Christmas

We're home from church today, due to one sick kid, and no hot water for the past 3 days, so I thought I'd post something on here.  I have a lot of things to update the family and friends on, so the next few posts will be in random chronological order (assuming I get more than one post done).

I'll start by posting about Christmas, since those are the first pictures I came across.  We didn't do a lot of Christmas decorating around here, but we did get the tree up:

A short time before Christmas we figured out a way to be able to go visit family in Colorado, which was a nice surprise for both us and them, since we originally thought we were going to have to stay here.  So, we were very blessed to spend Christmas vacation with Grandma and Grandpa Alder, Shaunna, and Marie on David's side of the family and my parents, ALL of my 8 siblings, their spouses, kids, and fiancee on my side.  The Christmas get-together with the Cochran side of our family had 29 people there.  It was great, and our kids had a lot of fun playing with all of their cousins.

Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpa Alders:

 Yes, I am that cheesy - I made matching pajamas for my family for Christmas and had everyone wear them on Christmas Eve so that we could have this Christmas morning picture:

 I didn't take any pictures of the Christmas party with my family, but I do have this one of my kids hanging out with their Uncle Noah and cousin Oliver:

Fast asleep Christmas night after a long and fun day.  They each have a pillow pet and I made them each a blanket for Christmas:

While we were in Colorado, Grandpa Alder had an early birthday celebration for Cailin and Katie:

On our way home we spent New Year's Eve in a hotel in Salt Lake City so that we could visit David's friend Ben and his family, and meet his new baby.

We had a wonderful Christmas and are very blessed to have been able to spend that wonderful time of year with so many people we love.