Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Ringing in the New Year

Brian’s mom was here, and we had her babysit so we could ring in the New Year with our friends.  We had good food and lots of laughs as we played the Newlywed game and got to know our neighbors a whole LOT better.  Ha ha.  Thanks for the good times Merrills!



Monday, January 9, 2012

Three Christmases: Part 3

We got home just in time for New Years Eve.  Brian’s mom came down to have a belated Christmas with us.  The kids were totally spoiled, again. Briella got this game where the balls jump out.  Braxton was helping her play with it and she was giggling.  So cute!


Three Christmases: Part 2

Later that week we drove to St. George to spend Christmas with my family. It was so fun to have all of us there at the same time. It was crazy of course, but we loved it. Braxton played so well with his cousins and followed Sienna everywhere.

On Christmas Eve, we watched Christmas shows in the theater, some spiritual, some fun. The kids entertained us with dancing to Christmas songs and we wore our Christmas pjs.


Christmas morning we went to church, had a brunch, and then opened presents before naptime.  The kids wore their fancy clothes and looked SO cute!


Briella slept through our present opening, so she opened hers later when she woke up.

After Christmas, we spent the week having fun at my parent’s new house, going for walks outside, and swimming at the Washington City rec center.



Briella also had her first solid food while we were in St. George and she LOVED it.  She gobbles it up every night since we started it.

Three Christmases: Part 1

Christmas lasted the whole month long for our family.  We had a ‘Christmas morning’ at our house a week before the actual day, Christmas Day was spent down in St. George, and then Brian’s mom came down to our house for New Year’s Eve it was Christmas for us a third time.  We were so spoiled!  Here are some pictures of our pre-Christmas:



Braxton was so good this year.  He tore into the presents and helped Briella open all of hers as well.  He was so sweet with her and tried to help teach her how to play with her toys.