Christmas 2012

Christmas this year was so much fun, with little M.J. here and it brought back lots of memories of last year when I told my family that I was pregnant Christmas morning.  I can not believe that it was only a year ago, that I found out about little M.J.  We went to Boise for a few days so M.J. could meet L's family (I will post about that later) and then we drove back on Christmas Eve.

M.J. in his Christmas outfit! Thanks Aunt S

The Family in their new Christmas P.J.'s minus Uncle D, who we missed dearly!

M.J. felt bad so he was trying to grab K to get her in the Picture as well!

Christmas morning, we woke up and went to Aunt H and Aunt K's church sense they were performing a musical number.  It was a really great sacrament meeting.  The music was beautiful, and they had really good speakers.  It was a great way to start Christmas Morning out, I kind of wish every year Christmas was on a Sunday!  We then came back home to open presents and eat yummy breakfast casserole!

M.J. zonked out right before opening gifts!

The Fish tree and all the gifts!

M.J. was really impressed with L's new socks!

We got M.J. a Elmo plane, which he loves to fly on!

Christmas K and her new toy she got!

M.J. wanted to play with K

A few of M.J.'s presents! He was a little spoiled!

Aunt H was a little worn out by all the gifts!

M.J. had to take a little bounce break in between presents!

M.J. and L opening a gift together!

                  After opening all the gifts everyone was exhausted so we had a family nap time! 

After everyone got in some good naps we played lots of games! We played ticket to ride, settlers of catan or Iran as Grandma likes to call it, and we played Just Dance 3.  It was an awesome day.  It was sad that Uncle D couldn't make it from San Francisco to be with us, we missed him terribly!  But hopefully next year we will all be together again.  Here are some more pictures from Christmas!

Off to Colorado for a Wedding!

We went on a road trip to Colorado the weekend before Christmas for my cousins wedding! It was a lot of fun! M.J. did awesome, he was a lot better than I expected him to be!  We left early Friday morning, and came back Early Sunday morning.  It was a whirlwind of a trip, but it was so much fun!

Aunt H and M.J. at a gas station!

Possible Christmas Gifts found!

Thought of Aunt A when we saw the kitties!

 We went to the Archer house for a pizza party Friday night, it was so much fun seeing all of the cousins again, although we were missing quite a few who couldn't make the trip.  It was also fun seeing all the new baby cousins (I'm not sure what you really call your cousin's children oh well) but M.J. had so much fun, and my cousin's cute little boy even came up and shook his hand!  The next day we got up and went to the temple to see the couple wed.  It was awesome, that was the first time sense L and I got married that I was able to attend another wedding! I loved it, it defiantly brought tears to my eyes!


The P. Archer Fam!



My cousin and his cute little girl!

After the temple, we had a delicious lunch, at this Italian restaurant.  It was so good, especially the fried eggplant! Yummy, it was delicious.

Lunch!

Unfortunately I did not get a lot of pictures at the reception because Little M.J. had a big freak out.  I think he was tired and had know idea where he was, so he was not a very happy camper.  But from what I saw the reception hall was beautiful, I guess it use to be John Elways house.  (I have know idea if that is correct spelling or not). 

Grandma and M.J.

The beautiful bride!

This was our beautiful view coming back to Salt Lake, gotta love that inversion!

Forgive me the rest of the pictures are completely out of order, but I have tried so so so hard to move them up and I just can't, so I have given up and let them stay where they want to be.   

M.J. and me and the Temple

Aunt H at the Temple!

M.J. and Aunt H getting ready to head on home!

We were so excited to come home to L and K! We had missed them so much!

We had so much fun at the wedding, we were sad that L couldn't make it but he was out selling that weekend!  I was so grateful that Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt H and Aunt K were all there though because I could not have made it on my own with M.J.  But we all had a lot of fun, and I was so grateful to be invited to spend that time with a lot of family that we don't get to see very often!

Pinnacle Christmas Party!

This holiday season L, M.J. and I had a chance to attend a holiday party hosted by L's work Pinnacle.  It was an ugly sweater, and unfortunately we didn't have any ugly Christmas Sweaters.  We tried looking at the D.I., but everyone must have had an ugly sweater party that night because they were all out, so I thought it would be fun to make some.  Unfortunately it took me all day just to make L's so he was the lucky one that got to wear the ugly sweater!  This holiday season L, M.J. and I had a chance to attend a holiday party hosted by L's work Pinnacle.  It was an ugly sweater, and unfortunately we didn't have any ugly Christmas Sweaters.  We tried looking at the D.I., but everyone must have had an ugly sweater party that night because they were all out, so I thought it would be fun to make some.  Unfortunately it took me all day just to make L's so he was the lucky one that got to wear the ugly sweater!  

L's Friends!

L's manager posing for the Camera!

Cute M.J. and  I

You can only see a little bit of L's ugly sweater here! Unfortunately I didn't get a full picture of it!:(

We played Yankee Swap, which was pretty fun, we got some blocks that Spell L.O.V.E., and we also played Mafia.  Overall, it was a pretty fun Christmas Party!