We took 2 weeks off to drive out to California to spend Christmas with the family. We started out the holiday fun by taking our family bowling along with Reed, Emma, Jacob, and Nathan. Good times...

Here's Sean enjoying some Christmas fun....yumm!

One of our Christmas traditions is having the kids act out the nativity story of Joseph and Mary as Grandpa reads it from the scriptures.

Here's one of the "wisemen" flashing a quick BLUE STEEL!

Here's one of Daphne very focused on her Christmas present.

On Christmas afternoon we went to Grammy and Grandpa Stones for the usual Christmas Dinner.

After Christmas we spent a week at Grandpa's cabin at Northstar-at-Tahoe on the north shore of Lake Tahoe in California. Heres a few shots of Sharee and her Sisters (minus Emma) along with a cute one of her and Daphne.


Here is one of Sean with his cousins Jemma and Kyrie.

Dallin was very excited to go to ski school this year. He kept talking about it for weeks before in anticipation. He did great. He learned to snowplow (i.e. the pizza) and even learned to start turning. By the 2nd day he could go off of the lift and we all rode home together on village run (A green run) with Grandpa assisting from behind when needed. He's a brave, adventurous little boy. He was very excited that he beat his Uncle Nathan down the hill.



Our Christmas present to Mom and Dad from the kids this year was a new tile floor in the kitchen. We ripped up the old floor and laid down tile. Here are some pictures of the Brian, Reed, and me at the tile cutter machine along with a shot of the finished floor. It turned out great and we were all proud of our work.


The busy weeks wiped us all out. Here are the kids on the drive back home to New Mexico.