Christmas came and went!

Thought I'd better post once more before the New Year!! We've been busy as usual! Kaylee and Shaylin came home from Utah to spend the holidays with us, as well as My niece Melissa, and my Sister Kathy. We had many great game nights, and lots of great laughs!! Spending nights warming up by the fire, watching Mama Mia as many times as we could!! We all went snowmobiling 2 days after Christmas, and there was SOOOOOO much snow in the mountains...it's going to be a great year if this snow keeps up!

Although..,I thought I'd never be so glad to see the RAIN come! It started with 3 snow days right before the Christmas break from school, and it just kept on dumping!! We haven't seen this much snow in downtown Puyallup for years!! Kaylee and Shaylin were looking forward to leaving the snow behind in Utah...but NO such luck! It not only snowed...but it stayed for a WEEK!!
We rode our snowmlbiles around downtown Puyallup a couple of times, Kevin pulled the kids on their new sleds, and we even tried the quads out in the snow!! A riot!! We built a 10 foot snowman. (with Jon's help..Shaylins boyfriend) Wierd to even be able to have that much snow to even think about building such an enourmous thing!! Pretty cool!! It was nice to have everyone here for Christmas...just missing Ryan and Casey and the kids!! They also announced our number 3 grandbaby to arrive in July of 2009!! Hooray!!

Shaylin

Kaylee
Melissa, Me and my Sis

Our 10 foot snowman...yes, we measured!

The snow is here!

Well not actually in downtown Puyallup anymore, but hopefully this week, (since I have to pick up the girls at the airport) on Friday night it will be snowy!! But after Nate Webb's reception, we walked out to the car to find this!!!! Snowing like crazy!! Our first of the year!!

This is Tanner nailing Jaycee with a freshly made snowball!! As you can see, we were totally unprepared for this snowfall!! No coats...gloves...ect!! Oh well....gotta love it when you get it!!And so Kevin gets a huge one to return back to Tanner...because Jaycee is ticked that she got nailed!! They make me laugh!! And this is Tanner running away (very fast) so he WON'T get nailed by the humongous snowball Kevin made!! Tanner couldn't get enough of this snow....I said, Tan......your hands are going to freeze...it's time to go, hop in the car!!!

And this is Tanner saying..........OUCH....I can't even feel my fingers!!!! So he finally got into the car!! We are SOOOOOOOO ready for some snow to play in!! K...gotta get to finishing up Christmas stuff!!

Just for fun!

Tanner says.....ya, this car would be a good 1st car! (get a GOOD job Tan!! :>)

Kevin wanted to send some business Christmas cards out, and knew that his employee's...(well actually just 1 employee) wouldn't be too cooperative with photo's. So...his Family was more than willing to pose and use the convertable to aid in some photo card shots! Not too bad, considering!! Kevin was getting frustrated because we had a MAJOR downpour on our way to the shop, so we were trying to decide how we could get some shots inside...just not the same!! But LO and behold...it stopped raining for 30 minutes while we took some shots~ Thank-you Mother Nature!! Are you ready for Christmas?!

December is here!

Me and Kev
Where did they get this train anyway!! So cool!!

Jaycee and Tanner in the train!

Happy Tanner gets his scriptures early!!

Grama and Grampa House and Tanner

Tree is up and decorated..by the 29th of Nov!!

And I have become a horrible blogger!!! But I am getting ready for Christmas!! So guess some things have to give! Grama and Grampa House were here for a week to spend time with us for Thanksgiving. It was nice to have them here! They will be going into the MTC on January 5th for their mission! Since they will not be able to make it here for Tanner's baptism in May~ they brought him his scriptures early!! He was SOOOOOOO excited!!! He has had mine by his bedside for 3 weeks now...so he was so happy to have his own!!

We got our tree 2 days after Thanksgiving this year...don't know how I talked Kev into that...but he was also on the ball and put the outside Christmas lights up the day after as well!! On the ball or what?! We went to the Red Barn Tree Farm out in Orting to get our tree. I love that place..the kids love the train ride and hunting forever for that perfect tree!!

Kaylee, Shaylin, my Sister Kathy and niece Melissa all come in on the 19th to spend the holidays with us~ SOOOO excited to have them all here!!! Games...games, here we come!!