Hair cut day!!!

Hadlies hair was getting so long but it was a tad stringy. I always thought it was so cute when little giels had bobs but there was a part of me that said girls are supposed to have long hair well I cut it and Iz love it!!! She looks so grown up!!!

Sleep over round 2

Holden got to have his cousins from Arizona sleep over when they came up for Christmas!! Holden and Chase are only 6 months apart and are the Bestest buddies!!! I love watching these two play!! Talon is only a year and a half younger!! And he is the funniest kid you will ever meet!!! They had so much fun!! Casey put the xbox in Holdens room and they playedfor hours!! After they wanted to watch star wars and I think they finally went to bed at 11:30. They woke up the next morning and I made them a big breakfast Chase was so excited to eat sausage!!! I love having cousins so close in age!!! Now we just got to get them in the state of Utah again!!!!

Christmas

We got home at 8 pm Christmas eve and started are bedtime routine. First we had to say goodbye to Georgie Our Elf!!! Who I LOVE!!! If you havent heard of elf on the shelf a much have for little ones!!! Then we read the Christmas story! The birth of are Savior! Got some cookies out for santa and the kiddos went right to bed!! I woke up at5:30 am and got ready before WAKINg up the kids HEE HEE!!! The kids woke up and saw that Santa had come!! They loved it!! HAdlie was in baby heaven and Holden was so stoked he got a DS and an Indiana Jones whip!!! This year was so much fun! We added so many fun traditions reading a Christmas book or story every night!! Was my fave!!! After we let the kids play till about 7:30 and then headed over to my dads! My dad has always loved Christmas and he GIVES AND GIVES!!! He always has a trick up his sleeve!! He hides stockings or presents or pulls out a gift! HE is the MOST giving person I know!!! For the past 2 years (in Febuary!) I have been driving Casey to work since he wrecked his truck and since his insurance was so high we didnt want to get him a car!! My dad surpised us with a car!! It is pretty old but does the trick!! Gets great gas mileage for Caseys LONG trek to work!!! We love it!!! This was also the first Christmas Maryan my dads sweet wife has been in the family!! She added so much!! She is so much fun and makes my dad so happy!!! Jamie and her fam came to and anytime Holden can spend time with his CHaser and Talon He is a happy camper!!! I love Christmas!! I love what its about!!! I love that Holden can tell me "If he was a wisemen he would follow the star and find baby Jesus." I hope you all had the best Holiday season!!!!

Christmas Eve!!!

We had one of the BEST Christmas ever!!! Christmas eve we woke up bright and early and went to Casey Aunts house for the Mckell Christmas party. We had so much fun visiting with family. And ate lots of food!! Santa came and Holden of course loved him and Hadlie did NOT love him!!! Then after they have a bunch of land and four wheelers so they thought it would be fun to put the kids on a car hood and take them for a ride WELL we all know I am a kid so I jumped on and got pulled around in the snow!!! I was soaked!! But so much FUN!!!I am glad I have fun sisters in law and Cousins to go with me!! After we headed down to Brent and char and has a Mexican Feista Christmas every Christmas they put a fun game together we all play and win AMAZINg prizes!!! We love this traditon and its amazing how happy or mad we can get for gift cards!! HEE HEE!!! We ended up exchanging gifts and Heading to Caseys moms house we had hot chocolate and ate more food, exchanged more gifts and started heading home like at 8pm. The kids were so tired but we had to set out cookies and reading are Christmas story before bed!!! They went right to sleep!!! I am so greatful for amazing family!! Caseys family has such fun traditions and I feel so lucky to be apart of it!!!

Kaylee and Chase

I had my sister in law take these pictures for Kristin for her birthday!!! She is so talented and since they are some of my VERY fave people I had to post them!!! I started working for them when Chase was just one and Kaylee was three!! They have grown up so much and love them like Family!!! I have to say there parents are two of the most generous and giving people I have ever met!!! Love you guys!!!

The North Pole Express

I entered a contest on a radio contest for 4 tickets to the North Pole Express, Which is on the Heber Creeper railroad. I found out I won 3 hours before I had to leave!!! So I called CAsey at work and told him and he couldnt get off work!! DANG IT!!! (But very thankfu;l he is such a hard worker!!!) So I called my friend Timmette who has a little guy just a month older than Holden who is his "best buddy." And she was all for it!!! Thankfully my sisters watched HAdlie and we had a mommy son date!!! We got up there with not a second to spare!! ANd jumped on the train. It was an hour and a half bumpy ride and thankful for Timette her and I sang songs the whole way!!! Holden and Adian were amazing and happy to be there! Santa gave Holden a top. and then on the way home they played with Timette I touch!! I have wanted to go for years and happy I got to go for free!!! Yeah!!!

Arizona

I got to take the kids to see my sister in Arizona. I love going to Az. I feel like I get little pieces of my mom back. Her 3 sisters live there and her sweet parents. We got there after a long drive of 13 hours and surprised them, They didnt know we were coming and they were so sweet about it!!! Got us a bed right away!!! Cort made us breakfast the next day. And we were in heaven playing with the Darling Welker kiddos!!!! I love them!!! After a few hours of playing Janie took me over for a visit with my grandparents. Who had no clue we were coming. SURPRISE!!!! They got to meet Hadlie for the first time!! They were sweet with them!! Grandpa took them outside and played in the trees, showed them the birds (My grandpa has 10 love birds!) And introduced Holden to his first cactus!!! We talked about old times!! And had a great visit!!! After that we went back to Jamies house and it was non stop fun!!! The weather was high 60's!!!! We were in heaven!!! We played at the park, ate a ton of junk!! Laughed!!! Visited with a bunch of family!! My cute cousins set up a girl dinner for me it was so fun!!! My sisters house WAS built for the KIds!!! She has a built in slide and little tree house inside!!! Holden had a ball!!!! Thanks again my CUTE Az. Family for an AMAZING visit!!! I love you all!!! I wish I got to see you more often!!!