Thursday, December 31, 2015

Fillmore Fun: Cousins, Sledding, White Elephant Party

After Breakfast at my Grandmas Christmas morning we hit the freeway and headed to Fillmore. Since Tanner has his learners permit we let him drive for the first little bit. A little bit before Cedar the weather and roads started to get bad, so we pulled off and switched drivers. Good thing too cause this is what we hit a few minutes later. The roads were like this the rest of the way to Fillmore.


After we got to Fillmore we unloaded and chilled for a little bit. Then we went and met my Sister Mandy and her family at the sledding hill. The kids had fun sledding for the next little while. Bryce actually liked it this year. Last year he hated it.
Tanner was so good to take Bryce down the hill time after time and help him back up as well.
Saydee and Gavin got snowboards for Christmas, so of course Chloe had to test those out. And like anything else sporty-she rocked it, and was hooked after a few runs. LOL
My Cute Boys
After sledding for awhile we headed back down to Landon's parents where we enjoyed the rest of the evening hanging out with the family.
The next day called for more sledding. This time at Uncle Layne's house. With the aide of the 4-wheeler and tractor.
Look how is excited Bryce is-haha
Bryce loved this sledding adventure even more, because he helped drive the 4-wheeler the entire time. He loved it so much that even when his lips were turning blue, he didn't want to go in the house to warm up and he cried. He almost fell asleep warming up by the fire, but then woke back up and was ready for round two.
We finally were able to convince him to go back to Grandmas, while the older kids continued to sled until lunch time.
After sledding the rest of Landon's family showed up and we enjoyed a nice late "Christmas Dinner".
We enjoyed the rest of the day just chilling out and hanging out with the family.
That night we had our annual white elephant gift exchange. It's always fun. Landon seems to always end up with the best gifts. This year proved no different as he came away the winner of this nice throw back phone handset that hooks to your cellphone.
I can only imagine the looks he will get from people as he is driving down the road talking on this. HAHA
Though it's always lots of fun when the whole family is together. It can get a little hectic too. At one point I went looking for Bryce and found that he had taken a blanket  pillow, and a few toys behind a chair and made a little bed and gone to sleep. I guess that was his spot of refuge amiss all of the chaos.
Before we left we got a parting shot of all the grandkids, or at least tried too. No one is looking at the camera. While half the kids are crying and the other half are pulling crazy faces. HAHA
The really do love spending time together, even if this picture does not accurately portray it.
Until next time...

Christmas Morning

Our Family usually wakes up pretty early on Christmas Morning. The kids are always asking the night before what time they can get up the. And let's be honest their mother is always awake anyways-haha. Well this year I told the kids they couldn't get up until at least 5. Landon and I were both up at 4. At 4:30 Landon walked into the kitchen to get something and of course that started a chain reaction and in the next 5 minutes all of the kids were awake and waiting to go out and see what Santa brought for them.
 First stop is always the stocking. It's always fun for them to see what they find inside of them.




 Even Beckett found a treat in his stocking.
 Bryce was especially excited to find CP3O and R2D2 in his stocking.
 Next on the agenda was the treasure hunt to find their "big gift".
Bryce found his in the oven.
Tanner's was supposed to be under the sink-but Santa forgot to put in there-haha.
Chloe was not amused to have to run outside for her clues about three different times and then when it was all over her gift was hidden in the Christmas tree.


 Bryce got the millennial falcon. He was super excited and Daddy had to open it for him right then before he even thought about anything else.
 Yeah Chloe got a new phone (iphone 5S)

 Tanner got the new baseball glove he wanted.
After the treasure hunts we opened up the rest of the presents under the tree.
Bryce was so excited that he got to open all of his presents and not just one of them. Oh and I should mention that I got to open my present on Christmas Eve. It was a new camera! Yeah! I was busy taking pictures so I wasn't really in any of them, which doesn't really hurt my feelings
 Bryce gave Tanner a light saber so they could play together.
 If you can tell a theme-most of Bryce's gifts were "star wars".




 Bryce had really been wanting a hat like Dad and Tanner-he looks so cute in it.


We had a great Christmas Morning. I think everyone was happy with what they got. After opening presents. We cleaned everything up and then took down the tree (it was dead). Then we finished packing and loaded up the truck to leave town. Landon of course had to install the new bug guard he got before we could leave. We went to my Grandma Marshall's house on our way out of town to eat breakfast and say "Merry Christmas".