Picture Overload

Disclaimer: Lots of catch up from the holidays! Tons of pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Cade playing with cars at Gma Seely's house

Adam and Rylee bowling on the Wii (Tim & Maria's early Christmas present)
You could hardly stop the boys from playing games the whole time!

Our delicious Christmas Eve dinner! It's a tradition to have more snacky foods than a real meal and I look forward to it every year. Some things I consider a special treat because we only got it on Christmas Eve growing up!

Getting piggy-back rides from Uncle Tim! The kids loved having so many aunts and uncles to play with. Good thing they had the uncles to torture!!

Maria & Rylee did a photo shoot with my camera...look how cute!

I showed Rylee the scars on my knee and she looked so concerned! This was the week I stopped using my crutches regularly. I was sore but I was so ready to get rid of the crutches!

Rylee with her favorite Aunt...ME!!

Christmas Pajamas Tradition

Each year on Christmas Eve we all get new pajamas. I look forward to this each year to see what the colors and design are going to be but I also LOVE wearing flannel pants to bed in the winter. This year we had more of the matching PJs within each family. We're getting so big that we can't all have the same thing anymore...there's just not enough to go around! The grandkids got specialty PJs but they were adorable and they loved them, especially Rylee with her Princesses.

Maria & Tim with Rylee & Cade (they wanted to be in every picture)

Me & my cute Hubby

Kyle, Dad, Mom & Adam

Tammy, Cole, Cade, Telena & Rylee

The family photo...minus Brad's family & Paul (we missed you)
We used to always have this traditional picture on the stairs but I think we've out grown the space on the stairs.

Opening Presents on Christmas morning
It sure was fun having little kids around sharing their excitement of opening presents!

This was the one and only thing I wanted for Christmas...my favorite Disney movie, Sleeping Beauty.

Cade's favorite present...a pop gun. His parents are saints for getting him such a noisy present that he absolutely loves to make noise with!

We were blessed with the gifts that were given to us. Thanks everyone!

The weather was crazy snowy all day Christmas Day. Brian and I were supposed to leave on the 26th to go to Ogden to visit Grandpa Chapman. I was really worried about the weather and the roads with non-stop snow. Brian was determined because Grandpa needed visitors (Brian's parents were supposed to come up for Christmas but weren't able to make it at the last minute) so we braved the weather and made it safely there. It took a little longer than normal but once we got on the freeway the roads were better taken care of. We had a good visit with Grandpa that day and then left the next morning to make it to the Marchant family reunion, my mom's side of the family.

Marchant Family Reunion - December 27th

The spread of food...or part of it.

Funny faces with Cade!

Family picture...you have no idea how long we had to stand here to go through the dozen cameras!!

My mom (far right) with her mom and siblings. This was the first time they had all been together in about 5 years.

My moms side of the family was all going to be in town for the weekend after Christmas so we all got together for lunch and a fun time. We ate really yummy food (and lots of it). Then we played games and visited with each other. It was fun to be together and see some of my family I haven't seen in a while. Then we finally got to go home after being gone for 4 days visiting all of our families.


Santa found us at our house a little late this year but that was because we weren't home on Christmas. He left us some fun stocking stuffers :)