Fun Christmas Girlie Time

Christmas is also a time for friends! Above: How fun is this Christmas present??? Lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and money to go shopping!!! It was a blast! I'm such a lucky girl! I love all these fun girls!

Then a fun beauty school reunion for Christmas! I'm so blessed to have such great friends all throughout my life, I love that we stay in touch. Christmas is so wonderful!

Hansen Family Christmas Spectacular!

This is the wonderful Hansen family who put on our spectacluar family Christmas party this year. They did a great job! It was loads of fun! We traveled down to Elberta to a church to start the festivities (80 people is too many to fit in a house!).

They Mayfields (my 2 boyfriends Damon and Drake), plus T.T. and Dean.

The Clarks and Mellors

The Anthony and Angela Hansen clan

Me and the best Grandpa ever!! He almost didn't make it because he was sick but he pulled through! YAY for us!

Cutest boy ever.

Ellie and Ella

For the first time ever we had a talent show! I have to say I was impressed with the caliber of acts we had! Above is the Hansen family skit "Maw Maw got run over by the grandkids". VERY funny!

And the Perezs doing "Pie Hole" equally as hillarious!

Treesh had all her grandkids do a darling little "Merry Christmas Poem"

The most touching was Emily who wrote the words and music to a song on her guitar and shared it with us. I was so proud of that cute lil cuz of mine!

Kallie and Zander were the cutest singers ever!

Grandpa told us some jokes...

The Vanisi's shared their culture and did some Hula! Mele Kalikimaka!

And us? The Hill family did the best rendition of the Nutcracker you ever did see! (if I do say so myself!)

We had such a fun time!

Next was the gift exchange. This year we had to hand make all our gifts. Dad's was classic- from "Tuffguy and Co." a beautiful man jewelry necklace in a man jewelry box (a tool box). Gabe was the lucky winner!

Julie showed off some serious talent in this beautiful blanket she knitted! Alissa was lucky to go home with that!

We voted on the talents and the most deserving act definately won, EMILY! Way to go emmers! She takes home the beautiful trophy!

Isn't the best part about Christmas time all these fun family get togethers?? I just love all this quality time with my relatives. I feel VERY blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful family, immediate, extended (on all sides), and in-laws. I LOVE CHRISTMAS! Merry Christmas to you and yours!

The Lights On Party

The Ba-jillionth annual Hill's Lights on Party was a little different this year but still loads of fun!! We ate a yummy dinner...

and played Christmas Minute to Win it!

I got all these funny pictures...

Prancer, Dancer, and Vixen a.k.a. the Hill brothers

Sweet Kannon keeping grandma warm by sitting on her lap

Cory trying to move an oreo from his head to his mouth... interesting!

And Cory Human Bowling with Ryder, right before he bashed his head into a hymn book :) Gotta love my big fat family parties! So much fun. Merry Christmas!

The Festival of Trees

We love our Festival tradition!

My mom and I go work the Kid's Corner with Auntie Steph and big wig Marie.

As usual Justin was the lounge chair for tired Der Der. Thats a lot of walking around for those cute little legs!

Merry Christmas!
Then it's late night packaging and early morning delivering but we sure have a fun time and love our awesome comittee!

Merry Christmas!

A very THANKFUL weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! We had a fab weekend! We spent Thanksgiving with Justin's family this year and it was perfect! Here are the little favors I made for everyone.

We have SO much to be thankful for!! One of our assignments was the turkey... Justin smoked it in the smoker! He was sure proud of that bird, and it was a hit at dinner too!! He did a great job.

My folks had to do the turkey for their dinner too- my dad was a great helper, and oh so handsome!

The Lund boys (and inlaws) carving turkeys and getting last min food ready for the feast.

The big group we had. We originally were planning on having dinner at Justin's sisters house. We decided it was appropriate to have it one last time at Mom and Dad's house. I loved having it there, I think Bill would have been happy we did...

Dylan, Brix, and Livie eating their yummys

Becca Boo and Britt got into grandma's old jewelry and played dress ups.

One of our other assignments was the pies- Here is Dom digging in, they were yummy if I do say so myself!

Friday we went with the Hill's to "It's a Wonderful Life" at Desert Star- way cute!

YAYY for Gug coming home for Thanksgiving, I don't think he has ever been able to do that. It was so fun!

And during the show they made Justin and I dance... then one of the girls picked on him to dance with her!

We had a fabulous, and fun packed weekend. Christmas is officially here! YAY! No one can get mad at me for playing my music and spreading my cheer anymore cause it's totally legal :) Happy Thanksgiving!! I'm thankful for all my many, many blessings. I am a very blessed little girl!