Happy New Year!

Happy new year! We are sad to see christmas over, but are excited for the new year. Jon starts school again in only 2 days, makella will be 1 in february and we are just hoping to make it an even better year than last year!
Christmas this year was in washington with my family and we had a really great time. It was so fun to have my whole family there. Its a rare thing and it was really neat. There were a total of 26 people up there, babies and all. It was quite the group. We went to my parents ward christmas party and saw a movie, but mostly we just spent time at home. I got so many pictures of everyone, but here are just a few so you get the idea. Oh and for those who have not seen it yet...here is a picture of my brand new hair! Its in the morning, so it normally looks better, but oh well. :)

I got it cut and highlighted about a month ago

We celebrated matts birthday on the 23rd and as you can see all the kids were really interested in the cake!

Ben introduced us to his german pasty streusal schneiken and we had a good time making them and especially eating them.

Christmas morning....makella did pretty well opening her gifts with a little bit of help. mostly, she like the wrapping paper and bows though.

All the adorable neices...minus makella. They are all so precious and I loved seeing them all! The boys were too busy to stop and take a picture

Jonny after opening one of his gifts.

Danika and Lacy

Makella in her pretty christmas dress loving every minute of it.

This is the stocking I made for her. She did pretty good taking out all her stuff. I just love her in her christmas jammies!

Well, that was just some of the fun things about our trip. We hope that everyone had a really wonderful christmas and that we have opportunities this year to see everyone more often! Happy new year!