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This is a little video that I made over a year ago for everyone in my family, I hope you enjoy it too.

A scooter and a bike!!!!!

Our house was filled on New Year's Eve with family and friends. It was nce to have people over just hanging out, eating, drinking, visiting, and some were brave enough to do some dancing...and not just the kids! Thank you for those who came:)

Happy Birthday Mom

Emma and Levi Dancing!

Some, however, did not make it til New Year's! Emma fell asleep with her dance shoes on!

SIERRA GRANDE LODGE AND SPA

Lindsey and I had our second visit here recently. It's such a neat place with a very relaxing atmosphere. It was a nice way to end the Christmas Break and get us ready for the second half of the school year. It's all downhill from here :)

We have been so busy with the Holiday that today we got a little bit of time to relax:) Well, that is once Steven's basketball team left! We had them over today for lunch and video games. Steven has done a really good job with them this year. That lasted about four hours. But it was nice. The kids got to come over, eat, play video games, play in the backyard, and just hang out. CC helped cook the hamburgers and hot dogs...thank goodness:) Emma and I played Memory, and took a walk up to Tech. I walked with Kona and she rode her scooter. She did such a good job. She has never been on one before so I wasn't sure what to expect. However, she did it. She said it was great exercise! Here are a few pictures of her new scooter.

We also took her tonight to see Alvin and the Chipmunks!

Merry Christmas!

It was a great day...I knew I had gone overboard on gifts for Emma, but it was her first real Christmas where she knew what was going on. She had asked for a Scooter and a bike from Santa. She woke up and said "Today is Christmas? Do we get to open all of our presents? Because Santa brought a present for you, dad, and for me...for everyone, lets go!" She was so excited to see that Santa had brought her a scooter, but she didn't see the bike so she said, he brought me a scooter, but not a bike. She looked so sad...but the bike was covered..so whe was happy when she saw it. She was really just trying to take it all in. There was so much...the presents, a note from Santa, the stockings, the milk and cookies were gone...but she did really good. She opened all her presents; stopping periodically to say " where are your presents, you and daddy need to open some", in less than two hours, got ready for church in thirty minutes, and then rushed off. After church we went to CC's house for lunch with her family. Emma got a Bella ballerina dance mat and dvd from Synthea which she loved and had to open right away. She made me go home and get her new tutu that she got from Megan and Kyle. She had a great Christmas! Hope all of you did too.

**Lindsey

Twas the Night Before Christmas...







1. It began with making reindeer food...in our Summer dress!





2. Took a bath and opened one present...Christmas pajamas of course!


3. Went outside at 30 degrees to spread reindeer food all over the ground and roof for the reindeer!





4. Put a plate of cookies and glass of milk for Santa



5. Read our favorite Christmas stories and fell asleep