Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Playing catch up!!

Hello all! I hope your holiday season has been as busy and fun as ours has! Hence the lack of posting!! So I was going through my pictures and realized that I haven't even posted from Thanksgiving! Wow! So I thought I'd just do a quick recap on our holidays! We spent Thanksgiving with the Rodee's this year and couldn't have had more fun! It was relaxed and filled with games, chatting, GREAT food (and dessert!!) and looking at all the sales for black Friday! We love our family so much and feel so grateful that they're so close that we get to see them as much as we do!



So then Christmas fun began! We made gingerbread houses...
We went to see Festival of Lights in Spanish Fork (which Eden LOVED! Every time we got in the car after that for a long time she would ask if we were going to see more lights!)

We got to see Santa a couple of times. This time was at our ward Christmas party and Ella REALLY wasn't feeling Santa! We went to the mall as well but I don't have those pictures yet so I'll have to post those another time! Ella still wasn't feeling santa so we did a family picture!!
We went Sledding...

We welcomed home our awesome Missionary Elder Scott Rodee, from Chile! Ella wasn't scared which was good but she kept staring at him, but Eden, man she was SO happy to see him! She wanted to be wherever Scotty was and she wanted him to hold her all the time! It was so awesome, she was only 8 months old when he left but she remembered him!

We've been to some football games! (Didn't think you'd get away with reading my blog and not seeing any football pictures did you?!?)
Christian is number 20!
Had a little family photo shoot when Elder Rodee got home!

Decorated our tree...


Daddy took Eden on a date to go and see Princess and the Frog! Which she loved!
Had a little Christmas party with our friends...I think Eden likes Dax just a little bit! (We missed you Barnette's)
And we had a little Christmas morning at our house the day after Christmas! The girls loved their gifts! I guess it's a good sign when they haven't put them down since Saturday right?


We also had a VERY fun vacation in Mexico with my family for Christmas this year! It was the funnest vacation EVER!! We spent a week in Cabo San Lucas with the Ellingson's and had a blast. We rented a Villa that we had all to ourselves, our own pool (more like a really big hot tub after we figured out we had control over the heating) our own jacuzzi, fully stocked kitchen, laundry room, anything you could ask for for a good vacation was there! It was awesome! We did a couple of really fun excursions but I'll save all the details till I put up the pictures! All in all we had a wonderful Christmas season! I am so so grateful for my family and for Christian's family for just being so amazing to us and especially to our little girls! We couldn't have asked for better families. What a wonderful time of year to celebrate love and the birth of the Savior! We hope all of you had a very merry Christmas and we hope 2010 bring you all so much joy!! I know it's late but I thought I'd just put up our Christmas card anyways!! Love you all!!

5 comments:

The Leatherberry's said...

Way fun Christmas and Thanksgiving season! Love all the pictures! Way too cute!!!

Victoria Elder said...

Busy Winter! ugh your reminding me off all the things I need to blog yuk! Good seeing you today!

Ashley said...

Looks like a great time was had by all! Your girls are so dang cute! And I love your Christmas Card! I might have to steal that saying for ours next year (that is if my slacker self does one!) Take Care!

Brittney said...

What a fun post!! So much happiness and good memories to share with us. :) You have a fun happy life, dontchya!! We are all so blessed.

Tiffani said...

Your girls are getting so big and are both dolls! Thanks for the Christmas card... maybe one year I will finally get around to it!