can't believe its almost march!  time has really flown by...guess that's a good thing, right?

 this is G with his cousin lily.  they came up from san antonio for a visit...

the week after christmas, the brothers and dad went to the BYU bowl game with jake's family...

little G was sick, so he and I watched the game from the living room...

 the weather was a hot 80-ish degrees!  everyone had layered up expecting "december like weather". poor gma & gpa were trying  to stay cool...

we rung in the new year as we always do...going to dinner with friends (without the kiddos) and then firecrackers in the driveway!  wild and crazy...we know!

here are the cragun brothers with the peterson brothers...

we also made our annual new years eve treats, "marshmallow firecrackers"...

for new year's day, we took the brothers miniature golfing and had a family home evening about setting goals...

we also finished completing our wall of pictures about the life of Christ...

HAPPY 2012!

ChRiStMaS!

we had a wonderful Christmas this year.  it was so nice to have jake's parents, brother and grandma helen come to celebrate with us and it is always nice to have a set of cousins just down the road to share it with as well.
jake's presents brought with them (from viriginia) their famous wind-up toy collection.  they have been collecting them since they were first married and have a tradition of winding them all up on christmas eve.  since they took their "show" to each of the grandkids' homes (we all live in texas) we called it "the wind-up tour 2012".

since their are so many photos to share from our christmas, i just put together a little slide show of them all...

some more of our christmas fun...

we (or should i say i) had a lot of fun with our elf on the shelf this year...

we always try to make an effort to really focus on christ.  its nice to see the boys eagerness to do the same as they get older.  we had a wonderful holiday learning and sharing the joy of our savior and look forward to a great 2012.