Christmas Rendezvous with the Hellewell Family!

This Christmas was spent hanging out with Eric's family. Most were there except for Ryan, Kayleen, and Kim, which we were all quite sad about! Nevertheless, we enjoyed ourselves immensely playing TONZ of Ticket to Ride, Blockus and Game Cube. The girls (Karla, Mom, and I) made numerous shopping trips to Kohls and the guys made one trip to Best Buy! We went and saw National Treasure 2 without the kids..Wahoo..Thanks Mom and Dad and Marianne and James, who watched the kids while the rest of us partied:)... Oh and of course..we ate a bunch of food! We were also able to visit with friends and (my) family in Rexburg. All in all is was a fantastic trip!

FUN, FUN, FUN!

Top: Shanna and her cousin Kristin try and figure out what a watering can is used for.
Bottom 3: Shanna and her friend Arianna had fun getting to know eachother.

Shanna LOVES to play the piano, however most of the time she can't quite see what shes playing (very important :)) So she discovered this little technique...

This is one of her favorite pass times..waving hi!

This is another of her favorite pass times..Peek-A-Boo:)


Can't quite figure this scarf out!!?

These handsome gentlemen all have the letters P and I on their foreheads (drawn on with lipstick!!) The reason being that they were not fast enough in retrieving their spoon in the game "Spoons".

Talent show...

Top: Starring Samantha on the Oboe and Phillip on the piano
Bottom: Starring Cadence in a dance that she made up :)

Christmas Morning!!

Shanna was quite excited about all of her presents...She kept oohing, ahing, and ohhing!!

Eric and I were quite excited as well. I tried desperately to be so excited for the camera since, well, I am not much of a morning person plus the whole not looking my cutest, however in my opinion, I think I failed miserably!!:)

Christmas Eve brought new PJs..Wahoo!!

The Month Of December

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