SLACKER!!!!!!!

Julie and Baby
Amy, Vienna, Sofia and Munich
Yippie, fireworks.. lets get this party started..
Chantel, Adam, and Amy
Luke..
Elizabeth, Kaylee, Allie, and Milan..
Silly kids.. Waiting for the fireworks to go off..
Kaylee..
Cousins having a great time..
Smile and Wave, Smile and Wave.. :)

Amy and Sofia.
Julie, Londyn, Amy and Allie...
Adam and Allie
Caleb and Milan Yummy food!!! Thumbs up...
Guys doing the Grilling..


Having fun with the cake.. Love it..
Megan being a silly little girl..
Love that face Phoebe
Luke making a silly face. Classic..
Scott and Londyn..
Adam sleeping after a long long drive from Buffalo NY
Kids having fun..
Milan was being way to serious.. LOL
Happy 5th Birthday Caleb..... Thanks Julie for the cake!!!
Munich and Vienna
Phoebe and Luke
Little Miss Sofia.. So cute....
Vienna
Amy and Munich and baby Londyn
Adam, Chantel, Julie and Scott
Kaylee, Elizabeth, Caleb, Allie, Milan,
Julie and the silly face. I love this one... LOL
James and Sofia saying cheese for the camera..
Where do I begin, the past year has been a bit of a blur. I keep feeling like I need to start this journal again, so that I have a history of my families life!!! I'm afraid if I don't do better I am going to forget all of the important things that have been going on in our lives!
We have made a few changes in our lives, we are trying to sale our home in Layton, and we are living in my parents home until we are able to sale and find a new home. We are enjoying being in Brigham, it is a beautiful, peaceful area. We have been blessed to meet, and be surrounded by some amazing families! The boys are loving it here and are adjusting to the move. We love it here and are so grateful that my parents are letting us stay in their home. We just pray thatthe Pratt Family will be able to sale our home soon!!!
The past week we have been spending with family, my sister Amy, her husband Munich and her adorable family moved from Arlington Virginia, to Eagle Mountain ,Utah a couple months ago. They moved into a beautiful home. My sister Julie and her family came here for a small vacation from Oregon this past week, and my Brother Adam, Chantel and his adorable family just moved here this weekend from Buffalo NY . He just finished his residency in Pediatric Dentistry, I am so proud of him!!! So this past week has been full of fun adventures!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE the fact that my family has started to move closer, it has been years since we have all been together, only my parents who are on a mission and my older brother Ryan, Jen and his family weren't with us!!! Will be exciting to have them back around here in the future!!! we have been having a great time catching up, and laughing our heads off..... The cousins had a blast playing and getting to know each other!! I think that there were eight adults and 13 kids in one home.. A little caotic at times but tons of fun!!!!!! I love you all and feel so blessed to have wonderful family!!!
Here are a few photos of the fun week we had!

Thankful Sunday......

My thoughts keep racing, I wanted to share a few things that I am so thankful for in my life!!!! Christmas time is such a wonderful time of the year, I love the feeling Christmas brings, more love and gratitude for everything we have!! Christmas time brings so many fun memories, ones that are being made and ones that have past. Pondering on my childhood memories of christmas's past. My parents made christmas time a time of fun, service, love, singing carols, spending time as a family, remembering our savior, and a feeling of love and joy, that we should share thoughtout the years to come.. One of the first traditions that I love remembering is when we would go and pick out the Christmas tree, bring it home, put it up,and decorate the tree and the home.. I always looked forward to that time of year, to see the twinkleing lights, the ornaments, the star on top of the tree, the smell of fresh pine, I loved setting up the little manger scene with Christ in the center, where all could see.. I remember mom sitting at the piano playing christmas songs and all of us singing along, I can still hear the words as we sang. Another thing we would do, the night before christmas we would help mom make treats and put them on plates and take them to our neighbors, sometimes we would carol as we went.
Christmas Eve we would sit as a family and read the story from the scriptures of Christs birth, and talk about the true meaning of Christmas, then we would read the Littlest Angel, and of course we would get to open one gift before we went to bed! Next was one of the hardest things to do as a child, trying to go to sleep, with anticipation of Santa coming and what he would leave for us, not an easy thing to do.. The next morning we were up and going at the crack of dawn or earlier LOL. My parents made Christmas a wonderful time of year, and helped us to see of the importance of giving and remembering to let Christ be a part of everything... Thanks mom and dad for your love and all you have done for us over the years, and all you still do, what an Example you are to us, we love you!!! We have continued many of these traditions in our small family. This year we had a lovely Christmas, mom and dad, Ryan and Jen and their family came over and we had dinner and spent time visiting. The kids had a great time playing the wii and just visiting!! Thanks for spending time with us. I have to say that is the one of the best parts of Christmas is being able to be with the ones that we love! I miss spending time with all of my family, my Christmas wish would have to be that sometime soon we will live closer to each other and be able to be together during the holidays!!! I love you all so very much and Hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas.. May we all enjoy the year to come, and be thankful for all that we have in our lives!!

Where does time go??? Christmas..

The Past few months I have been such a slacker when it comes to updating my blog.. So here are a few of the many things that have been going on in our lives.. Holidays have come and gone, school is half over for the year, and Everyday life keeps us all on the go..

May you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! We have enjoyed the past month and the fun family parties we have had, I love this time of year and being able to be with those you love!!

Me and the boys having fun.. The day after Christmas, playing games and building a fort and playing the Wii.. Our lovely fort!!

Grandpa, Grandma and Nathaniel having fun playing the Wii. I was having fun watching them play, it was quiet comical!!!

Grandma and Tess, after dinner.

Caleb having fun playing with Aunt Jen's Phone.. He was so proud of the picture he had drawn.

Issac playing with the train set.

Katie, Hannah and Adrianna playing the Wii

Mario Kart time.

Christmas Present the Wii.. Yeah Fun time

Christmas morning opening some gifts..

Caleb was so excited to get to open his gifts, he didn't really care

what was inside, just the fact that he got to tare them open.. LOL

Got to go out and sled now.

Caleb waiting patiently to open his gifts Christmas morning.

Nathaniel Helping Caleb clean his hands off after trowing oats and

Sparkles outside on the snow for the reindeer to see our home and have a little

treat. :)

Nathaniel and Caleb spreading the oats..

James Family Christmas party..

Don't let go..

Shepherd Family Christmas party.. We went to the China Platter in Bountiful..

Grandpa, Issac and Tess..

Smile Grandpa..

Eric,

Peace

Smile everyone...

Dennis and Natalie..

Hannah and Adrianna

Cheese