Monday, December 27, 2010

All the Holidays mashed into one!

Christmas is our all time FAVORITE!
But before we get to this lovely night... I need to back up and start from November!
THANKSGIVING!
Me and my loveydovey.
My little brother
Hunter and Mama
We started the day off at the Conradi's home and headed over to Grandma Mudrows for Thanksgiving dinner #1. Then we headed to my Mom's for Thanksgiving #2...
After hearing of my Nana's news we decided to all get together and have Thanksgiving at my Mom's tiny house. We created what Martha Stewart would call a nightmare! Mismatched tables and tablecloths!!! No one cared though because we all had such a wonderful SQUISHY time :)

A Christmas to give away...


 I  have four amazing best friends... Gabby, Nicole, Victoria and Megen. Our Christmas tradition is usually to go out to dinner and give eachother small gifts. Well this year we decided to do something a little different. Instead of spending money on dinner and gifts we decided to put our money together and give a child a Christmas that his mother wasn't able to give him. We decided to cook dinner together and then headed out to target to do some shopping! We all had so much fun together! It definitely meant so much more to us to do that rather than give eachother gifts that we don't need and spending money on an expensive dinner. This will forever be our NEW tradition :) Im so grateful to have such wonderful and giving friends!

Holiday Parties...
We love family time because we have the best family! We love the Holidays because we get to spend so much time with them, its the best!!
We enjoyed all the parties with our loved ones and can't wait for them to start up again!

& now we can go back to CHRISTMAS...

My darling Niece McKinley
Baby nephew Owen
My love
Capreis and Addison
 Ryan & Kyler

We started the day off by going to the Conradi home! We spent the day playing games and eating yummy yummy food! We always have a blast together and this was no exception! We then watched the little ones open their gifts from Oma & Opa, it was so fun because I remember how much fun it was to be little on Christmas! Don't get me wrong, its fun to be older as well :) 
We left around 5:30 to head up to Oakley, Idaho to spend Christmas at Nana's beautiful home. Her doctors allowed her to go up there before she starts radiation and chemo. Luckily the weather wasn't too bad to drive in, but sadly that meant no white Christmas. 
Christmas eve we all got into our pajamas
 and sat around Nana and listened to a beautiful story about the wise mens three gifts to the Savior and how they were later used...
It was so nice to be able to spend this special time with our Nana. She loved being home and being able to celebrate the special holiday in that special home.

Love our Nana.
Christmas DAY!
Excited to be married for our second Christmas together...

One of our favorite things to do in Oakley, Idaho is take a walk around the tiny and beautiful town! As soon as we walked out the door we realized our walk would be cut very short due to the freezing cold and chilly wind!
We walked to the corner, snapped a few shots, and headed back inside.
This was a wonderful Christmas spent with wonderful people in a wonderful home!!
Even though there was no white Christmas out in Oakley, we decided it was okay and we settled for this GORGEOUS sunset...
MERRY CHRISTMAS/HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
 I hope you all had a wonderful one and were able to spend it with the ones you love!!
Xo

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