I'm Dreaming of a Rainy Christmas!

Waaa...it's already over! We had a wonderful Christmas yesterday full of excitement and perfect weather. Here are the pictures to explain how our day went!

In the morning we opened gifts with my parents and siblings.
Here is Lane (aka Mr. Spoiled) with some of his goods.

the father with his prized orange hand cleaner

For the "grown ups" my parents do a money scavenger hunt.

Mom giving out instructions for da hunt

trying to gain lead

Us with the findings. Dang you Stephanie and Travis who

won the bonus AGAIN

Our parents thought we needed to be more musically

talented so they got us ROCK BAND. We played ALL

STINKIN DAY. I love this game (even though I only

managed an average of 80% on the guitar and drums. I

attempted vocals once to Eye of the Tiger and let's just say I

left the singing to Marcie:)

Not pictured: the father's world famous biscuits and gravy (these mashed potatoes

are so creamy) and mexican dinner.

In the afternoon we made our way over to the Goodmans for more amazing fun

and more spoiling. Our mexican lunch of course was soo yummy too.

I forgot to take pictures over there so here is a group shot

of the week before at our progressive dinner night.

Here is Lane this morning with his prized present. He

HAD to eat breakfast with it.

Thanks to everyone who made Christmas so much fun!

Zoo/Rain Lights!

We were treated to a beary fun night at the zoo lights for FHE with Papa and Grammy. The rain couldn't stop us from having a good time... it actually made it more fun! The kids even got to ride in Papa and Grammy's car. Thanks for a fun night!

I know everyone is digging my sexy pancho!

Lindbloms like to party! + Lot's O Lights!

Sunday was the traditional Lindblom Christmas dinner plus share your talent night. Our mexican feast was delicious and the talents were great! Mom, we are all SO SAD you couldn't come because were weren't able to perform our Soldier Boy dance that you had planned on us doing since summer:( Maybe next year another teenage boy with no life will make up another dance for us to jam too :)

Last night we went to hear Valerie's choir concert at the temple lights. The weather was perfect...even though I thought the random sprinkles were going to turn into a down pour and any given minute.

Let's see how many times it takes for someone to take our picture without cutting Lanes head off.
There we go!

Christmas party-hardy time!

Last week we were able to attend 2 very fun Christmas parties. First was our ward Christmas party which was extremely "JOY"full! I have to hand it to our activities committee for always going above and beyond to make such wonderful activities for us to go to. We are not the best at always attending these functions, but since this last one we have repented and will make sure to attend always! For crying out loud, you know it's going to be good when you walk in and the foyer is decorated like this:

We love our ward and are grateful for the friendships we have made over the past 2 years!

Last Sunday was the annual Udall cousin gift exchange. Sorry for the lack of pictures. I remembered my camera... but not the battery plugged into the wall at home. Thanks Marcie for yours! So maybe if some of you guys who attended would post about it ...then I could steal pictures off of your blogs (hint,hint).

Sara had Lane this year and how did she know that he would love a bat and baseball?

Today Casey had to work so I decided to take Lane to the mall and see Santa. Do you think I let him sit on his lap after seeing the prices it would cost to let him do that? Plus stand in the 30 minute line? You bet your bottom dollar I DIDN'T! My gosh, they might as well rob you. Since Lane doesn't understand the concept, I just pushed the stroller up to the fence and let him look. Well Santa started to wave at him, then he got up, walked over to us, said hi and shook Lanes hand and gave him a book he was handing out to the other kids. Melt my heart! Lane loves Santa and I'm sure he loves him even more now. That sure beat the price of a $20 4x6 any day!

What did the mamma turkey say to her naughty son?...

If your papa could see you now, he'd be turning over in his gravy. Haha ok sorry, but we did have a fun Thanksgiving! It was a 2 day event this year spent with my dad's side of the family at the Lindsey family reunion. But before the eating could begin we had to run the 10k turkey trot. Ok fine the 2 mile trot (next year Heather, the 10k is ON!).

This year it was a treat being able to eat our Thanksgiving meal at a stake center because we normally would have to go to Pioneer park (gross, ya I know). They had a fun jumper for the kids and the guys played MANY rounds of speed and it was nice being able to let the kids go free without having to watch them constantly.


Later that night we had a family dance. Yep, we do it the Arkansas way and dance with our cousins. I have been doing this my whole life. I do have to admit though that it is fun gettin jiggy with it.

Marcie dancing with our DJ. He grabbed her and just starting swing dancing with her. He is crazy good and starting flipping her all around and in the air.

My non dancing husband. This is all I could get out of him.

The kids tearing up the dance floor

Since a lot of people come from out of town for this reunion, they like to do a BBQ at the park the next day. Don't mind Lane and his no pants in some of these pictures. The first slide he decided to go down had water at the bottom and he got soaked. My sk8 or die brothers were also trying to teach me some of their skills.

Yeah for Thanksgiving and double yeah that Christmas is almost here now! I already set Christmas up last week but for some reason I have a rule that you can't listen to Christmas music till after Thanksgiving... I have problems I guess.