Christmas Eve

Zach's family has a traditional Christmas Eve dinner every year with Ann's family.  Here are a bunch of pictures from Christmas Eve.  

 Sara, Hailey, Hilary, and me...where's Randi?

 Oh!  There she is!

 Coleman

 Cute Paige in Brody's luggage

 This is a common site at the Oswald house, Declan begging to go downstairs.

 Declan with Grandma Pilkington

 Hailey and Ann

 Uncle Joe, Aunt Sue, and Devon

 I'm glad Paige laughs when Declan grabs her cheek! 

 We draw names between Zach's siblings and since we were all together Christmas Eve we opened presents between the siblings.  

 "Give me back that filet o'fish, give me that fish!" ha ha ha ha ha!

The cute grandkids

Coleman, Randi, Sara, Brody, Hilary, me, Hailey, Zach, Declan, Lyndon, Ann, and Paige

After the dinner we always go over to Grandma and Grandpa Oswald's house to spend time with Lyndon's side of the family.  Here's a great picture of the newest member of the family, Brody. :)

 Sara is not embarrassed at all by this...

 4 generation picture, Declan was ticked because we took him away from the basketball hoop.

flashlights, a snowman, and a tea party

One of the nights we stayed with my family my mom gave all the kids flashlights and they went searching for a "treasure" in the dark basement.  I think Declan was more excited about the flashlights than anything else!

 The treasures were these Sing a ma jigs!  

We decided to build a snowman one day in my parent's front yard.  My mom even came out to help!  I don't remember the last time I saw my mom play in the snow...so I took advantage and through a few snow balls at her!  What a mean daughter...don't worry, she got me back.  Declan doesn't like walking in snow when his feet sink so he doesn't look very happy in any of these pictures!

Then we decided to go sledding across the street.  Even though it wasn't a huge hill, it was so much fun!

Another day while we were at my parent's house, Mike and Tara went to Idaho Falls and the boys were down for their naps so my mom, Bella, and I had a tea party.  Princess Bella even gave my mom and I Princess names - Princess Grandma and Princess Aunt Nikky!  ha ha.  We got to drink chocolate milk, strawberries with whip cream, Danish cookies, and caramel covered marshmallows.  It was delicious!

 Bella waiting patiently for the tea party to start.

One more cute picture of all the grandkids.  Zach was pushing Bella around in the laundry basket and the boys decided they wanted in on the fun!

a break from Christmas posts

I have about 5 more Christmas posts to do but I wanted to take a break from those for a minute.  Last Saturday we were at the Landry's house and Whitney got some funny pictures of Declan and Luke hugging each other...

Well the hugging turned into dancing and then pulling each other and they both ended up falling on the hard tile in the kitchen.  Declan's head hit the tile really hard and as soon as I picked him up the left side of his head was swollen and blue already.  He cried for a minute and then went back to playing.  We tried to ice it but he of course wouldn't let us keep the ice on his head for longer than 5 seconds.  A little later that night Whitney got out the camera again and he decided to do his "cheesy grin" for her.  (Jana, this little face totally reminds me of what Addie would do!)

Can you see his bruise?  Poor kid, good thing the swelling went down pretty fast and it actually doesn't look too bad now.  Just a green circle on his head!

Christmas Vacation #2

Right after my family's party in Utah we drove up to Idaho Falls and stayed with Zach's family for a few days.  We got to spend time with both sets of Zach's grandparents.  Here are some cute pictures of Declan with Zach's Grandma and Grandpa Pilkington.  He wouldn't stop giving them loves.  It was really cute.

In between giving Grandma and Grandpa hugs and kisses he was running around with his aunts and riding on Zach's back.  

This is our super cute niece, Paige.  Paige loves having Declan around and this trip Declan actually loved having Paige around.  Even as I am posting this he keeps pointing to her picture and saying, "Paaage!!"  

One of the coolest things we got to do on our trip home was attend the temple with ALL of Zach's siblings.  Hilary, Hailey, Sara, and Brody all went through the temple for the first time on December 21st.  Both sets of grandparent's were there also and a couple of Zach's aunts.  It was really neat.  Since all three girls were going through at the same time I was able to be Hailey's escort, Aunt Jen was Hilary's, and Sara had her mom.  Also, the day before they were supposed to go through Brody found out his brother wouldn't be able to come to be his escort so Zach was Brody's escort.  It was a really neat experience.  

 The newlyweds...although, at this time they were still just the cute engaged couple.