Christmas Day

Well Santa came! Can you believe that?! Rotten kids and all. There must be a pretty low standard to get coal. Haha, just kidding my kids are angels...all the time =)

 

Deegan got Woody and Ellie got a baby fairy doll

By the look on his face, I think that Deegan was probably expecting something else! but he has had a lot of fun with the little guy. And look at that girl's hair! Yikes! =) Sure, the curls are cute and all, but they are unmanageable...

Deegan dove right in to opening every present that was wrapped in Cars and Auntie Ann helped little El-Belle with hers.

Yep, Auntie Ann ripped while Ellie ate ;)

We had Ann's name this year so we bought her this jacket

Everyone got a jacket or a coat of some kind except me, but no complaining here because I got some boots I've been wanting for a while now.

Deegan loves to cook more than anything else in the world.

He is a very well rounded boy.

This is him and Woody having a picnic.

Daddy scared to get out of the warm hot tub, but Deegan was brave and eventually got his daddy into the pool.

Christmas Eve

Blair's parents flocked south for the month of December and invited us to come visit them. We decided to go over Christmas so we spent the normally cold holiday in warm Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It was beautiful and warm, which was exactly the break we needed, but we didn't get to do the kind of things we would normally do for an Idaho Christmas like sled and drink hot chocolate.  Not to fret, though. We had a 'plethora' of things we could've done (If you're not quite sure what that means, you haven't seen the 'Even Stevens' episode and are really missing out) but we Blair and I were hesitant to take on anything too much because of our kids. So we decided to go bowling. It was so much fun to bowl with Blair's family.

Annie and I couldn't get over how funny the 'form' photos were. So brace yourself. You are in for a real treat....

Yes, my camera is amazing. There isn't a camera that can blur photos quite like mine can.  You should all go buy one =)

And of course, Ellie was cheerin' us on behind the scenes! 

The London Bridge

On our way into town, we passed a street sign named "London Bridge Road". 

Blair: That's the real London Bridge, you know.

Bethany: Whatever! Didn't the London Bridge like fall down or something?

Blair: Nope. It's the real London Bridge

Bethany: You're not going to fool me this time. You think you know everything...

Haha, we know we are complete dorks. 

Even though I'm pretty sure he didn't know at that moment that it really was the real London Bridge it turned out that he was right.

I guess in like the '60s some guy that bought Lake Havasu like a millenium ago bought the bridge from London because it couldn't hold up with all the traffic that it was getting daily. Between the purchase, the shipping, and putting the jig-saw puzzle back together it is said that it cost him around 7 million.  Holy crap, right?! If I had seven million dollars laying around I probably wouldn't buy a bridge, but I don't own a city or a lake either so it must've been pocket change to the ol' geazer. Anyway, a couple centuries later we were able to enjoy it on Christmas Eve.  Here are the shots.

Christmas Eve Night

So then we went back to the house to open presents, make cookies for Santa Clause, and soak in the hot tub.

BTW, where are my son's pants???

Halloween 2010

I don't have any pictures of us in our costumes because I couldn't find my camera. I searched high and low and cursed and prayed, but it wasn't anywhere to be found. Of course I found it a few days later but I missed the fun costumes and the excitement of Deegan trick or treating. He was Woody from Toy Story. And what would Woody be without his sidekick Buzz Lightyear? Well, we couldn't break the little boy's heart so Blair went as Buzz. Ellie was a kitten with a big, black tutu. And I went as a pirate. So 'Ahrrrr' you ready for some pictures of stuff we did capture? (haha pun totally intended) 

We made spiders out of our handprints

And we carved pumpkins:

And little Ellie was working hard behind that scenes!