Christmas in Denver

We had so much fun this Christmas. It was the first Christmas in our new house and we got to celebrate it with my whole family. Logan made this Christmas so much fun with his never ending excitement. He loved looking out the front door at all the Christmas lights. He would slam the door and come running in the house and yell " it's Christmas". I have never seen a child so excited to open presents, he was absolutely adorable and what a blessing it was to see Christmas through his eyes. We ate a ton and played a lot of games and had a quiet evening out at Hacienda, it was the best. I loved having everyone over and being able to go to church to help us remember what it is all about. Hopefully it is one we will never forget.

I did not even realize until I did this post that Tay is not in this picture. I guess now that he is 18 he has outgrown it, how sad.

Can you guess who Brooklyn's best buddy was, I think Jordyn wanted to kidnap her and take her home.

This is the only gift Brooklyn opened. After this we put her to bed and Logan ended up opening all her gifts.

What else do you get an 18 year old who is off to college, a mini fridge.

My mom made all the grand kids blankets and gave them a book to go with it, they all loved it.

This hands down was the most popular gift and to this day gets played with constantly, if you are competitive than this balls for you.

Peyton's Christmas list consisted of all books and he was thrilled to receive just that.



This girl had been begging for these for months but could she show any excitement. I hate to say it but this is Hannah's excited look and she did love them.



When Taylor was little he was obsessed with The Lion King so of coarse I had to capture this.

Back off ladies, he is mine!

This is the best game ever, we even played after the kids went to bed.

Our "doll"

Whit and Jordy playing around



Christmas Eve 2011

Madie gets a lift.

The kids in their Christmas PJs, getting ready to ride the Polar Express.

The coveted ticket

Can I just tell you what a Polar Express fan Logan is, lets put it this way he watches it year round a couple times a day. Since Christmas he has kept his ticket and ask us all the time if he can ride it again. He would go crazy to be able to ride on a real train, maybe next year.

Everyone waiting patiently for our Christmas devotional to begin.

I have taken the kids pictures while they are sleeping since Taylor was a baby, it is one of my favorite traditions.



 Jordyn was a little startled by the flash, poor girl.



Damon definitly did not enjoy the tradition.



Birthday Boys

This year on Chad's birthday Denver had a huge storm and he was working a ton of hours, so we celebrated his birthday on the 23rd which happen to be Andrew's birthday also. My family had just driven out from Utah that day to spend Christmas with us. It was also the first time Andrew had been away from his family for Christmas so we had to make it special.

Can you tell how much Hannah loves him.

The kids had picked out Chad's presents and were so excited to have him open them.

What else could you want but a box full of your favorite treats.