Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! There is much to be thankful for.

I was supposed to work on Christmas and we were going to drive out on the 26th to see my family for New Years but thank you to my boss:) she told me a couple days earlier that I could have it off. That was sooooo nice of her.:) We decided to make it a surprise for my family. We drove 19 hours straight with an hour and a half nap and made it on Christmas day around 6:30pm. It was definitely a surprise to everyone:)

Buddy and Zoey were very good putting up with us wanting to take pictures of them with the Christmas tree. Zoey looks like she doesn't want to move because she doesn't know what is on her neck.:)

It sure doesn't look like it's Christmas time does it?

This day we were going to the beach and while there going to fish. So we stopped here to catch little bait fish.

It was a perfect day to go to the beach. Not too hot and not too cold.:)

This is Ethan, the oldest of my sister Mandy's 3 sons. He didn't know I was going to take his picture.:) It's still cute:)

This is Owen, the youngest. He was so fascinated by the fish being caught.

This is Dallin, the 2ND oldest. This is such a cute picture.

I think he was checking out a big bird that was over to the side.

This is Nathan's favorite past time. We are so sad that church volleyball season is over.

He got to play around at the beach and then later that night my sisters Stephanie and Bethanie took us with them to play volleyball with some of their friends.

Doesn't he look so cute, I love watching him play.:)

My Dad got a motorcycle for his birthday. What a present!

He says it was to help with gas....LOL. I'm sure it was, but it is also for pleasure.:)

I went for a ride with him and at the beginning I just kept saying little prayers that we would be safe. When you haven't been on one for over 10 years, you feel so exposed to everything when you are riding on it. On the ride home though, I was getting used to it and felt safer.:) My Dad said that he felt that way too the first week he got the bike and if he didn't stop feeling that way he was going to return it. But as you can see, he got over it.:)

This is the first time that we have all been brunettes at the same time. We had a hair color party and of course had to take a picture of the outcome.

It's not very often that we get to have pictures taken of all of us. It's usually one of us in the picture. So we took as many opportunities as we could.:)

This was taken in my parents back yard. The bird to the right had an injured leg and stayed in that spot for a very long time, so his friends stayed close too.














This is such a good picture of Buddy.

When you say"do you want a treat?" this is the reaction you get from him. Zoey knows what that means too but she just perks up her ears as you see.

Here I am with some of my siblings, Stephanie, Klinton, and me.:)

We set our cameras on timers and took some pictures of everyone. I think this one was the best of us all being silly.:)

Thank you to Nathan's brother who works for Disney, he sent us some passes to Disney World. We started off at Hollywood Studios........

Here we are on the boat to take us over to Epcot.......

We did a trade with another family and took pictures for each other

Right as we got to the Magic Kingdom, we got to take a picture with Pluto.:) We were the big kids at heart.

Can you tell what ride we went on?

(Pirates)

GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

Scary! LOL!:)

At the end of our day doing a fast track version of visiting the Disney parks, we met up with my parents for dinner in Orlando. We had all you can eat snow crab......YUMMY!

It was a great way to end the day....great company and great food.:)