6 Deans + a Dog

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

CHRISTMAS EVE

We had another fun year bowling on Christmas Eve Day with the Nelson Clan. Everyone was there but Mel and Brad...they stayed in Illinois this year for Christmas. We sure missed them =(

Eating the yummy snacks we brought.

Sage, Annie, Rachel

Steve, Mike, Dad, Amy

Cute Ellsie

Grandpa was on a roll. He got a few strikes in a row.

Lindsey, Rachel, Annie

Jaxon and Sadie

James, Alex, Will

Mandy and Josh

Troy and Mom

Grandma congratulating Grandpa on his awesome bowling =)

Outside the bowling alley.
Brett's, Amy's(minus Morgan) and our kids.

The party moved to our house for the kids. They helped fill the rest of the day by playing games.
Lindsey, Annie, Sadie, Sage, James, Rachel, Will

Adam, Alex, Jake

We had Christmas Eve dinner at the Dean's.

The pajamas I gave the kids before they went to bed.

Watching Elf before bed.

HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS...

Friday, December 24, 2010

CHRISTMAS CARDS - 2010

I just love, love mail in December. It is so fun to get cards from our family and friends. Too bad today is the last day and then it will be junk mail and bills =(

Here are our top "4" picks for most clever cards this year:

#1 Kirkham Family

#2 Nestripke Family
Front of card...

back of card.

#3 Jefferies Family

#4 Lakey Family

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Here comes SANTA CLAUS, here comes SANTA CLAUS...

Right down SANTA CLAUS lane.

The kids had their Christmas Singing program today at school. They all did a great job. You could definitely feel the excitement of Christmas in the air.

Sadie, Graice, Zani

Sadie - 1st Grade
(The girl I am an aide for (Alesha) is in Cream just below Sadie.)

Will - 4th Grade

Jake - 6th Grade

Jingle BELL, Jingle BELL, Jingle BELL rock...

Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring.
Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun.
Now the jingle hop has begun.

On Monday we went to the Christmas Carole Sing-Along at the Energy Solutions Arena with my sister Amy and her family. It was a fun night spent singing Christmas songs and listening to Jon Schmidt play the piano. The best thing is it was FREE and they gave us each 1 jazz ticket, 2 bees tickets and a large popcorn at a Larry Miller Theater. Fun night.

I guess we didn't get a picture of Sadie...
but I know our cute little bug was there =)

Sunday, December 19, 2010

HO, HO, HO We are Santa's Elves...

We are Santa's Elves. Filling Santa's shelves.
With a toy, for a girl & boy. We are Santa's Elves.

This year we had a mysterious Elf named Buddy that appeared on December 1st while dad was at work and we were all at school. He was sitting on our kitchen table when we all got home with a note that said he was here to visit our family and keep tabs for Santa until Christmas. Will and Sadie looked forward each day to finding Buddy and reading what his notes had to say about the previous days activities (positive things he had seen us do as a family). We loved having him here for 17 days but on Friday, December 17th he left a note saying he needed to get back so he could help Santa get ready for Christmas. We aren't sure if Buddy will come next year but he sure added fun and excitement to this Christmas.

December 1st