The Buxton's came!

Wade, Jodie, Rachel, Aubrey, and even Buster {their dog} came up from California for a short visit and we were so excited that they were able to make it! We don't get to see them too often because they live so far away so it was nice to have them here. We played for days with them and Mackenzee and Buster got to get reacquainted. :0) We all took a trip over to Hop 2 It, which is a ginormous bounce house. Ok, so it is a building that has a bunch of different inflatable bounce houses/slides/obstacle courses. I forgot my camera {dang me! Jodie...don't forget to send your copies my way!} and so I have no proof of the craziness that went on there. But, we did have a good time.

Everyone had so much fun hanging out and spending time together. I learned that the fish at Bass Lake are always biting.....as long as you are always offering them hot dogs. Crazy, huh?

After our swimming adventures we all went to Breanna and Hayley's softball game out in Jerome. Breanna is #4 and Hayley is #11. Both girls did great!

Burnham Family 2008

I haven't finished editing these babies, but I thought I'd share them before too much time passes. For those in the Burnham family that are wanting copies, I was planning on making a disc for each of the families in the pictures here. So, don't stress it. :0) I got you covered. Jodie...will you share your copies with me too? The pictures of the grandkids taken upstairs didn't turn out so good on my camera. Thanks so much!

These are the only two individual family pictures that we got taken that day. I think everyone was pretty much done with saying cheese at this point. :0)

Thanks Burnhams for being such good sports on such short notice. I am SO happy to finally have a family picture that includes ALL of us. {And I'm not pregnant!} Now I just need to work on my family......

Christmas Cheer

Did you all have a fabulous Christmas? I hope so. Ours was busy and full of good family memories. Here's a quick recap....
We spent Christmas Eve in Jerome this year with the Burnham's.
Mackenzee wasn't feeling too chipper, and though she was heavily drugged with Tylenol :0) she was still able to sing her "La La" song for everyone. I'm mad I didn't think to record it because she did such a good job. The song she sang is actually called "When Christmas Comes to Town" from the Polar Express movie, and the reason she calls it the La La song is because that's what you sing at the beginning of the song. All December long she has been having me play it OVER AND OVER again in the car and eventually she was singing along. She was sure that she needed to sing it for everyone. :0)
And why the angel costume you ask? Aunt Jodie called and asked if Mackenzee would be the angel in the nativity story and it just so happened that we had the halo and wings in our dress up bin. Humorously, Mackenzee was sure that meant she was supposed to wear it ALL night.
After eating and playing games, the grandkids all opened up their Christmas jammies from Grandma Burnham. Such a handsome group, don't you think?
Christmas morning came...which means that Santa came. Unfortunately, Mackenzee was feeling even worse and I'm not sure she even remembers Christmas Day. She was almost zombie-like and could barely open her presents. We did get a smile out of her when she opened up her Abby Cadabby blanket from Nana. :0)
Christmas Day is also my neice, Breanna's birthday. She is a crazy teenager now, which is hard to believe.
The day after Christmas Landon finally came home to us. It's just not Christmas without him. His first stop was Nana and Papa's house where he made sure to pour some loving on his Papa. Of course, additional hugs were given to Nana, especially after he opened up his new Wii game. :0)
Amazingly, my brother-in-law, Stephen's birthday is Christmas Day as well, though we celebrated it the day after Christmas.
On Saturday we got to spend some more time with the Burnhams eating Thai food {yum!} and going to watch the movie "Bedtime Stories", which was super cute. It was just us {my nephew Talon included}, the Buxton's and Gage that saw the flick and we headed back to Grandma Burnham's house afterwards. Rachel and Aubrey showered Mackenzee with attention and did a little makeover on her. She totally ate it up and was able to fully enjoy it as her fever had gone away.
Sunday we had to say goodbye to everyone as my sister and her family were leaving that night and the Buxton's were leaving early the next morning. BUT! Stay tuned for some wicked awesome Burnham family photos. We did a quick photo shoot on Sunday in Jerome. I'll share more soon!

Cousin Lovin'

Mackenzee holding Jeremy, who is now 4 months and almost as big as she is! :0)
Mackenzee giving Gage a little cousin lovin'...he doesn't usually mind though.

Mackenzee loves to go to her grandma and grandpa Burnham's house on Sundays. It's always so exciting for her to play with her cousins. As the boys are the ones that are closer in age to her, she usually ends up running around with Kaden, Gage and Jesse. But, she loves to play tickle games with the older girls as well. :0)

Early Christmas

We alternate years on which family Jaysen and I spend Christmas with, and this year is with my family. So, Jaysen's parents came over this morning with their presents for the kids. They always give jammies to the kids, which I love! Kenzee got a cute pair of pink jammies, and Landon got blue. They also brought over poppers for all of us, which is a tradition for them for Christmas Eve. They buy these LARGE poppers that have small toys/trinkets in them. So, the kids got to pop theirs (though Kenzee just tore hers apart).

And then there is always the "Mr. Right and Mrs. Right" game where you pass things to the right and left and then whatever you end up with at the end is what you get to open. Jaysen's parents put cash in envelopes and there are a couple of envelopes that have more than the others, so everyone hopes they get those. ;0) So, they brought over envelopes for us as well. No big winners here. ;0) But the kids were thrilled to find $10 in their envelopes.

So, thank you so much Perry and Rita! The kids love their jammies and Landon has already been trying to decide what he's going to do with his cash. It's nonstop presents around here!