Christmas Eve

Our next stop on the couple days of Christmas was at Ryan's parent's. Every year we have Christmas with them on Christmas Eve. We exchange names, have dinner, and Diana spoils everyone! More so the little girls now days, but still everyone! :o)

Opening their first gifts...Brooklyn had gotten a sled from her daddy earlier, which they pulled around the house and then later used to store all gifts, as you can see above.Elmo jammies & "bippas" (slippers) from grandma!The best gift they got that night...vacuums! Tommy the vacuum, to be exact! He talks as they push and neither one of them wanted to put them down for even half a second!Brooklyn's poopin' squat! :-) We discovered that little smokies are not good for little girls...being there for only 5 1/2 hours, both Jaycee & Brooklyn pooped 3 times EACH!!!! I think we'll hold off on that much meat in one night for a while! :o)Mandy's family's pile of gifts. One of which was a Bumbo for their baby. Jaycee liked to get in and out of it throughout the night, but NOTICE she could not let go of the vacuum in the process! =) Silly girl!Annual picture in their jammies...notice below the difference one year makes... ...pretty fun, huh? Such cute girls they have become!Okay, we all know how much Jaycee likes books! Grandma always reads a Christmas story to us on Christmas eve, and Jaycee was sitting on my lap (where the pictures was taken from) to begin the story, but got so excited, that she had to get closer to the book! I thought this was a cute picture of her listening and looking at the pictures! :-)

Christmas Pajamas

We started off our couple days of Christmas stopping at Mom's on Christmas Eve to open up pajamas! Lot's of fun! Too many kids to enjoy! We sure did miss Richie's family, though! Love you guys! Family pictures by the tree.Ryan wanted me to document that Aubree went to him and sat on his lap for more than 1 minute! :-) She's changing so much and is so happy all the time, now!The annual 'let's see how tall you are next to the pajama boxes' it's so fun to see how they compare to each other!Talon wanted to hold Jackson, and was so proud!Jaycee holding her pajamas up to her after opening them! She always does this with clothes, it's so funny to me!Two of the biggest nerds you'll ever meet!Talon specifically asked me to take this picture after he sat next to his little sister on the stairs and thought it would be a great picture! And, it was! :o) Too cute!The stretchy faced lion!Had to try it after Uncle Ryan did, of course!Talon too!

Christmas Pictures

Mom and Mary came over Sunday to take a picture of us for our Christmas card. Here are some we captured!

Jaycee has loved to get out Christmas books off the fireplace and read them all month! She loves books!

Tried to get her singing some of her Christmas songs, she's been singing all month as well...it's pretty cute. Wish she would've actually sang them like she does all day long, but this is the best I could get for now. Also, she loves playing with the manger scenes, so I tried to get how she says, "Baby Deses" "Mommy Mawy" & "Daddy Dosuph." It's pretty cute!

We also went to visit Grandma & Grandpa Hatch that evening. They have a life size Santa that sings and dances when you walk past him. Jaycee was okay with it at first, but then decided she could NOT walk past that thing anymore, or at least without holding some one's hand! :o)

2nd round......

That's right...that is growing inside of me as we speak! :o) We are so excited for Jaycee to be a big sister! She often refers to the baby in mommy's belly as, "Jaycee's baby." (as she points to her own belly) We are due in July on Talon's birthday, July 12th! But will most likely have it on July 5th. We weren't planning on telling ANYONE until February when we find out what it is, BUT after getting the due date, we decided it was going to be too hard to keep it in any longer! ;-) So now you all know! We'll certainly keep you updated!

Owen's 5th Birthday

We went to Owen's birthday party last night! He turned 5, and looked a lot taller yesterday. Weird how that seems to happen. :o) Happy birthday O-Boz!!! We love you!

Singing 'Happy Birthday' & blowing out the cake! Cody thought he'd be funny and move the cake around as Owen tried to blow out the candles...silly dads!Everyone who came to celebrate...well the ones I got a picture of, at least!Opening presents!Playing the game he got for his birthday...looks fun, eh?

Thanksgiving Festivities

Thanksgiving lasted three days for us! Yum! Yum! The day of, we were able to go down to Spanish Fork and eat with the Bradford family. That was great like always, but seems to be getting more and more crowded...the family just keeps growing and growing and there's still plenty of room to grow! :) Thanks for letting us share that day with you all!

The day after, we spent the day at Mom's where Richie and Jessica and Sierra "surprised" everyone and played games with us all day! They were supposed to surprise everyone, but really everybody knew before. But it was still fun to see them and be able to spend some time with them while they were here for a few days! And they got to see Jackson for the first time, so that was good, too! Playing games together! Lots and lots of people around this little old table...but it sure makes it cozy! :) J.J. came over too, to spend some time with Jack, Richie, & Mary while they were all here, and before he goes on his mission in January! First time Aunt 'Walter' (aka Jessica) meets Jackson! :o) Natalie, Sierra, Jessica & JacksonKayani, Jaycee, & Sierra playing their own game of 'make a mess with the Domino's!' They're all getting so big! But Jaycee, so far, is the biggest of them all, with Sierra close behind, and Kayani just the same as she was about a year ago! ;-) Cute girls! Aubree wasn't there, but she's not quite as big yet, she's pretty little too, and hasn't hit that growth spurt yet...but she will, just give it time!

Saturday morning, a bunch of the boys got together and played football before our Naylor family Thanksgiving dinner at Aunt Terry's house!!! There wasn't as big of a turn out as last year, but those that did show up, still had fun! Even though it was freezing outside! :) Aunt Terry, Mom, Misti, Jaycee & I stayed at Aunt Terry's and got things ready till the boys were done and everyone else showed up. It was a full house, but I love it! It's always great to be with family for the holidays! Thanks everybody! All the great grand kids sitting at their own table...TOP PHOTO: (right to left) Kayani, Sarah Syre, Lindi, Talon, Ethan, Owen, & Jaycee...BOTTOM PHOTO: (left to right) same as above, just in reverse and missing Sarah & Kayani. (Missing Aubree, Jackson, Sierra, Kirra, baby Naylor, & Dorris) Man we're a large group of people and we just keep getting bigger!