On Dec. 27th we went over to the Abbott's house for the blessing of my newest nephew, Jonah Spencer. It was beautiful and I am so glad that we were able to be a part of that. Afterwards the Abbotts asked us to take a few family pictures.
Christmas Eve was spent with the Taylor's. We hung out at Chris and Kristen's and opened a lot of gifts.
Ryan was a sleepy head from the start.
Reagann is such a cutie!
Austin got some books that he had wanted.
Lewis helped Natalie open her gifts.
Good Morning Sunshine :) Ryan took a little while to warm up to a house full of people once he woke up.
Kristen turned Doug and Lydia's wedding pics into a book.
Evalee got each of the girls a CTR necklace and took some time to tell them how special jewelry is and that they needed to take super care of it.
Ashley received a ton of doll clothes.
Missy made us these amazing ornaments.
Chris and Kristen adopted a dog from a lady that Chris works with and that was Ryan's big Christmas present. He hugged the dog and told the whole worked that he loved his doggie.
After we cleaned up Doug read the Night Before Christmas to the kiddos and then it was off to bed to wait for Santa.
Dad got me a pre-Christmas gift of a light scoop. It is an attachment that you place over the flash on the camera and it bounces the light into the room so that you have an evenly lit object. I took the above picture at 5 in the morning in a dark house and using my new toy.
Dad and Katie made Peck Cookies together and I took the opportunity to keep playing with the settings on my camera with my new toy.
Mom had some small wooden ornaments that she had the kids paint and then she hung them on her little tree. The kids spent the next day with Evalee and did some crafts and decorated sugar cookies, unfortunately I don't hve any pics of those.
The first day that we were in Albuquerque we had a birthday party for Katie at Peter Piper Pizza. We had most of our family there and it was great to just hang out and have cake.
Anna and Monica.
Grandpa Dellon and Grandma Kathy.
Lewis, Missy, Katie, Ryan, Chris, Lydia, Doug and Ash.
Missy and Katie are buddies.
Kristen and Ryan.
Katie got some neat gifts. The above was a doll that you remove the head to change the clothes. It was deemed a very "disturbing" toy by Doug and Katie loved that word.
Watch the tissue fly. Uncle Doug helped Katie read all her cards and it still amazes me that he doesn't do voice overs.
This was Austin's prizes that he bought with his tickets. Goof ball!!
On Dec. 27th we went over to the Abbott's house for the blessing of my newest nephew, Jonah Spencer. It was beautiful and I am so glad that we were able to be a part of that. Afterwards the Abbotts asked us to take a few family pictures.
Chris and Kristen adopted a dog from a lady that Chris works with and that was Ryan's big Christmas present. He hugged the dog and told the whole worked that he loved his doggie.
Mom had some small wooden ornaments that she had the kids paint and then she hung them on her little tree.
Lewis, Missy, Katie, Ryan, Chris, Lydia, Doug and Ash.
Katie got some neat gifts. The above was a doll that you remove the head to change the clothes. It was deemed a very "disturbing" toy by Doug and Katie loved that word.
