Christmas time is here...

Well, since Jaiden and I both have a cold today and are staying home from church, I decided to post some pictures of our Christmas festivities. Here is a picture of the Lyman Christmas tree. Unfortunately, I forgot to get a picture of the one at the Byrd household.

This is one of the many nativity scenes that is up around the house.
On Christmas eve day, all the girls made gingerbread houses with the kids.(The men were out playing golf.) It was really fun!! Everyone was getting pretty fancy with their houses.
This is the one that Jaiden and I decorated. It is very hard to do windows on a gingerbread house when Jaiden keeps trying to steal the candy off the other parts of the house.
For Christmas eve, all of the kids did the nativity scene while Justin's dad read it from the Bible. Justin was one of the shepards in the back. Anyone that didn't get to dress up for one of the characters was an animal and was supposed to make the animal noises when they were told to. I was a sheep. It was a really great way to spend our Christmas eve.
I just wanted to point out that we did have the appropriate gifts to give to the Baby Jesus but for some reason we ended up using bananas and a microphone. Don't ask me how that happened.

Party!!

The weekend before Christmas, Justin's family decided to have a birthday party for everyone that had a birthday in December and January. There are five of us. It was really fun. Barbara (Justin's mom) did a separate birthday desert for each of us and we all blew out our candles together. My desert was cheesecake of course. This is a picture of all of us together right before we opened our presents. I had other pictures but they all turned out blurry.

Go Donkey Go!!

For Christmas, I picked up a little donkey and cart made in Mexico that my dad wanted to give to my mom for one of her presents. We thought we'd have a little fun with it before we had to hand it over to my dad.

Having fun at the Byrd household

Here are just a couple of pictures I took during Thanksgiving. I didn't actually get any of the dinner or anything but oh well.

The men in the family decided to go play a game of Bocce balls. For any of you who haven't played this game it is really fun but the girls wimped out on it this time because it was way too cold outside.

We kept trying to get Jaiden to play with his cute little cousin, Corrina and they finally did on one of the lasts days that they were together. It was so fun to have his cousins there to play with.

Justin liked playing with Corrina too. She was the sweetest little girl to be around. She loved hanging out with her Uncle Justin. One more day around her and Justin probably would've been convinced that we needed a little girl too. :)

My dad decided that he was going to go fly fishing the day after Thanksgiving and so he broke out all of his gear. He had to pose for us before he left. Doesn't he look great?!