We decided to take all the kids and go Cosmic Bowling! It was so late and we were there till 1 am! But they were such troopers and loved playing in the dark with all the crazy lights!

We went to Johnny Corino's before going bowling and that was quite an adventure with 6 adults and 4 kids and 2 babies!! But we made it through with tons of food in our bellies! I wish I would have gotten more pics of the kids... but I will have to steal those from Ashley and Kasey! :) We just want our friends to know how much we love and appreciate them and all the fun times we have! Its always a good time and very memorable! We are excited to now have Nick and Ashley in our little group of friends! They are such a fun family to be around and our kids all get along great! Anyhow! Check back for more another time!

So, New Years Day we got adventurous and decided to go tubing up in Park City! It was actually quite a decent day! It was pretty busy, but still alot of fun! Peyton could only go on the smaller runs since he wasn't 6 yet. So Dean and I mostly did the small runs with him while Kasey, Mike and Madi took on the big ones! This was so much fun! It isn't so fun when you are waiting in line though, so since then we have decided that when we get another snow fall, we will just go up to the mountains and find our own hill. However, the hill we went to in Park City has a tow rope that takes you up to the top. We won't have one of those if we just find a hill in the mountains.. we will be much more tired I think after the next trip!! HAHA! This ended up being a full day thing. The Greens were probably sick of us by then as we had spent all New Year's Eve with them and the whole day eating and tubing on New Years!! We are getting quite used to just spending our weekends with them and we love it!

I don't even know where to begin since it has been so long since my last posting! I will start at New Year's I suppose! This year we had a very low key New Year's get together at our house. Mike and Kasey came and brought their two daughters Bayleigh and Madisen. Kasey's sister Ashley came with her husband Nick and their 3 kids, Easton, Hallie, and Chaz. My mom was also there for a little while! Anyhow, we had so much fun! The kids all had a blast and took out every toy out of Peytons toybox! It was insane, I have never seen his room look so awful! You couldn't even open the door, I don't know how any of them survived the evening! Luckily they did and there were no injuries! Us adults had a great time playing guitar hero and ping pong! Between those two exciting activites we all had plenty of entertainment! Once midnight hit, we all watched the ball drop and sipped on champagne... but the fun part was yet to come! Every year we blow up the gingerbread house in the back yard, this was a tradition Dean had before I came along, but we have instilled it in our new life as well! Anyhow, the kids were sooooo excited for this! So we got it outside amongst all the snow and it was so cold, but they didn't care! And Dean proceeded to get some fireworks and blow it up! They were so happy and were jumping all about! Its a fun thing and the kids enjoy it so much. Not to mention Dean probably loves playing with fireworks.. Anyhow, so here are some picutres from the night! :)

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!!