Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We enjoyed being together for Christmas and having Justin home for a week afterward. Besides having a newborn in the house, all of us got sick at one time or another during that week, so we had a pretty laid back Christmas break. But we did manage to fit in a few fun things when we felt up to it. Here are some pictures from our holiday!

Cute baby Weston

Christmas Eve.....traditional opening of the Christmas Pajamas

Do you know how hard it is to find matching pj's for boys that are almost 10 and almost 3? I gave up looking for Weston's. His coordinate though.

I just have to say...thank you to Justin's boss for this very thoughtful Christmas gift. Now I get to look at the Justin Bieber dog! Oh my......I can't really take Justin seriously when he wears this shirt. I mean, who COULD????

And that's all I will say here about that!

Blurry picture of our tree, about 1 am on Christmas morning. We finally finished wrapping gifts!

Weston and Mama on Christmas morning with lots of wrapping paper behind us!

 Here is Weston in his cute pj's

I asked Dylan to smile with his new BYU sweatshirt, and this is what I got

Early mornings and feeling a little bit yucky make for nice long afternoon naps

But when she woke up she felt like trying out her new roller blades!

Katelyn making a bead necklace

And Lindsey playing with her new mini American girl that came with 6 books!

Here's Weston in his "First Christmas" outfit we were given...very cute

Brandon and Daddy trying out his new beyblade stadium

And the girls trying out their new addition to the doll house

Post Christmas mess!

Roller derby!

One tired Mama

And one tired Daddy. Remember, we're both kind of under the weather and sleep deprived. But we enjoyed our Christmas any way! (Oh that SHIRT!!)

Now for some pictures of our week vacation after Christmas.

The kids got to do some roller blade practicing in the church parking lot

And we did make it out to eat at the Rainforest Cafe. Dylan didn't know what to think about those monkeys...

The kids all got to go on a Daddy Date. Katelyn's choice was to go play at the park in the cold. She and Justin got all bundled up and as you can see from the parking lot....had the park all to themselves!

Roller-blading around the neighborhood

Brandon's choice for his Daddy date was to have a nerf gun battle at home. Us girls got shot a few times (on accident I am sure!)

Dylan had a great time pumping gas into the van with Daddy and getting to sit up front and eat candy and talk for their Daddy Date. Here's a blurry picture of Dylan with his chocolate

Weston didn't have a Daddy Date this year, but maybe next year.

And I don't think we got a picture of Lindsey's Daddy Date. She chose to go get ice cream and then come home and put the back seats down in the van and play games with Daddy back there. They had a great time in the garage!

Here are the kids in a dog pile

The oldest and the youngest....

Stylin' Dylan

Cutie Katleyn

Brandon chasing Charlie in the back yard

Handsome boy

Cheesy grin from Dylan and a half smile from Weston

He's growing out of his 0-3 month stuff already!

And finally, here are a few pics from our little road trip up to Seattle. We went to see the Fremont Troll, who hides under a bridge and eats BMWs.

The kids were brave enough to climb on him

And they even got right up to his face

Here's the poor Volkswagen that the troll got

Dylan was not too enthused about this troll. He didn't want to get down!

And then we enjoyed some lunch at  Gas Works park on a beautiful winter day

Congrats if you made it to the end. Hope you have a great start to 2013!