Late Christmas pics

A quick sum up: Dad, Demi, & I did our traditional "Christmas Eve Elf shopping" which was when I finished my shopping for Devin. Christmas was a blast, we stayed the night at Mom & Dad's so they could watch the kids open their Santa gifts. They opened their jammies Christmas Eve. I think the pillow pets were the hit of the year. Dev was loving his foot massager while testing out Rylan's new toy rifle. I made a collage for Sky and Sarah with their temple pics and it turned out better than I had planned. Demi & Jeff made us a nativity out of molding clay, they are adorable!!! The next Monday Devin played in the Skyline Alumni tourney and his team was the oldest in the tourny and they still pulled out the win!! 2010 Alumni Champions!

Valentines Weekend at the cabin...

For Valentine's weekend my family decided to go to Island Park to stay at Aunt Cindy's cabin but as the weekend was beginning and Mom and Dad got there we were made aware of a little problem just waiting to take our weekend of fun away. Aunt Cindy's cabin had flooded!! Luckily Devin's Grandparents' cabin was available and they were nice enough to let us stay there. Uncle Paul and his family, Demi and Jeff, and Dev, the kids, and I were all there and had a blast snow machining, sledding, fixing snow machines, eating, playing games, clearing rooms (Aunt Sandle), fixing machines, eating, watching movies, oh, and did I mention fixing machines??? It's a good thing Wogs was there, I am pretty sure every machine up there is now better than it was before we got there after he had his way with them!! ;) Dev & I thought it would be fun to take everyone to the hill we always go to with his family to snow board and sled down and it was, as always, a blast. My favorite was Mom and Aunt Sandi. There was sheer terror in their screams and for good reason, they were HAULIN'!!!

Only dogs could hear them at this point.

The forgotten post...

Last summer Uncle Troy came from California to visit and we decided to make a spectacle of him while he was here...for some reason I forgot to get the post up but REALLY don't want to forget this brilliant moment in time. We have had an ongoing prank with Troy, by we I mean all the IF family and this was our brilliant retaliation idea. We played a game of family volleyball at the apple and that was the BIG REVEAL. When we got to the gym we all unzipped our jackets exposing the hideousness that our shirts held...an old yearbook picture or Uncle Troy in his mullet/stash days...TOO LEGIT!!!

Uncle Troy is the 3rd from the left in the back row (holding Cal on his shoulders)

Halloween 2010

I am actually kinda happy with myself, I am getting these pics up LESS than a week later than I wanted to, WHOA-dream big, Britt! Halloween was fun this year. Calyn decided to be Jesse from Toy Story again so since we already had an old cowboy costume that Dev's mom made for him when he was a little boy I decided it would be the perfect duo...Jesse and Woody!! And all too fitting too, right? (Woody) Calyn was Jesse a couple years ago so when she mentioned being Jesse again I pulled the costume out of her keepsakes box only to find exactly what I was worried about...it was much too small for her, therefore, I would have to remake the exact same costume just a couple sizes bigger.

Well, they didn't have the same cow print material that they had last time, they just had the actual fur kind and I had NO desire to deal with fur so I had to buy white and black material and actually cut and glue the spots onto the white, ARGH!! Then, I thought that the hat with the home assembled red yarn Jesse hair from only a couple years ago would FOR SURE still work, I mean how much can a kids head grow in 2 years, right? Well, I guess all the schooling really has worked because her head DID grow too much meaning I would also have to redo the yarn hair and braid on the hat to make more room for that overstuffed, brain-filled head of hers. For Rylan I needed, merely, to buy a hat!!! WHEW! Thank you Simone!!!

Despite all the work I was really happy with their costumes, they looked so cute walking around as a little cowboy and cowgirl. Luckily we were able to get some good use out of this costume since we actually dressed her in it 3 different times! 1st: for her school carnival which the kids loved. They haven't stopped talking about the spook alley in which I was silly enough to think I could just go along with them...crawling under children's desks pushing and pulling terrified, crying children in the pitch black...SILLY GIRL! 2nd: for our ward's trunk-or-treat Friday night, then 3rd: for actual trick-or-treating Saturday night. All in all we had a great Halloween but I am glad we are now on our way to the craziness of the next 2 holidays!!
Ready or not....