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One of our favorite traditions is making caramel wrapped chocolate dipped pretzel rods...YUMMY! It's kind of hard to give them away because we all love to EAT them so much. Each year we make about 150 of them. Just wrapping the caramel takes about 1 1/2 hours...but it is SO worth it!
One of our other favorite traditions is making our gingerbread house and decorating it...stained glass windows and all! Sarah, Josh, Jace, and Carter also bring their house and we do it together. This year Morgan's friend, Savannah, also joined us!
My sister, Brittany, was also there. SO glad to have her! Grandma and grandpa Bybee also came (they are the ones who started this!). We LOVE it!
Colton LOVES taking care of Carter. If Carter starts crying, Colton races to comfort him.
C'mon Morgan...give me a kiss!
After gingerbread houses, Kyle and Jace curled up to watch a Disney Christmas special. Those two are like brothers. Kyle relishes the opportunity to be a big brother (being the youngest, he's never had that opportunity). He is SO good with Jace. They have a BLAST together.
I had the opportunity to chaperone Kyle's class field trip to the Arizona Science Center. I had been there before with his class last year and we had a blast! We were both looking forward to going again.
This was the outdoor area with all kinds of gadgets to play with water and balls. They could have stayed out there for hours...but there was a ton more to see!
This machine let the kids have a tug-o-war using pulleys (one side consistently beat the other). I love the intense look on Kyle's face here.
This lady was teaching the kids about how water and oil make different things happen to a clear rod when placed inside. In one of them, it looks like the rod completely disappears. The kids were amazed! (me too!)
This race car was built entirely out of Legos! The kids thought that was awesome.
There were so many other things we got to see and do. That place is so much fun for kids and adults alike!! I especially enjoyed going because I got to spend the day with my Kyle!!
I LOVED how our annual photoshoot turned out this year! It was really hard to pick which ones to use in our Christmas card. For the shots with me in them, I brought my camera, put it on a tripod, fixed all the settings the way I wanted them, then gave the wireless remote to my mom, then had her keep pushing the button to make sure we had several shots to choose from in case anybody closed their eyes. All other shots I took handheld.
Morgan wanted a non-smiling shot. It's cute, but I love her SMILE!
I like this shot of Kyle because it totally so his mischievousness!
Kyle asked if he and I could do some shots of us kissing each other. I'm so glad he made the suggestion. I LOVE THEM (and HIM!). My mom had left by this point, and I had put my tripod away, so I picked the settings and had Bryan snap these for me. He did great!
Bryan took this one too!
Silly Bryan - he LOVES playing Mr. GQ.
LOVE this look. Totally his, "I know something you don't know" look.
I kept asking Colton to tell me about the cute girls in his class. He wouldn't give any details away, but I got a lot of mileage with his grins out of it.
I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!
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