New Years with a visit from Leathal!

So I didn't take many pictures, but my sis came to visit to bring in the New Year's with us (without her cute little Lily. Boo.) Here we are at about 3 in the afternoon...we realized it was getting late and we were still in our pjs and hadn't showered. Yeah. We are cool.

Me and my sis as we were preparing goodies for New Year's Eve.

Dustin entertaining the kiddos!

Jack (very excited about the blowers and party hats) with his Aunt Lisa.

So we really did have people over....a few friends and their families....don't know why we didn't bust out the camera while we were playing games, cleaning up one child's puke, or playing "Just Dance". Silly. But anyway, after everyone left, Lisa, Dustin, and I busted out the Martinelli's Sparkling Cider, made some toasts, goals, whatev...and proceeded to pretend to be drinkers (which we are not!) Here I am being a goof...

Cheers!

Ugliness (and my huge nostrils and Lisa's creepishly long, pointy tongue)

Toasting the new year!

For Family Home Evening after New Year's we made some goals/resolutions for Jack, Dustin, and me, some couple goals and some family goals. Here's to meeting those goals, becoming better people, growing closer as a couple and family, and having a Happy New Year! :)

Christmas Part 4: Christmas Day in Lafayette, CO

Our final post on Christmas! Phew! After our lazy, fun morning at home, we headed down to Lafayette, CO to spend Christmas Day with Dustin's family again. Jack got to ride down with Grandma and Grandpa. When we got there, this is what we found....Dustin's cousin, Kelsey, had got out her old Legos and was playing on the floor with Jack. He was in heaven!

Zander with his Grandpa and Great-Grandpa!

Dustin showing off the table cloth - such a neat tradition! Everyone that is present on Christmas each year signs this tablecloth with the year. Then Great Grandma Enslinger stitches over each name. It goes back over 10 years!

My boys with their Great Grandparents!

We busted out Jack's Monster Trucks he got from his Great Aunt and Uncle. He recruited several people to play with him!

The babies hanging out on the floor.

We had another delicious dinner, visited, played with the kiddos, and played games. I obviously only took pictures at the beginning and end of the night. But the whole night was fun! Here is Zander man in his second pair of Christmas pjs before he went to bed!

Jack had a blast playing with Kelsey and Josh. They are his new best friends! Hopefully that means he will perform well at their wedding; they asked him to be their ring bearer at their wedding this summer! :)

Jack with Great Grandma and Grandpa before bed.

Jack with his best buddy Josh.

We stayed at at Dustin's aunt and unlce's house that night. (We had driven enough!) We left in the morning so Dustin could get back to work and the boys and I could get ready and go to church. Here is Jack showing off the cute new outfit that Grandma Enslinger gave him for Christmas!

He is such a cheeser! :)

We had a wonderful Christmas break! It has been so nice to have Dustin home more, to be able to celebrate with his family for the first time in 3 years, and to just be so blessed with all we received and were able to give! How lucky we are to have been able to celebrate the birth of our Savior as well! I must admit it was a little weird not getting to see my family at all, but we still had a wonderful holiday season full of good times, good food, and good company! I will leave my last Christmas post with a copy of our Christmas card! I think it turned out pretty cute! We hope everyone else had some Happy Holidays too!

Christmas Part 3: Christmas Morning in our Own House! hristmas Eve in Winsor, CO

This was the first year since Dustin and I have been married that we were at our own house Christmas morning! And we got to have Dustin's parents there with us! Santa and our families were very good to us this year! We all got very spoiled! It was exciting to take Jack downstairs to see the note Santa had left him and all the presents sitting out. The funny part was Santa just took one bite out of a cookie and Jack was so excited and said, "Santa left me a cookie!"

Here is Zander getting fed an exciting Christmas breakfast by Grandpa.

Jack was so excited to open presents but so slow! He wanted to play with everything he opened or read every book he got before moving on! Here he is very excited about a big huge Play-doh set!

Helping Zander open presents....Z got some way cute clothes and fun toys, but he mostly just wanted to eat the wrapping paper.

Jack got his beloved robe from Grandma! Isn't he so cute in it!?

Robe and the apron to help mom cook!

Shooting Grandma with his new Nerf gun from the Brimhall fam!

My surprise present from Dustin! :) Go Cowboys!

Grandma showing off the hers of the twinner Chiefs jackets that we got her and Grandpa!

Playing with new toys!

Zander eating the paper....er...opening a present.

Our family Christmas morning!

We really were very spoiled. The boys got cute clothes, shoes, games, toys, money, and treats! Dustin got a new shaver, nice clothes, Wii games, movies, etc. I got a sewing machine! cute clothes, decorations, movies, etc! So very lucky! What a wonderful Christmas! We were so blessed! How lucky we are! :)

Christmas Part 2: Grandma's Visit and Christmas Eve in Winsor, CO

As I said in the last post, we got to bring Grandma Patty back to Laramie with us. We drove back to the 16+ inches of snow that had fallen the day before! Here is Patty and Jack, with his handy new shovel, shoveling snow off of the back patio so Chewie could go out and do his business. They then went to the front and did some shoveling. Poor Patty slipped and fell (where Jack and I have also fallen numerous times!) Thanks for shoveling, Patty! Please don't sue us! :)

We really did love having Patty come stay for a few days! She took me shopping, she played with the boys, let Jack torture her, er...I mean sleep with her one night, and she let Dustin and I go on a much needed date. (We hadn't been on a date since July!) I just had to include this awesome picture of Patty wearing Jack's coat! :)

This is Dustin actually helping with Christmas cards! (One of the two things he actually did to help with Çhristmas preparations this year!)

Sledding in the street! Our streets are so icy and snow packed you can just send Jack sailing down the road! :)

Jack and Daddy playing in the snow!

Christmas Eve we went down to Windsor, CO to Dustin's cousin's house for Christmas Eve. We had some yummy soup and then we opened lots of Christmas presents! Here is Great Grandma Enslinger holding Zander.

Zander and Dustin's cousin's little guy - Carter. They are like 3 months apart in age, but pretty much the same size!

Dustin's cousin, Kelsey, with Carter and Grandpa with Zander!

Zander was really cheesing for the cameras!

Great Grandpa helped Jack with his food, and without me around, Jack ate like a champ!

The babies!

Newly engaged couple - Dustin's cousin, Jason, and his fiancee, Kristin!

And another newly engaged couple: Dustin's cousin, Kelsey, and her fiancee, Josh! We will be attending some weddings! We sure do love these guys! :)

Old couple! :)

The madness of opening presents! We all got so spoiled, especially the boys! All of Dustin's aunts and uncles and cousins bought the boys really fun toys and cute clothes! They sure are spoiled and very loved! :)

Jack and Jessie playing the box. They were pretty entertaining!

Grandma opening our gift - A clock that said, "Families are Forever." She seemed to like it!

And Jack zonked on the way home, holding one of his new toys! We, along with Lynn and Patty, drove back home that night so that we could have Christmas morning in our own house.

Next post - Christmas Day! :)