Saturday, January 17, 2009

Finally Christmas #3

***BEWARE, IT'S A LONG POST***
We spent about a week in Las Vegas for Christmas with the Payzant clan. 
We had a wonderful time being all together, it's been years since the whole family has been together. We had a great time playing games, watching the kids play together, eating good food and catching up on old times. That's kind of a tradition in our family, retelling stories and making them even more dramatic than they probably were. 
Kira, Aden, Kamber and Ayva
Aden, Ayva, Kira and Kamber doing a puzzle on the pool table. Silly kids!
The grandkids stockings.
Here's grandpa making a baby Jesus puppet show for the kids.
Kamber, Kira and Aden hanging out.
Aunt Brittany and Cheyenne.
Some of the clan hanging out together.
Ayva and Brampton checking out the Christmas decorations at the M&M Factory. We took a little tour of the factory, only it wasn't operational while we were there. Outside they had a Christmas light trail but we where there during the day so we didn't get the whole affect.
Some of the peeps waiting for the rest of the peeps to get souvenirs. We were excited for Vegas to enjoy some warm weather but with our luck it was cold there too. 
This work of art is 100% chocolate, as you can see from that lovely pink sign.
(Left to Right) Cardston, Grandpa, Cheyenne and Aunt Britt(hiding).
Here's Uncle Mike making one of the yummy dinners, take a look at how it turned out (below).
YUMMY!!!
I thought the cans tied in well with the theme of Christmas.
A Payzant family tradition. All the grandkids getting matching PJs.
Aden, Grandpa, Ayva, Kamber, Brampton, Grandma, Addison and Kira.
Not pictured Kendi, Cardston and Cheyenne.
This is Cheyenne and Addison. Addison is 1 1/2 and Cheyenne is about 1. Cheyenne is like twice as big as her, if you saw them in real life you would be amazed. Addison is a tiny little thing, it was so fun watching her do things.
Kamber, Ayva, Josh and Kira. They just wanted to sit on his lap, all of them.
Aden, Kira, Ayva and Kamber jumping on the bed, none fell off and bumped their head.
This is Christmas Eve night.
Santa came!!!
Grandpa with his puppet show. He put a lot into those puppets.
Ayva, Kira, Kamber, Aden and Brampton waiting for breakfast.
For those of you who don't know, Ayva looooooooooves Lightning McQueen!!!
Everyone opening gifts. What a mess!!
One of the many nights of games.
grandpa(standing in the purple shirt), Evan(hiding), Brandon, Annie, Leisel, Steph and grandma's head.

Grandpa and Grandma and all the grandkids.
Kira, Aden, Kamber and Brampton playing around while we were taking pictures.

7 comments:

janelle said...

Fun!! What are Josh and Cheyenne looking at? Oh, and I LOVE dutch oven dinners! You're so lucky!

kelley said...

What a fun, fun Christmas. How is the new house?

Nat said...

Looks like fun! That is funny that everyone wanted to sit on Josh's lap!

abb said...

Josh is a real babe magnet, isn't he? It looks like you had a very fun Christmas.

Stephanie said...

Fun pictures. I enjoyed seeing what pictures you had captured!

Steven said...

It looks like it was a fun Christmas. Since we can't see you in person it was fun to see a few moments in time you captured. It reminds me of when that was us. Except we were the little ones.

Teranne said...

What a bunch of cute kids!