Christmas cont. !

All of us on Christmas morning. (Maddie and Hunter were too busy playing with their new toys for me to be able to take a picture of them.)

Maccoy's new big boy table. :)

Playing XBOX. I think Justin really likes his present. :)
All of us at Grandma and Grandpa Craythorne's house to open presents and eat Christmas dinner.
Dallas and Kyla. I love Kyla's headband I think it looks so stinkin' cute on her- gray with her light hair looks so dang cute!


Ady's present to me- this super cute apron that Heather made! I am so excited about it!
Oh boy! Lookin' good Talon. :)
"Smile for the picture kids!"


Christmas at the Norman house. We all got ipod touch's and we just couldn't stop playing with them!!!
Shauna got a laptop for Christmas and Greg spent Christmas getting it all set up for her. :)



Back at the Adams house- more XBOX. Even Maccoy wanted in on part of the action.


Then on this past Tuesday (December 29th) we went with Justin's family to Salt Lake to visit Temple Square to see the lights and also to visit Justin's Grandma and Grandpa Norman at the Joseph Smith Building where they are serving a mission right now.

Mckell brought a date, Jared, and we all had lots of fun looking at the lights. I thought it would be kinda sad to go to Temple Square after Christmas but it really was quite nice because it wasn't so crazy like it is during Christmas time.
Darn, the Christmas tree inside the Joseph Smith Building was already undecorated! But we decided to take a picture by it anyway.


I love these last few pictures so much! I love that you can see the snow falling in them. It was a cold night and I wasn't a big fan of the snow but I think it made for some really neat pictures. It was a really fun night. We even ended our night with a delicious dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. It was so fun to all spend time together. Another reminder of why I love this time of the year.

'twas the night before Christmas

...and all through the house was little Maccoy roaring like a dinosaur!
Maddie was so excited for Christmas to come. The silly girl even set her alarm for 6:30 AM to be sure we didn't miss anything!

Aren't these just the greatest Christmas pajamas! This is one of our family's all time favorite Christmas shows- A Christmas Story- "You'll shoot your eye out!"

After the annual Adam's family Christmas party we all headed back to my parents house -our WHOLE entire family! -to exchange our sibling gifts and then we played a new game that my mom got for the family- Word on the Street! It was lots of fun to spend time all together.
My gift to Talon (only a month left till he leaves- holy cow time flies!). Oh, and Talon's orange cast! Don't even ask what happened! Ha ha. Talon has the worst luck with things like that. A couple of weeks ago he broke his thumb in three places. We are all crossing our fingers that there won't be any problems with it between now and when he leaves and that the cast will be off soon. :)

Adam got a duck call for his sibling gift and Maccoy knew right away just what to do with it.

Bright and early Christmas morning! Maddie's alarm did its job and we were all up and ready to open presents by 7 AM. :) Good thing we have Maddie around, if it weren't for her we might have slept all day! I love this picture. What a great Christmas we had this year and it truly was special to have EVERYONE home. I know that my parents loved it. It was perfect for Talon's last Christmas with us before his mission.

There are more pictures to come but I don't have my NEW CAMERA with me today! This was the last picture I took on my old camera before opening up my Christmas present from my mom- a brand new super cute little red camera. :)

Christmas treats and AVATAR!

Cupcakes are my speciality. I love making cupcakes and I love eating cupcakes.
Making homemade truffles on the other hand reminded me why I don't try to make new things. The whole thing was pretty much a disaster. I burned the chocolate. I burned a hole in the bowl that I was using to melt my chocolate. I discovered the hole when chocolate started leaking all over the counter and the floor and the sink... EVERYWHERE. Smoke was EVERYWHERE. Our apartment stunk for days. And these not so pretty lookin' things were the result of my homemade truffle making experience.

They did taste good though.

All I can say is THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING!

Let the Christmas festivities BEGIN!

Friday, December 4th was our ward Christmas party and the best part about the whole night was helping the kids in our primary class dress up for the nativity. It was quite the task- Mary thought the baby was ugly and scary, the shepherds didn't have a clue where to stand, the wise men were bugging each other the whole time the Christmas story was being read, and I had to force Joseph to stand even remotely close to Mary- but in the long run I think they all really enjoyed it and they sure looked cute! We have such a fun primary class!
Our tree!
A couple of Sundays ago Justin and I went on a drive to look at Christmas lights and decided it was high time to visit my dear friend Amanda and her family to see their new house (that they have lived in for almost a year now) and their new baby (who is 5 months old now)! Oh how I miss this girl! Then on this past Saturday we hung out together at her house just the two of us and ate Cafe Rio and talked and talked and talked trying to catch up. It was so great.

Also, last time we were at home, Hunter got together a few strings of old Christmas lights together for Justin and I to put up at our apartment and the day after the Ward Christmas party Justin and Jordan put them up. I was so excited and took a couple of pictures that are so cute but since I don't feel very okay with posting them you will just have to imagine how cute they are- they are green and white. So fun! Thanks Hunter for not letting us go without lights this year! And thanks Justin for putting them up for me!

Thanksgiving+Talon's Birthday=a very fun trip home

Thanksgiving day we spent in Park City with Justin's Hunsaker side of the family. It was such a good day filled with lots of yummy food, wonderful company, and tons of time to just lounge around after eating ourselves stuffed!
All of the family. I think this is a great picture! Of course no one really wanted to take the picture at all but I think its worth it in the end to set the camera up and have Justin run into the picture at the last second. With such a big group it is fun to see how the picture will turn out. :) I think this one turned out really cute and I think we are only missing a couple of family members who were playing camera shy!


Classic Curtis.
Justin's aunt Verna made this delicious salad which is my very favorite! I was so excited to see that she had made it for part of our Thanksgiving feast. And when I told her how excited I was she said she made it especially for me! Thanks Verna!
We celebrated a few family birthdays while we were together and Mckenzie's was one of them. Her birthday was on Thanksgiving day this year! And Grandpa Doyle made this cake for her. She was very excited!

Grandma Hunsaker has a hot tub and of course the little boys just couldn't resist and were in the hot tub as soon as they were done eating.
Justin's aunt Jana made this cake for the rest of the November family birthday kids. Isn't it just so stinkin' cute! Perfect for Thanksgiving.


Talon's birthday was the Saturday after Thanksgiving (November 28th). The big 19th birthday! And we celebrated big. And to start it all off we went bowling (And when I say we I mean me and my family- Justin was at the big BYU vs. U of U football game in Provo- yeah right like he was about to miss that! - :) not that I blame him- plus we won! Go BYU!!!).
We played boys against girls for three games of bowling. The girls lost and out of the boys I think Talon and Lance were the highest scorers.









And of course Maccoy was dying to be a part of it all. He was fascinated by all that was going on around him and he wanted badly the freedom to crawl around- especially right down our lane. :)
And for dinner we spoiled ourselves with Talon's choice to go to Tepanyaki! Oh my goodness the entertainment was amazing and the food was even better!




The fire got oooh's and aaah's out of all of us. Maccoy freaked out! He was shaking for a few minutes from being so surprised by the sudden onion volcano rupture. He was fine after a minute though and he was pretty entertained by all the stuff going on at our table the whole meal.
We all sang Happy Birthday to Talon after eating and he got this cute little ice cream.


And then after dinner we decorated the Christmas tree- while Talon watched- well he kinda watched he would get distracted and get on the computer while me, Hunter, and Maddie decorated the tree. Talon loves to have the tree up and decorated but he's not really into doing the actual decorating.