If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart.--A
“Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar his face is to us.” President Benson

Tuesday

After Christmas-pre new years Farr Party!

We didn't get to be at Mark and Joanne's Christmas Eve Party, so we were super excited when they announced that their would be a follow-up party on New years eve's eve! Wahoo! I can always use me some Farr time.
It was a pretty relaxed time with apparently a lot of cell phone/i pod time, but I still love being with these guys ALWAYS!

John Boy's 32nd Birthday!

Oh yes, it is true, John is now the big 3 2 ! I know this is shocking to many since he still gets asked once a week if he is old enough to work their, or if he is Doogie Howser, but yes people he is 32, which is mostly sad to me because it means that I will soon be 32! I can't believe that I have known this wonderful man more than half of our lives! I know that would be easy for some, but we didn't meet till HS and that just means we are GETTING OLD! He will grow old gracefully,(obviously since people still think he is too young to work at the hospital) while his counterpart is well into looking like an old women. We are going to be that couple someday, where you have to wonder, "Is that his wife or his mom?" How sad, but enough pity for me!

We went out to dinner with this cute group to BC Chicken. Some of the best company you can have--My Parents, John's mom, and Travis and Heidi!

We went back to Heidi's after to enjoy her birthday present to John, yummy fruit pizza. He loves it, and I love that Heidi makes it for him!
His wonderful, and very Loved sister!
John opened presents and we headed home for the wilder part of the night!

Oh yeah, this group is crazy wild! HA! Some of John's HS friends came over to visit. Some didn't even know it was his birthday, which was funny! That is what he wanted most on his birthday was to see these guys!

Katie and Brooks Yates
Matt and Sheri Willey (in from England, the main reason for when the party was thrown)
Brett and Chelle Markham
Dan and Brittany Pulsipher
Bobby and Kim Webb
Here is the guys!
Here is their, might i say, Sexy wives!
I like it, because I knew all the guys in HS! I realized when reviewing these pictures, nobody else really did, Chelle maybe, but she went to Clearfield, so we can't really claim her. I am really glad that all the guys married FanTabUlus women. They were great fun!

All in all, I don't think it was a bad day for a birthday! He had the day off from work and Everything! He still probably didn't get pampered the way he should have. I know it is wrong, but when he IS around I USE him!

I Love this man so much! He has proven over and over again through all my craziness he amazing stick power! He ain't going anywhere, like I would let him, but I am grateful for that!

I LOVE U JOHN BoY!

Saturday

Christmas at the Cabin 2011

Christmas at the Cabin, was at our destination. It should have been fabulous, but it had a few downfalls! Still great but a little too...
So, this is our little Christmas before Christmas at the cabin. We acted like it was Christmas morning and the kids opened their presents from one another, and their Presents from Grandma Kerry
There was a whole lot of this going on, and it made me wonder why we ever do more than this.
"Are you Kidding me?" That's what she was saying. It was a great morning full of just our own family fun!
This is Josie's preschool Christmas party. The kids were pretty distracted and didn't do their parts that well, but is was still fun to see their cute personalities.
Josie's cute friend Lizzie
And this is Nate. We love Nate at our house. He is our next door neighbor and just so adorable. Josie always wants to walk with him to preschool, but his mom is a little more prepared than us, and usually he makes it there before we are even out the door.
This is us at the cabin with my brother Kevin's family and my parents. It was nice because we had snow. If we hadn't gone there, it would have been a Brown and Green Christmas! After some set backs with snow clothes, we all had a great time sledding.
We also got a snow mobile for one day which was soooo fun, but I didn't get any pictures of it! BOO!
This is the tree that was sacrificed to become our Christmas tree. I felt bad it had to be cut for only two days, but nobody really wanted to open presents in the snow. So we cut it, brought it inside and made it the prettiest Christmas tree we could!
Our kids slept down stairs and my brothers slept upstairs. So the stairs pictures were a little crazy! My kids went first and we walked upstairs to get to the other cousins so that we could all come down together. Thus my kids got a sneak peek. It was pretty fun to see their faces!!!
All the kiddos! Poor Mia threw up and had diaharia the entire night! We had given it to them:( Not the best thing to GIVE or GET at Christmas!
DeeKen's bike waiting at home under the Christmas tree! Santa was so sneaky this year! John's Ipad! He was so surprised! It was used but he was still very exciting! Thanks Brett and Haydee!
Helping grandpa with the Little Smokies!
Mia finally pooped out on the couch after all the presents were open! Poor Girl!

It was a very Merry Christmas minus the sickness. We loved being with Kevin's family and going to the Cabin!