Our Christmas Break

Well, we had a nice LONG break for Christmas. We left to go to Gilbert on December 16th and came home January 3rd. So we got to veg for 2 1/2 weeks. It was fabulous to be with our families for such a long time. Here are just a few pictures. We made Ginger bread Houses...my dad was pretty intense as he built a castle...I don't even know if he ended up finishing it was Huge :D

I will admit, Chad did most of the work on ours. He wanted it to be themed tiki huts.

Makenna and Jasons turned out really neat...you'll just have to imagine I guess. But we had a really fun time.

Emrie LOVED opening presents this year. She was very animated. Especially when she opened an Elmo that daddy got her. She ripped the paper off the face and her arms went out, mouth wide open and started shaking, no sound...until a squeal of delight, followed by 2 more screams. It was HILARIOUS. We did catch it on video thank goodness, but I'm not sure how to upload it on here from our camcorder.

She loved her Uncle Karson's new shoes and had to put them on.

And this is her adorable christmas dress Grandma Kay made. It had the maroon and black tool that comes out the bottom, but I couldn't get her to pose or hold still for me.

Overall it was so much fun. We were a little sad to leave and come back to Flagstaff alone, but at least we live close.