Cub Scouts - January 2012

 Dave was called to be the Cub Scout Master in our ward.  It's really fun for Josh to have his dad so involved, and he seems to be really liking Scouts so far!

 Josh's Wolf Den

Getting an award at Pack Meeting

January 2012

 We spent most of January playing the DS and painting our toenails, but we did manage to get some family pictures taken while Uncle Kelly was in town.

 Clara and Josh

 The Totten Family

Christmas 2011 - Dear Santa

 Dear Santa - I want L-Drago this year and please give me a DS for Christmas.  I really want those two things.  Senirly, Josh

 Santa's Reply

 Cute kiddos coming down the stairs Christmas morning

 Digging into the stockings

 Josh gets a Marble Run!

 Indy gets a tennis ball!

 The Haul

 My cute family

 Opening presents

 Sweet baby girl excited about her beads

 A baconator/Bacon Explosion - whatever it was, it made me hurl

 The Newlyweds!

 Putting together Josh's Marble Run

The Marble Run is complete!

Christmas Eve 2011

Our tradition is to have Christmas Eve at my mom's house every year.  When I was growing up we never had Christmas at our house, so we created a tradition to always have Christmas Eve at her house from now on.  We make Mexican food every year and somehow we always manage to have Santa show up! 

The kids table - they are all looking at Santa

Santa and Josh

Santa and Hailee

Santa and Clara

Santa and Tyler

Santa and Spencer

Santa with the kids

The grownup table

Dave and Marty

Lighting the Luminarias.  Usually it is too cold and windy so it was fun that we could do it this year.

Eric (cousin) and Aunt Karen (mom's sister)

Clara and Josh

Eric the wiseman

Marc and Eric dressing up as wisemen

The beginning of the Nativity with Mary (Hailee) and Joseph (Spencer)

The kids were very solemn as the grownups took turns reading from the Bible and Book of Mormon.

The kids

The Nativity

After the Nativity, the kids opened their Christmas pajamas

This year we got our pajamas at Disneyland. 

 

 Dave and I had matching pants.

We wrapped things up by opening presents with Aunt Karen and Uncle Jack.  It has been great to have them come up the past few years and join us.  Most of my Christmas Eves growing up were at their house or other aunts and uncles.