Grand darlings shots...

Cannon and Reese playing with his Santa toy. They are such good sharers....

Cara and Reese with Cara's soon to be opened sewing machine!

Kurt and Cannon Christmas morn.Kylie and her Mom.

Jen and Cannon opening up his Santa gift. It was great having all of our children home for Christmas.

Cannon enjoying the bouncy ball that Santa brought Kylie.

Kylie opening her Barbie and horse set.

Reese and Cannon hanging out with Bapa.

Bapa and Cannon. Cannon was having a blast using the box as a drum!

Christmas Morning in Alpine

The tree is ready with gifts all around. Thanks girls for helping me with the wrapping!

Rick and Cathy Christmas morning...thirty years of Christmases together. Rick got his neopreme chest waiters!!!

Conrad and Jamie Christmas morn.

Kurt and Jen with their Ute gear! Kurt graduated from the U this month! So proud and happy for them!

Cara, Mom and Kels. The girls always give me my Mary Engelbreit desk calendar! Love it!

Almost Christmas day!

I'm still in my "cute" outfit from our Christmas Evening! The kids all have their jammies on. Reading some Christmas stories, etc.

Our little miss Reese. She is a little dolly.

Kurt and Jen watching the girls make the bundt rolls.

Jamie and Cara making three pans of bundt rolls. A first!!!

Conrad and Jamie and their girls. All ready for Santa to visit our home..... ready for a long winter's nap!

Jammie time!

Cara and Kelsey being silly! Love this shot.

The girls and the joke, jammies! I got these from some Grandma's....

Reese with her new jammies. Wide leg is in...ok?

Cannon and Bapa with the little one's jammies.

Kylie and her new nightgown with short sleeves. A special request....remember they do live in Arizona.

Christmas Eve 2010

Aunt Cathy and Ella. I made her, her first quilt!

We decided to dress up in "fun" Christmas wear and look dorky to meet the Hilton's at the airport! We had to make a quick stop at Craig and Kathleen's to deliver some little gifts.

Here we are at the airport fashion runway! We had a lot of fun greeting Jamie and Conrad and the girls.

Here is another shot of us!

Conrad's outfit was really meant for Jamie but Jamie talked Conrad into wearing it! The boys look groovy!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

We took these pictures last summer before Jamie & Conrad headed off to Arizona. Kylie is four....what can I say? We were all dying laughing at her melt down....Conrad's expression is priceless!

All the grand-darlings are happy here!

We wish all of you a very Merry Christmas....let's all take time to reflect on the many blessings that Father in Heaven shower's on us every day. Life may not be perfect but we all can learn from our trials and I know that I have learned to lean even heavier on our Savior as I go through difficult times. I am so grateful for the example of my Savior. I hope one day to be more like Him. It all started with a family....and we are all one big family. Love to all who read this and our family is grateful for all of you who make our lives even more meaningful. We are truly blessed.

Nativity/chili night!

Saturday night we had Brent and Jenn and their two little boys, The Vance family and Janelle Cammack from our Michigan days over for chili and then off to see a live nativity that came complete with camels and every animal one could imagine. Well.. almost! No zebra's or elephants! They had it in two barns where you could pet camels, llama's, goats, sheep, donkey and horses with Roman soldiers on them! Then you could see the people (all dressed up in period costumes) weaving baskets, working with leather, measuring food, etc. then you walked between the luminaries to another barn that had young people singing Christmas carols and when you walked inside there was Mary and JOseph with a real baby laying in a manger with swaddling clothes. It was very moving. Thanks to the Hayes family for doing this for our community.
Afterwards, we came back home and Jeanie provided us with a hot beverage bar with different hot chocolates, wassail, etc. What a fun evening. Brent and Jenn went home before I got my camera out...shoot! (no pun, intended). Then the remaining girls stayed up late and watched Eclipse. It was most definitely better than the second Twilight movie. Good memories and new traditions?

Festival of Trees

Every ornament has to be glued then wired on the tree. Everything you see on the tree and around the tree goes with the bid! The bidding is tonight Wednesday, NOvember 30 and Rick and I will be there for the opening gala... It was cold in there!!! The doors were open so people could bring their trees in. Many had theirs already decorated and just wheeled them on. Many of the trees are dedicated to those who have passed away.

The designers of Jolly & Bright! The theme for our tree. Two new friends for me!!! one of the blessings of the project.

There are so many tree's at the South Town Expo. This is the first time I have done this. I went to the Festival of Trees years ago when I was maybe ten? This is the Festival's 40th year anniversary!

Rick sanded these letters and Jackie "bedazzled" them! I made the tree skirt and Dawn bought the orange shimmery fabric to hide the floor a little.

The finished product. I was there from ten to seven p.m. ONe long day and I'm glad I brought some snacks. We were so busy we had no lunch or real food until we got home! It was a fun & creative day and I would do it again!!! So many neat people that I was able to meet...so much creativity in one Expo Center!!!

Temple Square with the family...

Here is the Salt Lake Temple...

Here we are before we brave the cold!

We ran into our cousins the Pettit's!

Jamie, Reese and Conrad at Temple Square. Reese was a trooper!

The girls in front of the temple.

Pre-Turkey dinner at Snowbird!

Here is our littlest grand darling, Reese and her Daddy, Conrad.

Nanette and Joe up at Snowbird.

Jamie and Jen...our two married daughters.

Kurt and Conrad before the feast!

Reese, Morgan and Camaron. They are getting married next month!

Three generations of likeness!

Zach, Tony and Grandpa Ron chowing down on the food!

Cathy, Cannon and Rick.