Christmas Morning

Merry Christmas

Spoiled

My brothers

Thr train our family traditio

Santa gifts

Tyler when I suprised him with a trip to Vegas the week of his birthday! I guess I was able to top the suprise party after all! =0)

Every Christmas Tyler and I spend the night at my parents and all of us kids sleep in the same room. My mom waits until the little boys are in bed alseep before she brings out all the presents so its more of a suprise. My favorite part of Christmas is Christmas Eve dinner. My mom's tradition growing up was that her parents made Mexican food for dinner and my mom has kept that tradition going. I love it and plan to keep it going in my home as well. It's not Christmas if you dont have Mexcian for Christmas Eve dinner.

Christmas with Tyler's Family- December 22nd

Tyler's dad Chuck in shock that he got a new big screen TV for Christmas

Tyler's grandma

He was so excited!

Tyler's sister Emily's goodwill present

Tyler's mom's goodwill present- the best find ever!

Forever 5

I love my Viva La Juciy

Since Tyler's schedule is so random and his parents live in Yakima we cant do holiday's with them on the day. So this year we went the weekend before to have Christmas. I love going there at that time of year because there is always snow!

Tyler's family's traditions are so fun. Every year Tyler's mom goes to goodwill and buys the uglyest clothes she can find and wrap them with hidden money or gift cards in it. This year we decided to get them back and we went out and found the uglyest clothes we could find!

His family also puts silly string in everyone's stockings and when they are all done opening presents they have a huge silly string fight. It gets everywhere. It's great!!!

Family fun snowball fight

The boys getting there snowballs ready

Lola looking over the deck at the snowballs being thrown. She LOVES the snow!

Tyler throwing snowballs at the boys from the deck

My dad

Kjellden after he was beemed in the face with a snowball

Tyler making snowballs as lola trys to eat themMy dad getting ready to nail Tyler with a snowball

This year was the best when it came to the snow. We got so much it was crazy-for around here! On this night Tyler, my dad and my little brothers all had a huge snowball fight. They were out there for hours. The fight didnt stop until after midnight. They had so much fun!

Thanksgiving

Uncle Doug cutting the trukey

Tyler trying to sneak a bite

Kjellden

Cousin Cullen and Grandpa

Thanksgiving is always the best but my favorite is looking at the ads and getting ready for the big shopping trip the next morning.

Happy 25th Birthday Kjaersti

Tyler had to work the morning of my birthday so my mom asked if she could take me to lunch and then the mall to get a birthday present. Little did I know that when Tyler got home from work he was rushing to straighten up the house from the party the night before to throw me a surprise party with my friend Amanda. I have such a wonderful husband. I dont know how I'm going to be able to top this for his birthday!

Halloween

Every Halloween my family gets together, has dinners and then goes trick or treating. This year we decided to have it at our house. Tyler decorated the outside of our house, he made grave stones had spider web and strob lights going with scary music. It looked really cool! Our neighborhood was very dark and we were pretty much the only family out there which kinda sucked. Its sad how no one really trick or treats anymore I remember how much fun it was to trick or treat as a kid and the neighborhoods were always packed with kids running from house to house. But most of the neighbors handed out king sizes candy bars so the kids were really excited about that!

Halloween at my house has always been more for the kids the adults never really dressed up but this year Rian -Tyler's friend- decided he was going to dress up. My family was SHOCKED when they saw what he decided to be! lol

September

One thing Tyler and I love to do is drive to Long Beach and visit Tyler's family. We go for long weekends and just relax and play at the beach.

August 2nd

My cousin Kristen came to stay with my parents for the week so Tyler and I decided to take her all around Seattle. We went to a park in Ballard for a BBQ then drove around Seattle and Washington University. We had a great time.

4th of July

My mom doing the BBQ

The parents watching the concerts at the lake

The 4th of July is one of my favoirte holiday's every year we go to my parents to have a big BBQ. We start the day going to the Indain reservation to load up on our fireworks then we go to the lake for some fun activities. Come back eat and light fireworks the rest of the night. This year was a little different because we ended up charging people to come park at my parents for the lake firework show. We earned the 90 bucks we spent on our fireworks back in 20 minutes. I think this might have to be a new tradition. :)

Federal Acadamy

May 12-the 30th Tyler went to Georgia to attend Federal Acadamy. It was hard to be away from each other for that long but lucky we knew it was coming. We were able to move out of our apartment and in with my parents for a couple of months. I did not want to be home alone during those weeks so everything worked out perfect.

While Tyler was away he got to learn new things but he also got to play! One weekend him and his roommate drove to Florida and went to Universal Studios, Nasa, and nice fun restraunts. Needless to say I was pretty jealous. ;0)