2017 Holidays - New Years

Some of the fun things we do during the holidays are ice skating and hiking.  Unfortunately for these two Bethanie and family had already left :(

Getting ready to head out to skate... Tom is doing a hoe down.

talking, waving

Are we going?

Nope.. need a couple pictures of the girls!

And Gage :)

Didn't take any pictures of the actual skating because I didn't want to take my phone out on the ice... Dad held our phones.  It was very fun as always.

We also took a hike down the red dot.  I had been wanting to go.  It was fun to teach Gage how to touch all the red dots to deactivate the booby traps along the trail.

Here we are at the bottom, down by the river.

It was so cold!  Cooper was shivering so much but he still wanted us to through the stick in the water. Cooper loves to jump in the water.  Daisy just loves to be with us.

This is heading back up.  So warm against the rocks... a big difference from the river.

I really like this picture of Emily looking up into the distance.  It could probably be one of those Mormonads... Reach Higher?  Or remember those who've gone before?

I love time with my family, even when things don't go exactly as planned.  Emily and I had already gone down the red dot trail a different day but then we went again with the family.  I do love that hike in the winter.  Not too hot like in the summer.

And to end, I'll share this video of Amy drying her hair.  Jared thought it was very funny.

2017 Christmas Holidays - Emily's birthday

For Emily's birthday we always go to Rancho de Chimiyo for Lunch.  This year we had to do it on a day earlier since the Parkinson clan had planned a family get together on her birthday...

Here I am trying to take a selfie of those who started off walking to Chimiyo, since I no longer take my bike.

I thought all the pictures were funny :)

There we all are!

Did I take enough?

Bethanie joined us after the cutthough.

Its always a fun walk with the a few of the nieces and nephews :)

Eating food and taking pictures!

Wait, who is taking pictures?

Everybody say cheese!

Emily wanted to go ti some hot springs for her birthday so we all packed up and headed to the Jemez in 4 different cars... I made Jared get lost by telling him we had passed Hummingbird (we hadn't :().

Angela couldn't get up the steep hill in her wheelchair so Jared carried her.

It was very beautiful!

But more people than expected...

And Emily was the only one who brought swimming gear.

Bethanie took pictures and then went down to hang with Mom... it was too steep a hike for her.  She was still recovering from all the illness :(

I was wrangling dogs so it was hard to take pictures.  This was my attempt at taking a picture of Jared packing Angela back down the mountain..

Then we celebrated Emily's birthday with trifle.

Directing the Happy Birthday song that night with candles in her trifles...

Hold it! Hold it!

Jared and... others (can't remember who else) were so excited that they had gotten fireworks for her birthday.  Emily loves fireworks and was sufficiently excited for them.

Lovely pictures, eh?

Yeah, just believe me that it was fun.

2017 Christmas - with dogs

Apparently I will never post stuff unless I cut down on the "journaling".  Isn't that what text is called in scrapbooking?  So... mostly pictures.

Always have music during the holidays.

I think its awesome...

Angela got the instruments so everyone who wanted to could participate.


Should have brought my flute :)

Mom wanted pictures after church.

I thought it was funny to take a couple pictures from my perspective.

Love my cute Mother!

We made Tom put on an apron over his Sunday clothes.. So we put the biggest one Mom had on him.  Still didn't fit! He's helping with the traditional Christmas Eve clam chowder.

Jared out lighting luminarios.

Emily tried to take a picture of me...

I usually take some of the kids but I think I got out too late.  At least this year it wasn't so windy!

Getting ready to carol to the... Parkinsons?  Or Parkers?

And here we are (Jenny is wearing the scarf I knitted her! because she loves me)..

Funny story... we decided last minute to go to the Parkinsons and didn't sound so good there..


No pictures of the new pajamas...

Christmas morning... Even Jenny had to line up properly on the stairs!

Same view every year :)

Cooper wasn't too sure of this whole holiday thing.  He spent alot of time in Emily and I's bedroom.  Diasy went from person to person asking for loves :)

And of course, the doting caregivers had to film our dogs getting their presents..  We are those people.

After Christmas lethargy...

It was a good Christmas.

Some of us enjoyed our presents more than others :)

Guess I didn't get a picture of the opening of sibling gifts... or parents gifts. I got Angela a couple things and  Emily gave me loads of things!  There will probably be some pictures of me using them through the year :)