Christmas

WE are finally recoved form Christmas we had a wonderful Christmas. We were spoiled and had four Christmases with all the family. It started the Sunday before Christmas we had Christmas with Rob's grandpa Rich and Grandma Ethel and all the family. Grandma and Grandpa said no presets for them, so the great grand kids put on a play as their gift. Connor was the innkeeper, my niece and nephew were Mary and Joseph, and Chance was a wise man it was really cute and they really enjoyed it. Tuesday was the Van Dyke side Christmas. We had king crab and fondue for dinner it was better that eating at a restaurant. Why is food so much better when other people fix it? Christmas eve was spent with Rob's parents and his sister and her family it was very nice and the cousins got to play. Christmas day we drove down to my parents house and spent time with them and my moms side of the family. It has been a whirlwind of Christmases but we feel very blessed and thankful to have such great family around us.

Christmas Play for Chance's pre-school

Last Thursday Chance had his Christmas play for his pre-school. Their class sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It was very cute they all wore atlers and had blinking red noses. He did and great job. He was so excited that this year he got to get up and sing instead of watching his brother do it.

Cutting our Christmas tree

This past weekend we finally went and got our christmas tree. We met my parents and my sister there and then went to luch. The boys had a great time running through the "forest" and we found and great tree. Connor got to try his hand at sawing the tree, he thought that was great. I am so excited to finally have a tree and it looks beautiful.

We want to wish all of our family and friends a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Girls trip to Las Vegas

The weekend before last was my girls trip to Las Vegas. I went with Rob's cousin and a friend,we had s0 much fun. We went to a small concert on Thursday night the night we flew in and ended up not getting to bed until 5 am. On Friday we went to the NFR( national finals rodeo) it was a lot of fun and I got to see my cousin Michelle( thanks for the tickets Michelle) we hung out for a short while at the Jack Daniels bar. Wish we could have went out to the South point casino and hung out but i am too cheap to pay for a $60 round trip cab ride. Saturday night was the night we hung out on the strip and walked around some of the casino's since Brandi had never been to Vegas we wanted her to see some of the Casinos on the strip since we stay at the south end away from some of the newer casinos. We went to Harrah's and had a beer at the bar owned by Toby Keith "I love this Bar" it was a neat place. During the day on Friday and Saturday we shopped all day at Cowboy Christmas, my heaven. It is located at three areas in Vegas on was at the Convention center, the other at the Sands, and one more at Mandalay bay. It is tons and tons of vendors selling all kins of cowboy things and even some non cowboy stuff from tack, to furniture, jewelry, clothing, art, horse trailers, even theses things called sugar gliders that remind me of a flying chipmunk, leave it to me to find the one booth selling an animal of some sorts.

Lions, Tigers, and BEARS oh my

Friday night we were visited by some hungry bears. While I was upstairs sleeping off the oh so nice pain shot I was given at the hospital earlier that day(I wish I could have taken some of that home, I don't know what it was but it made me so happy and sleepy) , a mama and her two cubs wandered onto the deck of the cabin, grabbed Uncle Phil and Aunt Bev's ice chest ,sat back against the hot tub ,and helped themselves to some mini weenies, raw croissant rolls, cheese, and BBQ sauce. I guess they just wanted some appetizers, hmmm i wonder where they went for dinner. Needless to say after that we were a little leary of going back into the hot tub at night. I was diasappointed that I had missed all the action.

Future snowboarder

Waaaaas Up?

Thanksgiving in Tahoe

We spent our thanksgiving in Tahoe with family. We had a great time. My mom made a project with the boys (the oreo cookie turkey in the last picture) they had so much fun making them. Thanksgiving dinner was delicious, THANKS DAD AND MOM great turkey, my mom's stuffing and greenbeen casserole. Friday Aunt Mary, Uncle Phil and Aunt Bev arrived , for me it was an eventfull day spent in the ER with severe stomach pains the Dr. thought maybe was an appendicitis but, after a cat scan and sitting around for a few more the Dr's still were not sure so they sent me home, I was supposed to go back for another cat scan today but who wants to waste vacation in the hospital. Oh well, I woke up Saturday feeling weak but better. That afternoon we all took a gondola ride to the top of Heavenly, it was a beautiful view. There was no snow at the cabin,but at Heavenly they were making snow ,so the boys got to play in the snow finally. They had a great time and did't want to go back down the mountain. I am glad I din't miss it.

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