NEW YEARS!

We spent New Years Eve at GnG Wagner's house again this year! We always have so much fun with our Idaho cousins. ShaRee had the cute idea of getting everyone hats and letting them decorate them! They turned out really cute!
These four girls are way cute together.

Olivia had lots of fun in all the wildness! But she did poop out around ten or so which is pretty late for her...

HAPPY NEW YEAR- Only Izzy and Jessica were still wake at midnight.

Sammie and Izzy thought it'd be really funny to put some stickers on Izzy's face.

Then it kinda got out of hand, I was worried they were going to pull off her eye brows or something. But her face was just really red.

We ended the night playing Settlers of Catan and the New Super Mario Brothers for the Wii. We were in the middle of Settlers when it turned midnight, so we looked at each other, said HAPPY NEW YEARS, and kept on playing.

JON'S HOME!

Jon came home on the 30th. Olivia had been extremely sick all week so we decided to just meet him at Wagners and not take her out in the cold. We are soo excited to have him home! He is always so fun and smiley! We love you Jon! We're glad you're back and glad you served such an honorable mission!

Christmas2009

Christmas Eve we started out early with a breakfast with my family, forgot to bring the camera... But it was YUMMY and fun! That night we went go our Great Grandpa and Grandma Hansons for yummy finger foods and a FABULOUS slide show! They did it once when we were dating and I told them how fun I thought it was and they were kind enough to do it again!

After the Hanson party we came home and opened our one gift. Jammies and a movie! Isabel has been WAITING and WAITING to see Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure which she got.

She loves her night gown, which she calls a "ball gown" she got a bunch more from Santa and has to put on a "ball gown" every day.... sometimes she changes into one at nap time even.

Liv wasn't really up to opening her one present so Iz opened it for her and I put on her pjs before bed. Liv got Up which they have watched every day since.

This is after Santa arrived. There is a rumor floating around the Wagner family that Santa's helpers injured his back while helping Santa load the "sleigh" and that Santa's sleigh broke when it got to our house and he unloaded EVERYTHING there. But I heard that Beckem got a lot of stuff too, so maybe he just split the sleigh between our two houses. :D hehehe I THINK that SANTA was just super excited this year to have older kids that would have so much fun. Santa really wanted the stockings to be stuffed full, and this is one area he will admit he might have over done it since everything he got didnt' fit in the stockings.

This is Isabel opening her first present. I was worried once she saw the kitchen she wouldn't open anything, but she did, WHEW!

Olivia's favorite thing was wripping off all the bows, she did pretty good opening up a lot of presents... though I did open up the rest while she was taking a nap.

I can't BELIEVE how excited Moo was for Christmas, he totally knew what was going on, and was so excited for his presents, and played with them all day! Some are even still alive, and not fully gutted.
We actutally took a break half way through opening presents and went over to GnG Wagner's to eat breakfast and talk to Jon. Which was so fun!

We had such a fun Christmas this year and were so blessed we loved spending the whole day with all our families! We lost our camera only about 10 times this day and so mostly just have pictures of the morning. I love the holiday season! We hope you all had a Merry Christmas TOO!

Liv's First Haircut!

We had so much going on this holiday season, Liv even got her first haircut, I know sad, seeing how she is 15 months old... and I know it looks like there isn't much to cut, BUT she had funny little hairs all over that didn't fall out and they would get wild. Sometimes she looked like a mad scientist with all the crazy hair everywhere!

Making Banana Bread for Santa

The girls helped me make banana bread for Santa.... I know, not your traditional cookies, but hey after a night of cookies, I'm sure Santa would love to have some banana bread. The girls helped me mash up the bananas, and don't worry, NONE of Olivia's mashed bananas actuallywent into the bread. Izzy LOVES to cook! She gets so exciting putting in all the ingredients and stirring. She really is a little mom. She loved getting her pic taken while doing something so cool! Izzy kept asking can I lick it? Finally when it was done I let her! I personally wouldn't want to eat banana bread batter, but hey, whatever makes her happy!

Yum... I think this was Livi's favorite part.

Helping clean up, while I made home made syrup for breakfast in the morning. Then after they cleaned up, I had to clean up from them cleaning up, HAHAHAH! When everything was all cleaned up, they wrote letters to Santa. They LOVED IT! Liv was really funny about sticking on the stickers, they would get wrapped around her little fingers.

I was going to take a picture of the Santa plate with the letters, but I forgot! But it was cute, I'll remember next year.

Grandpa Mike's B-day

Granpa Mike's B-day is in December and we always do something fun! All of the kids LOVE playing with Grandpa Mike, he is lots of fun! Grandma made a YUMMY YUMMY dinner of King Crab legs and twice baked potatoes! Izzy was so excited! She LOVES crab! All the kids love to ride horse Grandpa, Livi gets on there too, Its funny to see all three of them on there. Grandpa LOVES chocolate peppermint dessert! That's what his birthday cake was this year, and it was YUMMY!

Everyone helped blow out the candles.

LOTS and LOTS of smoke!

CHEESE! We all love Grandpa! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Thanksgiving Point Lights

We all piled into Mike and Kenna's Yukon to go see the Thanksgiving Point Lights! They are always fun and the kids love them! Its good to be able to see lights from the warmth of your car! Grandma Kenna was brave enough to sit in the very back with all the grand kids! It got pretty wild at times!Liv was pretty excited to be wondering about the car freely... don't worry we didn't DRIVE there like this, we met at the start of the line and all piled into one car!WILDNESS!! Kids EVERYWHERE, sometimes it seemed like there was more than 3 hah!
Hanging out the windows, and they each took turns driving on grandpa's lap!! What a fun trip! Once the lights started everyones laps were full and the picture taking stopped!! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for such a fun ride!

In the mean time...

My hard drive is being repaired, and then I will be able to update our blog! We did so much this holiday season it will take me a bit to update... but until then we would like to say THANKS to Katie for making us these hats! We love them, and the girls look ADORABLE in them!