Gram opening her big screen

For anyone interested!

Colorado

 Last week we flew to Denver so that we could see Todd's brother, Ammon, and his wife, Heghine, sealed in the Denver Temple.  It was a very fun and fast three days.  Anyway here are some pictures of the two by the temple and various others.  The lighting was very harsh so sorry for the shadows on people's faces:(

 One of my favorites.  Love the smile on Ammon's face.

 The first time in a few years that all of the siblings and parents have been together at one time.  So, of course, I had to snap a pic.

 I love this picture even though Heghine wasn't really keen on doing it.

 The whole crew.

 The spoils for the after party.  Much of this was Armenian food that Heghine made.  She did a wonderful job.  And that beautiful cake was made by Mandy.  She did a delightful job!

 Cutting the cake.

 These two were too cute not to snap a picture.  Todd took it not me, Rheanna;)

Lincoln loved swimming in the hot tub.  He would've stayed there all night if we would've let him!

The Crazies

We have a really good group of friends that we like to hang out with and we do quite frequently.  We are really going to miss them when we move in April:(  Anyway, here is all of us the night of our Christmas Party!  We had lots of yummy food thanks to all of the ladies and some very entertaining times thanks to well, Tyson.  Just kidding we are all pretty entertaining when we get together.  Laughing that could go on all night.  Anyway, thanks for the good times guys and hopefully we'll have many more.  Just for anyone who wants to know from left to right we have, Brad and Rhianna, Kati and Tyson, Ashley and Peter, Rob and Erika, and then us on the floor!

SNOW!

Here is the crazy amount of snow we got the day before we left for Maine.  Luckily with some of the neighbors we got the whole driveway scooped before we left.  And yes, I was one of the snow shovelers as well.

Lincoln loved it!

The Maine Christmas

We surprised Todd's parents for Christmas and last minute went to Maine for the holiday.  We got there at 2am and still woke them up.  That's how excited Todd was.  Anyway here are a bunch of pics.  I may or may not add captions.

The main cook.  Mum did a wonderful job making food for so many people and adding us into their plans at the last minute.  Gram was also a great hostess as we stayed at her house and there was always plenty for us to eat.

Christmas Eve.

I am unsure what they were talking about at this point.  Priceless that I got it on camera!

I actually got to read Luke 2 this year, but this was Grampy reading everyone some scriptures from 3rd Nephi I believe.

Love when she does this.

Gram and Daisy.  Daisy is my niece and was born 2 months after Mercedes, but she is bigger.  She has lots of rolls:)  I don't know what it's like to have a chubby baby.

At Spencer and Ivy's house.  Ivy made us Christmas breakfast.  Eggs Benedict.  She wasn't feeling well, but the food was delicious.

In Maine they say "Have the tree" when they say that you are going to open presents.  So here we are "having our tree".

Even on such short notice Santa still managed to bring Lincoln some presents.

Gram got a big present from Bart (a new flat screen) and here she is opening some gifts that go with it.  She was really confused about what they were for.  Screen cleaner.

A wall mount.  We did take a video of her opening the T.V. but it won't load so those personally interested can view it at another time when I figure it out:)

Mercedes took a nap during the good part so she got to open her presents later.

Love their cheesy grins.

Christmas 2010

Like I mentioned before, we did our own little Christmas a little early.  Here is the loot before the kids got downstairs.  Our kids were definitely spoiled, but a ton of that is clothing.  Also all of our gifts for exchanges were under there.

Stocking time!

What exactly are we doing Mom?

Lincoln got some small action figures and other fun stuff in his stocking.

Cedes got some toys to chew on.

Every year Todd buys me candy and every year it is not really the kind I like.  Here's to next year getting it right:)

Todd got some tools.

Opening some presents.

The sad thing about our mock Christmas morning is that it got interrupted halfway through.  Todd was apparently supposed to go to work at 8:30 and we got a call at 9:00.  Then right as we were about to speed through presents so he could go, a neighbor knocked on the door and asked if he could help shovel the foot of snow we had in our driveway.  So we had to postpone it till later that night.