Santa was quite good to Peyton this year bringing him nearly everything he wanted. Aside from the random requests of cell phones and what not! What 5 year old wants a cell phone?! Honestly! What is the world coming to?! I had to show off his cute letter! I love how he tried to sign his name and realized that he didn't quite have enough room!! OOPS!

Anyhow, I have done enough showing off today!! So check back

after the New Year! Im sure I will have more! We hope you all

had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here are all the kids ready for Christmas on Christmas Eve. We had a very nice dinner at Carleen's house and I couldn't help but get all these cute kids on the camera! They were being so wild getting out all their Christmas jitters! We let them be crazy hoping they would release some energy to sleep so Santa could bring them all presents, eventhough they all probably deserved coal!! :)

Every Christmas Eve we get to open presents from grandparents and parents and siblings on my side of the family. Peyton is pictured here with his uncle Ryan! Ryan and Sarah got him

Lincoln Logs. I really think this present was more to satisfy Ryan's old childhood memories because that fort you see there was not built buy Peyton. Yeah thats right.. Ryan couldn't wait to dig into those Lincoln Logs the second Peyton opened them to start building! It was quite comical! And very cute! Brought back some great memories for me!

Ok! So I am finally learning a bit about this! So here it goes! I just wanted to keep everyone updated on how our Christmas and Holidays are going! We had an awesome Christmas! It all started out with making this fabulous gingerbread house here! Peyton did it all by himself and I think it turned out pretty well! He insisted on doing it early one morning, so as you see there are no pictures of Dean and I as we had just woken up out of bed and looked quite hideous!!

Ok! Here is our blog, I have no idea what I am doing! But everyone says this is what I need to do to keep everyone posted about our family!! :) Stay tuned for more once I figure all this out!