Our escape from Missouri

We thought it was about time to put some pictures of christmas up before January comes to an end! We had such a wonderful time seeing all the people we miss. Thanks mom and dads (both pairs of you) for being such great hosts and showing us such a great time. We also both had the chance to get together with our friends and decided that anyone that has a Wii is a friend of ours!!! (especially if your names are Kathryn and Dave)

Oh Paige. She is becoming quite the 3 year old. She knows just what she wants. Hatty made her this beautiful Princess quilt (she whipped it out in like 1 hour I swear, it's amazing how that woman works her magic). Paige loved it. We had so much fun playing with you Paigey.

Here's Gabe, Emily, and Sophie (somehow we missed taking a picture of your bunch at the Santa party). Gabe astonished us with a breathtaking whistling performance of Zippity Do Da during the talent show at the party. It was worth the trip just to hear that. If you want to see some great pictures of Sophie and Paige you should visit the Utley blog, my camera didn't do these 2 sweathearts justice.

THE SANTA PARTY

Yep, we got to go and see Jolly Old St. Nick (and by see, I don't just mean see, I mean sit on his lap and tell him what we want for christmas). We asked him if he could get Chris some cheaper tuuition (he said he would see what he could do, I think that means no). Mr and Mrs Claus did make us this really cute seasonal decor thing. We love it.

What is a Saturday with my mom if it isn't spent shopping!!! We decided to try on some styl'in hats at American Eagle. They really were quite warm.

To keep Joselyn entertained (and himself from going crazy) Chris came up with a game at the mall that animals were stuck inside the clothes racks and chasing after us. It was pretty cute to hear Joselyn yelling to watch out for the snakes and lions in the middle of Nordstroms.

Who doesn't love the Christmas morning pictures where everyone is all greasy and gross.

(I know you are all wondering who the weirdo is in the hat. Yep, Scotty got a new hat for christmas and just didn't want to take it off.)

These were my 2 favorite shots of Joselyn. She is so stink'in cute (well, except for the haircut that Dustin tried to give her!) I guess Dustin was watching them while Shayla was at work and Jos asked him to cut her hair. Instead of being a normal dad and saying no, he pulled out the scissors and tried to give her an A-line cut. Usually it's the kids giving themselves the rotton cuts! She also has it in her head that Mommies can't play guitar hero. She kept telling Shayla that and wouldn't let her play with us.

Kylee is getting more beautiful everytime we see her. She is quite the gamer, it's hard to keep up with her. For Christmas she got guitar hero 3 (it was my carry-on on the plane, I guarded it with my life)

Kylee calls Chris MO-Jo (I am still not sure where she got it from) but a few months after living here we found an auto mechanic shop called Mo-Jos. We love you kyster.

Why did the Grinch steal christmas?

My mom is always coming up with creative ideas for christmas eve. This year she got my cousin Ryan to dress up like the grinch and recite the grinch poem. It was a hit! (a few of the smaller children were slightly disturbed and cried)My favorite part of his outfit are the cowboy boots!

-One of the funniest moment this year was on Christmas Eve and my mom comes down into the bedroom that chris and I were sleeping in at like 1:00 am looking for the bag of all the candy that she had bought for the stockings. When we woke up she gathered us into Kylee's room and starts crying that this year will be the christmas without candy! It was hillarious how emotional she was about it. I guess she kept my dad up all night worrying about it. Needless to say, I found the bag of candy a few days later under some blankets in that bedroom. You gotta love Colleen.

So we are at my parents and my dad comes out with this bag of about 100 Farmington Fire Department sweatshirts. Let's just say that chris is now the proud owner of one.

Jaxton has gotten so big. Chris got a kick out of him because his new favorite book is Going on a Bear Hunt and he couldn't get him to read anything else! He is also very addicted to his bottle.

It was so good to see my mom. She looks so cute, she is now bravely going none wig style. We went and saw "PS I love you" and after the movie was over all she had to say was, "I need a new hat. Do we have time to shop around for one?" Hillary Swank did wear some really cute hats in that movie.

We went to breakfast on Christmas Eve morning with the Brown's to Market Street Grill. I think we got enough food to feed an army! Sophie tried to eat a pancake larger than herself, it was pretty darm cute. (she is the small infant way in the back there) Our waitress was a piece of work to say the least. We asked her for our O.J. and she acted like we had just asked her to give us her first born. About 3 hours later we finally got our food. Good thing the good company made up for the poor service.