Christmas Prep 2011

Friends and Family Bowling Party 2011
It's a strange but very fun tradition we started about 4 or 5 years ago.... our Christmas Eve Bowling party with Friends and Family. It started out as a way to get together with our family friends, Brad and Laurie Nielson. Then Kurt married Michelle Parkinson so we invited the Rob and Tracey Parkinson family who are also our good friends. That bowling party was a spark that eventually got Chad Parkinson to ask out and marry our daughter, Brittany. Then we thought... this is so much fun we need our cousins the Reid and Cindy Fullmer family to come. Then Tiara married Blake Skidmore so we included their family. Treagan married Allie Willis and we also invited their family this year. We missed them but hope they'll be able to come next year. My sister Chantelle and her fun-loving 4 teenagers have moved to Rexburg so it was fun to have them join us this year, too. Thanks to Teton Lanes for letting us reserve half the bowling alley and bring lots of pizza and yummy holiday food in. It just turns out to be a fun way to gather with friends, get some exercise, get out of the house and let the families mingle.

This is some creative bowling by Duke, Cienna and Macoy, my sisters kids.




















The Queen of bowling and my friend of 21 years in Rexburg, Laurie
Nielson.














Rex and Konda- fun watching our family grow in leaps and bounds.















Chad, his little brother Keaton (who I used to babysit! and is now on Rex's 9th grade basketball team) and little Brynn.














Tiara, Marie Fullmer, little Aaron, and Nicole Fullmer Webb.















Dr. Josh, Nicole and Anna and lucky husband, Rob.
















Gary and Blake Skidmore. Gary has some pretty fancy moves on the bowling alley!



















Sweathearts, Treagan and Allie.


















Crazy, fun grandkids, Austin and Brooklyn.














My sister, Chantelle, and her 16year old daughter Cienna.
















Sorry about this pic, Britt....
Britt, Brynn, Tiara and little Aaron.















Kyle Nielson with Kurt and Michelle's daughter, Allie on his shoulders, Alec and Treagan.














Ben and Aubs - sweethearts.






















The pictures that follow are some of our
Christmas prep. The first is a picture of the plate of goodies I took around to some of my friends and neighbors. I made 20 plates and wish I could've made 20 more. I still missed some dear friends but I just ran out of time! The snowman and reindeer cookies were ideas from my addiction- pinterest. I also made Nanaimo Bars-a blast from my Canadian past. YuM, aye.
Pinterest is also where I got the idea to make Candy Cone Christmas trees instead of Gingerbread houses. Lots easier and fun for all ages. The last picture is Talon finding our stash of Christmas stockings for Santa to fill and deciding they needed to be worn like stockings!