Thursday, January 1, 2009

What A Christmas!

Our Christmas started break started out with Mike graduating from Idaho State University with a Bachelor's degree in both Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering. Yeah for Mike!!!!
Then, it snowed, and snowed, and snowed, and snowed, oh, and snowed some more! It took a four-wheeler and 4 people on top to get mom and dad's driveway all plowed!

Puppies for sale! Any one want them???? Grandma and Grandpa have 4 adorable golden retriever puppies left. Two boys, two girls! I want one, but I have to have a house first!!! We bundled Joel up and went out to play with the puppies and Elise!
Of course Christmas means family, parties and fun, oh and Angie getting sick like normal! The Bailey family party was a lot of fun this year! We had it at the church where everyone could run around and have fun! This is a picture of great grandma and the bailey cousins. Joel was not very happy about getting his picture taken! And yes, there are only 2 boys in the whole picture with all those girls!!!

For some reason, Joel has taken to sitting in his own seat on the floor. He did it with this high chair, with our bumbo chair and with his cousins toddler arm chair. So we are in the market for one. Any one know of a good place to get a little toddler size arm chair? Let me know!!!
After Christmas was all done (pictures on grandma and grandpa's camera!) we went up to the cabin! Where Joel got sick-It was great (please read with sarcasm)! After bubba was feeling better we took him out for his first sled ride! He LOVED it! We hauled him all around and then found a little hill and Elise and I took turns taking him down. Needless to say the sled came home with us!

For New years we went and visited more family. Here is Joel with two of his cousins! I think he's getting the idea that he is being surrounded by girls in every picture and was being quite vocal about it!!! Then we celebrated the New Year by going to our own apartment where Joel slept in his own crib and Mike got sick! Way to bring in the New Year!

So Happy New Year to Everyone!!!!


6 comments:

Lisa said...

Wow! What fun! (except for getting sick - blech). And Congrats to Mike!!! Hooray! Now what?

LittleFamilyJL said...

Oh man he is cute! And I love your new picture on the top of your blog. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Shawn and Megan Atwood said...

I love, love, love that picture on the top of your blog!!!!! It is sooooo cute! Congrats to your hubby on graduating, he must be a smartie! I'm glad you had a great Christmas break!

Allison said...

Love the photo at the top as well! Please teach me how to widen the text and make the middle posting section wider... I have been messing with it with very little luck! I keep losing my side bar! I was sad we missed you guys this year... whenever we were in IF we were doing tons of family stuff. Hopefully before you guys move we can play again!

Bradbury Bunch said...

Talk about catching the moment! I love the puppies picture and the sledding pictures!! Too cute for words! And way to GO MIKE!! YAY! I bet he had an extra great time this year with the holidays knowing that school is over!! CONGRATS!! I'm glad you've had an awesome 2009 so far! I'm stil trying to catch up with my blog on the new year...hopefully soon!! LOL

radean said...

HI! Cute pictures. Your holidays looked like they were a lot of fun. Anyways- about the arm chairs (i've looked into this).Pottery Barn Kids makes some- they are pretty pricey but i guess they last forever and occassionally go on sale. I also think that Walmart has some. I've even seen Cars themed ones before. I saw them in the section by the bikes, but it was a couple of months ago. Cracker Barrel also has little kid rocking chairs that are ADORABLE. Anyways, Joel is adorable and your pictures are great!!

This is actually Allison not RaDean :)