New Years Eve

Our New Year's Eve Party was a huge success.  We had so much fun celebrating and bringing in the New Year with the Redd's and Arehart's this year.  McKenna missed a portion of the party because she was working as the dishwasher at the Lake Side Grill Restaurant.  She was one busy girl and after seeing her hands when she got home, one would only worry that those dish pan hands would take weeks to recover!

 

Meanwhile, we enjoyed great company, great food, and lots and lots of laughs.  We decided to cook Café Rio for dinner and the meal was a huge success.  So between the good dinner and all the snacks, we all enjoyed ourselves.  The kids all played so well together; between the three families, there was someone for everyone to play with the entire time.  The adults mainly just visited.  It was  a lot of fun for us wives to hear about our husband's trip to Texas to kill their whitetail.  Plus so many other funny stories, that most the time we laughed so hard we were all in tears. 

Lottie and Roxie

 



Brinklee, Roxie, and Lottie

 



Little Lottie and Brinklee had fun posing with the photo props, what silly little girls.

 

And of course, can't forget about Tara about burning the house down trying to cook us a funnel cake.  As you can see, that little small amount of funnel cake had the whole house filled with smoke.  I guess we can't put her in charge of cooking for us anymore!!!!



So exciting to get all together and count down to the New Year.  I had bought a few party supplies, so the kids were loud and excited to see it become 2016!

Roxie, Lottie, McKenna, Krew, Allyson, Jagger, Taisley, Lexi, Trey, and Brinklee

 

The big countdown to 2016.  Goodbye to 2015, you have been so good  to us . . .

10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . .

 



7 . . . 6 . . . 5 . . .

 



4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . .

 



HAPPY NEW YEAR!  BRING ON 2016



 

Our first picture of 2016.  I beyond blessed to have this wonderful man as my best friend and husband.  He truly is the life of the party and always puts a smile on my face.  He definitely knows how to party it up and tonight was a total blast, thanks to him!!!

Christmas Eve

We love parties, in fact, we love parties so much that this is our third party in four days.  But there isn't a better way to celebrate the holidays than to share it with friends and family.  Tonight's Christmas Eve party was held at our house and JoAnn was kind enough to provide the food.  It is always so fun to have Tyler, Brooke and family, Kim and Darlene, Marci and Lyman, Grandma Loraine, Darcy, Dillon and Shyanne, Rod and JoAnn, and Jeremy and I's family.  Lot of people, make of a lot of fun.  It was a bonus this year for us too, because Eric and Jennalee got done in Richfield in time to join us for part of the evening. 

 

 

And a party wouldn't be a party if we weren't able to experience some sort of wrestling match on the front room floor.  What started out with Krew and Trey messing around, led to getting Grandpa Rod involved!  Lots and lots of laughs!

 

 



After the big shin dig at our house, all of the little kids wanted to head to Grandpa and Grandma's house to unwrap their Christmas Eve presents.  This is a long time tradition that the kids look forward too, so its good Grandma JoAnn is there to take care of all of us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids had so much fun trying to get a glimpse of Santa as he flew in the air.  Little glimpse's here and there just made the anticipation of Santa that much more magical. 

 

 

What a cute group of kids, all sporting their new pj's for Christmas.

 

After the unwrapping at Grandpa and Grandma's, we came back home to get all nestled in.  The kids were anxious for Christmas morning, so it didn't take much convincing to get them all ready for

bed.  As always, we have to make sure everything is ready for Santa to come before we are able to lay down and try and get some sleep.

 

 

 

The stockings were hung over the chimney with care, in hope that St. Nick will soon be here.  The cookies, carrots, and milk were all set out for Santa, thanks to Ally and Lottie.  The kids were so excited and would hardly wait for Christmas to finally be here.

 

 

 

Every Christmas since we have been in our house, we have made the kids share a room on Christmas Eve.  It's been easier to have them sleep in Lottie's room so we don't have them snooping down to see the front room before Jeremy and I are awake.  This works out good because they are able to wake up and come get us up when its morning.  Sure hope they get to sleep tonight, there is a lot of excitement in this little room!

 

Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!

Anderson Family Christmas Party

 

With Christmas quickly approaching, it seems like there is party after party.  The Anderson Family Party was just the beginning of our week full of fun for our little family.  This year JoAnn was in charge, which meant we were able to stay here in town.  The food was great and the company was so fun.  Our kids love to hang out with all their cousins, and for a party of this size, there are a lot of cousins to hang out with!  And the best part, is that we are able to celebrate with our Great Grandma Loraine.  She is a great example of love and we feel fortunate to spend the holidays with her.

 

This year JoAnn had requested that each family participate in performing some kind of talent.  So after we ate, we were able to enjoy so much talent from all the cousins.  There were piano playing, violins, singing, dancing, and gymnastics.  It was so fun to see all the kids show off.  McKenna and Trey each played their Christmas piece on the piano.    After the talents, we moved to the present exchange.  Luckily, the kids all ended with something they liked, well except for Trey, he got play dough!!!  McKenna played with the adults and even though I didn't get a picture of her, she was thrilled with her new popcorn popper.

 

Shyanne and McKenna

 

Elle Anderson, Allyson, and Lottie



Trey and Ryker