It's the most wonderful time . . . . .

What a month!!!

 

We are exhausted!  We found Matty passed out on the floor a lot. :)

 

I cannot believe how fast this month has gone and how much we have done . . . . . . .



I turned the big 30!

Davin surprised me with a new camera!
I loooove it!!

I entered a calendar contest for the local paper.

They put one of my pictures of Andy in the newspaper

and I won first place in the calendar contest! 

 

Matty's picture is on the front and I won $100 (still waiting on the money . . . hmmm).  They also put one of my Yellowstone pictures inside the calendar. 

 

I've never won anything so we were super excited!

 

Christopher had a Christmas program at school.

They did so well and it was so fun to see all those sweet 1st graders singing so beautifully.

 

We celebrated Christopher's 7th birthday.

He got to go play at a friends birthday party that day with all his friends from school.

Later that night we went with Grandma and Grandpa Catmull, Rob, Jen, and cousin Ryker to Pizza Pie Cafe.  This is his all time favorite restaurant and he was in heaven.  There was even a Santa Claus there handing out little toys. 
He made and decorated his own cake this year and he was so proud.

He was so excited to go to Great Grandma's house to open all his presents and he was pretty sure it was the best day EVER!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We bought Davin's parent's car (love this car) and sold our old Camry. 

We loved that car and it was a little sad to see it go :( 
We had had that car since Davin and I started dating!! 

Matty went with me to the DMV and it was cooooold! 
Good thing he had his cute hat :)
 

 

Andy ate a christmas cookie from a neighbor and had an allergic reaction.  We think it was the anise in them. 
Luckily there are not many things containing anise!

 

 

We had a marvelous Christmas!

On Christmas Eve we travelled on the terrible terrible roads to Grandma's house and barely made it up the icy hill to her house. 

What an adventure.
 

We had a long, cautious drive home that night. 
The kids decorated cookies for Santa and Davin and I drank egg nog and watched "It's A Wonderful Life".  Love watching that movie with him every year.

 

Santa came and the boys could hardly contain themselves waiting to see what he brought.

 

 

 

We had an angry bird themed Christmas this year.  I found a whole set of angry birds for each boy and they also got the new Angry Bird Star Wars toys.
 They are in heaven playing together.

 

We spent Christmas day in Idaho Falls with family and as Christopher says

"My favorite part about Christmas is being with allllll my family.  Together and cozy." 

 

 Agreed.