Christmas 2010

Yes, it's only the day after Christmas and I am already blogging! Miracles do still happen! It was a quiet, but lovely Christmas and everyone was happy.

This is at Ryan's school, after his choir program. I took a couple of videos, but they didn't turn out very well. He did a good job though.

We managed to get a couple of great pictures of Grandma Medellin smiling! Good photography Tanae. That fast camera is paying off! We were so glad to have Grandma stay with us for a couple of days.

On Christmas Eve, we had a lovely dinner, then played the White Elephant game and opened the presents that Tina brought over. Sorry, we didn't end up with any pictures of Tina on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Morning was a big hit! Ryan woke up about 4a.m. but had instructions not to call me till 7:30. I finally took pitty on him and got up at 7:15. The happy smile below is seeing that we had in fact received a Wii from Santa.

I had a friend of mine paint a canvas of the Star Wars Death Star for Ryan's wall. He loves it, however he spotted a snow rover in space, oops my bad.

Sierra got a guitar, so she can take lessons and learn to accompany herself.

Tanae is ready for the snow in Rexburg!

I am a sleepy mess, but happy with my fun gifts!

Even Jenny got to celebrate Christmas and was very excited to immediately go out and bury them!

We are so thankful for the many blessings we have this Christmas Season, especially for the spirit of service and love the birth of our Savior brings at this time of year. I'm very thankful for all of my family, I love and appreciate you more than you will ever know!

November's a little late

The second week of Nov. was a beautiful 70 degrees. Ryan and I dejunked his room so I could paint it. He'd been wanting to have a lemonade stand, so I told him if he sold the old toys he'd outgrown he could keep the money. That got him excited and by 1:00 on Saturday he had things sorted and ready to sell. He went down the street and set up his stand where I could see him through the window while I was painting. The poor kid sat there for 3 hours without a sale. I walked over and bought a soda from him and asked if he wanted to give up? He said he'd try another hour. Soon, he made a couple of sales, then some neighborhood friends came by. Ryan offered this cute little guy a dollar if he'd hold up the sign and dance around as cars went by! In that last hour he made $30.00. Donald Trump may have some competition!

Yea, we finally got the Thanksgiving pictures up so we'll be able to move on to Christmas. No one actually got pictures of the Thanksgiving feast, but these were some pretty good leftovers!

We had a snowy, but fun Thanksgiving. It was great to have Nick & Janine's family, Tiff & Cody's family, Grandma, Tina, Tanae, & Paul (Janine's brother) join us.

Tea can't believe mommy let her have a turkey cupcake:)

Joel deciding whether he likes Uncle Ryan.

The kids painted some great pictures.

The best part of vacation for Tanae and Sierra is always a nap!

Tea knows she loves uncle Ryan.

Danica modeling her new hat.

Reid always gives great hugs!!

Joel is so squeezeable!

The kids were so happy to play with their cousins!

Thanks for all the fun guys. Sorry the roads were such a mess this year. We really missed everyone who couldn't make it!