We decided to celebrate Tyeanna's birthday a few days early, since the entire family was together. We had been cooking and cleaning non-stop since the family assembled so to keep things simple we ordered pizza and made her "cake" from pumpkin chocolate chip cookies baked by Albertsons. It was a great party!
Tessa was so good to entertain the little ones. This is Tyeanna's little boy Ammon being charmed by the guitar.
And here is Tyeanna and Darren's adorable new addition baby Alivia. Isn't she beautiful? Happy Birthday Tye!
As mentioned below, my entire family came to our house for Christmas this year. It was so much fun to have everyone all together for the festivities. Christmas eve we had our big dinner (Hawaiian Haystacks). I'm grateful we don't have furniture for our living room yet because that's the only room that would accommodate us all. After dinner we delivered our secret package and then began our first ever Iron Chef Dessert competition (boys vs. girls). I'll post more on that soon...
In keeping with tradition we each opened one gift on Christmas Eve. Calvin got this awesome tractor from Josh and Krista.
Christmas morning we woke up at 4:30 in order to open our gifts before Ryan had to head to work. Krista and Jaylie also had an early flight to Utah. As you can see from the above picture, Santa was very good to us this year! We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and had a chance to reflect and remember Christ during all the hustle and bustle (I'm afraid we failed to even read Luke 2 this year for the first time ever! Time to slow down and remember the real reason for the season I think...) Merry Christmas!
Eating pizza (Calvin seems to be saying here "Don't touch my milk, dude!"
Eating cookies (isn't this a great picture? Makes me laugh...)
And finally, their first bubble bath experience ever. Neither one was sure what to think about it and it all ended in disaster but at least we managed to snap this cute shot before the melt down began.
...Luckily, my parents love me so much that they let me have a ride on a cool car in the mall after that horrible, traumatic Santa experience...
...I know exactly what I want for Christmas but nobody can understand any of my gibberish so I'm pretty sure I'll just get a bunch of toys. As long as I have my "bankie" I'm a happy guy (unless you make me sit on your lap).
