A VeRy MeRRy ChRiStMaS!!

This was a fun Christmas!!  We spent Christmas in Idaho this year with Cody's family.  All of Corbett's Sorensen cousins were there (pictured above)!  They had a great time playing together and we also had a lot of fun hanging out with family all weekend!
This year Corbett asked Santa for an easel (which is a paint palette to him) an axle (which is an easel).  Along with that Santa also brought him some paper and art supplies. 

This year we were busy in our garage making all kinds of presents.  It made the holiday so much fun!  For Grandma and Grandpa Sorensen we made a rocking motorcycle.  If you knew Cody's dad you would see how fitting this is for their house.  It was a lot of fun to give to them!  We also used our wood tools to make blocks for the babies and rubber band guns along with various other gifts we helped with.  Below is our rocking motorcycle in progress...

This is the prototype.

And Corbett is testing out the finished project here.

Santa Claus came to visit on Christmas Eve.  We are spoiled to have a close relationship with Santa, so we get personal visits from him all the time!

The twins have mixed reactions to Santa and Mrs. Claus.

And the whole family.

The twins playing with their toys...

I just wanted to post a few pictures that I've taken lately...Konrad

and Kennedy

We really enjoyed this Christmas season! 
Our family is blessed to be healthy and happy.  We're looking forward to the new year!

Family Christmas Party!!

Every year we have a Christmas party with my family.  This year we went to see the lights at Willard Bay on a wagon ride, and had a banquet room at a hotel reserved for dinner afterwards, catered by Maddox!  It was a lot of fun, maybe too much fun, we had to rein in the kids A LOT!

The little Girls in their sweet jammies!

As for me, PAJAMAS is the name of the game, I LOvE matching PJ's for Christmas!

The small-ish boys!

The medium size boys...

And of course the pyramid comes crashing down!

That's all you get, the older kids and adults are too old to put on their pajamas at a party.  My mom gets the grandkids a bear their first Christmas with the year on it.  Kennedy and Konrad are opening their first Christmas presents (their bears).

My brother Grant with Konrad!

So maybe this is ToO mUcH InForMaTIon about how DORKY we are, but this year Rhonda was in charge. During dinner (because we didn't give gifts) Rhonda had us fill out "service coupons" for each other. The rule was a child could give a hug but no adults were allowed to give another adult a hug or something like that on their coupon. Maybe you need to know that we're NOT a touchy family, no hugging takes place. So I gave Rhonda an "eye wink" on a coupon. Unfortunately Grant gave Rhonda a "get out of one eye wink free" coupon. So, you see how the coupon giving went.

My niece Mariah with Kennedy!

We had so much fun, it's always CraZy when my family all gets together but we love it!

a little bit of this and that...

The Blackmail Picture!

I have to go through the pictures on my camera to figure out what we've been up to, a whole bunch of random things.  Cody and Corbett have been skiing on Saturdays, no pics of that though.  They will probably be doing that most Saturdays all winter.  While they were gone last Saturday I took the babies down to my Grandma Thorson's Christmas party in the greenhouse. 

My Grandma & Grandpa...I love the look on their faces!

Konrad and cousin Justin

It was fun to see cousins, aunts & uncles, & grandma & grandpa.  I dressed the twins in their Santa outfits (thanks Kim & Susan!) and they looked so cute! 

This is a picture of all the twins in the family...my aunts, my cousins, 2 of my cousins twins, and my twins!

The Aggie basketball season is well underway, we've made it to about 3 games so far.  (Cody has gone to a few more)  We took the whole family one night and Konrad was mesmerized by the game.  Kennedy sat still through it but looked more bored and finally fell asleep. 

I put tattoos on their cute little cheeks!!  Go Aggies!

Last night for FHE we made gingerbread houses and invited some cousins over to join in the fun! 

The yummy madness!

We're looking forward to a whole lot more holiday fun!  We're super excited for Christmas!  And a few more pictures just for fun...

so funny!

And yet so sweet!