It's A Wonderful Life

We really are blessed with a wonderful life.

We have priveledges in our lives that so many in this world do not have.

A couple of days after Christmas Cara, Hannah, Mike and I

headed to Hurricaine, Utah where Tracey and Brent live.

It was 35 degrees but beautiful there. Here are a few pix.

How could anyone deny God created this world?

Here are two of my favorite people in the whole world. I can always count on having a good time when we're together.

Here's Ellie's new husband Dave; he is a great guy and Ellie

is an extremely happy woman. I am looking forward to spending fun times together with them.

I didn't get any pix of Ellie or Dave playing the wii Mario Kart

but Becky and Don were a riot to watch.

I think they secretly hoped Hannah would ask them if they wanted to play.

It must have been very hard work to keep those little karts on the track.

Or maybe they were suffering from hypothermia and just wanted to go to sleep.

It was great fun for me though - thanks Ellie, Dave, Becky and Don for coming

down and spending time with us over the holidays.

Happy New Year!

Let Me Share

Let me share our Christmas activities with you......

This is how the festivites began.

Mike was in a skit with the Bishopric for our ward Christmas party.He liked to call it "Flash Dance"; everyone else called it the flashlight dance.

What do think of his form?

Now moving on.... The weekend before Christmas the entire family met at Mother's house for her annual breakfast. It's always exciting and fun because this is the first of the family gatherings during this time of year. Here are a few photo's from the day.

Hannah, Kayley, Katey, Katelyn and Ella - "Do you think we're cute?"

Here's Cameron watering his grape....it's a LONG, precious story we won't go into.

Here we have - from left to right: J.J., Kacey, Sandy and Miles These four are always happy. And here we have Steve and his wife Ashley. They must have been laughing at the incredibly funny song Bryant sang for us. Hannah and Carter hanging out with their dads.

Hello Carter, you're cheeks are cute enought to pinch!" "As well as yours Audrey......oh wait a minute, what's this?"

And then there's Lon. Guess what he got for Christmas?

We will now fast forward to Christmas Eve.

This is how Christmas, 2008 all began for usI love the look of Christmas!

Our Christmas eve dinner with Elder Race & Elder Urbanik Hannah and Mike putting food out for Santa's reindeer.

And then there was Christmas morning.....

Mario Kart for wii !!!

Deodorant?

A new fleece jacket.....

a new X Box game...

Could it possibly be a new car sterio???

A new mp3 player!

We had a blast watching Grandma Hess play Mario Kart with Hannah.

Daddy even enjoyed a little of the competition.

All of that competition was exhausting, so it was nice to snuggle down under this cute throw Keeley sent her Dad. It was important to catch up on some sleep that was lost.

So we would be ready for the next phase later that evening.

Say Goodnight Audrey....

The End