.:.Christmas Night.:.

Christmas night Ed and Linda got us a suite at the Iron Blossom Lodge at Snowbird and boarding passes the next day for a fun Christmas present. We seriously had so much fun. I don't know how many times I have said this but I really am so lucky to have such an amazing family. We have SO much fun together! We were planning on taking Bailey with us and trading off playing with her while the others ride but Chris and I were pretty sick so we thought she would probably have a better time with her Grandma Cindy. Soooo we ended up heading up the canyon around 6 during a snowstorm good thing our Nissan is awesome in the snow. Then we get to the parking lot and got stuck 2 times in the snow! And I mean really stuck. Actually every car in our group got stuck so by the time we got the our room everyone was ready to get the party started. We had a glass of wine while everyone got there and then went to dinner at the hotel's restaurant. Dinner was fabulous and we had a lot of laughts. Chris is a Christmas baby so for only the 2nd time in his life he was sung to at a restaurant on his bday. (The first time was when we went to my families house in California for Christmas in 05.) Then we headed back to the room and got suited up for the hot tub. The next day we woke up to the sound of guns shooting for avalanches and apparently there was a really big one headed for our hotel and the whole north side of the building was evacuated. By the time the mountain was safe enough to ride on we had decided we will just come up another time and just hang out that day. We headed over to lunch and then the guys all dugg out the cars. Then after we got down into the city Chris, Adam, Erin and I took our boards to this sledding hill by our house and practiced a little. We had a really fun time and we can't wait to actually go boarding!

Janelle, Linda and Erin in the hotel room getting ready to go to dinner

Birthday boy at dinner
Chris and Adam
The leftover calamari that Chris and Adam cheered



Getting ready to go hot tubbing... Nell showing off the guns
I love this picture of my Linda Lou!
Trying to set up rock band
opening presents
Ed sporting Chris's hat
The snow that night
Linda and Cade

We love rock band!
The next day

This is the parking lot outside of our hotel... it took HOURS to get out! Thanks guys!

Here is Adam's truck

.:.Christmas Morning.:.

Christmas morning was so much fun now that Bailey is getting into opening presents! We woke up around 9 and Bailey was still sleeping so we went into her room singing to her. She looked at us like we were crazy people and she wasn't really sure what was going on. My Mom, Aunt and Ashley came over to open presents followed by Cindy, Bob, Adam, and Great Grandma and Grandpa Anderson. Christmas is also Chris's birthday so we met the rest of our family that night at Snowbird's Iron Blossom lodge to celebrate and go boarding the next day.

Christmas morning...
Playing with her toys
Chris's birthday crown!
So excited!



I love this one...she is sitting on her 4 wheeler carring her stroller and drinking her milk! What a doll!
Elmo slippers!

I am so sad! I can't find a ton of the pictures I took on Christmas :( This is all I have.

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve was so awesome. I woke up and made a yummy breakfast for my little family, while Bailey and I danced to Christmas music in the kitchen. Then we were greeted by our mailman with a package from my parents which included 3 presents that were to be opened on Christmas Eve (I had an idea what those were :D) We got ready for Susie's annual Christmas eve party and watched A Christmas Story. Susan's party is always so much fun the kids all run around like wild things while I catch up with my cousins. Lisa and Quin ended up coming which I wasn't expecting so that made me very happy. After all the cousins left we exchanged presents with Lisa, Quin, Ashley, Mom and Susan. We got a new digital video camera that we are so stoked on! Then we went home opened our Christmas Eve presents from Mema and Papa (Christmas jammies...YAY!) watched a Christmas story again and read Bailey "The Night before Christmas." We were all sick so we just tried to relax and enjoy each other.

Me and Bailey at the Christmas Eve party
Lisa and Quin
Me Chris and B

Bailey's new doll from my cousin Holly...she has m&m's all over her face because we couldn't keep her away from them :)
My mom and Bailey coloring
Ashley and Nathan
Hailey and Bailey coloring the presents
Lisa Quin and Chris
I don't know how I managed not to get a picture of Susie! Sorry love you thank you for throwing this party for our family every year. We all love it!

YEAH!!!

Christmas came early for us this year. The other night we went over to Ed and Linda's house to meet up before going to dinner and they gave us our Christmas present early {which they never do!} Anyway... they gave us a camera!!!! Yeah! Ours has been broken since last January when we went to dinner with friends at Hopper's and it fell off the table. The battery would never stay charged so it would turn off constantly! I cannot tell you how much I have wanted a new camera! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! So of course we took a ton of pictures that night.


Right after we opened the camera! I was so excited!

Me and Er
Hanging out before going to Aristo's for dinner
Bailey at dinner
Ed and Chris having a deep conversation. :)
When we got home Chris wanted to see how the camera would do when I take pictures of him wakeboarding or snowboarding, so we practiced...


I got in on the action too!

Then on Saturday we went back to the Parents house for some gingerbread man making! So much fun!

Bailey and her cousin Payton {She loves her!}
Me and Bailey

The guys got in on the action!!!

Bailey, Linda and Dahlia working away...
Ransom, Candice and Sue
Ed's gingerbread woman!!! SOOO funny!
B's cute pigtails
These two are Bailey's creations
The girls playing



So I will definitely be posting more pictures soon!