WOW!! I hope everyone had as much fun on their Christmas break as we did! I haven't had time to even look at the computer for the past week, we have been having to much FUN!! We were lucky enough to have all of my siblings here in AZ. this year to celebrate Christmas. Counting my siblings (and spouses) and their children, there is a total of 48 of us plus two that are on missions, and one on the way! Talk about a house full, lucky enough we were all spread out between 5 homes. There has been a grand activity every single day! Sometimes two in one day. Kaden had tons of FUN with all his cousins, and so did I. As it seems, I rarely saw or heard him because he was always to busy following someone else around instead of me! I especially love it when Mark gets to stay home and PLAY to! Seriously I LOVE this time of year when we get to spend time with our family and most importantly get to celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. I love him, and it is a huge blessing to me to be able to be on the earth at this time, and in this place, with an amazing family!
From candy making, to caroling, quad riding, zip-line, bird hunting, shopping, hiking, paint ball, clay pigeon shooting, service projects, volley ball, and everything in between!! There are to many details, and I wasn't so good with picture taking (because I was busy playing), so I will just share a few pic's of some of the activities! I Love my FAMILY!! We have so much fun together. Thank you MOM and DAD for having so many kids, and then putting up with all of us!
Christmas Candy!
Christmas play
Family quad trip!
Yes, that is a sling shot.
Wow Mom, That's HOT!
Kaden doing what he does best.
This was probably the highlight of the holiday for me. A home maid ZIP-LINE! Probably because this is one thing we don't do often. Mark is so stinkin creative, I love it!!
Skousen family dinner. We had to reserve the church to hold the crowd! This is not everyone, but you get the feel. We also had a few games of some serious volley ball. To bad I don't have any pic's. It was quite the sight!
Bird hunting. Great face Mark!
6 comments:
Merry Christmas! Looks like you guys have been having a blast! How fun to have ALL your family here for Christmas - the zip line and quad riding looks like so much fun!
Are we for real! I just can't even believe all the things we got to do. It was so much fun even if I couldn't participate in half of it, it was stil so dang cool! Definately memories that will last forever.
How fun for you! Everybody is so grown up, I hardely recongnize anyone anymore!
Only Mark could concoct a homemade zip line. I hope he signed a life insurance policy before he took it for a spin. :)
How fun! I can't believe that you had all of the stuff you needed to make the zip line. Leave it to Mark to think of these things. I have some of the BEST memories with you guys and the creative things that we did on the weekends with them. Between Mark and Aaron we always had something to do.
I am only like 4 weeks along. I took the test yesterday. I am not someone who can keep it a secret for long. When is it your turn again??? Courtney and this next baby will be 2 years and a couple of weeks apart. I guess that is good spacing for an unplanned pregnancy. My girls are 2 1/2 years apart and I really liked it.
DANG! He looks like the Joker from BATMAN...scary ;-)
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