Our Greatest Gift

Our Christmas was filled with joy. Good food, good times, great company with friends and family. I love the excitement that Christmas holds through the eyes of our children. I know it won't always be this way so I try to enjoy these precious moments. Our Christmas joy and greatest gifts are....

Tyler

Blake

Madison

and Jamie

We hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas.

We love our Savior and are very thankful for His birth and life here on earth. We are greatful that He lives today.

Merry Christmas

and have a very happy New Year!!!

Christmas with our Family!

Our Christmas fun continued as we went to the Ouzts's for our family get together. As always, we had a lot of fun!

Here is Bella (with the red eye evil look) all decked out for Christmas in her little Santa jacket! The girls enjoyed making Peanut Brittle with Papa. It was very yummy!

The kids and Josh had fun playing Foosball. They were in the basement playing and you could hear Blake cackling so loudly with laughter all the way upstairs. He thought it was just so funny to see the ball rolling around and getting hit.

Let the fun begin! The cousins are at the "cousin table" in the laundry room. I love how they fill their plates with food, take a bite and then run off to play. They will put 20 pizza rolls on their plate, eat one and then they are done. It is just too busy to eat when you have so many cousins to play with!

Or some don't find time to eat because they are hiding under tables holding "their dog". My nephew, Brock, was told not to hold Bella until after he ate. He REALLy wanted to hold her right then so he snuck under the dessert table and held her for a long time. ( I really wish I could get a good picture of Bella without the evil eyes - I am too lazy to actually edit the picture!! :) )

Our annual family Christmas picture by the tree - minus hats and reindeer antlers this year!!!

The Ouzts grandkids - 13 in all!

This is really what it usually looks like....

The cousins put on a musical for their Great Grandma and Grandpa Aldridge this year. Jamie and Maddie played the piano, then they all sang a variety of Christmas songs for them. There really is no better present than that!!

Grandma Aldridge had her big family get together on Sunday after Christmas. Those of us that were there had a great visit! We have to meet at the church for our get togethers now because it is such a big crowd! (13 grandkids and 21 great grandchildren - I think?)

I cherish this family time that we had together!!

Basketball Season

Tyle is participating in YMCA basketball right now. He is really enjoying his season. To ensure that he had the best coach possible, I signed Josh up to coach Ty's team. Josh is so good to do this for basketball and soccer!! He is really good at it too! He is the best coach ever!! Of course, one of Tyler's favorite things to do is run! He thinks it is a race to get to the other side of the court before his other team mates. He is pretty fast!

Tyler made the first basket this past Friday night at the game. His cheering section went wild (me, Blake, Jamie and Madison). Although a few things have come up and I haven't been to every game, I really do enjoy going to the game and watching Tyler and Josh in action. It's fun to see them enjoying themselves.

A Great Day

On Nov. 21, 2009 one of our very best friends, Carla Miller, got baptized!! We are so excited for her and her family! She has been coming to church on and off for about a year. She started taking the discussions in October and decided to be baptized. She has such amazing faith.
Here she is with her beautiful family and of course the best missionaries in the world - Elder Stanfield and Elder Oslund. Here are the Martin/Millers....life is BETTER for the Millers! :) Inside joke with them...

Congratulations Carla!