The last of Christmas & welcoming 2010

I am late in posting these but for posterity's sake here are the rest of our Christmas festivity pictures.

We had a fun work party at TGI Friday's in Omaha...

Sam is holding a pair of barbie legs- a running joke between Lance & Troy

We actually held Christmas on New Year's Day with Troy's immediate family. We had a blast eating soup(I brought corn chowder), opening presents, and playing games(Things, Wheel of Fortune and Catch Phrase kept us busy).

New Year's Eve we spent at Tami & Greg's. Connor actually went to the Orchard's house. We were not crazy about not being all together for the night but after 5 minutes of 3 boys playing tackle dodgeball downstairs near Greg's glass display cabinets we decided that was a good decision on our part to let him go.

We had a fun time eating and playing games.

We actually missed ringing in the new year by a minute we were so engrossed in our game of bananagrams.

Poor Genna is still upset that she missed "the party". She just saw the picture today almost a week later and burst into tears again.






We are so fortunate to have such dear family and friends who bless our lives in so many ways.

Happy New Year to you all...

Ringing in the New Year

We were happy to ring in 2009 down in Kansas with my sister, Lorilee. We had such a fun couple of days together. The kids had a ball playing together, Troy & Mark watched lots of football, and Lor & I cooked, shopped, sewed and had a great time together.

Jameson & Ashlyn

Our 1 hour aprons that we whipped out in 4 hours.

Going out to eat one night

Homemade pizza

Mo, first class traveler


We decided to try and come up with some activities for New Year's Eve for the kids that didn't involve the computer or Wii. We hit up the Dollar store and made up a bag for them to ring in each hour leading up to midnight. Inside the sacks were pop rocks, silly straws, sour straws, glow sticks, and those toys that grow in water. At 11:55 we had them open a bag with their blower, party hat and popper inside. We also had the kids decorate with glitter glue plastic champage glasses for our sparkling cider toast at midnight. After getting everything ready for the night, we were pretty exhausted and decided against a few of the activities we had planned. However, we did play the Candy Bar game, yahtzee and hangman. Genna and Ethan didn't quite make it till midnight. We laughed all the way through our New Year's toast. It really was a fun night and we were so happy to be with each other.


New Year's Day we traveled home just in time to go over to Tiffany's house for another Christmas get together. All of Troy's Dad's siblings(except his brother Denny who is currently on a mission) gathered together. There was lots of good food, fun games & a sweet Nebraska victory!


Wishing you a joyous 2009!