Family Mosaic

I had a poster made of this for Robin for Christmas. It's pretty cool. If you want to make one for yourself, download the software at this website:
http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/

Christmas Tragedy

Olivia was screaming for help this afternoon. I ran into her room only to find Vince's lifeless body stuck in one of Garrett's toys. We think he climbed inside and Olivia killed him trying to get him out. We were all very sad. We had a little graveside ceremony in the snow behind the fence in the backyard. This picture is the last picture we have of him. Olivia took it with her new digital camera.

Merry Christmas!

Olivia got this doodle pet from Betsy's family. It goes great with another doll she has.We got Jennifer the Dragonology board game. She loves those dragons.

This is me trying to figure out what all these little green peices go to.
I figured out what the green peice things go to -- a whole bunch of other peice things that marbles roll down. Super fun!

Olivia got scrapbook supplies from Emily.

Garrett got a cool Magnetix monster toy from Grandma Doolittle.
Here Garrett is wearing his new Christmas outfit and his Texas Ranger star from Thomas.
Garrett showing off his army guys and Olivia running to get another present.
With Grandma Brunner's money, we got Olivia a Fairytopia Barbie (Jennifer's going to add a bit of paint to make her more modest.)

Christmas Visit

We had a really nice time with a bunch of people from my side of the family. We had 17 people sleeping at our house at some point. Considering all the people, the visit went really well. I'm posting a picture of Olivia's Christmas program. There was a goober child standing right in front of her that ruined most of the pictures.
We will have a bunch more photos soon after we get the film from our non-digital camera developed. Merry Christmas everybody!

We Wish You An Elfy Christmas

Robin's sister Emily sent us this cool website. To hear a special message from our kids, click the links:

Here's Olivia's.
Here's Garrett's.

Merry Christmas!

Temple Square

On Friday night, we went out with Jennifer, her friends Rowena, Nicolai, and Fatima, and 3 of their friends from West Virginia. We went to a Mexican restaraunt called the Red Iguana and then walked around Temple Square to see the lights. It was pretty cold, but not as cold as years passed. The people we went with weren't LDS and asked a few questions about the church. The lights looked pretty and it was really crowded. Our kids were really well behaved all night.

Olivia's School Picture

I finally got around to scanning Olivia's school picture. She's super cute, but we wish the photographer would have helped somewhat with pulling her hair back into the ponytail we sent her to school with.

Garrett

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree