Scrapaway

I went to Utah because it was time again for my annual Scrapaway. I go with my old Spanish Fork ward and scrapbook, play games, and eat yummy food for three days. It really IS heaven.

There were about 40 of us there. I had so much fun laughing and playing with my old friends. Plus I got 112 scrapbook pages done!

We played games like "Love Your Neighbor" and found out who has a crush on Orlando Bloom, who has a tattoo, who is pregnant, who likes boy bands, who has flipped off another driver, who has tasted breast milk and whose husband has a hairy back. Hilarious.

While I was there, Skyler and Shaylin stayed with their Utah friends, Colten and Scottlynn. They had a ball. I am amazed that they have been able to stay so close to their Utah friends since we have moved. But I am thrilled. Those sweet friends are such good influences on Sky and Shay.

Jason's Post

(This is Jas.) While Britt was gone I played, in total, five hours of chase around the house, watched about ten hours of Spongebob, went sledding twice, ate a whole large pizza by myself in one sitting, did not burn down the house, and did not let any of the kids die.

All in all, I think anyone would call that a pretty successful weekend.

Christmas Eve

We celebrated Christmas early here so that we could get out to Utah on time.

Plus, as Skyler says, “Why does it matter if we celebrate Christ’s birth on Dec. 25th? He was born in April!”

Anyway, on our early Christmas Eve we had a fondue dinner and chocolate fountain. Delicious!



Then we opened our Christmas pajamas and read the Christmas story in Luke.



Then we had our annual family talent show. Skyler played the piano. Shaylin sang, and Sawyer sang and showed us how high he can jump. Macey walked.

That’s right… Macey can walk!!!

We went to tithing settlement with our Bishop, and right in the middle of his spiritual message we all started screaming because Macey was walking across the room. It was so cute and out of the blue. I think that Bishop Tanner liked that the first place that Macey walked was in his office.

Christmas Morning

Okay, back to Christmas. On Christmas morning, we made the kids line up youngest to oldest and walk into the front room to see what Santa had brought them. Macey walked VERY slowly and the kids were all dying behind her! It was great.

Everyone was thrilled with their presents. This is what we got:

Jason – a new truck (His Pathfinder died, so he got a Toyota Tundra. He is in love.)
Britt – a water softener (I know, very exciting)
Skyler – Super Mario Galaxy for Wii

Shaylin – a Robo Panda

Sawyer – a mini trampoline

Macey – a talking dog


We were all very excited.

We played with our presents until evening, and then we headed to Utah.

Travels

We spent a few days with the Smith and a few days with the Heiners. We had a ball.

Highlights include –
playing games,
talking and laughing for hours,
amazing food,
watching the kids play with their cousins,
making a video for my brother on a mission,
eating our weight in cookies,
getting my braces off ☺,
going to the Sevy party,
getting awesome gifts and
hearing the kids read their Uncle Blake memories.

It was a really fun week!

Back Home

When we came home, we brought Skyler’s friend, Colten, with us and Shaylin went to stay with Alanna. So the kids had a blast playing with friends/cousins for a few more days. They were in heaven.

On New Year’s Eve, we had two sets of missionaries over for dinner and fun. They played pool, emailed their families and got beat at Wii games by two ten-year-olds. We broke out the chocolate fountain again for them and watched them eat until their ties were covered in chocolate and they looked like they were going to puke. It was fun.



Now our family is all back together relaxing, playing games, watching movies and looking at the beautiful snow outside.



The kids have to go back to school on Tuesday, and I think it is going to kill them. We have had a seriously fun Christmas break.