My beautiful freezer my mom and Papa gave us at Christmas to stock up on great deals...

Josh and Averie's gingerbread houses...

Our new favorite game to play...

Fuzzy slippers...

My mom saw on Funniest Home Videos how this little boy got a roll of toilet paper as one of his presents and he got so mad he threw it across the room! So my funny mom wanted to see how Josh would react! Luckily, he smiled and said, "thanks" but was saying in his head, what the...?It was pretty funny!

A new Polly ...

The anticipation...

Santa's helper passing out gifts...

Kallie and Averie playing with Camryn...

Sydney and Conner have known each other since they were 3 years old. Now they are both 13 and Sydney is almost finally not the tallest! It was fun to catch up laughing and hanging out!

Here We Go...

We loved having some of our favorite friends visit!

Two birthday cakes! My mom made this delicious one.....and Josh's dinosaur couldn't stay away!

Another cake Jason made and the kids decorated!

Josh's Christmas concert!

Kallie's Christmas concert!

I should be "pinged"...

Ok, so I have disappeared for almost 2 months off of my blog! I should be "pinged". As you probably have been, I have been crazy busy! Now I have so much to blog, I don't know where to start. I just wanted to let all my faithful readers (haha, do I have a following?:)) I will be back soon!! Maybe even tomorrow when I have some time! Ok, you may also be saying, "If this was important to you, you'd make the time" yeah, yeah...blah...blah!! I am making time tomorrow!!!Until then.....!

My Main Focus!!!!

So, I was a little skeptical when Jason's parents said they wanted to bring a turkey from a neighbor who was raising them in Utah. I had never had a turkey that fresh. I had visions of holding the turkey upside down and plucking feathers off it and all that! I was so happy when they brought it in the house and it was clean and ready to go! Did I mention it weighed 33 pounds? And they also brought 40 pounds of potatoes from the same guy they bought the turkey from? This thing weighed more than our dog, Jessie. We were afraid he may get a little nervous! Anyway, it cooked all night in the Anway's great pit and when we opened it, it had burst open. I guess it had enough. We gave Jason and his dad the job of carving it and they couldn't help sneaking pieces off it the whole time! I can say it was the best turkey we have ever had. All the food was great! The company was too!

Who can deny the delectible bowl of homemade mashed potatoes my mom makes every year. As always, every year I am afraid we didn't make enough......

We got this cute book at the Book Fair. Averie loves it. My mom has read it to her a few times and Averie was so excited when my mom brought over "Pinkalicious Cupcakes" for her to enjoy!