Christmas 2008!!

I thought I should add our Christmas pictures before the New Year. I've just been putting it off because I had so many pictures I didn't want to try to decide what pictures I wanted to post. So, here's just a little taste of our Christmas. Enjoy!


I usually do all the Christmas decorating on my own because Cameron really does not have any interest in it at all. So, this year I thought I would include him by saving the angel for him to put on the tree. So, when he came home from work that day I told him about my plan, he kind of made fun of it but I made him put it on anyways. So, here Cameron is with Cade putting on the tiny little angel ontop of our tiny little tree.
I was very persistant on having Cade visit Santa Claus this year. I finally talked Cameron into going with us the last Saturday before Christmas. Cade wasn't scared at all, I think I actually liked it. Santa let me take my own picture instead of making me pay 15 bucks for theirs, thanks!


We spent Christmas with Cameron's family this year. For the first time in years all the siblings and their families were able to be there. It was so much fun spending it with so many people, especially the kids. Cade loved being with all his cousins, but he was a little scared of all the touchy feely from them. His cousin, Lexy, who is only about 2 months older than him loved him to death. She attacked him with kisses and hugs everytime she saw him. He was so scared, haha, it was so funny. Oh, Cameron's younger brother, Geoff, made balloon animals for all the kids, they loved it!
Christmas Eve we all participated in a Nativity program. It was so much fun, or funny to watch. Cade played baby Jesus, he was so good and just layed there the whole time. His cousins Chloe and Claire played the angel and Mary great w/ child, and Mason played Joseph.

Cade was the first child to wake up Christmas morning @ 7:15. This is him waiting patiently to open his presents, haha. He looks so funny. These are all the stockings from Santa. I love how Cameron's mom, Nancy, decorates for Christmas, it's always so beautiful. This is the Christmas tree w/ all of our 100's of presents.

The other kids finally woke up at around 8:00. Here they are running up the stairs to open their presents under the tree after already opening their stockings. This was Cade while we were opening presents. We took a break half way throught presents to eat a yummy breakfast and then finished up the presents around 11:00. Here are all the grandkids after all the presents, but Lexy, she was taking a nap.

Saturday morning we all met back at Cameron's parents house to take family pictures. I didn't get any pictures with everyone, but here is a picture of our little family.

We had a wonderful time for Christmas. By the time it was all over we were exausted from all the excitement and lack of sleep. But, we all had a wonderful time being together for Christmas. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, at least half as wonderful as us.

The Long Christmas Dance

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Ginger Bread House Contest '08

Last Saturday our friends, Lindsey and Joe, had us and 3 other couples came over for a ginger bread house making "contest." We actually did this with them last year too, but w/ only one other couple. I think Joe had been looking forward to this day since last year when we made the houses. haha We actually didn't use ginger bread, we used graham crackers, just in case y'all were wondering. It was a lot of fun. We didn't actually end up having a winner b/c Joe's mom said she liked them all for different reasons. So you can pick if you want.

This is everyone that participated in the "contest." Back row L to R: Geoff (Cam's brother) and Erin, Bill (Cameron and Joe's friend from WA) and his wife and 1 year old son, Eric (Joe's friend from high school) and his wife and 5 month old daughter. Front row L to R: Joe, Lindsey and their 6 week old son Gabe and finally Me, Cameron and Caden (6 months old).

These guys were friends in Washington. They wanted to take a picture w/ each other and their babies.

Bill and his family had to leave early, so this is what they could get done w/ their house before they left. It was actually pretty amazing.

This is all of us after we finally finished our houses. (Just in case you were wondering, the blue one is a Y for BYU) So, which one do you think is the best?

A closer up picture. You can click on it to see it bigger if you want.

Us w/ our finished house. What do you think? I ended up making it like a log cabin.

Cade kept trying to grab it.

This is the top view of our house. The black stuff is "smoke" (licorice) coming out of the chimney.

Picture time!

I haven't posted pictures in quite a while, so hopefully this will make up for the past couple of months.

