Christmas 2008

i love christmas. it is a wonderful time of the year. this year we stayed in texas for the holiday and spent it with my family. since my mom, brother, and sister just arrived here on tuesday, janell and i planned christmas eve and christmas and kinda took over this year. we spent a lot of time preparing and had a great day. 

christmas eve was a night of service, nativity story, games, snacking, and the traditional getting kids pajamas.

this is jordann and mikenna in there matching pj's...

the boys in there pj's...

and all the kids together

Christmas morning the kids wait to go out and see what santa brought them

here they are running down the hall to the family room...

wow, kelton got a activity mat from santa...

andon got a basketball hoop...

and mikenna got a play kitchen

grandma and kelton

tyler, jordann, mom, and kenna on the couch while we opened gifts

my gift from john was a bike. janell and i have been jogging a lot at night and we would ride bikes but i didn't have one, only she did so john surprised me with an awesome bike. i was so excited.

kelton just hanging around playing on his mat

the kids around the tree

Mikenna's big gift..... mikenna and treston were both getting the same big gift. to give them this we sent the kids on a scavenger hunt to find it.

here they are running to some of the clues

after finding six snowflake with clues on them, they made it back to the house and ran inside to find the mysterious gift...

two baby miniature dauchounds.... yes mikenna got a puppy... and why did i do this, i don't know... but i hope i don't regret it.

here she is with her little puppy at there first meeting. it is a boy and she named him max. treston's puppy is also a boy and he named him dax. the two are brothers and yes i know there names rhyme , it's confusing but oh well the kids named them 

the kids played with the puppy's all day. they are fun, at least right now they are

mikenna and max

we hope you had a wonderful christmas and celebration of the savior's birth. merry christmas. love, john, kimberly, mikenna, andon, and kelton                                             

A Fun Day

Yesterday we had an awesome fun day. we went to dallas to the galleria which is a mall with an ice skating rink in it and then we went to the Gaylord, which is a place that has real neat christmas stuff.

first we saw santa. we were the first in line and while we waited for santa to arrive mikenna and treston scoped out his chair. 

mikenna told santa she wanted a tv and princess for christmas.
     

my three cuties with santa. andon was okay for this picture but not for long....

treston-cute smile, andon- not happy, kelton-just chillin, sawyer-no expression, mikenna- happy and she was so proud of herself for not being scared

all the kids liked petting the reindeer.......

and enjoyed sitting in the sleigh with mrs. claus

this was a big house made out of real gingerbread

i know this one is sideways but it is a picture of this huge tree that is in the middle of the ice skating rink. it was really cool

this is looking down from the third floor of the galleria

and here is mikenna and i standing at the bottom

mikenna and treston ice skating

here is me and my dad. i had so much fun ice skating, this is what i looked forward to doing at dallas. and my dad came too, it was really fun.

mikenna gets pretty good after she practices a while.

my dad is old so when he was done ice skating he convinced john that i wouldn't give him any hubba hubba if he didn't come ice skating with me because i kept asking him to and he didn't want to. so john finally agreed and took my dad's skates and joined me in the rink

we had lots of fun.

these next set of pictures are at the Ice exibit at the Gaylord. we walked through this exibit where everything was made of ice. it was 9 degrees in there and after we bundled up they gave us parka's to wear. i have never seen anything so amazing and have never been in a place so cold.

here are andon and sawyer bundled up in there strollers. sawyer eventually got out and walked around but andon did not want to get out.

janell and i are standing in front of the ice house

grandpa treston and mikenna peeking out of the window

mikenna sawyer and treston sitting on the ice santa. look at that santa, everything is ice. 

me and john sitting on a fun sculpture

the last part of the sculptures was an ice slide. we all went down it and had such a blast. this is mikenna sliding. her and treston went down the slide a ton and just had a blast 

mikenna sliding again.

on the way out there was the nativity scene in an ice sculpture and that was amazing to see. here we are in front of it. john is holding kelton who also had a parka to cover up in

Real Reindeer

santa and his reindeer visited one of the hospital here and so we went to see them. the line to see santa was way to long so we spent our time with the reindeer donner and blitzen. the kids loved to see the real reindeer.

mikenna (in black hat) and andon (white and gray) watch the reindeer eat and drink

treston reaches out for one and mikenna watches him

mikenna and andon watch the reindeer some more

grandpa and andon