Fun with cousins

Danyka gets so excited when her cousins come to town. She adors Kinzie and begs for her to come over for a sleep over. This time Kinzie didn't come over until late so we didn't have a lot of time for fun things. They enjoyed playing with Daxdyn in the morning and they were so cute together.

One of the few times Danee will enjoy having her brother around for a sleep over. Such sweet kids.

Christmas 2010

We are not early risers and Danyka is very much on our schedule. Christmas morning we had to wake Danee up which I hate to do because she gets so tired. However in order to get to the house and open presents with the rest of the fam we had to get moving earlier than she would have liked. She wasn't too excited about getting up.

She buried her head back down and didn't want to get up.

However, once she got down stairs she was super excited about presents. As you can see the biggest hit was her Scooby Doo gang. She loves them and carried them around everywhere. She didn't want to put them down.

Then we went up to my parents house to have Christmas with my family. It was the first year in a while that my dad or I wasn't on call at the hospital. It was so nice not to rush through everything.

My big nephews and their mom. I remember when they were just little. I can't believe how big they are.

Danyka was so excited. She was everywhere and wanted to see everything. I think the older cousins were getting a little sick of her by the end of the day. However despite being woken up early she did very well.

Sitting up to enjoy the festivities.

Daxy playing with his new toy.

It was a very successful day. We enjoyed each others company and my sister Taly was particularly cleaver with her shopping this year. My nephews got a basketball game which we all had fun playing and challenging each other. I loved being able to play with both my kids. Last year I was so sick because I was pregnant and trying to hide it while leaving to work. It was nice just to be home with the kids and be healthy and enjoy a lazy day.

Christmas Eve 2010

Christmas Eve we got together and had dinner and had our usual traditions of the Christmas story and opening 1 package. It was fun to have the kids together.

Daxy was a good addition to the family play. He performed very well as the baby Jesus but is fast getting too big for the part.

Christmas Eve at our house. We came home and finished wrapping and got to bed for the morning festivities. I was surprised Danyka actually went to sleep.

Playing in the Snow

Danyka really discovered the snow this year. Just before Christmas there was a big snow storm and she had a blast playing with Dad. She liked being thrown into the snow.

I wish I had a picture but they made Tangled's tower and she loved playing in it.

Spanish Fork is a weird little pocket that gets a lot of snow.