What I Left Out...

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Well I have posted about all our fun Christmas activities but left out what was going on; on the off days! It was nice seeing friends and family that were in town. I got to spend time with these gals whom I have known pretty much my whole life (starting in 7th grade). Jessica lives in Pittsburgh while her husband is in dental school and of course my sis Stephanie came to visit for 22 days! I love these girls to death and have so many fun, crazy, weird memories with them. Some that defiantly need to stay locked up. I look back and think "did we actually do that". No really, I could do a whole post on just that. It is crazy to think that we are all moms now and hopefully have matured out of our wild days. I am sure when our kids are teenagers we will sit and think "where did we go wrong".



I LOVED spending time with my mom and sisters. Marcie is back from EA so it was nice having all the girl power back under one roof again! We went to lunch at Crackers and stayed till closing hours, just chatting away.


Lane was happy to have Collin here. He gets sad every time he asks to see him and I have to tell
him Collin had to go home. Then it leads into the usuall,
Lane: why?
Me: Because he lives where it snows far away on an airplane.
Lane: Airplane? Tollin go on airplane?
Me: Yes.
Lane: Lane go on airplane?
Me: No. Lane not go on airplane till he's 10 and old enough to appreciate the vacation we are about to partake of.
Lane: huh?
Me: ya, that's what I thought
It was crazy to see how much he had grown since our CA vacation this past summer. Pretty soon he will be running around with Lane, peeing in my parents backyard.


Going to see the SQUEAKUEL was a MUST! Defiantly buying that one when it comes out on dvd! Casey missed the family outing due to higher priority activities (go suns). My dad filled his shoes pretty well.

I only have one picture of this but Fairview Cir. made it's annual trip out to the desert for quad riding and socializing. My parents have the best neighbors.

This past Sunday we blessed our Rusty boy! I can't believe he is already six weeks old. I cry every time I think about how fast he is growing up. It was a wonderful yet busy day. We are so thankful for all our family members who came to show their love and support to our sweet boy!

Lane also had a very big day graduating from nursery to SUNBEAMS! He did great. When I went to pick him up from his class room he was all smiles and couldn't wait to tell me all about it. He showed me his crown and said "look mom, I'm Cinderella". Let's not say that too loud now son.

That evening we had a get-together at my parents in honor of Rusty. We had scrumptious cobblers, texas sheet cake, homemade ice cream and hot chocolate. Of course we also had some intense Kan Jam competitions going on. I even think our family is going pro with it:)

We are so thankful for our little Rusteeze. He truly makes me the happiest mom. He has been a trooper being put on the back burner through all of the craziness that the holidays can bring. What a blessing it is to have him in our home.

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It really has been an eventful past few weeks ...but well worth it! There is nothing better than being with the people you love most. Before I know it, Christmas will be rounding the corner once again. I better go take a nap!

Picture Perfect!

Rusty was able to have little photo shoot with aunt Bre while she was in town for Christmas!

She is an amazing photographer...obviously as seen below. Breanna has her

own photography business as well. She also took some stinkin cute pictures of Lane,

Rusty and Collin so we could give some grand kid pictures to my mom for Christmas.

Just had to share some with you!

ChRisTmAs DaY... Hip Hip HoOrAy!

What a lovely Christmas day we had! This year Lane was very understanding of the whole Santa Clause thing, which meant we had to buy a few presents for underneath our tree. Lately Lane has been sleeping in till about nine, nine thirty. Since we needed to be out the door and to my parents at 8, he had to be woken up a bit early then normal. We opened his door so he could hear some noise...wasn't working so well. From the living room we start yelling " Lane, time to wake up". Nothing. " Time to go to Mema and Pepa's". Nothing. "I see some presents under the tree, did Santa come". Out of the quietness of his room we hear (in his deep Lane voice) HUH. Yep, did the trick! It took a whole 5 minutes for him to open the 3 gifts we bought him, then it was off to our parents!

My mom is very creative. Instead of our usual scavenger hunt for the adult gifts, she made up a question answer game to win our Christmas money this year.

Stephanie and Travis are trying to keep us up with the East coast. They are hooked on this game called Kan Jam so they got it for my parents.

Aunt Sunni let Rusty borrow one of Gunner's Christmas outfit's. He looks really cute in it and totally lives up to the saying's that were all over it. You can't see them but on the front it said Silent Night? and on the back ,Up All Night! We are getting better though:)

We had fun over at the Goodman's too!

Stephanie and Bryant gave to us this year. Casey loving his new work gloves and me excited about the fact that his dry callist hands won't be scratching me anymore! Grammy and Papa also got some fun new things for their backyard.

We are so fortunate to have all our family close by. I know I take that for granted sometimes but we truly feel blessed to be apart of such wonderful families!

Last but not least, my two cute Christmas boys at the end of a long, fun day.

We hope your Christmas was as MeRrY as ours!

Christmas Catch Up!

Boy do the holidays bring on some craziness! We like being busy so having it be Christmas busy makes it even better. This past weekend has been FULL of Christmas FUN! Party's almost every night, spending time with the people you love most can sure put you in the Christmas SPIRIT!

Here is Rusty doing what he loves... laying on the kitchen counter top starring down the cabinets. Uncle David decided to join him.

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Annual Lindblom party at my parents

After our yummy mexican dinner we had a program. Our talent was singing the hymn "Oh Say What Is True" that my parents and siblings memorized. It's a really hard song. In the first verse I have no idea what every other word means. Lane also got up with Mema and sang Jingle Bells which is his favorite Christmas song.


"Dashing through the snow, on a trailer full of hay, over the culdesac we go, laughing all the way"


not the best pic of me but Rusty looked too cute to not post it



Partay #2... Udall Cousin gift exchange!
Lane got a gift from Addison this year. How did she know a bat and baseball are some of his favorites:)


The married grand kids do a white elephant exchange. We brought a sam's club economy sized bag of Nestle's chocolate chips with flour and sugar to go along with it. We got Costa Vida gift cards in return, YEEES!!

Goodman Progressive Dinner!

To start the night off we went to Stephanie and Bryant's for hot chocolate and sing and dancing to the Santa Poky! (you put your santa beard in you put your santa beard out... super cute!)

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Few more days till Santa comes! Merry Christmas from our blog to yours!