Thanksgiving and Christmas

This year we had a great Holiday Season that were accompanied by some sad times. Thanksgiving was great! We had Thanksgiving over at the Abbott's house this year and there were lots of Joelle's cousins at the house and all of Kaleb's cousins were there as well. Kaleb has found that he has a knack for making his younger cousins laugh insanely hard, here's a picture of him having fun in their car seats:



Christmas time rolled around and it was time to head up to Temple Square and see the lights.



trying to be fancy with my cheap camera


Shortly before Christmas Jim's Grandmother passed away. This was a sad time as it wasn't expected, but she had battled so many physical ailments for so many years that her body was tired. We'll miss her very much.

A few days before Christmas we got together with Joelle's family to let the cousins exchange their gifts with each other. Kaleb got presents from Lincoln who gave him Spiderman roller skates that he can use to break his arm in our basement and a roll of bubble gum to stick in our carpet, THANKS LINCOLN!



That night we attended the viewing for Jim's grandmother, it was nice to see all of the family gather together. Kaleb had an earache pretty bad that night and wasn't happy to be there, so he found a place to hide-out....under the sign-in desk.



Christmas finally rolled around and we opened presents that morning at our place and had a great time that evening at the Tracy's house with the whole family.

Kaleb got his Cars Race set that he wanted so badly.


Why a 3 year old wants a "Cars" shaving kit is beyond me.


As they happily sang Jingle Bells, I realized they were all little "Terminators"


So I am glad to report that we all survived a wild ride through the Holidays.

The next week was Kaylie's Birthday party and I only have one picture of the event. Kaleb was holding strong in a girls world by playing with a ball. I think Kaylie was demonstrating proper bedtime safety in case of an unexpected "roll out of bed" incident.