Christmas Catch-up :D

ALRIGHTY!! So, I've been catching a deservedly huge amount of grief lately for not updating my blog. I will try to do better, and as for now will do LOTS of pictures, etc. to catch everyone up. I thought we would start where we left off...Christmas!!! We had so much fun during Christmas break. We spent the first little bit up in Driggs with the Hansen clan. Always so much fun to see everyone and let the cousins play! After that, we went to Idaho Falls to the Gardner house. My brother and his wife flew in from Kentucky and my sister and her family came from Missouri. It was so good to see them, it's been quite a while!!!!! It was awesome to have everyone home and celebrate the birth of our Savior. I LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME!! Unfortunately, my camera battery died when the kids all went sledding, but they had a great time with Uncle Evan! He was so cute and pulled them all around my parent's place behind the snowmobile. Anywho, it was a great time, and here are some pictures...

Here are the boys playing MarioKart on the Wii with Uncle Judd and Hailey riding the "horsey"

(SO FUN, I really want a Wii now!!)

Pure concentration...

The Christmas Snowstorm--SWEET!

My cute little niece Allison and her new bath towel

Evan with his new rifle rest...it was on his list, but frankly I don't know what you use it for ;)
This is my brother's wife Jen and her little present--"Bean" aka Ethan will be joining the madness in June and I'm SOOOOO excited!!!

Here's me, opening the beautiful pearl earrings Evan bought me. The story of why I'm laughing is that I showed him the earring ad in the paper with the "hint, hint" and he said he already bought me some jewelry and wasn't getting those. But he already had them, what a guy! ;)
This is Evan's ornament for this year...a moose in hunter orange with a rifle! LOL It was priceless!! We'll take a picture of them with the real moose when we pick it up in August.

This is my sister, playing with the super cute puppets she made for her daughter, along with a puppet theatre to hang in her doorway. It was darling!!

My mom, being brought into the world of digital photography...I'm so proud (sniff)

My dad, showing the kids how it's done with the Nerf gun :D

I love this girl! This is my niece we call "Moe," demonstrating what we affectionately call the Crazy Moe Hair, accompanied by the Crazy Moe Dance...she was slightly excited ;)

Apparently baton-twirling is a big deal in the south, and Katelyn was SO excited to finally have her own baton!! She's our little performer so maybe she can come take the place of the baton girl in the ISU marching band--Go baton girl!!! hehe

I turn around and this is what I see, Evan coming around the corner...
to shoot Trey with the nerf gun! He's so good with the kids though, it's pretty cute. The question is can you find Trey hiding in the picture? Where's Waldo??

Here Evan is at the Hansen family Christmas

We finally got an air mattress from his sister's family, and can now officially offer people more than the floor when they come to visit us at our apartment! Saweet!! Thanks Felicity & Matt!

All the Hansen cousins--arent' they CUTE!! Such hams for the camera!

Garrett riding the Tigger-horsey! ;)