On saturday, we went to the Brown's park christmas party. Browns park is a hour and a half northwest of craig. Browns park is a very small community mainly populated by government employees and a couple of large ranches. Historically, Browns park was an outlaw hideout, frequented by Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch which is why Dave was very excited to take our family to see this country. The christmas party was held in the old Ladore school house which was built in 1911. It was fun to go to Browns park and see where the outlaws hide out and raised a little hell. Emma Jane was excited to see santa and to let him know that she still wants that train.

I had to tell santa what I wanted for christmas too.

Brooke and Emma with all the kids telling santa goodbye and telling him there last christmas wishes

The Gines family and the Flores family

This is a picture of the Gates of Ladore where the outlaws use to ride thru to get to Browns park

First weekend in December

Well we went to Salt Lake for Amber's baptism, I have never been to a stake baptism so that was a new experience but a postive one at that. That night Paul and his family came down to Marylou's so we went to go see the lights down on Temple Square. I think this is one of my favorite things to do at christmas time.



David, Al and Emma Jane hanging out trying to stay warm as we walked around looking at the lights and taking pictures.

The Gines checking out the old tabernacle, and stopping for a photo.

Thanksgiving in Houston

Brooke's was a little afraid at first, after feeding a few though she warmed up to the idea .

Here we are with Kris and her family

Emma Jane never really quite got use to the idea of feeding the stingrays but she still had a good time.

Well this thanksgiving holiday we spent with my sister's family, and my mom and dad in Houston. It went way to fast, but everything went well. We flew in on thanksgiving so we celebrated on friday after we went out shopping. It rained almost the whole time we where there so we didn't quite get to do all the fun stuff that we had planned. The last day it finally cleared up and we went to Kemah which is on Galveston bay at the edge of clear lake. We played on the boardwalk, the girls rode rides and played games. Then we went and fed some stingrays which was fun because it was cool and not alot of people where there so they were hungry and splashing everywhere so we got drenched. It was pretty fun because we had never done anything like that before.

Well we finally did it we joined with the rest of the blogger's in the family to keep everyone posted on our lives. Hope you find this as fun as the rest of the blogs we have had a chance to look at.