December and Christmas....It's been a while since I've updated

It has been too long since I've blogged but we've had a great Thanksgiving, December, and Christmas.
I'll let the pictures do most of the talking.
our kids are still very active................

first ugly Christmas sweater party of the season, it was hilarious! Adam gave a signed 8x10 photo of himself for the white elephant exchange that people actually fought over. the guy in the pic, glen, ended up with it and it's now in his cubicle at work! These are the host and hostess, they never hold still so I just had to take an action shot.

 Bishop and his wife won the contest. He had some kind of Christmas tree hat thing going on, and she was rockin some silver tights. they are both very conservative so that's why we were so stunned.

we just went for the "matchy" turtleneck look. and yes they are women's

one day naomi was pretending that she was hatching out of an egg for like an hour. it was makin me laugh

she loves the nativities.............

before church-can they get any cuter?

more nativity action, only had one figurine break this year, a Christmas miracle, McKay threw a ball at it

 nana chase gave naomi her own strand of lights and this is how naomi decorated our house with them-oh so lovely

Christmas morning!

bikes for everyone!

Rissa and Naomi-side note, Ry and Lars are expecting and Naomi has nicknamed their child "treesnow", and unfortunately it has stuck..

mom and mac

dad chase wrapped his wife's gift in a garbage bag! we were laughing so hard about this one!!

 naomi got a cute cradle

cory was being too funny not to mention

Christmas PJ's from Nana and Papa Ginn

Morning-after-Christmas breakfast, even though they wanted to have candy

Naomi is making the Grinch's face and McKay is sayin puppy.

Christmas afternoon at the Chases

 back-tracking a bit-setting up the tree

mckay hanging ornaments

 daddy did the honors of the star

 then the kids were ready to watch a Christmas show

THANKSGIVING

 just had surgery 2 days before-poor guy

 but gramma cheered him up with a banana cream pie!

 silly girls

 my precious girl

 nana and naynay

 nay is so lucky to have such healthy and close great grammas

 this is where mckay spent most of thanksgiving dinner =)

 sistas!

 tuckered out after a long day, i think we all felt like this

 kids in new pjs