Christmas and New Years, 2007

The holidays were an exciting time in our neck-o-the-woods! Katelyn now understands the concept of Santa Clause and was so excited the last few weeks leading up to Christmas that she could harldly contain it. We were planning on spending Christmas morning at our little place but decided at the last minute on the 24th to haul all of our stuff over to my parents house in Pleasant Grove and spend the night there. I had been looking forward to doing our own thing but am glad we decided to spend the night. My twin brother and his wife and kids were there as well so it was fun for our kids to be with their cousins as well. Come Santa did and we all got what we wanted: BriAnne got a new pink Dyson vacuum, I got a Cabela’s Big Sky 20-60x66mm high definition extra dispersion (to eliminate chromatic distortions at all maginification levels) with built in sun shade spotting scope, Katelyn got more princess dress up outfits than she’ll be able to wear all year, and Ethan got clothes and chew toys. Instead of buying gifts for our siblings and parents this year we opted as an extended family to give money to a family in need, which is always a great experience.
We spent New Years at BriAnne’s parents in Tooele and that was fun as well. Most of her siblings were in town as well as much of the extended family (the final count of people staying at their house was 46, which made for a fun crowd!) As usual my brothers-in-law and I spent part of the time watching bowl games on my father-in-law’s 60″ tv…it have been a shame not to! Here are a few pictures of mostly New Years (we forgot to take our camera to my parents place but my dad is the king of picture and video taking so we’ll get pictures from him). We hope you had a great holiday season as well!