Our Christmas 2010

Christmas Eve the kids opened their P.J's....

                                  Put out the Reindeer Food....

                                   Alley thought she saw Rudolphs nose...

 & The girls wanted to write one last letter to santa to leave by the cookies and milk

Alley's Letter

                                  

Ashlyn's letter (you like Rudolphs red nose in the pic..haha)

  Ammon fell asleep....Yay!  He's usually the last one to go to sleep... so I was glad he feel asleep pretty fast.

                                                Can you believe we caught Santa!
      We think our little elf "Nod" who comes to visit us each year snapped this pic for us and then Ashlyn says he jumped in Santa's bag to go home with him (he leaves each year on Christmas Eve and we don't see him again until the next year. =) The kids keep saying they miss Nod already!

     I love watching the kids run out Christmas morning.  The girls woke up first and came up stairs to get us.

                                      Ammon was on a dead sprint

                                  My sweet new toy!  I love it!

                                New Bikes for the Girls

   Ammon was so excited that Santa brought him his "Bat Castle" as he calls it.

                     He was so excited about everything!  I loved it!
SEE VIDEO OF AMMON AND BUZZ LIGHTYEAR TOY
SEE VIDEO OF AMMON OPENING HIS BAT CASTLE

                                    Alley's Stuff

         Ashlyn really wanted an Ariel Doll more than anything else

Papa & Nana gave the kids this awesome Karaoke/Singing machine.  It's a lot of fun! 

They (and we ;) Love it!!

              Ammon plays for hours with his Bat Cave

   He wanted to wear his jammies all day until he opened this Batman shirt...LOL

           Adler woke up at 3:30 am for some reason and then again at 4:30 am (he must have been too excited =) So, we let him sleep while the other kids opened presents.  He got to open his later.

  He had so much fun playing on the big box.  He would have been happy with just the box..haha.

   We had a great Christmas and are so lucky to be surrouned by family and friends.  That's what its all about!  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Christmas Parties

We were not able to make it to the Laub Family Christmas Party in Kanab because of the Flood Craziness, which we were so sad about.  The Kids and I were so looking forward to it. =( But, we had some other friends & family & school parties that were a lot of fun!  Here are some random pics of it all!

Flood 2010

The last flood that came through town was only in January 2005.  The damage it did in 2005 was more extensive I believe in ways.  But, any flood is just as scary.  5 homes went into the River in Littlefield/Beaver Dam which was very sad to see.  The damage to the number of homes down in our area was not as bad as before, but still bad especially to those that were not here in 2005.  The streets & homes are still needing much clean up.  Pretty crazy, especially for just a few days before Christmas.  Thanks goodness our house is still far enough down the street.  But, we were so glad we could help our ward and community where ever we could.  Artie was down there for about 12 hours that first day and a few hours the next couple. I was able to help for a couple hours the first day and it was so amazing to see the whole community come together!  We have a great Community!  It rained for like a week straight which was weird, I could never live anywhere where it did that all the time. I gotta say, It was so nice to finally see the sun! The kids even kept commenting on how nice the sun was that day when it finally came out.  It's amazing how we take things like that for granted! 



this is when the water was just starting to come over the fields at Hunter park by our house.



 



This picture is looking directly at field 1, but you can see field 2 & 3 are completey covered by this point.  it didn't take long at all for this to happen.




Wow!  This is more of a close up of the fields competely covered!



A few of the volunteers just starting to sand bag and do whatever they can.  Later on the whole street was lined with cars and volunteers of people willing to help.  It brought tears to my eyes and still does when I think about it!

Alley took this picture of me because I was covered in mud. =)
When Artie came home that night he was soaked from head to toe, he was in it waist deep just down here on the end street on "Cottonwood."  I tried to blow dry his boots that night so they could at least be dry & warm for a little bit the next day. =)

This is the water rising up to the Bunkerville Bridge

Gymnastics Christmas Performance

The Girls have been taking Gymnastics since September.  They love it!  We are so happy with this program, the teachers are experienced and know what they are doing and the girls are having so much fun.  They had a cute Christmas Performance!