A new baby!

Sadly I will never have another baby.

So...I will have to live through everybody else!

Amber had her baby last Friday. She went into the hospital on Thursday night though to be induced, but didn't have him until the next morning. I was SO excited I barely slept an hour.

I LOVE babies and so do my girls! Chloe was pretty excited to get up to the hospital and see him. And Aubrey loved him. She screamed whenever anybody else got to close to him and when I took Lucas away from her. She wanted to keep him, me too!

Congratulations Josh and Amber, he is a cutie!!

365- Week 52

Last week of the 2011!

12/24/11

Christmas Eve at my mom's house. She had presents for everyone that was there to open.

12/25/11

Aubrey loved her little baby and little stroller.

12/26/11

All the kids got new bikes for Christmas. I was showing Nick some of the things you can do with pegs.

12/27/11

Nick got a lot of LEGOS for Christmas. Chris loves LEGOS, so he really enjoys helping Nick put them together. Tuesday Chris had to go back to work, so he asked me to help. I really did want to, but I was so sick I was in tears. I was so proud that Nick did it all, all by himself!

12/28/11

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12/29/11

So thankful that the Yes! Man lives with us. He changed the back and front brakes and rotors and the suburban and saved us a lot of money!

12/30/11

Alex and Cooper love playing with all the tents and tunnels at the Holt's.

12/31/11

Saturday all the boys went shooting. The girls stayed home and hung out.

Christmas Day 2011

Santa came!

We opened presents and played with all of our new stuff. Lots of LEGOS to build.

We had crepes for breakfast and got ready for church.

We were reminded of the first Christmas that took place in Jerusalem so many years ago.

After church we went to my parents for more presents and more crepes. YUM!

We hung out all afternoon and then went home to relax.

Christmas was so chill this year it was weird, but good! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

365- Week 51

365- has kind of turned into phone pictures.

Which means not the best of pictures, but still doing what I wanted to do- help me kind of remember the day to day stuff.

12/17/11

Saturday night we went to the live Nativity. I really wasn't feeling like going, but it was the last night and I am so glad we went. It was a great way to feel the Christmas spirit.

12/18/11

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12/19/11

Alex on the POLAR EXPRESS. I thought it was neat to see his reflection in the window as he was watching as we were pulling up to the North Pole.

12/20/11

Amber and the kids came over and me made home made sugar cookies and let all the kids decorate them. These ones are some of Chloe's.

12/21/11

Nick LOVES Aubrey and Aubrey LOVES Nick. Whenever he is sitting on the floor, or sitting still for that matter she backs herself up and sits on his lap.

12/22/11

We went with all the cousins to see Santa. I will have to post the picture of all the kids together.

Of course Aubrey is crying. Not a fan of Santa this year.

12/23/11

Aubrey is still sleeping in my closet. Kind of thinking she may just stay there forever. I like her there! I always go in and check on her before I go to bed and she is always sleeping in some crazy positions! This night her feet were up on the wall.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

The majority of our Christmas cards did NOT go out this year. Sam's Club ran out of envelopes and none of the stores carried any that they would fit in. There is always next year!

We hope everyone has a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

The Polar Express

my mom and dad started this tradition about 6 years ago.

as i have been telling people i am realizing that it has become kind of a crazy tradition.

to drive 4 hours to eat pizza and ride the train and then to get back in the car and drive 4 hours home.

but...the kids love it. and my parents LOVE that the kids love it and so as long as the kids BELIEVE we will go!

We loaded up. We had to take 3 cars this year. It always takes forever to get there.

We have dinner at the Pizza Factory.

Our ticket times got messed up so we had some extra time.

The kids played in the train station, wrote letters to Santa, visited Mrs. Claus, looked at the village, and just hung out.

We finally got to board the train. We listened to the story of The Polar Express. We had cookies and hot chocolate.

We went all the way to the North Pole. Santa boarded the train with us and gave each of the children a bell.

We sang Christmas carols all the way back to AZ.

It was a fun time. And then back in the car!

Family Pictures

Yesterday we ran over to the train tracks to do some last minute family pictures. The sun was NOT working in our favor, but we got a couple of cute ones.