Visiting on Vacation

Joey had a blast at Great Grandma Sorensen's house!

She has fun toys!

Abby given her Grandma Kathy hugs!

It's SNOWING!

It snowed quite a bunch while we were up in Utah over the holidays. I loved it! Abby had a blast sledding down Grandma & Grandpa Omer's front yard too!

We caught snowflakes on our tongues...

and licked our gloves! Life was good. Well, until the snow soaked through our pants and we thought we were freezing to death! What can you expect, we're Arizonans...and proud of it! :D

Snow pirate?

How many cousins in a tub?

Group baths....good times! :)

Grandma Omer made the grandkids these amazing towels for Christmas this year with their names embroidered on the hoods even! Aren't they beautiful?

Omer Time

Times at the Omer's home are never slow or dull! It was wonderful getting to be with family through the holiday times! This is Dave's Mom and Dad for those who do not know.

I love it that our kids are getting old enough to remember relatives that live far away. Especially Abby talking about them long after we have seen any of them. :)

The famous Utah Aunts! We love you all!

Larsen Family Party'en

Abby ripping it up! This year, she had NO problem figuring out what to do with presents.

Joey practically rolling around in his gifts! His aunts & grandparents spoiled him & Abby rotten!

Pheobe had me this year for her secret sibling...and it was funny, because I was WITH her when she bought this pizza stone! I secretly hoped she had me...and was delighted when I found out she DID!

Where's the mistletoe?

Aunt Chris' aprons! We loved them! She is so talented! Thank you Aunt Chris!

They love their Grandpa!

Talent time--haha, ya right! I try anyway. I'm going to also try and get some video clips of everyone elses' talents on here soon. It was a great talent show this year.

Pheobe is awesome on the guitar!

Guess whose legs? Britta? :)

We ate yummy food, and many of us left with some too!

Santa's First Visit to the Omer Home

Santa was SO excited to give his awesome Craigslist find to Abby on Christmas morning! He could hardly wait!

She likes it! Woohoo!

She was so excited she was even willing to eat a hamburger and a hotdog for breakfast!

She made us eggs and muffins too! Yum!

Our Christmas Morning

Merry Christmas!!

I emphasize "our" Christmas morning because we had Christmas morning on Dec 24th this year. We were leaving to go to Queen Creek and then on to SLC, UT, on Christmas Day (the 25th), around noon...for over a week long vacation...so the idea came and floated around until we decided it would be a much more enjoyable Christmas morning to do ours a day early. And OHHH were we SOOO glad we did. It was wonderful! The kids knew no differently...they would've celebrated Christmas morning in August if we said so! lol

It was a nice relaxed day and home with the kids and we loved it!

I learned that this is how a 2 year old opens her stocking....Dump!

Joey pulling the absolutely adorable all morning!

This is what a shoe is for, right? Eating. We only got Joey a couple present, so I wrapped his shoes separately! :)

Tape is sticky!

Daddy got Abby a princess jacket! Yay!