Christmas 2008!!!

As usual we drove out to California this year for Christmas. We left on December 23rd and came home January 1st. It was a short, but very fun packed trip. We had a blast with our family!

Brian & Chrystal Christmas morning!

Nathan & Maddie Christmas morning, Nathan isn't showing the enthusiasm as he had, but that's because we made him wait until most of the presents were handed out.

Christmas morning at Grandma Karen's house. The kids were opening their stockings from Santa.

Grandpa Romer with Maddie & Kaylie. Kaylie warmed up to him very quickly.

The day after Christmas all the girls/women went to have their nails done. Maddie & Grandma Karen are showing off their pretty nails. Maddie was pretty good, but the nail lady had to do her nails twice, because Maddie smudged about 5 of them before I was done with my pedicure. She even did cute little flowers on each nail! That's patience!!!!

Grandma Karen relaxing with her "babies."

I took these pictures of the kids on Christmas Eve day. They had so much fun playing in Grandma & Grandpa's backyard. We don't have trees like this at our house!

Nor do the leaves actually fall of the trees in Arizona! Maddie had fun collecting leaves that had fallen.

I love this picture of Brian and Maddie!

This was the day after Christmas just after we got our nails done. Kaylie missed Grandma & Mommy!

I like to think she missed Mommy the most!

I like to take advantage of having people around so we can take family pictures.

The Saturday after Christmas we went up to Grass Valley where my Grandma/Grammy lives. We spent 2 days up there with her and my mom's sister's family. We had a ton of fun!

Grammy with Kaylie.

Snow!!! My cousin bought a house in Nevada City this past year and they still had snow on the ground. We took the kids up to play. They had soooo much fun.

This was Kaylie's first experience with snow. If you look close you can see the snow in her hands. She would grab hand fulls of it and just hold onto it. Her poor hands must have been very numb!

Of course, the first thing Daddy did was throw snow balls. And anything that makes it okay to throw things at someone the kids love.

I actually caught Maddie throwing one!

My cousin towed the kids around on a snow board, because they didn't have any good hills on their property. As you can tell, they loved it!

On Monday Kellie, my mom and myself took the kids to the Jelly Belly factory. It's just about 3 miles down the road from my mom and every time we drove by Nathan would beg to go.

Nathan, Abby & Maddie in front of the Jelly Belly "Herbie car!" Nathan's favorite!