Holidays 2014

I know, it has been a while since I have given an update!
We have been in Vegas since August and there just haven't been enough hours in the day!
BUT we can just ignore everything from the first few months and jump straight into the holidays! 

To start off this holidays recap, 

here is our Christmas card for all those we missed. 

I don't know if we will send out a letter every year,

but we felt like this year was necessary with all the changes.

(We had some people still thinking we were in Rexburg!) 

First a quick glimpse at our Halloween.

Annie as Princess Sofia from Disney JR. and Sammy as a Cow!

We kicked off the holiday season with Thanksgiving in Corona.

We drove in the night before and learned a few new road trip lessons. 

It was a memorable stop at the Carls Jr. in Barstow 

that will live in infamy.

I will spare you the gory details, but I will never 

give Annie that much juice in one sitting again,

and will forever have at least TWO spare outfits

PER KID easily accessible at all times!

We had a great weekend with two big dinners, Black Friday shopping, and Kaia's 1st Birthday! (my sister's daughter)

I wish we had taken more pictures!

The party was great, and I made the cake for the birthday girl to smash. 

It was a short trip but we were glad we made it. 

About 2 weeks before Christmas, poor Sammy Boy got sick. He started wheezing and had to start breathing treatments 3 times a day until his lungs cleared up. Needless to say he wasn't too happy about the mask. 

 

We went to

 Corona about 2 days before Christmas, and had only that much time to pick up and wrap presents! Thank goodness for Amazon and Targets free shipping and in-store pickup. 

Christmas was fun as usual!

Annie got to make a gingerbread house with Grandma Bendixen a few days before Christmas, and Sammy enjoyed rolling around and trying to grab the Christmas lights.

We had our traditional Christmas eve pjs and woke the next morning to lots of toys and pretty clothes and princess dresses.

My dad did something new for his gifts to us.

A stack of 100 sequential one dollar bills.

He likes to think he's really funny. 
We got to see Uncle Tanner on video chat

From then until New Years Eve, we spent most of our time with family, hanging around the house. 

We did get to see some friends the Bennett's,

and introduce the little boys!

Sammy was born less than 20 hours before Ryker

and they will be best friends! (they have no say in the matter)

The boys were so cute and fun to watch.

For New Years Eve we got to see the Bennett's again. The little boys thoroughly enjoyed all the noise makers at midnight, and Ryker got Sammy interested in the idea of crawling and sitting up by himself. (He was crawling within a week of being home.) 

Annie spent the night with Nanny and Pampa, and had a great time messing up the machines at Chuck E Cheese. 

After a morning of frisbee for Daddy and the park for Mama and Annie,

we left for home that afternoon. 

We are all glad to be home and finally back on a routine.
We have a lot of things in the works, including pending preschool enrollment, choir festivals, new callings, and a new business venture!
But this update is all you get for now!
xoxo, Devin!