Taylor 2013 family Christmas Card...

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Christmas at the Grand!

The kids had a blast, considering the circumstances spending Christmas at the Grand America!

 I could not have pulled this off without my amazing friends!!! 

So many wonderful people helped our family out this Christmas, it was a different 

Christmas, without ivy, but still magical. 

the kids woke up and Hayes literally cried when he opened his 3DS! Not kidding! 

we were laughing so hard.  It was all he really wanted.  Such a sweet boy!!

 Everyone scored and got everything they wanted this Christmas 

{quilty parenting} ha!   

Then we went and had the Christmas Brunch at the Grand. Which was of course Amazing! 

 We all went up to the Burn Unit to visit with ivy while she was 

sleeping and kiss her cheeks.  The kids wanted to go back and swim and play 

with their toys, so later Boston watched the kids at the Hotel while 

we took the whole Burn unit staff Dinner from "Cafe Rio!"  

we love and admire these people so much, it has been our home away from home.  

Hayes' 9th birthday party... {minecraft style}

Hayes was more than thrilled to have the Game Truck come to our house for his party!! 

This truck was so awesome, It was so clean, supervised the whole time and they 

all had SO much fun!!  

They all arrived about 30 min before the truck arrived and we did a backwards party and opened presents, and ate Pizza and cake before heading into the game truck!!

eeazy peezy party and well worth the smile on that face! 

xxoo

Cookies with Santa...

Dear Lizzie was taking reservations for a morning with cookies and coloring with Santa!  It was Absolutely adorable.  I guess they do this every year.  This Santa was darling!  He talked with the 

kids each and spent a little time with them on his lap.  Ivy was precious... all smiles!  

Love this time of year... and to top it off it snowed all day, it was beautiful!

Thanksgiving!!

Our Thanksgiving Feast was spent with the Taylor's this year, at Jake and Andrea's. It was 

delicious!  Cory and Shea decided to both make the turkeys, cory's traditional and shea did his Smoked.  both were amazing!!

That morning the boys played their annual football game at the Hansen's 

and then they all went skeet shooting.  After Thanksgiving, we played Bingo with the kids.

They loved their dollar prizes, which kept them entertained for hours.  

That night at 7pm we went with my sisters to see Disney's "Frozen"  it was possibly the cutest

show i've seen in a while.  Kids loved it and then i sent them home with their daddy while 

my sisters and I went "Black Friday" shopping!! 

We picked out our Christmas Tree on friday and decorated it, while making Hot chocolate

and listening to christmas music super loud!  I love Traditions!!  

I love how my little miss asked for the turkey leg! hahaha!  

***BINGO***

Our perfect tree!!  we love getting real trees it smells so wonderful!

my cutest little elves....

  Then on Saturday we went to Temple square with the Johnson cousins to see the lights 

and shoparound and then eat at "Red Rock"  it was  a perfect Thanksgiving break!

Farewell Football season...

We had a rough start to our football season, but ended up winning in the Mesquite Football Tournament.  The weather was FREEZING, not the usual mesquite weather we 

were looking forward too.  Kids still played in the pool and Hot tub regardless.  

They were troopers at the games{we had all night games} and we 

all Enjoyed watching Boston play Quarterback. 

Boston played Awesome, we had recruited some other boys from the other A team who

weren't going to be playing in the tournament, and that made a world of difference.

I Love watching him play! 

8th grade football!  These are some good pictures we got of Boston....

Lucky #7

next year High School football!! {yikes}