Catching Up!

Christmas Day

We started off the morning by sneaking a peek

in our Christmas Stockings...

Tennis Anyone!

Then before church we sang a few

Christmas carols

After Church Matt's family came over

to open gifts and hang out

First the Girls opened their gift from Debbi...

Boy were they surprised to get these

dolls that were Debbi's when she was a little girl.

An Art kit from GiGi

Talking Dora doll

from Grandma & Grandpa

An art kit just for Sienna

I-Tunes anyone?

Boy was Camry a happy little girl...

Thank you Grandpa and Grandma!!

Jetta loves anything that makes her feel

beautiful.  Thank you Lansfords!

One of Jetta's favorite things to do...

Playing waitress!

Grandma & Grandpa really scored with

this Ice Cream set from Wyatt & Charlotte

A fancy new fangled wrench for the boys...

And a sweater for some of the girls.

Uno Attack was just one of the games

GiGi sent this year.

Grandma loved the music books...3 in all!

lucky me!

grandpa scored some homemade cookies...

and

this really cute little book

from Matt's Family

At the end of the day

we had talked with all our kids and GiGi.

Everyone had a wonderful Christmas

sharing gifts, hugs, and fun together.

We didn't get pictures of all our gifts but

everything was perfect.

Thank you Everyone!

Sleep over and Debbi's B-Day

Christmas night the girls stayed over night

and Debbi slept right along side them!

On Monday Matt's family came over

and we played games...

and more games...

And Debbi opened her B-day card

SHOPPING!

In the afternoon she had to head for home

so off we went to the Airport.

She got on her flight...first try!

Then over the next couple of days Grandpa

took down the outdoor decorations while

the weather was still good....rain was in the forecast.

We all loved having Debbi around for the holiday

and we were all sad to see her go.

New Years Eve

We spent the day putting together a new desk

for our office.

First the Desk in one box...

Then the hutch in another box...hmmm...

in the hutch box was not a hutch...it was a credenza!

So we had to take it back and go to a

different store to pick up a hutch.

Of course the stores were closing early for

New Years so we had exactly 1/2 hour to get clear

into Boise.  We made it by the skin of our teeth!

They were locking the doors just as we drove up!

Back home we continued our project.

We got the hutch put together...

attached it to the desk...

then finished the desk.

It took several hours, but we got most of it

put together.

Steve (and Linda) had had enough so we

put the tools down and decided to finish up

tomorrow.

These old backs and knees just don't seem

to work like they used to!

We decided to relax by watching

The Smurfs in 3D

and...

eating Ice Cream Sundaes

A couple of our very fun Christmas Gifts!

umm, umm, good!

Over the next several days we finished up the desk,

mounted some LED lights under the Hutch,

Organized all the piles of papers,

then because during the process

something zapped our computer...

we had our computer repaired and purchased a

new (used) monitor.

Everything is all organized and working now and

it looks very nice.

It was a MUCH BIGGER project than we had

anticipated, but we got it done

and we love it!