Christmas Day

The kids awoke bright and early (5:30 a.m.) Christmas morning. They were ecstatic that Santa came to our house. Kasen reassured us that he had been good all year. Kasen loves music and wanted a drum set. Well Santa gave in and brought him one. BIG MISTAKE!It is so loud, but his face was priceless when he opened it. He also got the WII in which he loves playing Mario Kart. Kasen loved all of his gifts and couldn't wait to open and play with each one.


Avery's favorite gift was her motorized Volts Wagon Bug. SCARY DRIVER she is. I am not sure how much more our walls can take. She got a Dora Magna Doodle in which she loves drawing on and baby puppy who wines and cries. By 7:00 a.m. We were off to Pahrump Grandma and grandpas.

Christmas Eve in Las Vegas

It is tradition that we go to my parents house on Christmas Eve in Las Vegas and spend Christamas day with Nicks family. My kids are one of the lucky few that get three Christmas by the time we are finished. We always have a nice dinner. This year was the best yet. It was so cute to listen to Kasen tell my parents that Christmas is not just about presents, but it is actually Jesus birthday. He was really excited and gave our Christmas dinner prayer. Also a couple of weeks ago he gave a talk in church about the birth of Jesus and why we celebrate Christmas. He had asked if he could give that same talk at our Christmas dinner. It just set the tone to such a beautiful and fun night together as a family.

Now, I would be lying if I said Kasen did not care about presents. He loves them! I think he loves opening them. Some of the packages he ripped open so fast he didn't even look inside. He was just on to the next one.

He got a remote control car, doctor set, umbrella, clothes, Power Rangers, Transformers and the list goes on. He just got plain SPOILED! Avery on the other hand kind of sat back and watched for a minute. It didn't take her long to figure out that unwrapping was a blast. My mom does a cute thing to label the gifts. Instead of writing their names on tags, she prints pictures of them that she has taken through out the year. Little Avery had no trouble finding all of her gifts.

Avery got a Pack n Play set, new baby, remote control car, umbrella, clothes, etch a sketch and her list goes on as well. Her auntie sent a cute Princess tiara and wand. It was so funny. Later Avery kept saying Abbra Cadabra (spelling error I'm sure) make brother disappear. Our evening came to and end and my kids were so grateful to spend time with their Las Vegas grandma and grandpa. Thanks again for all of the wonderful gifts.

Snow Day..... in Pahrump!!!

Snow Day in Pahrump! Yep that is right. I got Thursday, December 18 off of work. I was in the shower when I got the call. We had thought something bad had happened because you usually do not get phone calls at 5:00 a.m. When my school secretary called and said snow day me and Nick kind of chuckled. There was only about an inch or two of snow. Of course my children always wake up early so by 6:15a.m. we were outside playing in the snow. By 7:00 a.m. we had gone up to McDonald's to get breakfast. The rodes were just fine. We had a great time playing in the snow and lucky me I got the day off of work! (The top right pic was taken Wed. at about 4:00p.m. The others were taken on Thursday.)

Avery hates wearing jackets or clothes in general. When I saw that she was crying I thought she was just cold. I was wrong. She was mad about having to wear her jacket and hat.


Nick and the kids worked hard building a snowman. I am sad to say that it had melted before I even got a picture of it. I think the last time it had snowed like this it was in 1979. What a fun and exciting day!

Pre-School Christmas Program

Kasen had his Pre-School Christmas program on Wednesday, December 16. He had a huge fan club. Both grandmas and grandpas came, great grandma and grandpa, uncle Mike, Uncle CJ, aunt Nikki and cousin Matthew all came to watch. Kasen did a great job. He SANG! It is hilarious watching all the kids up on the stage and all the funny things that they do. Kasen worked hard learning all of the songs and bible verses. We are very proud of him.

Avery, cousin Matthew and Kasen. Kasen was so happy that his cousin came to watch. We have a fantastic family and thanks for all the support.

Christmas Tree

We decorated our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. I think we beat the record. Our tree was up and decorated by 6:45 a.m. Yes, we are sooo lucky our kids are early risers!( a little late on the posting)

Santa Claus

Kasen was in deep conversation with Santa. He told him that he wanted dinosaurs, Power Rangers, Transformers, a baseball set and the list just kept on going and going and going. It was so cute. Now when it came to Avery that was another story. In between the cries she kept saying "your a naughty Santa and you scare me.















We finally were able to bribe her with a candy cane. She ran up long enough to grab the candy cane and took off running back to dad. Maybe next year.

Family Cristmas Pictures

I was so excited that we had are apointment booked over Thanksgiving. I vowed there would be no procrastinating this year. Of course that also came with a price. Avery was extremely sick with a cold(and a bright red nose), we had to leave Parhump at 7:30 a.m. and of course nobody felt like taking pictures.

It all worked out. We were able to pick a few that we liked. Nick agrees that when it is all said and done it is worth it. So for all of our family out there I hope you appreciate the pics! HA HA