Christmas 2011

We had a great Christmas this year! The kids were SO fun, and loved all of their presents... YEA! Meili was in heaven with all of the brights packages.

My favorite part about Christmas was the love gifts that the kids all made for each other. Jake made Riley an airlplane out of wood, and spray painted it. Riley made Jake a race car. They all put a lot of thought and preparation into their gifts.

The worst part? Being sick!! We had flu bug going around, and it hit both me and Tyler on Christmas Eve, and Christmas morning. The most comfy place was laying on the hard wood floor next to the boxes that I was supposed to be cleaning up.

Cute matching boys!

Merry Christmas!!!

Winter Dance Recital

Abby did so good in her recital this year! She is always so excited to go to dance every week, and was so giddy the days leading up to her performance. Here is her jazz costume.

Ballet
Awesome grandparents come to all of her performances! You guys are the best!

Grandpa Dallan challenged Abby to an leg extension contest. Who do you think won?

Way to go Abby! You were awesome!!

Christmas service

We do a fun service project every year with Tyler's family. It is always neat to see the kids get involved. This year, my Mom-in-law had the cute idea of making a pot of soup, along w/ some bread, and attach a note saying, "Hope you have a "Soup"-er Christmas". Each of us chose a family within our own ward (or neighborhood) to give our soup to. We sang Christmas carols as we presented the soup, and wished them a Merry Christmas. It was fun dong this together, and even more comical to see the carivan of cars driving slowly through each neighborhood. Good thing all of Tyler's family lives in the south end of the valley. Here are most of the kids at our house before we headed out.

Ward Christmas party

We had a fun party on Saturday morning. We had great food, and great entertainment. The Bishopric was asked to "perform", so they put together a great little song and dance. Tyler is on the right. His arms were the legs, and I was behind the curtain w/ my arms for Tyler's arms. Oh, the things I get roped in to. I wanted to post the video, but Riley was laughing as he was filming it, so the majority of the film is the ceiling.

The kids were excited when Santa showed up!

This was Meili's first time meeting Santa Claus.

Please take note that Jacob did not get a picture with Santa. He wouldn't even sit on his lap. Does that surprise anyone? Hopefully he will still get something for Christmas...

Sneaky Elf!

Welcome back Christopher Pop-In-Kins!! Christopher came to our house last year, and the kids were eagerly awaiting his arrival on December 1st. Luckily, he was there bright and early, with m&m's for the kids. He has been hiding in the funniest places, and the kids' love waking up early to look for him.

Christopher comes in handy when someone is being naughty. We tell them that He knows what is going on, and he is going to tell the big guy (Santa). Let's just say that they have been pretty good around our house.

Let the Holidays BEGIN!!

Tyler let the kids help him put the Christmas lights up this year. Well, not really help, mostly just sit huddled in this little crevase for 10 minutes. After that, they were freezing and ready to get down. Abby and Jake were excited because this was their first time on the roof. They have one up on me... Never been up, and don't care to.

We decided to get a real tree this year for our upstairs. (The fake one is downstairs). We went with some of our friends to a tree farm, and picked out this tree. The kids had fun picking out just the right one.

Thank goodness for the fun tree swings there at the tree farm.

Meili was all bundled up for the occasion.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent Thanksgiving this year at my parents' house. My brothers, Chris, Cory, and Kreg (for a little bit) were there as well. The food was excellent, and we all had a good time. I had my camera, but didn't snap any pics of my mom's beautifully set table, etc.

Here are so of the cousins playing games.
Grandpa Price with two of his granddaughters, Meili and Kaitlin .