Christmas Vacation

We had a fun round of vacationing this year in Utah. We started our trip off with the long drive from Texas to Utah about 15hrs - our kids are amazing travelers- who knew a 5-3-and 6 month old could last all day in a car! Once we got to our destination we had alot of fun. Berkley was pretty sick the whole time so no one was able to see her happy personality, better luck next time! She did get two teeth for Christmas- she woke up Christmas morning with her two bottom teeth. I can't believe my baby already has teeth! Time goes by way too fast.
We went sledding a couple of times, I went skiing, and Ryan went snowmobiling, all in all we had many adventures and got to use our gear- we don't get to break it out all that often living in Texas.
The whole trip seemed to go by way too fast, and all the sudden we were in the car driving home. It does feel good to get back to our schedule, but we truly miss being around all the chaos! Hopefuly someday we can make it back for good, but for now we are happy where we are.

Little Orphan Annie

Christmas Lights

I got the kids all excited to go and see the "lights" at the Tech heritage center. Well it turned out to be a few lights- not Christmas lights- on a path in the dark that led into some small houses- the houses were actually pretty cool and we did end up getting to the Hot Coa-Coa which Taven couldn't stop talking about after about two hours on a freezing trail with the kids. I guess it was still a memory!

Taven and Brandt

Taven thought that it was pretty cool that he and Brandt had the same shirt!

Smiley

Berkley is full of smiles these days. That is unless she is bundled up in the freezing wind!

Dancer Girl

Aspen has been taking a small community dance class. For her last lesson they performed a small Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer dance, it was really cute! She seems to like dancing and we are planning on putting her in another class this January

THANKSGIVING

This Thanksgiving was a ton of fun. We went to Ry and Heathers house in Temple, TX. Our kids had a blast playing- although we noticed there can be too much time with cousins- they got a little tired out after a couple of days so we went home a day early to keep everything cool!

We visited a town called Salado (I think that is how it is spelled). There was a really cool little stream/river that we all played in. We couldn't believe that it was November 21 and we were barefoot- others were bare naked- swimming in a river. It was a blast!

The next day was Ry's Birthday the big 28, which just happened to fall on the same day as Thanksgiving. We had a great meal early in the afternoon and went outside for a little rumble football "smear the queer" style. The crazy thing is that it was freezing cold! We went from swimming in the river one day and the next day we were as bundled as we could get in our winter gear. CRAZY! The babies didn't like it much so we took them on a short walk- the wind was really strong so they didn't like that either!

Next it was inside for a round of X-Box we laughed, and played games and just had a ton of fun being with family. It is still really crazy to see family and realize just how much you miss being around them all the time. I hope that we will be able to see more of everyone but who knows what life will bring.