On the first day of Christmas......

If you know me well at all, you must know how much I LOVE the holidays!!!! It's not just CHristmas, but all the festivities leading up to Christmas that I get so excited about. I always have the month packed with fun family time!!! This year I had really hoped to make a scrapbook album that documents each day between Thanksgiving till Christmas. But then I got real!!! I don't have time for that!!!! So instead I have decided to document all the fun through pictures that I hope to share daily. Then MAYBE one day (when I am done with school!) I could turn it into a scrapbook. Otherwise, at least I have it documented somewhere!!!! So I am already a couple days late and playing catch up!!!! Here is the day after Thanksgiving....

On the first day of Christmas we took our annual family pictures and put our Christmas tree and decorations up!!!

This year we decided to be a little wild and include my parents and my brother's family in our photo shoot. But all in all, everyone did a fantastic job and the pictures are already hanging in my front room!

I think that the kids individual Pictures came out fantastic this year!

Here is Laynee....

And Danika....

And Kyler....

And Makenzie....

Here is Mammy and Papa with the grandkids.....

And the WHOLE gang.....

Then later that night we got the tree and decorations put up. I just LOVE how my house looks all decorated!!! And that nice warm glow of the Christmas tree lights always makes me smile!

Decorating the tree...

I have so many special ornaments!!! I think I could make a whole album about the stories behind these ornaments! I might share some of those stories later in the month. But for now, here is one of our family personalized family ornaments....



My decorating helpers....

I have a serious addiction to snowmen decorations! I have no idea why. I just think they are cute! Maybe because I don't have to shovel snow or drive on ice!!! So my whole house is basically decorated in snowmen. I will show more of my decorations another day (like the snowman bathroom!!!) but here are just a few shots.....

And finally our 14 foot Christmas tree decorated with hundreds of ornaments!!!!

Thanksginig

Can you believe that I took 200 pictures on Thanksgiving? I guess if you know me at all, it wouldn't shock you! Here are just a few.....

Here is my very cute family as we leave for my parent's house.... (the first time. We had to come back when we realized we forgot the pumpkin pie. lol)
My little turkies...

And my sweet hubby and I...

We are celebrating our anniversary on Monday!

Here are my kids with my niece and nephew....

And the whole gang.....

Brady, my nephew.....

Scott and I did a little craft with the kids. Here is Kyler showing off his pinecone turkey....

The turkies were our place cards!

Now just check out our Tom the Turkey! Mmmmm....

Every year at Thanksgiving everyone gets a Christmas ornament at the their seat. They are always special ornaments. Here is the ornament that my mom got me this year....

Here is aunt Jamie and Brady....

And here is my very favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner, the Squash......

I really don't like cranberries, but I was just having too much taking pictures or all the food!

Here is the kid's table....

Cheers!!

It was a great holiday and I was so thankful for not having to cook since I am still just not 100%!

More pics from the Wedding Weekend

Here are a handful of pics that I took on our little mini vacation to Scottsdale for Bryan and Tashana's wedding...

My kiddos are our way to brunch...

The girls having ring pops from Uncle Bryan..

The bride and groom opening gifts...

The New Yorkers enjoying the sun at the pool...

Aunt Jamie and Brady...

The swimmers....

The girls having a bath in the jacuzzi bath tub at the hotel....

Brady and my mom's neighbor....

Wedding Day

My brother got married this past Friday at a resort in Scottsdale. It was a beautiful wedding. And they had the CUTEST ring bearer ; )

I took tons and tons of pics, but I am just going to share a handful. (Mostly because I am sick and don't have the patience to upload many more!)

So here is a family pic.......


And that cute ring bearer that I was telling you about.....

Alexia, the flower girl.....

Makenzie....

Danika (looking so grown up for some reason)....

All my girls with my cousin, Jessica.....

And more of my sweet Kyler Man. I swear I took about 100 pics of just him!!! I couldn't help it!!!

And here is my mom and Tashana just before the ceremony....

Walking down the aisle....

During the ceremony.....

Walking back up the aisle as Mr. And Mrs. Steinorth.....

A few shots from after the ceremony....

Here is a shot of my dad's side of the family...

Me and my parents....

My dad and his brothers.....

Kyler and Lexi making their grand entrance into the ballroom in the Power Wheels Escalade.....

It was so adorable!!!! Everone got a good laugh out of it!


And finally, me and my brother dancing together....

I have a bunch more pics from the rest of the weekend too. We spent the whole weekend in Scottsdale eating, swimming and hanging out together. But you have to wait for the rest of the pics!!!! I need to go to bed and try and kick this illness!!