Thanksgiving and Christmas Party Festivities

This year we spent Thanksgiving in Thatcher or Central or wherever my mother lives! Thanksgiving Day we all went over to Hy and Julie's and had the big feast with their family....so there were lots of us and we had lots of fun!

I guess Julie was to busy slaving away in the kitchen.....but here's Hyrum!
Annie and Wally getting a taste of the dessert! YUM!

Allison and Bethany with Aunt Marty showing us how to really party...zzzzzz!

Mike and Denise with a blur of Meijsha. Jacob with his adorable little girl. Janell picking at Tyler and the back of Brian's head....wow he's old and still has all his hair!

Tyler, Janell, Maci and I stuffin our faces!

So since we were all at Mom's for Thanksgiving we decided to have our family Christmas Party that we usually have the first weekend in December. My Mom always has tons of stuff to keep ALL 14 kids busy

So they started out with a wild game of cootie......

Then they ALL made Gingerbread Houses......

Somewhere during the day Dustin made a remark that he could take ALL the kids on at the same time......so they took him on.....after a few minor bumps and bruises Uncle Bub won!

This was the really cute picture I took of all the kids on the dirt hill.....before I sent them all into their dads to get their butts beat for getting all muddy!

Then Mom had the kids tie the knots around these fleece lap quilts and had the kids take them to this assisted living home where she does the hair for these little cute old ladies...and one man but he was sleeping. I think this was one of the kids favorite things of the whole day...they had so much fun because......

when we took the quilts the kids also sang songs to the ladies while Janell and Taylor played the piano......Wow how those ladies loved it.....made their entire day!

Then the kids got to open their Christmas present from Grandma.....Yea!! PJs!! All the kids looked so cute in their matching pajamas.....What a Grandma we have!

Then the highlight of every year......SANTA!!

Morgan told Santa she wanted a motor scooter....hmmmm....Santa better get to work!

Taylor wanted .....hmmmm.....she hadn't thought about it yet!

Cayden wanted a high power air soft gun.......RIGHT!?!?!

And I promise RiKenna was there and wanted a baby but my cameras battery ran out so Janell took the rest of the pictures for me which means if she emails them to me as fast as she updates her blog I'm lookin at posting those pictures next year!! (Love ya Janell)

We have the best Grandma and had a blast spending time with all the family. Thanks Mom! (Just remember "It's Only Once A Year") Did I mention Mom kept ALL of the kids one of the nights and ALL of the parents left?!?! What A Woman!...Love Ya Mom!