It was a very merry Christmas

                    
     Our Christmas Break has been full of family fun. Here's some photos of the highlights:

Christmas Eve Candlelight Dinner

Opening one present (jammies not so matchy thanks to Mom getting some wrong sizes)

Leaving treats for Santa (everyone leaves Mtn Dew instead of milk, right?)

Looks like Santa came!

Brady's favorite gift

He has hardly taken it off since he got it!

Mallory got a little video camera, so you can be expecting some sweet Sunday afternoon movies soon.

A new bike for Dallin (since his last one was stolen...but I don't want to talk about that)

Aspiring chef McKenzie got a crepe maker and this fun cupcake book

I got Mark this cool canvas for his office,

and he got me a zoom lens for my camera (I took this picture of a hawk from my kitchen window!)

After opening up all our goodies we headed to Shelley to see Mark's family. We had a fun party Sunday night with our favorite $1 present exchange game.

Notice Brady's missing front tooth (unfortunately he didn't lose the second one in time for us to sing "All I Want for Christmas...", you know the rest)

         Here's some of  the cousins trying to trade the gifts they weren't exactly thrilled with.

Monday we left for Pocatello to meet up with three of my sisters, Amber, Chelsea and Lindsay and their families for just a few hours. We had such a great time that we all forgot to take a single picture!

Now we're back home and the kids are enjoying playing with all their new toys and I'm enjoying sleeping in and wearing my pajamas until noon. I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas filled with the people you love!

18 years and counting

Mark and I had a fun anniversary weekend celebrating 18 years of marriage. Considering I was only 17 when we met, 18 years is a long time! Mark surprised me with these gorgeous flowers Saturday morning that go so well with our Christmas decor!

 

Reminded me a lot of this picture from when we were first dating (taken in the hall of my apartment in Heritage Halls) Mark's always been a great one for bringing flowers.

Friday night we went to a couple's Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. Check out these lovely numbers:

You may not notice the shoulder pads and metallic gold thread that accent my fabulous (and itchy!)  sweater. And no, I'm not pregnant but I certainly look like it here!Saturday we watched BYU play football (yay!) and basketball (boo! their first loss) and then went out to dinner with friends. I had to make sure Mallory took another picture of us so the ugly sweater one wasn't the only one to document the weekend.

I feel very fortunate to have spent more than half of my life with this wonderful man and look forward to many happy memories to come.

Last Wednesday we woke up (at 5:30) to the sound of the answering machine informing us (in Spanish) that we would be having our first ever snow day! Aren't those the two words every kid dreams of hearing? We had a wonderful cozy day staying home and playing in the snow. I only left to go pick up this visitor from the airport.

We had a great weekend with Ashlee visiting from Phoenix. Lindsay came up as well and we had some fun sister time shopping, eating out and watching episode after episode of Modern Family. I only wish the rest of the Moyes girls could have joined us!