Christmas with the Cosby's

A few days after Christmas, my whole family was in Utah for little Luke's baby blessing.  We had a second Christmas. Here a few pictures of our second Christmas...

Thanks to the Grossen's for hosting!

Oh how she loved her "Minmie" toy!

A new big boy basketball hoop!

A box of popcorn for Sophs...she takes after her grandma and loves popcorn!

Deeds' bag of Coach's Oat...wooo!

Amy got a new blanket just the one she loves at my parent's house.

Thanks to Deeds, the Duck D beards were well represented this Christmas.

Amy and Dan got Gorilla Racks for their garage.

Isn't Wy guy the cutest!?

Way more interested in the tissue paper than his new toys!

Kara was shocked and overjoyed to get her first Kitchen Aid!

A picture of Ronald Reagan to add to the Lincoln bedroom at home.

Christmas cousins!

Here are a bunch of randoms from the weekend...

We had a lot of Avengers time.  Between all the cousins, I think we have them all covered except Thor.

I just adore this baby!

Mom working on her Christmas puzzle!

One night we decided to play a dancing game on the Kinect.  It was hilarious.  Watch Ryan's moves...

It makes me laugh so much!

And here is the Lukester on his blessing day...

So happy to have this little boy in our family!!

Sydnee and Ryjul's Wedding

Two days after Christmas, James' oldest niece got married.  It is so crazy to see how different our families are in the niece/nephew department.  With me being the oldest and James being the youngest, most of his nieces and nephews are all grown up and becoming teenagers and young adults.  All my nephews and niece haven't even started kindergarten yet.  That just means we have years and years and years ahead of missions, weddings, graduations, etc.  So fun!
Sydnee and Ryjul were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.  It was so beautiful!  We are so happy for them!

The bride and groom!

Hilary (niece), Taylor (nephew), and Wendy (sister-in-law)

Aubrey (niece) and Sydnee

Siblings!  So cute!

Sydnee with her parents (Melanie and Byde)

Sydnee with her grandparents (Randall and Sondra)

It may have been just a wee bit frigid!  I wore two scarves!

Hurray for wedded-ness!

After the sealing, we went to a luncheon in Woods Cross.  I got to spend some quality time with this cutest little munchkin!

Isn't she just a doll face?!

That night we went to the reception at a beautiful old church building in downtown Salt Lake.  The sealing, luncheon, and reception were all gorgeous!  After just having planned a wedding ourselves, we really appreciated all the work that Sydnee, Melanie and everyone involved did for this special day.  We wish them the very best!
P.S.  Try not to mention to James that he has a niece that is married...it makes him freak out! :)

Our First Christmas

I was so excited to celebrate our first Christmas together!  This was my first Christmas not being with my family.  I thought I was going to be super homesick and sad, but it turns out that I wasn't at all.  No offense mi familia!  I woke up approximately 103 times during the night and couldn't wait for it to be morning!  Finally I woke James up at 6am and said we had to start Christmas!  James family has a tradition of taking a family picture in the hallway with everyone lined up behind each other.  Here is our picture...

See those two cute advent calendars?!  They were so fun!

That elf advent calendar seen in the picture above had little treats and presents in each little pocket for me from James.  It was so exciting to have a little present every morning in December...especially when the little present were my favorite See's candies!  James arranged it so that I would turn over the last piece of our Nativity advent calendar...baby Jesus! 

My family has a tradition where there is a present from Santa (usually unwrapped but I forgot to give James...I mean Santa...that memo) sitting out by our stuffed stockings.  It was so fun blending some of both of our family's traditions and starting some of our own! 

Chariots of Fire...bought this for him at Costco with him right there.  He had forgotten we bought it.  Yippee!

French cuffed shirt and cuff links.

James got me this stunning camel's hair coat.  Love!

He also got me this fancy bottle of balsamic vinegar.  He knows my love of vinegar well and balsamic is my fav!

A food tradition from my family is the tea ring...basically a ring of cinnamon rolls.  This tradition had to be passed on!

A new food tradition we started is bacon.  Every Christmas morning from here on, we will eat bacon.  And not the cheap-o bacon you buy in a box, but the bacon you buy from the butcher.  Yummm!

After we opened presents and ate our breakfast feast, we headed over to Dedo's for a Christmas visit.  I sure love her!  We love going to her house and talking and telling stories.  I got to see a member of my family after all!  All my Wright cousins were there too so it was really fun. 

Then we headed to James' parent's house for the rest of day.  It was a wonderful Christmas day!