Christmas Day

 Christa with her presents

 Charlie digging in his stocking (he smells the treats!)

 Bryce with all his stuff!

 Christmas morning is so fun!  Even for big kids!!

 Snow shoes! 

We don't usually make Bryce sit in the corner!  But this

was his corner Christmas morning, he liked it!  Bryce got 

snow shoes also.  The boys want to snow shoe up the mountain

next to our house and then snowboard/ski back down!  

We didn't have snow Christmas morning, but I am posting this

at the end of December and we definitely have enough snow now!

Happy New Year!

Christmas Eve

 Christmas PJs

 Charlie with his Christmas bow  (So cute!)

 Excited about the Christmas book!

Mom reading the new Christmas book (The Candle

In the Window).  Mom almost always cries!  This year

was the first year without Breeann.  She and Brandon

went to Alabama to spend Christmas with his family.  We

missed them, but I guess we have to learn to share!  Breeann

decided this is a tradition she wanted to share with Brandon's

family so she got them a Christmas book.  I thought that was a

nice idea!

Christmas Eve Day

 It was a beautiful day so we drove up to Hardware Ranch

to see the elk.  They offer wagon rides so you can get right in

the middle of the herd while they are eating.  

 Waiting in line for our ride

 I think there were atleast 500 head of elk

 Isn't he beautiful?

Huge rack!

Gingerbread house

 Traditionally we build a gingerbread house on Christmas Eve.

This year, we did it early because Breeann and Brandon

were going to Alabama to be with Brandon's family for

Christmas.  Dotta joined us (Christa's best friend).

I think this was Brandon's first ever gingerbread house!  

We are having fun giving him lots of "first" experiences!

Decorating Christmas Cookies

 We went to our friend's house to decorate Christmas

cookies before Christmas.  This is DeeDee (mama Chantry)

 Creativity!

 Everyone busy making their master pieces

We decided this needed to be a tradition with our families.

This was our second year to do this and we have a lot of fun

visiting and laughing.  The Chantry's have a very large family

and we love them!

Ping Pong

Both of Bryce's Young Men leaders were gone this week and

Bryce is the Teacher's Quorum President.  So he decided

that instead of cancelling Mutual they could come to our

house and play ping pong.  They had a lot of fun!

Tanner, the Engineer

 Tanner built a robot from legos.

He is programming him to walk.  He has plans to build 

one who can sort colors and one who can shoot out balls.

Tanner is an Eagle Scout!

 There were six boys from our ward who received their Eagle

Scout award.  From left to right there is Tyler Conley, 

Conner Mantz, Garrett Mantz, Nathan Moser, Ryan Egbert 

and Tanner sitting in the Eagle's Nest.  

 There were refreshments, of course!

 Greg spending a few moments "bragging" about our son.

Each of the dad's were given an opportunity to give a 

tribute to their son.

 I placed Tanner's award on him then he gave me a pin and

Greg a pin.  I told Greg that I should not get any credit for

this.  Greg was so wonderful to always be there to help Tanner

with his Scout merit badges.  I am so proud of Tanner and my

husband for this achievement!

This is one of Tanner's great scout leaders, Todd Orme.  

Tanner chose him to give a leader pin to.  It was a great

night to celebrate this wonderful achievement with 5 other

boys from our ward.