10 Things I love about my Family!

1.  Our Holiday traditions

2. Never a dull moment in Family Home Evening

3. They can always find something to tease me about!

4. My Mom can sew anything; my Dad can fix anything

5. Our awesome Badminton games in the summer!

6.  We are all way too competitive!

7.  Our political discussions

8.  "It came to pass" is not just a scripture phrase

9.  Laughing together
10.  Getting to spend Christmas Break with the people that LOVE me most!

Christmas!

Well Christmas has come and gone, it is amazing how much time, effort and build up takes place for just one day! Christmas was great! I had a great time with my family.

My grandpa loves his cats! Whenever we go to grandma's house we always tease grandpa about his cats Princess and Tiger.  Grandpa greats them like the grand-kids they get treats, lots of food, and his constant watch care.  His cats adore him, I mean who wouldn't they got stockings and a Christmas tree made just for them.

GINGERBREAD HOUSES!
One of my favorite Holiday traditions is  making gingerbread houses.  We take the shortcut and use graham crackers instead of real ginger bread.

Kevin's house if you look closely you can see the words "in here" with an arrow pointing to the chimney.

My moms we entitled it "Hazel and Gretle house"

My dad won the award for most unique, he made the Washington monument! The candy corn on the side is suppose to be a man falling.  I am not sure what that is all about.

Adriann's Entitled "Candy Cane Mess." So many candy canes!

Mine is entitle "Home sweet home"

Chris's "Christmas Swamp."  Watch out for the lock-ness monster!

Natalie's "Marshmallow Madness"

SO much fun!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is here...bringing good cheer...to young and old...meek and the bold...
I love Christmas so much and today was extra special because it was also a Sunday.  How appropriate to go to church to worship Christ on Christmas!

Like always Christmas was full of our rich traditions and wonderful times with my family!

Since Christmas was on a Sunday my mom decided that she would make all the girls matching christmas Dresses! They look so nice!

We all look so cute together! I love my family!

Its Beginning to Look A Lot like CHRISTMAS!

Christmas isn't complete without the Christmas trees. It makes me so excited to to put up Christmas trees, and gets me in the Christmas spirit!

 Its always a tradition in my family to put up the Christmas trees the day after Thanksgiving!

This one is my favorite! I love the White Christmas Tree!

More Thanksgiving

So as always I have had another busy week, but just two more weeks and Christmas break will be here.  I made it back from Thanksgiving break, but of course being the forgetful person that I am, I left my computer cord at home.  So I have not had it all week, but luckily my home teacher came and just happened to have my computer cord!  I am so thankful, tender mercy of the Lord!

Now for some pictures!

Oh this one is from Rexburg a few weeks ago :

And now for some more Thanksgiving Pictures...

 My brother-in-law made this lovely turkey arrangement for our table-its part of his flower arranging class, I mean he doesn't just to it for fun.

 Natalie and I on THANKSGIVING

Well my brother started to tackle me, but turns out he shouldn't mess with me because I got him back!

Then Natalie decided she would join in on the fun.

THANKSGIVING DINNER-

My mom and dad

All my aunts uncles and cousins!..

Thanksgiving Dinner!

Thanksgiving is always an exciting time.  Today we went to my Grandma Richins house.  It was good to see my family on that side of the family because I usually don't see them very much. My favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner is the mashed potatoes and my mom's homemade rolls-So delicious!

Yummy Thanksgiving Dinner, my grandma really out did herself

PIES, PIES, and more PIES.  We had so many pies to eat, it was so hard to pick which one to eat!

REXBURG!

This past weekend I went to visit my sister in Rexburg, ID.  Turns out is was freezing cold there.  It snowed and then the snow did not melt.  It was really good though to spend some time with my entire family.  I love them so much, and feel so blessed!

So my sister is a genius, and can solve a rubix cube in 2 min or something crazy like that.  Because it was so cold we mostly just stayed inside and with all the time, I solved this rubix cube.  Granted my sister coached me through it, I did do it! Just don't ask me to do it again!

As I mentioned before, it was freezing cold in Rexburg.  This is what I woke up to Saturday morning.  Not only does it snow in Rexburg, but the wind makes it 10 times colder.  Suddenly I was really greatful that I live just a little further south in Utah and that the mountains prevent the wind from blowing constanly.