White Christmas (PICTURE OVERLOAD!!!)

Well, it never fails that anytime we need to travel for the holidays we get pounded with snow, so 2 days before we were trying to leave for Mtn. View, this is what we woke up to

Its hard to tell but there is about 8 inches of snow, and it continued to dump 2 more inches at least that day! Fortunately we caught a break in the storm action and made it out of Laramie Wednesday night. That night we just hung out at my parents house and relaxed after the long drive. Devin, Amy, and Cameron came over that night, this was Devin's first time to see Kyri he was so cute holding her and he is going to be the cutest dad when their little one gets here this spring! The next day was just a nice lazy day, we got to relax and visit with family and everything. Mom and dad ran to Evanston to do some last minute shopping, so everyone went sledding while they were gone. My dad has this strange habit of having projects on the ranch whenever everyone is home for the holidays, fortunately this year there was no butchering cows, instead we got to haul cows down from the bench to our house. Mtn. View got pounded with snow as well, and the snow plows were late getting on the roads so we got to haul 10 loads of cows on crappy roads (like 2 inches of ice and then snow on top of that). My brothers were not very happy about having to haul cows on Christmas Eve, but I somehow convinced them to help :) I know my dad really appreciated the help! That afternoon we had the Davis family Christmas party with my moms family... MEXICAN FOOD! It was so yummy and so much fun to see everyone... we played dirty santa, and there were some real winners haha.. I think my aunt Sallee gets the prize for the worst gift! Kyri looked so cute in her outfit, her shirt says, "All mommy wants for Christmas is a SILENT NIGHT" :) Surprisingly I think she only woke up once that night so I got my present!

Kyri sitting in my moms massage chair, I think she liked it :) This Christmas was a little unique for my family, my parents decided to do 7 days of Christmas with the last day being Christmas Eve, they gave us all 1 present a day for a week before Christmas and on Christmas Eve they invited all of the Grandkids to come over and open their present from Grandpa and Grandma... well I guess my dad got caught up in the spirit of Christmas that night or something because he proceeded to pull pretty much every present out from under the tree and hand them out to open that night!! This coming from Mr. Grinch! Growing up we were NEVER allowed to open presents before Christmas.. that went out the window this year! So Christmas morning there were only mine, Michael, and Kyri's presents to open and a couple presents for my mom and dad that we made them wait to open.

She looks a little bit excited! I think she will love Christmas this next year, we just got her a cartoon and a Baby's first Christmas ornament :)

This was my big present this year, I have wanted a jewelry armoir for a while now and Michael got one for me... he did an AMAZING job wrapping it I never would have guessed what it was ;)

Getting ready to go to breakfast with the Walkers, my dad's side of the family, our families are too big so for Christmas Eve we go to the church in Mtn. View, and for breakfast we go to the stake center in Urie.

Cute little family, Devin, Amy and Cameron, and ???? I want his name to be Keaton, Kaden or Jaxon :) I guess we'll find out in a couple months.

Cameron and Paxton, two peas in a pod! That afternoon we went over to my Grandma Davis's house for her famous homemade chicken noodles!!! We got spoiled! Then my dad needed help feeding the cows.. Corbin decided he had "seen enough cows for the day" so he didn't want to go and since it was Christmas, no one wanted to go help so I volunteered. We got up to the bench and look what we found in the stack yard...They were fearless! There was a pretty big buck in there with them too, but I couldn't get a picture of him he was hiding on the other side of the round bales.

When we got done feeding the cows we got home and it was time for a nice dinner with just my family. We had a nice turkey and lots of yummy food and dessert to go with it! We had everyone there but Brynn's family and Jeremy's family (they were sick :(...).

My dad holding Kyri

McKinzee holding Kyri, she is getting so grown up!

Paxton was so cute he wanted to hold Kyri everyday, but she was cranky every time he would ask so we finally found a time where he could hold her! He was so happy!

Olivia, Zaylee Jo, and Kyri... she is hiding :)

My dad with little Porter Davis Mabey. We were so happy that Jordan and David could come up from Salt Lake for a few hours on Christmas day and see everyone! I finally got to meet little baby Porter! He is such a little doll and we are so happy that he is home from the hospital and thriving! He is so darn cute, he pooped on me and I couldn't even be mad he is such a sweet baby! We were sad we didn't get to see a lot of my brother Jeremy and his family because he had to work and his kids were sick with RSV and such, so they opted to stay away from the little babies but we did get to see them at the big family gatherings.

Little Kannen, he was such a hoot... we don't know why, but he was enthralled with walking around with hands in his pockets.. he is such a little farmer at heart already.. all he can talk about is "tra-ders" (tractors). He loves Michael.. he isn't so fond of me .. that will change though :) All the rest of the pictures are the beautiful "White Christmas" that we had.. we woke up to a little bit of fog and all the beautiful frost on the trees! It was so beautiful especially when the sun finally came out so I had to take pictures with my new camera :)

This is probably my favorite picture so far of Kyri and I :) We made it back to Laramie safe and I had to work all that next week. For New Years we babysat for another couple because they had to go help with a stake dance for the young men and young women, we still had fun, but New Years isn't really a huge deal for us anyways so it was ok :) It is my birthday here in a few days and I can't believe I will be 22! So OLD!!! Haha I never thought I would have a wonderful husband and beautiful baby girl at this point in my life but I am so glad that I do, I can't imagine life without them! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!