MORE Texas, I'll finish someday!

One of the evenings we had some old family friends come over (the English's). Their oldest was home and we, at least I, hadn't seen him in a long time. Their oldest boy Will was really cute and he and Em were so cute playing together.




EVERYONE had a blast holding Logan while we were home. Here are a few pictures of him sleeping on people, which of coarse is his favorite way to sleep.






My mom got a snuggi (sp?) for Christmas, which was HILARIOUS. (Essentially it's a blanket with sleeves) Ryan and I saw a infomercial for it before Christmas and couldn't stop laughing about it. But it actually was the perfect present for my mom. Anyway I snapped a pic of Jace trying it out. Seriously funny.



One of the days we hung out with Mindy at her new house. The girls were DYING to play outside, but it was really wet. I finally gave in and let them play outside, but Em came in SOAKING wet. So she got to borrow some clothes from a cousin. Her clothes were dry just before we left so I took thins picture when we were telling Em her clothes were dry.




Too funny. we all had a blast hanging out with Mind.

More cute pics of Logan sleeping.




One morning Ryan was up with the kids and took these really cute pictures of the kids playing.






Cute pictures of Logan




Logan's cute toosh

More Christmas trip

So for Christmas my parents got a WII and WII Fit. That is mostly what we did after Christmas! I took a ton of pictures. I think my favorite was watching everyone do the yoga. I got cool pictures of my Mom and Jace doing the tree.




The girls LOVED to help while we were playing




They even got their own turns





My Mom and Dad playing



I wasn’t great at many of the games, but I kick booty at the ski jump! My family were all laughing at me because apparently I have a “booty jump”. Oh well. Lol.

The weather outside was BEAUTIFUL!!!! Many a times we couldn’t find the girls and they had run outside to play on the tramp. This particular time Kaitlyn found some food and brought it out with her.




Unfortunately Kaitlyn caught on quick that Grammy’s house is MUCH bigger than ours and she wasn’t watched as closely. This resulted in LOTS of trouble. Aunt Tiara and Jessica gave the girls almost anything they wanted, so Kaitlyn took this to mean she could do anything she could think of. Grrrr. There was a broken mirror, a bookshelf full of baskets that were dumped out everywere, getting in to lots of things, taking others candy, among other things. Too much freedom does not go well with her! Poor Tiara got the worst of it I think. She is the youngest and when Kaitlyn and Emily are around it’s like she inherits two little sisters. Lol. Tiara’s only 3 or 4 years older than Kaitlyn.

A cute picture of my boys outside.



One of the few down moments with Kaitlyn. –She rarely lets someone fall asleep with her so these are pretty special moments.



While we were there we got to go to a Butcher (that’s their last name, not occupation) party. They have one almost every year between Christmas and New Years. Well one of their daughters happens to have a drum set! Ryan is a drummer and this is pretty much the reason he agreed to go!




He had a crowd up there watching him pretty quickly! He didn’t play for long, but I love to listen, he’s really good!

My sister Julia has a little boy, Cooper that is 5 months older than Logan. Those boys are SOOO cute together!

Christmas

Christmas morning is full of traditions. At my parents home we all get up and dressed before we do anything else. This year we were surprised by the kids NOT waking up early! It was wonderful. Ryan and I had already woken up (Logan was hungry) and just waited until the rest of the kids got up. Then we all got dressed and went downstairs to see if Mom and Dad were ready. Next in tradition is opening the stockings. Kaitlyn REALLY loved this part. Every time someone asked her what Santa got her for Christmas she would yell CANDY!!! This is the girls opening their stockings.



Santa got some really cute glasses for the girls to play with. Right away they figured out they could put their nerds in there and drink it. It was really cute.






Then we eat a REALLY good breakfast. We get orange juice, bacon, sausage, eggs, and coffee cake. It's delicious. After that we all line up on the stairs for a family picture.



All the Wilson kids plus spouses and children are there except for Logan who was sleeping at the time, and Andrew who is on his mission.
After that we go in and see what Santa brought! The kids all had a great time and got lots of fun things. After all the presents were opened and we hung out a bit we headed over to Grandma Dalton's for more presents and fun!

P.S. The shirts the girls are wearing I made!

Christmas Eve

This year we were able to go to Texas for Christmas vacation and spend about 2 weeks there. It was wonderful(as always!), we got to do so much and had a blast the whole time. This year we were with my family for the Christmas festivities. Christmas eve it is tradition in my family to read and act out the Christmas story. This year we added (for the first time) some scenes from the Book of Mormon. It was so fun! The kids had a blast and even the husbands got involved (they were forced :) ). Our camera died a few days before Christmas so the pictures we took were on our video recorder, so they aren't great, but you get the idea.
This is Dad reading and everyone "listening" (my parents house is always BUSY!)




There were some marshmallows for a part later on, I think that is all my girls knew, that there were MARSHMALLOWS!!!




Samuel the Lamenite was played by Kurtis. We had FUN throwing arrows (marshmallows) at him. It's a good thing we weren't supposed to hit him because mine weren't even CLOSE! I think this scene lasted the longest, everyone enjoyed throwing food at Kurtis! Lol







The cutest nephite there ever was


On to more serious scenes
Mary and Joseph


Kaitlyn helping Grandpa read



Julia makes the cutest donkey




Baby Jesus




Listening a little better



Angel Tiara



3 Cool wise men



Cody gave baby Jesus a gift of his credit card for gold, Jace tried to take off with it. It was pretty funny.



After the story was over Dad bore his testimony. It was a little silly (the acting-not the actually story) at times but that's ok. The kids had fun and I think each year they will realize more and more what we are talking about. And I KNOW they will remember, because I always did.

Afterwards they were able to open one present each before bed. Then bedtime!! After the kids were in bed Santa was hard at work getting everything set up for the next day!