Snow Day

The monday after Chelsea's wedding (December 29th). A bunch of us went up to Mount Lemon to go sleding.

Here are a couple video's of Nate.

Will, Sandy and their kids
Sandy got a couple snowballs thrown at her.
Kanela the eskimo.
No one loves the snow more than Zackary, he was a trooper!
This was Gabi's first experience in the snow. Here's a video of her 2nd time down the mountain, the first wasn't so pretty. I'm having a hard time deciding if she is screaming for her life, or if she is enjoying herself. I'm leaning toward screaming for her life. ha ha. Good job Gabi!



Not everyone was happy by the time we left, but overall it was tons of fun. There are some other videos on Sandy's blog also.

Chelsea and Lamar

Chelsea and Lamar were sealed in the Mesa Temple on December 27, 2008. It was a beautiful day but it was freezing outside!!! I wore Nate's suit coat the whole day, except when we were taking pictures.

Zackary was cold, so he got in his sisters car seat. It's incredible that a 3 year old can fit in there!
Michael
Jacob, what a cutie!

Everyone was clapping for me when I came out of the temple.

The newlyweds. They make such a good looking couple!

The only person missing from this photo is Keree, Nolan's wife. We were all laughing at him cause he had to kneel down in front like a single guy. We also had my great uncle show up to the wedding we weren't expecting it. He was very photogenic. One of these days I'll learn how to stand up straight, I hate this picture of me, oh well!
The sisters. It kills me that all of our hair is the same color. I'm going to have to do something about that!

Afterwords we went to a luncheon. We got some cute pictures of Kanela Rose. The only reason she is happy in this picture is because, she was just fed and she didn't know that I was the person holding her! ha ha. She likes who she likes and I'm not her first pick.

She loves Nate on the other hand. She won't hesitate to go to him if I have her. He says he "conqured the beast" because he was able to put her to sleep a few times over the week. He loves that little girl!
The reception was the same night, so as soon as the luncheon was over we had to hurry to Tucson to set up for the reception. It was a fun party. There was lots of good food, dancing and partying.
I love how Chelsea has a huge knife in her hand as she's feeding Lamar. I'm just glad he was nice, the outcome could have been pretty gruesome. ha ha!

Their first dance.
Lamar's brother Ryan wrote a song for the newlyweds. It was really good too. Lamar comes from a very talented family. They all sing.
Chelsea and Dad
Karli and Zackary, how cute is that!
Karli has started a tradition with Bryan's wedding. She has become good buddies with the DJ, and he gives her the mic whenever she asks for it. She sang a song for Chelsea and Lamar that she made up on the spot. It was random, but hillarious. We love that girl, she keeps us laughing!
Nate was in charge of decorating the car, so I didn't see him too much that night, and we didn't get too many pictures cause he had the camera. Oh well, the next weekend we went to their open house in Thatcher. Here are some pictures from that.

Sandy and Will

Daniel and his best friend Seth

Bryan and Gabi

Karli loved to pose with Chelsea's veil on, she wore it almost the whole night.

They weren't so nice the 2nd time around.

Chelsea and Sam

Chelsea and Will

Chelsea and Seth

Time to party!

We're doing the YMCA

It was crazy but we had such a fun time with all the wedding stuff.

CHRISTMAS!!!!!

We spent Christmas in Tucson (of course). This year we spent it with the Andersons but we got to spend some time with the Williams family on Christmas Eve. We had a gingerbread house making contest. It was tons of fun, Nate and I atempted to make the "not so white" white house. It came complete with a hot tamale president and everything. Here's Nate eating our house.

Nate's parents made a TP I think they won the competition. Very creative.

And Carli and Kristin made a guitar. We were baffled the whole night thinking they were making a tissue box, but after they added the guitar strings it actually looked like a guitar. Good stuff.
And just to top off the night Nate challenged his mom to a leg wrestling match. They played about a dozen times and I think Nate won like 3 of those matches. I had some recoreded on my camera but some how they got deleted......hmm I wonder who did that?! The only video left from that night was the last match that Nate won. It was a pretty hillarious sight to see. Go Kelly, she kicked her 24 year old son's butt!!

Christmas morning was so exciting, almost everyone was there. The only people missing were Nolan and his wife, and Chelsea and Lamar. But Chelsea and Lamar showed up later that day. The best part of the whole thing was watching the neices and nephews open their presents. Nate spoiled me big time this year. I got way more than I was expecting. My husband is too good to me. Some pajama pants I got from Santa

Sunny and I made my mom a photo book of all her kids. We had a good time making it.

Daniel

Michael, all the boys got track suits from Santa.

And no Christmas would be complete unless Zackary got some sort of weapon.

I didn't get any pictures of Nate this year, he's the picture taker in our family. He had some sweet hair too! Dang.

Chelsea's Bridal Shower

We had Chelsea's Bridal shower on December 15th. It was so much fun and we had a great turn out. Here are some pictures of the night.

We played the "how well do you know Lamar" game and after every question she got wrong Chelsea had to put a piece of gum in her mouth. Let's just say we chose some really hard questions. It was pretty nasty!

The man of the night. Baby Daniel.

Maggie made Chelsea some beautiful jewelry that she wore for her wedding.

You can't get married two days after Christmas and not expect some kind of Santa lingerie. ha ha.

Thanksgiving

Well, this is really delayed but we had a great Thanksgiving this year. We spent the holiday in Flagstaff this year at Jamie's house. We had a ton of fun getting together with the Williams'. I actually did a little cooking this year, I was pretty proud of myself. I was incharge of the ham (it was precooked, but I did have to glaze it and put it in the crockpot). And I made an apple pie, and jello salad. All the food turned out great, and there were TONS of leftovers. We had Thanksgiving dinner the whole weekend. It was so good!!!

Nate got his game on. We played a lot of XBOX 360, and Wii. We don't have a game system so hopefully he played enough video games to last him a while!
On friday Jamie set up a time for us to go volunteer at the local food center. We served dinner to those who needed it. It was so much fun to do some service, it had been a long time since Nate and I got out and did something like that. It's such a great experience to be able to help such humble people. Everyone was very grateful.

Saturday we did some family canning. My mother-in-law brought the home canning machine, and tons and tons of food and cans. We canned rice, oats, wheat, apple slices, and fruit drink mix. We ended up coming home with more than 4 boxes of of canned food. It's a great start for our year supply, and we are so grateful to my in-laws for helping us out with that!

The whole weekend was so much fun. We loved playing with out neices and seeing the family. Carli wasn't able to come (she's in Hawaii, boo-hoo) but she'll be here for Christmas. Thank you for the great weekend Morriss family!!!

HAPPY 24TH NATE!!!!!