You were very nice and shared your toys with your siblings and cousins...
One, two, three BLOW! or just look at the candle and try to grab it while your brother and sister blow it out for you....
Interesting- This picture was taken while the big dinner preparations were being made. Yes, I am in the background with my back in the picture, but I think I was taking Brayden's temperature, as you'll see below, he was sick on Christmas Eve. I think we ended up making the guys clean up dinner.
Poor little guy...at least he felt better on Christmas.
Grandma and her boys...and if you like to look in the backgrounds of pictures like I do- that is just sparkling cider that Mindy won in our annual card tournament.
Dad reading the Christmas story...
...with baby Dallin listening intently.
I know this is a horrible picture and I shouldn't post it, but isn't it just hilarious how my mom and Brooklyn have the exact same expression?!!!
And just one more ridiculously cute picture.....
Brayden, I wanted to write down a few things about you that make you so special. I know it is sappy, but I am your mom so I get to do stuff like that.
Although last year Billy said we were going to spend Christmas at home from now on, I was able to convince him to go to Lewisville for Christmas one last time. Not that he doesn't want to go after or before, he just hates packing all the presents to and fro! Anyway, I haven't seen my sister Desi since she moved to AZ, so I was able to talk him into it. We had tons of fun, as we always do, playing games, eating and just being together. Here are a few highlights!
Brooklyn and Maren had lots of fun showing each other their presents- especially when they matched! 
Landon was semi into opening his gifts, but he did love playing with them.
My Grandma Bramwell came down and watched everyone open presents just like she did when we were little. She is one fun spunky lady, although it is times like this one when I really miss my grandpa. They were always together like two peas in a pod- Grandma doing all the talking and Grandpa being Grandpa.
Landon was particularly enthralled with his Great-grandma and gave her lots of big smiles- maybe he understood her when she said how handsome he is!
Brayden got lots of Legos and Star wars stuff this year. He wanted a nintendo ds as well as everything else this year, but that didn't happen. He loved all his toys, but said he didn't get a "big" gift like everyone else. He was not impressed when I told him that was true, but he got lots of smaller gifts. Next year I'll buy him something cheap and big so we won't complain. Any ideas?
He was very sweet and picked out very thoughtful gifts for everyone. He made some really nice gifts at school to- including a calendar for the year with all the holidays and school info on it (that he wrote in himself) and a beautiful framed picture of a poinsettia that he did with chalk. He was so excited to give it to us.
Thanks Mom and Dad for hosting all the craziness and letting us invade the house. Thanks for gathering up everything that we left there. Thanks for the fun gifts. Thanks for all the yummy food. We love you!
We took the kids to a live nativity that even had a camel! The kids were very impressed (mostly by the wagon ride). Hopefully it helped the kids understand the Christmas story a little bit better. We even made the kids' great-grandma come with us! They even had hot chocolate when we finished. I was so impressed that so many people would volunteer their time and talents to put this on for the community. It may just become a Christmas tradition for our family to go to this. You can check it out next year in Eagle.
