Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas!



-From our family to yours.


I was a little worried that it wasn't going to seem much like Christmas a few weeks ago...


But it cooled off in NV too soon after, and we went and saw some Christmas lights to get us in the spirit.
We went to a Christmas fair in Henderson, and they had some snow shipped in for the kids to play in.

But then Henderson got some real snow of it's own.

...and UT had a white Christmas for sure. Xander went skiing for the 1st time last Monday. He says he wants to go again, so that's a good sign!

Not so sunny California

We just got back from Cali. It was Blair's test week, so luckily the rest of us had something to do. The drive there with just me and the 2 little ones was just okay. I hit rain, snow, fog, then more rain and more snow, and then rain and dark.

Here's the outside of the Redlands temple.

It was my friend Tiff's little sister's wedding. Here's a picture of the bride, Patty, posing for the camera.

This is where we stayed in Palm Springs. We only saw sun on the last day. The rest of the time it was raining.... hard.













Me and Tiff.




Xander and Ivy.







Here's about the best pic of Will and Ally, the two monkeys.

Cruisin' at the outlet mall.

My kids playing pool.










Xander & Danny, my bro, swimming in the rain. Luckily he was out visiting with Tiff's little bro, and so we picked him up and he drove back with us to Vegas.

Notice the top part of the mountains there were covered in snow. We had to come back a different route because I-15 was closed down in a couple of spots due to snow. It had snowed in NV while we were gone, and Blair's school was even closed on Thursday! Talk about weird weather.

This boy has mad skills

Obviously I've been looking through the pictures from this year, so I thought I'd share a funny one of Will too.  In the summer we stopped at Cove Fort on our way up to Salt Lake.  We got the tour, and one of the volunteers gave Will one of those pioneer yo-yos.

Here's the demonstration of how to do it:

Will saw it once, and knew just what to do:

The Disappearing Underwear Caper

Last year at this time,  I couldn't figure out where all of Xander's undies were disappearing to.  He used to have 12 pairs, and he was down to 4.

One day, Xander was in the bathroom for a while, so Blair went to check on him.  He found him stark naked and standing in front of the toilet looking in.  Blair asked him where his underwear went.

Xander explained he had flushed them down the toilet because they were dirty.

Case solved.