California Trip
So my mother-in-law, Nancy, decided she wanted to go to CA to visit her mom and sister. So Sunday night, Nov. 9th, she asked me if I would like to drive to Camarillo, CA with her the next morning and stay until Saturday. I thought it sounded fun to go to CA, where it was sunny and warm, but I thought it would be very stressful to get all packed in one night. But, I thought it was worth it to try, so I got all packed and we left at 7 am. 14 hours later, with a 1 1/2 hr traffic jam for 3 mls b/c of a horrible RV wreck, we finally made it. Oh, I forgot to mention, I was carsick from Las Vegas to Camarillo. As soon as we drove off the exit to Camarillo and were waiting at a stop light, I guess my body couldn't hold it in any longer and I threw up right out the car window infront of several other cars. I get extra carsick when I am pregnant, but Nancy had no idea at this point that I was prego yet. So, she just thought I was crazy or something. Sorry Nancy. (We were keeping it a secret until right before we went home for Thanksgiving) Cade was wonderful, on the trip. Thankgoodness.
Tuesday-We went shopping and out to eat for lunch. Wednesday-Nancy and Aunt Linda took us to a beautiful beach nearby, I can't think of what it's called right now, sorry. Thursday-Come to find out, my sister Camilla was visiting my Uncle Mike in Long Beach for 11 days. So, Camilla drove about an hr and 1/2 or so to pick me up and take me all the way back with her. We went to a fresh sea food restraunt right on the ocean that night. Friday-Camilla, Cade and I hung out all day. We went to In n Out for lunch and finally Uncle Mike came home. We picked up his girls later and went to this yummy restaraunt, the Moonshadows Blue Lounge, over looking the beautiful ocean in Malibu. They took me back to Camarillo and met up w/ Nancy. We went home, packed and Saturday morning we left. The drive home took 12 hours, 2 hrs shorter. Cade was good, but not as great as on the way there. Thanks Nancy for letting me go with you, it was a lot of fun!!

Thanksgiving/Tennessee Trip
I mentioned before that I had not been home for Thanksgiving for 7 years, since I was a senior in high school. So, this year we decided to go home to TN since we were finally both out of school and I was done teaching. Cameron was able to go for a week while Cade and I stayed an extra week. We left at 5:30 p.m. Monday Nov. 24th so Cameron was able to get in some work. We arrived at 12:30 a.m. Thanks Momma and Daddy for picking us up! Tuesday morning Bonny, Chad and her kids came over to break to news to my family about me being pregnant. Bonny was the only one that knew I was pregnant, I needed someone to confide in until we told Cameron's family Sunday before we came home. She had told my parents that she was pregnant, just to throw them off. They thought it was a secret and that she was coming over to break the news to us about "her" pregnancy. She made t-shirts for her kids to wear, which I regret now that I didn't take pictures. They said on the front, "Mommy's not really pregnant, but..." and on the back, "Aunt Bitt Bitt is!" (that's what they call me) My mom wouldn't read them at first because she thought she knew what they said. But, when she finally did read them she freaked out! haha She was really excited, along w/ the rest of my family. Most of them didn't believe it, b/c I have a baby! But anways... We mostly hung out the whole time, went out to eat a few times. Wednesday night the boys went to play basketball and then Thanksgiving morning they played touch football. Yeah, Cameron said he was soo sore for a while after that. Thanksgiving day was wonderful!! We had tons and tons of yummy food. I got to see a lot of my extended family that I haven't seen in a while, some that hadn't even met Cade and Cameron yet. There were about 27 ppl or so all together. It was a lot of fun. Friday morning we went to the temple (the ppl old enough) and then did some shopping. Cameron was getting really sick w/ his head cold by this time, momma got the stomach flu and threw up at the temple. Cade and I caught both of these sicknesses while there, so that was not fun. Cameron left Monday :( Tuesday night Bonny, Momma and I went to watch Twilight. I thought it was pretty good, but the book is definitely better! The rest of the time we just hung out, got sick, recovered and just had fun!