Bella Tres Chic: What's On My Happy List?

Sunday, January 05, 2014

What's On My Happy List?

Our Christmas!
I'm thinking I should have just sent this pic of Kate out as our family Christmas card this year! Oh gosh.. it cracks me up! This is from nursery class. The teacher just strung lights on the kids one Sunday and had a photo shoot.

Wishing a family photo shoot was that simple. Hopefully we will have our act together next year and our dear friends will actually hear from us at Christmas....in the mean time our blog, when I can get it on my priority list :) will have to do....You see this is as close to a family pic as we got taken.... and two kids were missing...haha... it was that crazy dance day...

One of my favorite sites in the whole world.... snow covered everything with a blue sky....

A little work in the snow...

and a little fun in the snow with the cousins! The sleds were tied to the ATV's...Oh boy, fun stuff!

Family Christmas Party at my parents...

Got a pic of Emma with her cousin Kade. I was just so taken back at how much he has grown. They were born just a couple of weeks apart. Both almost 16. I mean, seriously... Look how tall they are? Look at cute they are!

Even though the older kids have retired from being in the nativity I recruited him to be the donkey this year. He willingly led Brie {who got to be Mary} in on his back.

A humor moment for sure! Mary couldn't stay put on that donkey...

Awe...the backstage hoopla getting the grand kids and great grand kids ready for the nativity....

We've seriously been doing this for 30 years now!!

Christmas Eve!

Had to throw this one in...Emma and Hannah were goofing off and dressed Kate up as the girl from the Teen Beach movie. Kate loves that movie!!!

Sweet little Kate. My favorite memory from this Christmas season was when she was helping me decorate the tree and she was admiring a particular ornament, one of her favorites, and she said, "this is so beautiful, it makes me want to cry."

Our Seafood Feast and gift game with Jaren's family....

Christmas Eve we went out late and pulled the sleds with the ATV's again. I got brave this time and took a spin on one of the sleds. SO MUCH FUN! Emma was whipping me around the park field like nobody's business. {Trust me, I got her back.} Lots of squealing and laughter!!

Ready for Santa!!!

He came!!!

The best quote of Christmas morning came from Emma when she opened
up her Santa gift..."I'm just in a little bit of shock here..."

Brie wanted a shoe rack. What a funny kid!

Brie gave daddy this "U" cup that she bought at the Santa store at school.
Look how happy he is with it. :)

She also wrote sweet little notes to everyone. Mine was more like a letter, an assignment she did in school. I could have cried. My favorite gift by far...even beating out my new iphone and cheetah boots.

At Grandma and Grandpa's on Christmas Day!

Kyleigh with her cousin Emily on Christmas!

And with another one of her favorite people!...

She had a photo shoot over the break with her three bestest girlfriends....She loves these girls!

Over the break Jaren and I helped chaperone a Regional Youth activity at the ice skating rink. I was able to snatch a pic of Emma with Kyleigh's friends. Poor Ky was at work. She worked like 34 hours over the Christmas break...

Hannah had a fun time with her friends playing Laser Tag. {Don't want to leave her out, but I have no pics of that.} Emma had a fun outing with a group of her friends sledding and then all 11 of them walked to IHOP.

On New Years Eve we had Chinese take out with Jaren's family, then Kyleigh had some friends over. We made pizzas. I'm not kidding you when I say that girl drank three of those sparkling ciders. She is not a pop drinker but boy! when it comes to Mormon wine, as we like to call it,...she guzzles it.

I love the holidays and THE FOOD! We've had some enjoyable nights out with friends...childhood friends and their husbands, neighbor couples, my best friend and her husband... but our New Year's Day date took the cake. Jaren and I went on a double date with Kyleigh and her date. K... how funny is that?...{How did I get this old for that to even happen? haha.} We went for sushi, went shooting at the gun range, {my very first time ever!} and then we watched Bond. Fun, fun night!