Christmas!!

Christmas time always seems so chaotic with parties, shopping, hyper children and the all around hustle and bustle but we found time as a family to slow down a bit. We decided not to plan too many activities and did most of our shopping online so we wouldn't have to fight crowds and accomplished what we wanted. This year, I am mostly grateful for a beautiful family with my five kids, a roof over our head, good friends and family to share the holidays with and for my Savior Jesus Christ. I will let our photos tell the rest of our story of our Christmas.

 Visiting Santa at the mall!

      At the Sabin Family Party!

     Becky and William at the Gooch Party!

            My girls!

           The Gooch grandchildren! Bill and Laurel would be proud!

      Our sweet little Eli having fun on Christmas!

       The most obnoxious toy on the planet! Yeah for us!

        Cute little guy!

       Brinton's new football. He wants to play next fall!

          Sara and Grandpa Sabin cuddling!

 

 Steve, Anna and Jack!

        Daddy and Eli!

          Sara's new Tangled doll! Her new Rapunzel!

                                      

         Brinton shaking his Jenga game.

            Princess blankets are the best!

             Soccer anyone!

            Eli is always calm around Lisa!

Christmas is coming!

Christmas is coming and we don't have a goose that is fat! We had better hurray. We got a relatively late start to the holiday season considering that all of our decorations were in storage. We were hoping that we would be moving before Christmas but that hasn't quite worked out yet. So we had to search for our decorations. We had a great Family Home Evening where we went and picked out a tree and we had a fun night decorating and drinking hot chocolate. It is so much fun to see all of the tree ornaments each year and to add to them. Eli got his first ornament which is a Rudolph ornament. This will add to our Elvis, Black Santa, Denver Broncos, Tinkerbell, and several fun Nutcracker ornaments. We are ecclectic to say the least. We can't decide on a theme so we make it up as we go along. This is such a great time of year and my kids are really looking forward to seeing the lights on Temple Square and seeing David Archuleta perform with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. We also went to the Festival of Trees where we were able to see Cam and Amy's tree that Stoel Reves donated. It was so beautiful and was a crowd pleaser. Bring on the season!

Eli's First Thanksgiving!

So our lives have obviously been crazy what with our newest addition. We have been having a blast! We decided to have our own little Thanksgiving Dinner and had some great friends over for dessert and games. We had so much pie that I think I gained all the baby weight back!  Let's just say that it was a fun day! Eli is growing like a weed and couldn't be sweeter. The kids are overly-helpful but it is fun to see that they love him! I count my blessings every day for my family. A great husband, awesome kids and family and friends who love me. Now if we could sell our home and get a bigger place, we will be good to go!