Christmas

We had another great Christmas this year. My kids love Christmas Eve night at my mom's almost as much as they love Christmas morning! We had our yummy dinner, the nativity, the FINALLY opened presents. I love family traditions!

Every year the kids get a little older but they are always

good sports about participating in Grandma's nativity.

Cute little shepherd

Danny opening the first of many star wars presents

Jonah wanted a cowboy hat so bad, which I thought

was strange but Grandpa Gary came through!

Uncle Russ teaching Jonah the Pink Panther

Onto Christmas morning.....I really wanted to get lots of video this year so therefore there are not many pictures. But here is a little shot of everyone with their gifts. I think everyone was pretty happpy.

Family Party Time!

We had some super fun family parties for Christmas. For the Bliss family we had dinner and games at the palomar. Once you have over 50 people in your family you've got to get the gym! Hilary was in charge and did a great job.

The kids loved opening presents the most

We played a game where all the dads stood in a line

and the rest of their family had to find whatever they could

in the room to dress them up. Can you tell how much the

guys loved it?!

Stephani wasn't quick enough to get the Christmas

paper so she went for the volleyball net!!

I'm sure Justin is smiling under that party sack!

For the Church family we rented the gathering place and Darlene made tons of yummy food. We always have such a good time when we get together. All my brothers and sister were there....it was great!

The boys! We sure missed Ty this year!

We played some minute to win it games. It was so funny

everyone got laughing so hard!

My battery died before the party was over and I missed getting pictures of the best part! My dad and brothers all had nylons over their heads with oranges down in the legs and had to knock over water bottles. It was so great and I'll forever be sad I didn't get any pictures.

We had a great time celebrating with our families.

Here comes Santa Claus

I took the kids to IFA to see Santa and ride the wagon. I thought they would love it but Max was the only one who would sit on Santa's lap. I made Syd do it too :) Max asked for a boxing box. Now we just need to figure out what that is! After they saw Santa they got to talk on the radio and tell everyone what They asked Santa for so I hurried and called Justin and my dad so they could hear them. I would have loved to heat Max's little voice on the radio!







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O Christmas Tree

My dad took us up to Dry Creek this year to find a Christmas tree. We found 2 and they were perfect! We're getting so excited!





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Savannah Georgia 2011

This trip to Georgia was a complete blast! Every minute was jam-packed with fun. We started out with the Savannah rock and roll half marathon. Talk about the funnest race ever! 23,000 people makes for a very crowded race with lots of people watching. The first 7 miles of the race was total ghetto! It wasn't any neighborhood I would ever dare go into again but it was so much fun to see a whole other culture. And it made me feel pretty blessed too. The last half of the race was into some beautiful neighborhoods. I just wanted to stop and take pictures of every house. I loved it!

At the finish line in Forsythe park. Me, Darlene, Leigh Anne

Ammie, Savannah and Dani

The fountain at beautiful Forsythe Park

You can't go to Savannah without eating at Paula Deen's!

All the fried chicken, mac & cheese, black eyed peas and any other

good southern food you can think of!

Outside the Lady and Son's

I really wanted to see the ocean while we were there so

we took a quick trip to Tybee Island.

Our last day we spent touring the Bells' home town of Madison. It is so pretty there and I love all the historic homes. I'm pretty sure we walked about 1000 miles in the 4 days we were there but it was worth it! Can't wait til my next trip!

Viva Las Vegas

We wanted one more warm weekend before winter hit so we headed down to Las Vegas over the fall break. Our family has completely outgrown hotel rooms so this time we rented a nice little house.....with a pool all to ourselves. It couldn't have been better. The kids swam, swam and swam some more while Justin and I laid in the sun. It was so fun and relaxing. On the way home we drove down the strip to let the kids see. But other than that there was no reason to even leave the house (except for cafe rio and diet coke)

Max loved floating around

Justin got a nice sunscreen rub down

Lunch by the pool....so fun!

He's ready for a good swim!

Cool guy!

Vacation=ice cream for breakfast!

Me and my kids floating around.

Teenager!

I have a teenager? Really? I don't know how I feel about this but here it is. I'm a little behind on posting Hailey's birthday but she had a fun day with friends and presents....what more could a teenage girl ask for? Oh ya....a cell phone.