BEN AND REBECCA'S RECEPTION

Ben and Rebecca got married on Jan 12. I attended the reception that evening.

There was lots of family and friends in attendance.

Andrea & Mikayla

Brianna & Max

Ephraim& Sandra

 

CONGRATULATIONS BEN AND REBECCA!

REBECCA'S BRIDAL SHOWER

On January 4 we gathered at Aunt Karen's house for Rebecca's Bridal Shower. Aunt Karen had to go to Utah for a funeral, but she opened her home for us to use for the party.

We had lots of treats.

and the gift table filled up quickly

We played some games

One involved Sandra reading questions she had asked Ben, and Rebecca had to guess if he answered it right. When she was wrong, she had to chew another piece of gum.

Rebecca got a lot of nice gifts

The aftermath

Some of the gifts Rebecca got

After the shower ended we visited and snacked some more.

CONGRATULATIONS REBECCA!

AND

THANKS TO AUNT KAREN FOR OPENING HER HOME IN HER ABSENCE!

NURSERY GRADUATION

December 30 was Nursery Graduation. We only had 4 of the 8 graduates on that day. They sure were excited to move onto bigger and better things.

The other significant part of this day was that it was also my last day in the Nursery, a sad day for me.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TOLLESON WARD'S NEWEST SUNBEAMS!!

MORE MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Our new neighbors go all out decorating their yard for holidays. I tried to take night pictures, but they didn't work so well, so here are some daytime pictures.

FAMILY CHRISTMAS PARTY PART 2

After Santa visited with all of  children and they had checked out what he brought them, the family gift boxes came out.

I took my gifts home to unwrap on Christmas morning.

As usual everyone worked hard to be creative.

THANK-YOU TO EVERYONE FOR THE FUN GIFTS.

OUT OF ORDER

Blogger isn't allowing either of my blogs to add photos, unless I can copy and paste the image. Hopefully it will be fixed quickly and I can finish blogging about the events of the past couple of weeks.

2012 FAMILY CHRISTMAS PARTY

We held our extended family Christmas party on Sunday Dec 23.
Leanne and I had late church and by the time we got to Aunt Karen's there was almost no food left for us. After visiting for a few minutes we gathered around the Christmas tree.

The program started with family members sharing their talents

 Elijah

Shari and Amanda

Lyndi

After a few more acts Santa made his appearance.

 He read the Christmas Story from Luke 2

 and then visited with the kids under 18

 Jordyn

 Michael

 Kenedy (her 1st ever time sitting on Santa's lap)

 Jacob

Hunter

 Brandon

 Malie

 Caralie

 Lyndi

Jasmine

There were 27 kids, even after restricting the age to 18 and under.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!