Christmas 2009

We decided that it was about time to start making gram cracker houses again. Next time I will have to remember to get more candy since I couldn't keep the kids (and adults) from eating it all. Of course we had our extended family (the Goodworths) over to join us in the fun.

Caden thought it might be fun to be the Christmas tree this year. At the annual Hyer Christmas Eve party we had a great time as always. We played the candy bar game. As you can see it was just as fun and crazy as all of our get togethers. This year we missed Darren's Family, Jared's Family, and Leilani (she was sick, boo).
We had an awesome Christmas this year. Caden and Holly got Snow boards. Emilie and Talon got skis. Jeff got a big screen TV (thanks to his parents buying a new flat TV,yea!). Ports was loaded with lego's and Brin got a new baby doll and some other fun toys.

Our Christmas party with the Collins Family fell on New Years Eve. Grandma Collins planned all kinds of fun activities. I wish I would have got a picture of our scrabble game... We split up into 3 teams and we each were given a box of scrabble cheese nips. It was a fun and yummy game. I have to add that Mine and Jeff's team won! We also decorated cookies, played pictionary, band hero, and exchanged presents. This year we had an especially great year doing Christmas for a very deserving and wonderful family. When Stephanie gave a report of delivering the presents with Santa, there wasn't many dry eyes in the room. I am pretty sure this will become our new family tradition.

Grandma made sure that we had plenty of noise makers to bring in the new year right.

We missed Corey's Family this year.