Happy 5th Birthday Nixon!!!

Nixon turned 5 today! He is growing up so fast! I love this little guy!

We had a family party for him on Saturday because he wanted to make sure his buddy Blake would be at his party!

Here he is with Jack!

It was a simple birthday party just like I like to throw! Here are the 4-5 year olds! They are getting so big! We are missing a few of them in this picture. I love that our family has so many kids the same age, it's so fun!

Happy Birthday Nixon!!!!

New Year's Eve!

My sister Becky and her family came into town for New Years. It was fun to have them stay at our house! The kids loved having their kids to play with all the time! New Year's Eve we all went out to dinner to P.F. Changs, then came home and played games made up by Carsyn and Aunt Becky. They even made party hats, everyone wore them, they were awesome! After games we watched a movie and Becky's whole family fell asleep before midnight! Haha! Becky did wake up and threw poppers with the rest of us. The next day of course Brad and Caden had to leave to watch the college football games allllllll day long! As long as they have fun! :)

Caden and Blake

Nixon, Caden, Camden, and Carsyn sporting their cool hats!

Christmas 2009

Christmas seems to have come and gone so quickly! I can't believe it. I'm a little sad that it went by so quickly! I love all the traditions that our little family has and also all the traditions of our extended family! We always start out decorating our christmas tree of course, and the house. A couple weeks before Christmas we go take a drive and look at Christmas lights. I think I enjoy the lights more then the kids.

I always have to have a picture of the kids dressed for church the Sunday before Christmas. They are such funny kids, I soooo love them!

The Sunday before Christmas we go to Brad's parents, to do a little Nativity play. The guys always make me laugh, they come up with some funny costumes! This year Brad looked more like a transvestite, then a wiseman! Haha.

Christmas Eve was at our house this year and we missed having it at my Aunt Sharon's house! It turned out alright though. Thanks to my mother in law we had some costumes to do the Nativity also!

Christmas Eve night the kids always get a new pair of pajamas! Here they are being nerds! I'm telling you, I have the goofiest kids!

We normally get Smiths thumbprints for Santa, but this year Smiths was all out! Poor Santa, and Poor Mrs. Claus! So we had to give them Smiths maple bars instead!

Christmas morning is always so fun! It's the one day a year that all the kids wake up in a good mood, even when it's 6 in the morning!

This year all the kids got IPod touches, they were so excited! Now they don't have to play on our phones all the time! Poor Carsyn has had a cold the whole vacation, she is addicted to breath easy strips!

Brad got a new wakeboard to use this Summer, he warned me that he might kill himself on it, so maybe it needs to go back to where it came from!

After we open gifts at our house we always head over to The Race house and eat breakfast burritos made by Brad and his sister Alyson! They are so good!! Granny and Poppy always get everyone ornaments having to do with something that happened that year. We got a boat ornament, because we bought the boat this year. Caden always gets some kind of Snowman ornament, Carsyn gets a Cat ornament, and Nixon gets a Santa ornament. It's always exciting to find out which ornament we will be getting!

Usually we go to my parents in the afternoon, but this year my mom was really sick! So she sent my dad over with their gifts. The kids loved their new beanies! They turned out so cute!

Christmas was fun this year, but I was glad to get my house back to normal after putting all the decorations away!