Christmas in Florida With Lance's Family

*Ok - this one got a little long, but I couldn't choose just a couple of pics!*

For Christmas this year, we went to Florida with some of Lance's family. While we were there, it was Mom and Dad, Robert, Nicole, Kayla, Alivia, Karter, and us. We had a wonderful time! Thank you, Mom and Dad, for everything!!


The car ride down. This was in the middle of the night, and Maddox was sneaking pop!

Alivia, Kelsey, Landon, and Maddox loved to look for lizards. Kelsey is holding one in this picture!

At the Naples Zoo

Landon fell asleep like this one day - it was so cute!

This was the kids' favorite thing to do - play on the bunkbeds!

Landon lounging around on Kelly the Whale

Kelsey on Kelly

We went out early one morning to look for shells. We found quite a few! It was pretty fun!

Landon filled his shoe with his shells

Kelsey and Liv loved to be goofy and take pictures of themselves.

Playing cards - it was Kelsey's favorite thing to do!

Walking to Nanny and Papa's house Christmas morning

Singing Christmas carols with Papa

Kayla reading books to Landon and Karter

Getting ready to open presents

Kelsey and Alivia's "sandman" (snowman)

My attempt at a "sandman"

A Great Visit From Some Out-of-Town Family

After we returned from Florida, we had some of my family from Nevada come and stay with us! I had not seen them since I went to Vegas with my office in February of 2008, and Lance hadn't seen them since their wedding in March of 2002. We had such a GREAT time! They were my cousin Chad, his wife April, and their girls Sage and Ayla. Their girls are the same ages as Kelsey and Landon. The kids played so well together! They had never met before, so it was so awesome to see them play together.
Lance and Chad slaving over a hot stove! :-)

Ayla - what a cutie!

All of the kids wrestling my dad

Kelsey and Sage did each other's hair and make-up!

Landon held the nail polish bottle for them! LOL

Chad doing Ayla's hair! Lance wouldn't even know where to start!

April

Ayla was sooooo proud of this puzzle!

Then all the kids thought they had to get their picture with the puzzle!

Chad taking a little nap. I think it was about this time when his keys fell out of his pocket. I found them AFTER they left!

Me and Miss Ayla

Lance and Sage

The girls saying good bye :-( Hopefully we will be able to go visit them soon!

Playing in the Snow!

As many of you know, I'm not a fan of snow! I hate everything about it! So, when somebody offers to go outside with my kids, I'm all for it! With my cousins being from Nevada, they don't see snow very often, so they were excited to go out! My dad also offered to pull the kids on the sled. They all had a lot of fun!

Snow angels!!

Christmas With My Mom and Dad

With us being in Florida for Christmas, we had Christmas with my mom and dad a few days after Christmas. It was nice being together!

Paetyn (Jardon's boy) wasn't feeling well:-(

Landon and me just hanging out - waiting to open presents!

Kelsey and Maddox getting ready to dig in!

Kelsey handed out presents this year

Mom helping Maddox open a gift

Landon and Maddox boxing on the Wii - so cute!

Maddox was exhausted!

Chicago Bulls vs. Orlando Magic

At the beginning of January, we went up to Chicago to a Bulls game. We were able to spend the day with some of my cousins and then went to the game that night. It was a lot of fun!!

Driving from the hotel to the game. In this picture is my cousins Chad and Natalie, and in the back are Chad and April's girls Sage and Ayla.

Chad and April

Me and my loving husband

Yes - we were that far up!!! LOL

This big inflatable bull was floating around and dropping t-shirts - kinda cool!

Comparing my feet to Shaq's!

That's unbelievable!!

Happy 6th Birthday Kelsey!!

Happy 6th Birthday to my sweet daughter Kelsey! We have already been busy with birthday celebrations, and still have more to come! We have a busy weekend, so I'll try to post pictures later!

Family Pictures

We recently had our family pictures taken by Gina. Once again, she did a wonderful job! It was hard to choose just a few to post!

1 Down, 19 More to Go!!!

Well, it finally happened! Kelsey lost her first tooth!! She was so tough about it. I remember hating to lose teeth, and she was very eager to get it out! Now, a visit from the tooth fairy........


Here she still has the tooth
Daddy working to get it out (even though I'm the one that pulled it:-) )

It's gone!

So proud!