Our Christmas

This year we spent Christmas Eve and day with my family. We had our traditional pizza and sub sandwiches on Christmas Eve. All of my family was there except for my brother Anthon and his wife Ashleigh, as they are due to have a baby in a week. It was lots of fun. I love watching Landen and Sydney play with their cousins. Christmas morning we let Landen and Sydney open one present, since they really don't care either way. Then we ate our traditional hashbrowns, eggs, bacon, and oj. Then we opened up the rest of our presents. Landen got to the point where he didn't want to open anymore, he just wanted to play with what he had already. Sydney just loved taking her time opening her presents and then playing with them. We hung out, watched movies and then ate dinner. It snowed this year while we were there. But we were really equipped for the clothing to go play in it. After we ate dinner, we had to head back home, since Byron had to work the next day.

Santa came to visit. Of course my kids wouldn't go to him unless someone went with them.

Opening presents that Uncle Jason bought them while he was in Mexico.


Landen's bike from Santa. It was a lot smaller that I thought it would be.
Sydney's bike from Santa.
This is my present to myself this year. A food saver. I love it. Don't worry, Byron actually got me a present this year and it was a really good one.

Saturday, we went to Byron's parents house to celebrate Christmas. We opened presents and then for dinner, Byron's Uncles and their families came over for dinner. Lots of fun.
Byron's mom, Wendy, made this for me. My kitchen is decorated in apples, hence the apple apron.

Sydney opening presents. She loves her blocks, and loves to stack them.
This is Landen's present. He loved it. It is a race car track.


I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a great new year.

Paint Your Nails PINK!!!!!

I just talked to my cousin Katie. She said her mom mentioned that maybe we could all post "Paint your nails Pink" This means that we need to paint our finger nails or toes nails pink. Everytime we look at our nails it will be a reminder to pray for Sariah and her newborn baby. For those of you who don't know who this is or what is going on, let me fill you in. Sariah is my cousin. She is in labor righ now giving birth to a baby boy with a VERY severe heart condition. Once he is born, the heart specialist will determine when he needs heart surgery. The Dr's say that it has to do with his Pulmonary artery. This is all very scary for us and especially Sariah's family. Please remember to pray for her and her family. I really couldn't explain all the details of the type of heart condition it is, but if you would like to know more here is her blog link. www.finchouse.blogspot.com To the right is a link to follow the baby's progress.

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Thanksgiving and Sydney turns ONE!

Thanksgiving this year was at my parents house. I went up a few days early to hang out with my parents. Landen, as always, spent the majority of his time outside. He liked to sit on my brothers four wheeler. I also took him on a few rides on the bigger four wheeler even if it was freezing outside. He loves going for rides.
The prego's taking a nap.

My friends Jason and Mindy joined us this year.
Since all of my family was together, I decided to have a small party for Sydney for her birthday. I just put a candle on a peice of pumpkin pie and we sang to her.

Then that weekend on her real birthday, Byron's family came over and we had a party. I made her this flower cake, which she was kinda hesitant to eat at first, but once I made her taste it, she was hooked.


These are some of the presents she got. I got her a baby doll and this stroller. She loves it and of course so does Landen. They now fight over who gets to push the stroller. Thanks again to everyone who gave her a present.