HaPPy nEw YeAr! "2010" it's a PaRty...

Love the Milletts! They risked their sanity and joined us for an awesome NEW YEARS EVE! We were lucky enough to have Doug and Krissy and their "Italian Soda" too! Complete with Homemade Donuts by Grace, Braden and Krissy, A fabulous round of sledding, an UndERwaRe RuN in the SNOW by Tom, fireworks, pots and pans all made a night to remember, that is for sure! Even stayed the night. Happy New Year, THANKS for an awesome couple days...(Dave we missed ya)

Rock Canyon Park...IT'S SNOWING

It snowed for 2 days straight during the Christmas Holiday. We slept in and I mean it, some days till 10:00 that's awesome for my little ones. We staying in our Jammies all day and played the wii, read books, watched UP and just hung out. It was a nice break from the running back and forth we seem to do so much of these days from Provo to Cedar Hills. We picked up some good friends along the way to make for an AWESOME SLED DAY!!!

MeRry cHriStMas 2009

Looks like he made it...We loved this day, relaxing, family and food. Lots of laughs and a TON of SUPER MARIO BROS! Batman, Barbie house, and 2 new itouches didn't hurt either. Looks like Santa was successful once again. A fun surprise for Nana and Pa ended a great day... Until the New Year, Merry X-Mas

The Nativity and..The Night Before Christmas

Our tradition of Grandpa reading Luke II and all the grandkids acting it out was full force this year... Grandpa adds a little more each year as the kids understand things a little more this year even included an extra hour! Grandpa is a wonderful story teller and this year the kids were glued to him as he told us of many gospel stories including some from their experiences in the temple. What a neat thing for our kids to be apart of. Once the cousins left our kids got excited and did some "stunting" got the cookies and letter ready for santa with big smiles... I love the magic of Christmas! I hope they can always remember the JOY of the holiday. I think mom and dad love it as much as they do. They were worried Santa could not find them at Grandma and Grandpas this year...LOOKS LIKE HE DID

Christmas Eve with Nana and Pa

I woke up early Xmas eve and ran one last quick errand up to Salt Lake... Nothing like waiting for the last minute huh? Kind of got me into the X-mas Eve spirit. Got home just in time to go to the movie with the family. We divided ourselves between 3 movies but think we started a great family tradition. The kids loved it and it passed the time for them not to be asking when they could go to bed, when Santa was coming. The big cousins took the little ones to one and the parents actually enjoyed their movie too. We made it back to Nana and Pas for the annual opening of the "X-Mas Jammies" and a couple rounds of "Country Band." What a fun day and we were off to Grandma and Grandpa Batemans for the Nativity before heading off to get ready for santa to come:)

POLAR EXPRESS

Every year we get together for "The Annual Coles Family Polar Express Night." We have dinner, visit, laugh and Read the Polar Express Book as we watch the Train move around the Christmas Tree. Nana and Pa buy a new book along with an ornament. We read the book aloud and talk about the Christmas Message. This year it was a book about Luke 2. Could not have been a better one to remember the true meaning of Christmas. We exchange presents and this year we had a special visit from Santa Delivering our gifts on the front porch! So fun to be together during the holidays. The cousins love to play, we love to visit and we had Bumpa and Oma there too. Love this tradition.