Dead Man Walking

We are finally back online!!!! I have a computer!!!!! I have been here since Halloween with no access to the outside world. No TV, no Computer, no Nothing. Drew has been a dead man walking for quite some time because I can't do this no contact with the world thing. But I am ecstatic to say that I won't need to be killing him now because I FINALLY have my computer up and running. Woo Hoo, YeeHaw, Whoopdeedoo, Yipee Kiyay and all that Jazz.

Ringing in the New Year

We went to our friends the Palmatiers for New Years Eve. We always have tons of fun together.Apparently I insulted their manliness when I pointed our that they were standing 50 feet away from a teeny little flame in the picture below which is why John is holding up the lit fireworks thingy in the picture above!!!!

Fireworks for New Years must be a Utah thing, but the girls really liked it!!!

Nicole toasting in the New Year. (With Sparkling Cider)

The kids.

Elizabeth and Kennedy.

Oh Joy. This has to be one of my most favorite pictures of all times. John, I think we may put this on our Christmas wrapping paper next year. Because who can get enough of those faces???

Mackenzie relaxing for the movie. We watched Eagle Eye. It's a good movie. She gave up 20 minutes into it & went to watch a Barbie movie upstairs.

Beauti-licious

Here are some misc pics of the girls over Christmas break.

We went to Build a Bear to use the gift cards from Grammy K. It was so crowded you couldn't even get in the door. So we went back the next day before it opened so we could be first in line. Mackenzie bought a bunny & Kennedy got a Christmas Moose.

Kennedy in a dress from Grammy K.

Kenzie in her fancy dress from G & G Smed.

Katie in her sweater from Santa & boots that she bought with Christmas money.

Katie & her friend bundled up to go play in the snow. We had to scrounge around the house to come up with warm stuff for them to wear!

This is the extent of our decorating so far. We got our family pictures up on the wall & the clock hung.

First Snowman of the Season

I love it when the girls build be a snowman. We used our awesome snowman kit again & the girls worked together to make this big snowman.

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning was fun. Mackenzie had asked Santa for the Pee Baby & that's what she got. She was so excited. All 3 girls were pretty excited by what they got.

This is actually called Baby Alive, but Mackenzie prefers Pee Baby.

Katie got clothes from Santa. She is into Elmo right now & she got 2 Elmo shirts.

Kennedy got Littlest Pet Shop stuff from Santa.

Katie modeling her clothes from Santa.

This was not technically for Christmas, but it was near Christmas that we got it. This house's coat closet holds about 3 coats so Drew found this awesome armoire on sale from $1800 for $215. It fits all of our coats. Plus it's pretty! Score!

This is Katie's bag from Aunt Kalynn. She is already taking it to school with her books in it.

Katie got these for everyone. They are weird reindeer with suckers for tongues. What more can I say???

Christmas morning breakfast. Blueberry bread pudding.

Katie got more cool Pirates of the Carribbean stuff from Uncle Brad. This time a DVD player. It's perfect. She loves it.

The girls got wooden shoes from me & Drew. I got them before we left Michigan.

Uncle Brad got Kennedy an IPOD for Christmas. If the neighbors weren't awake yet, they were after she opened this!!!! Thanks Uncle Brad.

Kennedy got the Twilight CD for Katie for Christmas. Katie is completely obsessed with Twilight & had read it approximately 42 times.

My gift to Drew.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve did not go quite like I had planned. Drew was home from work 45 minutes when he got a call from work that the nurse on duty had the flu & was throwing up and had to go home. So yippee skippee. Naturally everyone jumped at the chance to come in and work on Christmas Eve (NOT) so he dropped us off at Craig & Karol's & went in to work. So he missed our Christmas Eve dinner. Then C & K went in to work so he could come eat & we did our Christmas Eve Program without them. Yeah. So not what we had planned. I think everyone gets the gist of how I feel about Christmas Eve, so I'll just let you get on with looking at the pictures. This is actually not Christmas Eve, it's from our family get-together dinner that we have once a month with Drew's Aunt, Uncle, cousin, Bailey, Craig & Karol & Mindy's family. We had a white elephant gift exchange & the girls are modeling the fancy bows from the packages.

Christmas dresses.

Mackenzie got a fancy dress from G & G Smed.

Thanks Aunt Kalynn for the awesome purses. We love them & carry them everywhere!!!!

Mackenzie loves her purse too!!!!

Hyrum with the little blanket we tied for him for Christmas.

Man, isn't he just so cute???

Grandpa played a couple of songs for us on the accordion.

Hannah helping Mackenzie sing Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer for her part of the program.

Mike & Mindy & Co singing a Christmas song.

Kennedy sang the the song I'm Wishing on a Star from the Polar Express for her part of the program.

At Craig & Karol's house, everyone picks their favorite food for Christmas Eve & that's what we have for dinner. Kennedy chose chocolate molten lava cakes & I made them super fancy with raspberries on top. YUUUUUMMMMMYYYYY!

Hannah & Mackenzie found the glitter again. Look close & you can see it's about an inch thick on their cheeks!

The girls in their fancy clothes for Christmas Eve.