Our Nielsen family Christmas party is always the Saturday or Sunday after Christmas, which made it fall on New Year's Eve this year. My sister, Sarah, set up with a photographer to get our family pictures taken. I haven't seen them yet, but the photographer did a great job and I hope she got some great pictures.
Both Pateresa and Malia have super nice cameras, so they took a few extra of the kids. I thought they got some good ones. I can't wait to get the rest of the pictures to share.
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| Channer |
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| Chestyn |
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| Branda |
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| Celina |
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| Dalynn |
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| Bryson |
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| Kaylee |
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| Brylee |
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| Brathan |
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| Kaje |
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| Nolun |
Hartly and Yumei hosted our Christmas party this year and they did a great job. We had yummy dinner complete with ham, cheesy potatoes, several yummy salads, yummy desserts, etc.
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| Me and my baby boy |
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| Garrett and Hadlie |
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| See the picture wall in the background? They put a picture collage of all of us over the years...so fun to see us change and remember the memories. |
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| Baby Taylor |
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| Ready for pass the present |
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| Kids getting ready to eat at the "kids" table. |
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| My mom had the #1 pick at the white elephant gifts. |
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| Jeff |
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| Marie getting ready to open the toilet that Alan and Malia brought....needless to say, nobody stole this present. |
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| My cute Chessy |
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| Uncle Dale, my mom, Cody and Jeff |
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| Millie, my dad, and Lynn |
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| Marie, Todd, Dylon and Deloy |
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| Chestyn with his hat, scarf and gloves that he got in the kids gift exchange |
It was a super fun Christmas party and I was glad it landed on New Year's Eve because our fun didn't end there. We headed over to my mom's house for pizza and partying. We played some fun games and brought in the New Year. Chestyn made it til about 11:00 and Channer stayed up all the way til midnight.
OTHER FUN THINGS WE DID WHILE IN RICHFIELD
**Visited the Ideal Dairy...wouldn't be a trip to Richfield without it.
**Went and say my niece, Tiffany's, new house.
**Saw Ashlee and Jared's new house that they have lived in for a year, but we are barely getting by to see it.
**Made a visit over to my dad's.
**Had dinner at South China with our friends, Marcus and Keshia.
**Got a spur-of-the-moment motel room and the kids of course always love that.
It was a wonderful weekend and Chantry and I both had Monday off work and enjoyed a Ranger ride on the incredibly beautiful day. We went with Chantry's dad and nephew, Wyatt. We rode out to 2000 Flushes (so pretty) and saw the freight train go right in front of us. The boys thought that was awesome. I love long weekends and super sad the Holidays are over :(
NEW YEAR, NEW BEGINNINGS....
I love the New Year and just feeling like you have a fresh start to whatever you want. I am not making resolutions this year, but just plan on being a better me: A better wife, a better mom, a better sister, a better friend, a better auntie, better spiritually, better physically. Just a better me! That is the best any of us can ever do anyway right?!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
2 comments:
i love to read about all your family parties! i think it's great that there are so many of you and you can all be together and get along {unlike chad's family christmas party where i got made fun of and called a retard this year... crazy huh?!}. anyways, you have the cutest neices & nephews! love it!
and i totally agree about the new years resolutions.. i used to do them and make a big list, but last year and this year i have just decided to be the best ME that i can be.. just like you! makes me work harder to be better, but doesn't stress me out like other resolutions i have made.
Looking at your blog made me realize I never took any pictures of just my kids at the Tabernacle.. oh well! I had such a wonderful time!! I feel like most everyone brough "funny" gifts this year.. I think next year we should do one funny gift and one everyone would maybe want? Nobody wanted to steal, and that's half the fun! :)
So glad we got to spend some time together!
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