought it would be funny to get Snuggies for everyone....everytime the comercial for them come on the kids laugh and joke about it so that is what we did...it was very fun and they actually like them!!

After the kids went to bed..........

Amber crafting....watch out!!!

Happy Birthday Corey

Next we had Corey's Birthday. It is hard to believe that he is 4. It seems like just yesterday we spent he holidays in the hospital and cherishing every moment we had with him. Now he is a wild 4 year old and growing up way too fast. We are so lucky to have Corey be a part of our family and he definitely adds a lot of spice!!! We never are without something to do(or clean up) He is our wild card and we love him sooo much!!!

Putting up the tree

Brinkerhoff Christmas Party

Early in December we had a GREAT christmas party with the Brinkerhoff side of the family. It was so much fun as usual and we are soooo thankful for such a great family with such great examples. There are a lot of us now and it is so much fun to get together but can get way crazy...we wouldn't have it any other way though!! It was so fun to start out the wonderful holidays with them :)Oh yes and thank you Mary so much for the pictures..you are as usual a lifesaver on my procrastination!!!!

Lost December!!!

Oh my!!! Obviously keeping up my blog is not a new years resolution thank goodness!! My kids keep complaining about me not posting for forever!! So here comes a ton of posts!!!! I promise I will do better!!! I HATE being Behind!!!!