Category Archives: janice

Last days of the trip

Leave a reply
222

We were all so excited for this Christmas vacation/trip. BUT we were most excited to meet the newest member or our clan. Baby Elara is so sweet and perfect. We all fell in love with this little miss.

553 559
We played lots of games. Ate lots of delish food. And visited with lots of family. Great Grandpa even came over for a spell.
561
Josh and Emily were with us briefly before heading farther up north to visit more family.
566
This is the only photo I have where at least two are looking. Haha. I am just happy we finally have a picture of Great Grandpa and Regan.
570
Saturday night these four put on a laser show/dance for us. They were so funny/cute dancing to Grandma got run over by a reindeer.
576 600 604 606

It was such a nice Christmas vacation!

Snow day

Leave a reply
223
Day three was a relaxing day spending time with the cousins at Grandma’s house. Day four was SNOW DAY!  All the kiddos were excited to head up to Cedar and play in the snow.
224
Kaylee remembers snow. Regan does not. He foolishly dove into the snow before we finished gearing him up. He quickly learned that one NEEDS gloves for making snow balls.
226 227 229 231 234 237
Kaylee was most excited to make snow angels.
239 242 243 250
We tool the kids to the smaller slopes so they could climb up themselves. It’s a work out hauling kids up snowing slopes. Them crawling up most of the time help a ton!
253 260 261 269 279 280 284 286 293 295 296 301 304 307 320 328 339
Shannon and Dwayne tried racing, but Shannon totally biffed it. It was very funny.
340 348 351 366
Shannon helping her Daddy-O down the hill with a swift kick to the tukkis. You can see my dying with laughter in the background! Too Funny!
383 399 408 472 478 491
And this is how our adventure ended. Kaylee got mowed over (by that I mean she got bumped into. not hard.) twice in a row, and her (loose) gloves popped off. After that she was DONE. “My hands are freezing, and I’m NEVER going to see them again!”
Not dramatic at all that one.
Regan looked the same because he was NOT done. We didn’t get a photo of his sad face though.
I must say visiting the snow is SO much nicer than living in it!

Christmas 2012

Leave a reply
Day one of our five day Christmas vacation.
002
Kaylee woke up bright and EARLY Christmas morning. Like 5:30 AM. WIDE awake and SO SO excited. We pulled her into bed with us and she snuggled, but did not fall back to sleep. At 7:30 I tossed her in the shower, and did some last minute laundry and packing of the toiletries.
Regan woke up at around 8, and we watched a movie while we waited for Jon to wake up.
Jon read to us out of Luke before we opened presents and talked about the real reason we celebrate Christmas. It was nice. I think Kaylee get’s it. Hopefully next year Regan will too.
020
These are just a few of our favorite gifts. All of us got SUPER spoiled by everyone.
064
070
084
Regan was  beyond thrilled with his new Buzz Lightyear jammies. “Buzz Lightyear! I LOVE Buzz Lightyear!”
 101 112
Kaylee was equally excited as you can see by her new Tinker Bell Dress up and purple bike helmet. Jon fixed up her bike tires and she has been out riding a bit since.
116
I made Regan a shield. I was very happy with how well it went over. He knew right away what it was and started playing right away.
119
120
131

I made Jon a flag sign for when we go camping. He mentioned months ago at our ward campout that he wanted one. He was laughing SO hard and is excited to use it for our next camping trip.

132
137
 
139
Jon got me a Garmin. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I have THE worst sense of direction EVER! I am always calling him and asking him to help find me and bring me home. Until now Jon has been my GPS.  The Garmin will for sure make life easier!
148
I got the kids this tea set to replace the porcelain set that had more in the trash than left to it. Kaylee was all, “It’s plastic! Regan can’t break it!!!”
After opening presents we loaded into the rental car and drove up to Utah. After our arrival and once we got settled in the children helped opened more presents with/for Grandma and The Grandpaaa.
153
I made the all the grandparents t-shirts with their name and year they became grandparents on it.
158
169
The children were especially excited about the HUGE box of chocolate that Grandma and Grandpa let them open. Regan said, “Chocolate! I WIN!” We had to break the news to him that these chocolates were ouchy tushie chocolates and he couldn’t eat any.
It was a different, but still VERY nice Christmas day.