The holiday season

The Christmas season is by far my favorite time of the year.  I always joke with Dan about it being 'almost Christmas' once Halloween rolls around.  This year was pretty exciting.  We had a small Christmas party with my family at our house with turkey and potatoes and stuffing and all the extras a week or so before Christmas.  We exchanged sibling gifts and watched It's a Wonderful Life.  My sister Katrina crocheted everyone in my family (10 people!) a scarf!  My brother Nathanael drew a picture of Dan and Jade as his gift to me.  

Here is a picture of Jade with her uncle Joshua.  She has so much fun playing with the boys and they have fun teaching her new things.

Jade wanted to help cook the turkey.

Uncle Mike came home from his mission on December 23rd and we got to meet up with him at the Salt Lake airport before he continued his flight to Idaho.  We only got to chat for a little while but it was really fun.
Here we all are at the Pocatello airport.  Mike's flight had been delayed for about an hour so we hung out at the airport with not much to do.  Luckily the girls, (Jade and Rylee) had a lot of family members to entertain them.
Christmas morning at Grandma Lou's and Grandpa Doug's.  
This was Jade's main present this year, an inflatable bus with balls inside.  She really had fun with it, climbing in and out of the windows and windshield.
My dad and step-mom got this princess castle for Jade and she has had so much fun with it.  She loves that she can crawl in and out of there.

For my birthday Dan decided to get me a Wii, even though I insisted we really didn't need one.  He surprised me and I'm so glad that he did.  It's been a lot of fun and he also got me the Wii fit too so I've been working out with that.  It's a lot of fun, the yoga is my favorite.

We had such a wonderful year and we're so glad that we've been so close to friends and family.  It's going to be very hard to say good-bye to our families for two and a half years to go to Minnesota, they've become some of our best friends.  Until then we'll enjoy all the time we have with them.