Merry Christmas to all.... And to all a Goodnight!!!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. We sure did. We got spoiled. And pictures to come, here is a quick run down of the past week,

Tuesday we had my grandmothers funeral, and if you remember, it was a blizzard, snow was coming in sideways! It was freezing. I did take some pictures, but maybe they are too personal to put on here. The funeral was nice, I actually said the obituary and life sketch! Uhh for those of you who don't know, I NEVER EVER speek in church. So that was a HUGE accomplishment for me! And I think I did rather well!!! We also sand Silent Night, that song will never be the same, and we also sang Away in a Manger. We also did a DI run... read why below

Wednesday Christmas eve!! This day we kinda woke up exhausted from our week with Grandma. But we were having a huge family party tonight, so I was running all the errands for my mom for food and stuff. And getting some last min. gifts, because I hadn't even thought about gifts since last wednesday... and our dinner started at 6. (Last year my sister -in-law Angie decided to come in a "Christmas Sweater 80's style" so we all decided to pick up on it this year. We all got into our sweaters and vests and had a very nice Christmas Sweater Christmas Eve dinner! It is now a tradition.


After dinner, Santa came. He comes every year, and brings everyone a gift. We all take a turn sitting on his lap



and after that usually everyone with kids go home, and those of us with out kids, stay and play games into the wee hours of the night. Sam got Monopoly and we decided to play that all night, when I say all night, I am not joking. He and my brother Spencer went to bed at 4 AM!!!

Thursday CHRISTMAS!!!! We woke up, and drove down for breakfast at the Steele's. Yes, we drove in the blizzard. What should have been a 20 min drive, was now an hour and a half, and we ended up late.... I got stuck TWICE!! It was so scary, they didnt end up plowing the roads until about 130, so we were getting more and more snow on the roads. It was so scary to drive in. I hate driving in snow. We got a great gift from the Steele's.... Food storage, which we will need to start adding to. Oh, on the way to the Steele's Sam stopped at grabbed Omini so he could spend some Christmas with us as well. And we had Omelet's for breakfast, played some games, then decided we better head home, because it was still majorly snowing, and we didnt want to get stuck in another HUGE snow storm. So we got home around 4 which is opening gift time at my parents. So we all gathered in the living room, around the Tree and we take turns opening gifts in our stockings... I got great lotion and shower stuff, and then we open our other gifts. Sam and I were so lucky, my parents got us our VERY OWN COMPUTER!!! So Sam has been setting that up the last two days!! We all got an outfit from my grandma's... Thank you! Then after opening gifts we eat our traditional peach pancakes! They were delicious. While we were all playing with our new games and gifts and toys, it started to snow, and before we knew it, My brother Scot and family got snowed in! They live about 30 min up north, and it was a blizzard. So they slept over, and we had fun and watched a movie!

Friday We woke up, and there was so much snow, that we decided to go sledding. I didn't go, I just wanted to relax. Then they came back, and we decided to go see a movie. After the movie, it was time for Sam and Omi to go to the Jazz game that I got them tickets to go to. That game was a lot of fun, and Sam finished setting up our computer!

Whew, what a week! Today is Saturday, and we are just going to be taking it easy today, and maybe play some of our new games.

I hope everyone had a very nice and safe Christmas. I hope we all thought a little bit about what Christmas really was, and remember the special gift we all got soo long ago.

Merry Christmas to all..... and to all a goodnight!

Catching up on December

Here is some pictures of things we did in December. We went to the Live Nativity down in Alpine. It is a really cool experience.

Abi and Kaylee


Taylor and Jack (Jack is in the black ski mask)


Sam and me on the Sleigh ride over to the place they put on the whole Nativity


Mom and Dad on the hay ride as well....


So at the live nativity, they have camel's, and they had "roman's" riding around on horse back, looking for Baby Jesus. They have a place in a barn where you go around and look at stuff they used to do back then, how they made shepherd crook's, they made clay pots, they had weaving baskets, they had a girl weaving a blanket, they also made bread that was in a little oven... that is where sam and I got our picture taken


And some animals


And in another barn, they had Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. With carolers singing out side the barn door. It was so magical and beautiful. All the kids ACTUALLY thought it was baby Jesus, it was so great to see their face.


Then we took our picture outside the barn


Then we rode a horse trailer on the way back to our cars, and here is some pictures of that...


HAHAHA Sam and Scot are big nerds!


We also went to Temple square to look at lights
Taylor HATES getting his pic taken!!


All the grandbabies


Everyone had to take their picture wearing this hat... Its Richie's from the mission



US!!



All Because Two People Fell In Love.....

Passing away

Today has been a sad day for me and my family. This afternoon at 3 my grandma (who has lived with us for 4 years this passed thanksgiving) passed away. It was very sad, yet happy. Now she is no longer suffering and she is with her husband that she lost a year and a half ago. She had demensia, and was pretty much bedridden for the last year. Since I live in my parents basement, I have had to opportunity to take care of her, when my mom needs a night out. I have gotten really close to my grandma with her living here. Well, her and my grandpa, its sad they are both gone now. But they are so happy where they are, and we are happy they are there. We just miss them while we are here, but we will all be together again soon.

Festival of Tree's

So yesterday (friday) me, my mom, my sister rachel, and my niece Kaylee went to see the festival of tree's. I love going to see all the tree's, and the different kinds that people make up. There is always some beautiful tree's, and it is just so fun to be there. This year, they even had a few Twilight tree's! Lol! So of course I had to take some pictures of it. And there was even ginger bread houses, and of course in Utah, someone had to do the temple, and then there was also twilight houses. And a huge castle, take a look!

This one is made out of glass!


Cute Gingerbread tree...


Twilight Tree 1... sorry kinda blurry, I was trying to snap a pic in a hurry before someone got in my way, cuz it was so crowded. Wait it is every year!


This is the Cullen Christmas tree, this one acutally made it in the news here! lol
sorry, its blury too, people were pushing to see this tree...


That's all the tree's I took, and here are some pic's of the Gingerbread houses...

This is supposed to be a twilight house...


Take a look at this huge castle!!


This is one I took for sam, his idea of Christmas!


The SLC temple!


This one is supposed to be downtown NYC Times square, notice the twilight poster on the side of that building!! LOL

family pictures part 2

These are our "stevens" family pictures. The ones are of my lil Steele family, and the other one is of me and my siblings. I had one of my whole family, but it was too big of a file to put on here.