Christmas Cheer!

Christmas morning joy! Brynn is displaying her freaky Moxy doll that kept losing her detachable lovely locks. Kira also needed a Moxy doll and was thrilled to find one under the tree for her. If one sis gets something you better believe the other one needs it too:)

 Alayna with her loot. She is pretty serious here for some reason, but she really had a fun morning and was very cute and excited moving from one thing to the next. he got a little vanity station, a minnie mouse band set and some princess figurines. I'm sure there were other things too, but seeing that it is July now, my memory has faded a little. having a little one around makes everything more fun though. Although nobody around here has lost the spirit of Christmas in the least!

 Our future Doctor got her squishy science set! She  loves anything that has to do with the human body and is always fascinated by how it works. Recently she has told me that she wants to be a baby Doctor that helps babies be born:). This kit has a small scale of the human body with a skeleton that opens up and has all the organs that you can remove. It was especially cool for friends to see because all the organs were so gooey and squishy like the real thing I guess! It is fun to see her passionate about something at such a young age.

 Daddy delivered again again with a special doll for each girl. Brynn got Red Riding Hood and Kira got Alice and Wonderland. I don't know where we are going to put these dolls after a while they are accumulating so many! Especially Brynn:). The girls are also sporting really cute headbands that Effy got them for Christmas. I am really sad that I don't have a single picture of her on Christmas day, crazy! We got her some slippers, a robe, some clothes and a nice Vegan cookbook.

 Makin' some noise

 Going round and round the house striking up the band!

 Over at my mom's house Chrisrmas day making our blitz to both families. Nice pic of all the ladies. I love having sisters!

 Baby Lizzie playing in the wrapping and Mom and daughter looking all cute:). I wish I had taken pictures at Don and Jill's. I guess I was all pictured out, which is really not like me at all. Oh well, we are so lucky to have so much loving family that surrounds us!

Christmas Eve

 Here is Christmas Eve 2011. We honored our tradition of eating out with the Baileys at Mimi's Cafe. Yummy food and always somebody we love to squeeze and hug!

 Here is Tyne being the Mother Mary at Great Grandma Donetta's house. Jill has lots of fun costumes for the kids to choose from to put on the nativity. The girls all seem to want to be angels or Mary. So luckily Jill has plenty of white flowing angel costumes and we rotate Mary each year. Brynn was a faithful shepherd, shepherding her flock of little cousins where they needed to be on stage.:)

 Brynn and Mr. Tripp as a dog/sheep?

 Alayna hid out in Grandmas vintage play kitchen most of the evening and would come out for small appearances.

The whole cast! oldest to youngest: Brynn, Kira, Tagg, Hunter, Tyne, Levi, Tru, Alayna, Autumn and Tripp. Wow, what an awesome family. And that doesn't even include Dru's kids Cache and Nell who did Christmas in California this year. Since then we have added 2 more grand kids with Jen and Chase having baby Calvin and Jeremy and Erin adding to their "T" team with little Tae. That gives us 14 grand kids now, and more to come I am sure:). Grandma Donetta was really cute, after she watched the nativity she said that she had never seen anything like that before! She really liked it. It is so simple, but such a fun part of remembering why we celebrate Christmas.

Getting ready for Christmas...

 Kira hanging ornaments on Cord and Jade's first tree at their wedding shower.

 Alayna loved those candy canes and carried them around everywhere! I am still finding them around in random spots. She was sad she couldn't eat them.

 So excited Christmas was close. I am bummed the picture was blurry, but I had to include it.

 Brynn was very confused when I told her that her little cape was a tree skirt. "what's a tree skirt", she said. But she does look mighty cute!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...we did cut down another tree up Manti canyon  after having a nice Thanksgiving at Seth's parents. It is always fun, although I thought Effy was going to freeze to death and Seth spent three hours on the side of the road in the canyon waiting for a tow truck because the exhaust system dropped right right of our cruiser. Poor guy! We do love our fresh trees though!