This Christmas we were all invited up to my Sister Meghans' beautiful home in Jeremy Ranch, which is in Park City. We were so excited to finally all be together, although a little crazy...with 12 adults and 14 kids in one house YIKES!!!
We had soo much fun driving up to Utah knowing we would soon see the long awaited snow!! It was a beautiful drive and the kids loved having their own little "slumber party" in the back with all their junk food and movies of course!!
The first thing we all did was get our snow gear on and Merrick made snowballs with the snowball maker that grandma had got them, Kristian did what he does best and started shoveling the pile of snow that they had on their back deck, Fischer was dodging Merricks perfectly made snowballs and Campbell made a big fat snowman with Uncle Rob and her cousins Taylor & Bailey.
I absolutely love it when my sisters and I are all together, it is so rare these days that we totally take advantage of it when it happens!! We sit around and laugh, play games, eat lots of baked goodies that we've all made, go shopping, go to dinner, go sledding, go to the movies and we even got to do a "Spa Day" with my Mom while the boys stayed home with the kids! Soo Fun...
The cousins also LOVE being together in one big house!! They made snowmen, went tubing, had snowball fights, watched 3D movies, made forts, took "tubbies" together, reinacted the Christmas Story and dressed up as the live nativity, danced, played Ethan's coveted x-mas gift-The Wii a ton, decorated gingerbread men and houses, played x-mas bingo etc.
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Here we are striking up our best "Olan Mills" pose in her cute sweaters!! Even the guys benefited from them...You gotta love the "80's maroon" mock turtle neck with 3/4 sleeves 1/2 shirt that I made Kristian wear...Thanks again Mom!!
BTW I love this guy...
And I just had to take a picture of my new 9 foot Christmas tree that I waited till after Christmas last year to get and was practically the first in line at 5 in the morning waiting to get "the best deal" around!!
Sorry Fish, I don't know what happened here, but this is the only good one I got of you showing off your "loot".
And this is one of my most favorite christmas gift of all time!! I finally got the Willow Tree style Nativity Set from My Mom and Dad!! I love it soo much!!
My cute Christmas decor which makes my house look soo cozy, I love Christmas time!!
Campbell was sooo excited about her new Barbie Diamond Castle princess dress that she ran over and gave her Amee the biggest hug!! It was soo cute.
Then of course, not another minute was wasted before she had it on and was modeling it all over the house!! She wants to wear that dress everyday now...Thanks Judy!!
We Love you Judy (Amee)!! Thanks for all the fun Christmas presents and spending the last 2 months with us!! We can't wait till you move here!! (wink wink)
They have all kinds of huge blow up christmas characters that are lit up in their front yard...I know, I know, that last phrase actually sounded like we were going to a white trash house but it was done with class, I promise.
Here we all are trying to get everyone in this group pix, which can be very hard when you have 10 kids who want to all run wild!!
This is another one of their amazing decorations that is about as big as a 2 story house!! This pix doesn't do it justice, seriously. They also provide hot cocoa, apple cider and cookies and people who donate their time to work there!
One of the rooms that were transformed.
My cute Mom and Dad.
This is basically their living room.
Another amazing perk they do here is let each child pick out a toy!! And they have about 20 different bins that are set up with all kinds of toys to choose from!! Seriously..who are these people?? Soo generous!!
We know what Cami went for...Cute Little Princess!!
