Christmas Eve with the Ford's

My mom's side of the family all get together for Christmas Eve. We have gotten to big for Grandma's house, so we had it at the church this year. We had a nice dinner and then our great talent show.

Staci and Megan.

Tyson and Kennedy having fun.

Right in the middle of the talent show Santa showed up.

Miley was so funny about Santa. She loves him and talks about him. She even carried this Santa doll around my parent's house all week. But, when you ask about him she just says scary. So here is her reaction to sitting with him.

Cameron did a great job of saying just what he wanted in the micro phone.

Kennedy not loving it. Actually hated it.

All the kids singing to Santa. Several of them aren't up there, but this is most of them.

Cam thrilled after he performed Ruldolph for his talent. Ben also did a talent, my mom was the MC (with her jokes), and Sheri and Staci dusted off their flutes and threw something together. It is a good time had by all.

Kellon, Kaleb, and Alana's dance was pretty awesome.

Oh, Staci and Tyler.

Cute Cam and Kennedy in their matching Christmas Eve PJ's. Miley matched too, but we didn't get a picture.

And we got some too. So did the boys, but no pic for them.

Stansfield's Christmas Party

We had the little kids dress up as the nativity. Kennedy was such a cute Mary.


We always do a dollar gift exchange where you pass the presents left or right according to the story. Cameron was loving being between Josh and Colin (his friends as he refers to them). He thought he was one of the big boys.

Cam was the lucky one, He won the hairy chest (thanks Jessica).

More of cute Kennedy.

Cameron was Joseph.

Gavin as the angel.

Ryan the wise man.

Christmas at the Joneses

We started off the weekend with the kids opening this present to stay and Grandma and Papa's. Cameron and Kennedy were so thrilled. Cam had seen it at Costco before, so of course he said this is just what I told them I wanted. He played there most of the weekend. He even said that Kennedy could play with the trees.

We did a little sledding in the backyard.

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And made this awesome snowman!

Tyson being goofy. This is what happens when he is on break.
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Family Shot

Cameron loving life.

We also did a sub for Santa and i couldn't pass up posting this picture of Landon. Too funny!

This is the best picture we got of Kennedy. She was just busy, busy, busy. She could just since the excitemnt and loved it.

We all were way to spoiled and had a great Christmas.

The girls in our new aprons.

Modeling our sweet new vests.

Got to love the knew PJ's.

Santa at the Ward Party

Cameron was of course very proper and exact on what he wanted for Christmas. He went and told Santa that he wanted Handy Manny Big Construction Job Toy. He was so brave!

I love the progression of Kennedy in these pictures. At first she just checked him out.

Kinda of not liking it.

Then, she freaked out. Good first Santa experience.

Cute Kids

They are just the cutest. Whenever they sit together like this Cam tells me to take a picture. (so I did)

Decorating the Tree

We let the kids decorate the tree, but it was bedtime and we knew it would take forever. So in the morning when it looked different Tyson explained how the elves came and finished it for us. Cameron thought that was just great. After we cleared up what elves were and not elephants.

First Snow of the Year

Cameron loves the snow! He is all about it! He could not wait for Tyson to get home to build a snowman with him. We had to buy big carrots at the grocery store. He would live out there in the snow if he could. I don't know if I have every seen a kid enjoy it more.

Thanksgiving

I know pretty embarrassing that I am just posting this. The blog was put on the back burner. But, today was the day to finally update. Thanksgiving was kind of different this year, because Tyson had to work. We were all super bummed about it. But, his resident was super nice and totally let him off early, so he surprised us and made it right after we finished eating. It was so good to have him there. We were at the Joneses in Draper. Then on Friday we took off after Tyson got off of work and headed to Idaho with Tyson's extended family. It was a fast trip, but filled with fun and family.

We celebrated Christmas in Idaho, since all the extended family was together. The kids were so spoiled and loving every minute of it!

Gammy and Papa Papa got them these cute animal pillows and sleeping bags. Every time Kennedy sees it she says aaww and lays her head on it. She sleeps with it all the time. Cameron also enjoys them.

I love Jen's reaction in this picture!

He seriously loves this boat we couldn't get him out of the bath tub the whole trip.

She got a popper!

Aquarium

These are from along time ago, but I am trying to update. Tyson had a day off and we took him because he had never been before. The kids love that place!

Christmas Preview Post (More to come Later)

Here is a short video of Cam singing his favorite Christmas song for everyone. (Sorry the video is sideways...I can't rotate it).