The Rollo Crew: February 2011

Christmas Eve

I couldn't wait for Christmas Eve to come! Shad had to leave after the day after the Baugh Christmas party to get back to work. He was meeting up with us on Christmas Eve. YEAH!

Saying goodbye to Malad!

Broxy sharing a bowl of cereal with Aunt Z.

The kids can't get enough of Olin's rodeo stuff!

Our family tradition on the Whipple side is to eat lunch at Chuck-A-Rama on Christmas Eve. Always interesting.

Kyson with my cousin Brock.

The whole familia (minus Evan)!

We then make our way to Grandma Whipple's house. She always gives out books (she is a retired school teacher) and then one other present. The books are always a hit!!

Cheese!!!

Broxy is a present!

That night we made it to my parents house in Ephraim. We talked to Evan for almost 3 hours on Skype. It was so fun to see him and talk to him. I can't believe he is coming home in June!! He is working so hard in Fiji and we are so proud of him. He opened his Christmas presents in front of us and he gave us a package from Fiji. We all got Fiji snow hats... not sure why they need snow hats in Fiji?? We read the Christmas Story and played games all night. It was a great time!

This picture is by far my favorite!! Gotta love the Christmas Eve pajamas.

XOXO Melanie

Malad Idaho

After Scrooge we stayed over at my Grandma and Grandpa Baugh's house. We woke up to the most fantastic breakfast. My most favorite memories of Grandma Baugh are her morning breakfasts! We also played a bunch of games with them and then we headed up to Natalie's school in Tremonton. We helped her kids make gingerbread houses before they were out for Christmas break. Kyson loved being in "school" and now he won't stop talking about when he gets big he gets to go to Aunt Natalie's school.

We then made our way to Malad Idaho to see Natalie & Olin's land and rental home. We helped her paint her kitchen and dining room, made cinnamon rolls for neighbors, boys went clay pigeon shooting and we also pulled Olin out of the snow three different times in two different vehicles. Good times!

We also got to eat at one of the few restaurants there (population 2,100). It was a small house turned into a Mexican restaurant and of course it was AWESOME!!

Kyson posing... can you tell where he picks this up from? Note: see pics above.

Lovely.

Thanks for the fun time Natalie and Olin!

XOXO Melanie

Holiday's Continued...

After the Baugh Christmas Party we decided to go to a live Nativity. This was a first for our entire family and I would highly recommend it. We all LOVED it!

It was pretty cold and a little rainy but we were tuff.

Remember the sliding off the road incident and the Dad and teenage son who rescued us... he ended up being Caesar Augustus. Shad recognized him but couldn't say anything because it was a silent nativity. The world is so small... ok just Sanpete County is really small. LOL!

My career at it's finest!

Kyson loved the animals.

This room was of course the best part. They even had a real baby for baby Jesus. What a brave Mom to bring her newborn out in the freezing cold weather. They had a little heater behind them but that was it. I hope my kids could feel the Spirit there as much as I did.

You had to take a hay ride to get to the nativity... all part of the adventure.

A couple days later we woke up to this lovely snow storm. It dumped around 14 inches in 6 hours. The kids loved it!

Aunt Kenzie was nice enough to make a snowman with Kyson. He had been talking about this since before Thanksgiving! Thanks Aunt Z!

That day we drove to Orem for our annual Whipple play. My Grandma Whipple takes our entire family to a Christmas play every year. Every other year we go to Hale's Theater and watch The Christmas Carol. The older man that plays Scrooge is FANTASTIC and the other cast members are great too. It is a very small theater with the stage on the floor. This was my first time seeing it since we moved to Vegas. I was so excited that Kyson was old enough to see it with me. He didn't even get scared on the Bob Marley part.