Christmas Morning

Santa came and ate his cookie and drank his juice. He read the letters from the girls and went straight to work. Filling the stockings and dumping out his bag of gifts.

The girls Uncle Sam made them each a doll house bookcase. I painted them so that they would be ready for Christmas morning. The girls were thrilled. Mckenna got a New Bike and a paint set and Ellyce got a camera and a doll from Santa.

The girls woke up at 7:00 am and had to wait until 7:45 for grandpa. At about 8:00 Uncle Randy and Jake came to watch them open thier gifts.

Carolyn got her Chocolate Pearls. She was so excited.

Byron got clothes. All and all, it was a fun day. Later Uncle JB and aunt Karen came to Dads and we went down to see them. Then we went to St. George to see my family.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve. We always open up Pajama's.

Here are McKenna's slippers

Ellyce loved her TinkerBell Slippers

High School Musical and TinkerBell Pajama's were a hit

Every Christmas Eve we have a dinner and invite family that can come. we have prime rib and lots of good food. we had 23 this year.

Grandma Great! came and enjoyed her meal. It is always so much fun to have her here at our home. Hard to believe that she is 97.

Mom and Dad

Keith and Randy

Here is a pic of all of us.

Piano Recital

McKenna and her Teacher Kendall after the recital. McKenna played Jingle Bells

Here they are playing a duet

As if we didn't have enough going on the Sat. before Christmas.

Christmas Dance recital and Family pics.

Last night our girls performed in thier first Christmas recital. The Dance group has not done a recital at Christmas before. They did so well. After the recital Carolyn and I decided that since thier hair already done that we would try and get our family pics done too. I think that they turned out good. Carolyn has now lost 57 pounds and I have lost 55. Hard to believe how over weight we were. What difference! Anyways here's our pics

My mom made the dresses again this year. I think that they get better every year. I don't know what we would do without her. We are so lucky to have her.

This is before the dance recital. Thay had all of the parents bring a wrapped gift to the recital to donate to a needy family this year and they used them as the decorations at the recital. What a great idea. If you knew of a needy family, you were invited to come up and pics some of them out and take them to the family that was in need.

All Decked Out

We finally finished our decorating for the holidays. I didn't think it would actually happen before time to take it all down. I think it turned out great!

This is the family room

another view in the family room

Family room again

this is the entry, it is our Santa Collection

The living room tree. We have the lenox collectables and glass ornaments on this tree.

In the living room we have put ourcollection of nativities.

This is above the sink in the kitchen. We made these the year we were selling them to raise money to do invetro-fertilization to get McKenna and Ellyce. I we made so many Santa's that we thought we were going to throw up Santa's for the rest of our lives.