Christmas and New Year

We had a lot of fun for Christmas. This was the first year that we spent Christmas morning at home. It was so nice to have the kids get up and then we all went out and saw what Santa brought. The kids opened their presents and then they could open the packages that the presents were in and play with the toys without having to worry about losing pieces at other places. It was great. Later we went to The Carter's and had a fun Christmas there. Jared was so excited about his present that he had to go home right then to set it up. I have never seen him so excited about a gift. After a couple days at The Carter's we went to The Reeder's. We had a lot of fun there too. Jared got to try out his gun there and it was fun seeing a lot of family. One of my cousins was coming home from his mission and a lot of extended family was there. We also celebrated Ben's birthday while we were there. I can't believe he is two. Then we went back to Carter's until New Year's and then came home. What a busy holiday. Well, you will have to wait for the pictures. While we were in DisneyWorld, Ben got a hold of my camera and destroyed the shutter over the lens. We ended up taking pictures with an old film camera. We haven't had a chance to develop the pictures yet.

Disney World 2009

No we are not in France. We are at Epcot at DisneyWorld. We headed there the beginning of November and had a great time.


Fish are friends not food. He didn't say anything about humans:)

This was Timothy's first time at the Jedi Training Academy. He was so excited and did great. Molly, Emily and Tim all got to participate.

We stayed at the Polynesian Resort and also got to go the the Luau. It was a great show, but it was really cold. The food was good though and the highlight was the fire dancers.

It was fun to reconnect with family. Here are a lot of the cousins. (We found a hidden Mickey on this dino)

This was a rare shot. Usually Ben was out and about. We brought his Monkey backpack with parental tail attached. He got really tired of being pulled back.

Animal kingdom was a lot of fun. We had to try on these hats that we saw. The girls look great.

Another family photo op at Animal Kingdom.

This was our first day. We had to make sure that we got our family shot in front of the Magic Kingdom Mickey. This was a great trip. Thank you for the memories.