A Quick Summary of Christmas

We got home last night from our 6 day Christmas vacation which was great.

We were able to see my Dad and grandparents on Tuesday and Christmas Eve with Ryan’s family was a lot of fun as usual. The kids really enjoyed themselves, Alex loves playing with her cousins. One bummer about living far away is that our kids don’t get to play with their cousins as much as we would like. But, I guess that makes the time they do have together that much better.

Christmas morning was great. The kids both got one big present and then a few little things. Connor’s big gift was a Lightning McQueen car that talks, dances, and drives around. Alex’s was a Dora and Pegasus horse that she loves. Ryan and I decided not to do anything for each other (since Christmas came early for us in the form of a TV and new van), but his sister talked him in to spending $20 on me because there was a huge scrap booking sale down in Utah, so I got a ton of stuff. Now I really need to do some scrap booking and I don’t have any excuses.

All in all it was a fun week. Ryan had a lot of fun playing and spending time with the kids. We are all happy to finally be home. Unfortunately Ryan came down with a sinus infection on Friday night. Hopefully he’ll feel better soon. Connor must have caught a little bug yesterday too. Right when we got home he threw up and now has a high fever and is really grumpy. Poor little guy. Even with these little sicknesses, Christmas was great and we feel blessed.

Christmas Vacation

We are all packed up and ready to leave. We are heading down to Utah for our week long
Christmas vacation.

First is a Christmas party today with my Dads family. Tomorrow night a Christmas Eve dinner with Ryan's family and of course Christmas morning brunch at my Moms. The rest of the week we will just visit friends and family. What a great time of the year.

For Sale

As most of you know we bought a new Minivan, not because our old one was bad or run down, but well because I can honestly say I’m a bit spoiled and wanted something a little newer.

Now I wouldn’t normally do this, but anything helps. We are trying to sell our old Minivan so if you know of anyone in the market for an inexpensive minivan that’s in great shape, let them know about ours.

I don’t have any picture but it’s technically “Iris” or grayish-purple, but Alex thinks and says it’s gray, you decide.

1997 Dodge Grand Caravan

Very LOW Miles: Only 74,200 miles

Remote starter with keyless entry

New Sony stereo with CD, USB, I-Pod and AUX

Great Condition and clean (only had two owners)

Brand new front brakes

3.3 Liter V6

Power windows and locks

Tinted sunscreen glass

Cruise control and A/C

$3,995.00 OBO

Hayden’s Blessing

Yesterday we blessed Hayden; Ryan did such a good job. Here are a few pictures of the two baby’s Cameron and Hayden. They are eight days apart. Hayden is on the right.

Just A Little Update

It’s been some time now since my last post so I thought I’d write a little post Thanksgiving update. I’m still down in Utah. We came down Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. We had a really nice Thanksgiving Day with Ryan’s family. Ryan’s cute, pregnant sister did an amazing job hosting our get together. Thanks Karen – you never cease to amaze!
Ryan went home on Sunday and I stayed hoping to get some scrapbooking done which hasn’t happened and probably won’t. I also stayed because Ryan will be baptizing one of our nephews on Saturday and on Sunday his sister Lisa’s baby will be blessed and we’ll be blessing Hayden as well. I didn’t really feel like making the drive down more then I really needed to so I stuck around. Poor Ryan, he had to go back to work.
It has been a pretty uneventful week so far, well kind of. On Monday I bought a new Minivan that I’m really excited about! But, I have to wait until Friday to get it when Ryan comes down so we can both sign all the paper work. I can’t wait to get it - as soon as I do I’ll post pictures and write more about it.