Additions to our extended families

Congratulations Jamie and Michelle- Dec 20th, 2008 We are excited to have you in our family Michelle. We drove to Sacramento to enjoy in the festivities. We went with Betsy and Tanner, Cris and Renee. Tanner's parents were nice and let us use their four wheel drive Tahoe! (Thanks). It was good because our van wouldn't have done as well in the snow! It was a great wedding and the temple was beautiful.

Here's all my family that went (minus Lisa and Travis who were occupied). Unfortunately our camera ran out of juice after this pic.

Here they are when they first came out of the temple. How cute.. (note:pics not in order)

Thanks also to my In-laws for watching Alex, Brigs and Lissie so that we could go to the wedding. They had fun. That was really kind of you.

Also we have another welcome to our family, as well on Saturday Dec 20, 2008. Welcome Ryan David. Born at 10:23am 7lb3oz and 18 1/2 inches. (Congrats David and Amanda) We had to get a picture of Taylor with his other boy cousins (he had 3 that are around his age).

We were amazed at how small his head was so Mark got a picture of his watch next to his head. (Our kids heads are about 2x the size).

And here I am holding him. How fun to have a little baby. He is a cute little guy and looks like a little boy. Congrats Dave, Amanda, Katelyn, Emily, and Sarah.


(also, those who are interested... Thanks to my sisters and mom, I got my hair cut and highlighted. They wanted to have it done before I went to the wedding, as I was going to do it after Christmas. Thanks again, I love it, and that was really kind of you. It was my Christmas present from them.)

The thankfulness and preparing....

The Monday before Thanksgiving we made some turkeys for FHE treat.
Here's Alex with his

and Brigham with his.

We went to my sister's house for Thanksgiving. It was really fun and the cousins had a blast playing. (Thanks nik) Jayden asked Lissie to dance, so here they are.

It was the first time all 3 cousins were together. THey were all born within a month of each other. Payton talked up a storm.

Travis and Taylor talking for a bit. (Hope he didn't catch Taylor's cold btw).

Here are the other cousins playing downstairs. Sorry not lots of pics, but it was fun.

This year we are going to go to my bro's wedding and then just spend Christmas with my inlaws, so we won't be hanging around. We decided not to get a tree. BUT we wanted to do a little something for a tree, so the kids and I surprised Mark while he was at YMs.

Tada......

Lissie putting something on that fell off.

Here is a cute pic of Taylor. I love these jammies. also I wanted to get some opinions. I've been debating about cutting my hair. Mark likes long hair, but will be happy with whatever. so this is the before.

This is my doctored after shot. Which do you like better? Please leave a comment and let me know