Christmas Nativity

My sister in law was great enough to email me some of the pictures from the Quincy Family rendition of the Nativity! They are a little blurry because I had to get them email style but they are still cute! I hope to be able to post more about our wonderful Christmas so that you can all see it but I just don't know when that will be possible (still missing crucial cable!!!)



This is my oldest brother being the donkey for Mary to ride. My niece Alyssa is Mary and my Nephew Marcus is Joseph.
Here is the Angel talking to the Shepherds. my niece Kara is the angel and the shepherds are my nieces Josie and Ella and my nephew Eli.

Here we are at the end of the story and now the three kings have joined us played by Austin, my niece Ava and my nephew Tyler.

I threw this picture in for fun, these are my Parents! I think that this is only the second time I've ever seen my dad wear a Santa hat!!!

Horrible timing

With this wonderful time of year upon us my camera decided to "take a break" and by break I do mean BREAK! My camera totally broke on Christmas Eve!!!! So, I have sooooo many cute pictures of Bubba and Little Miss Pai at our palithura of parties that we have attended in the last week but they are stuck in video form on my video camera and I'm missing the crucial video cable to upload them on to my computer! I even was unable to get a stellar picture of Bubba's new shiner. He totally smacked his cheek into the bottom rail of a chair and it immediately turned purple. As you are finding out I'm currently technology challenged!!!!!! HELP ME!
I'm taking advice on getting a new camera so if you have an awesome one please let me know about it because I totally don't know what is a good one anymore, there's simply tooooo many out there.

Christmas Poem

For those of you that recieved my Christmas card you may have already read this poem but for those of you who I just can't afford to send cards too, here is this year's poem.

T’was the night before Christmas
And through our humble abode
Not a creature was stirring
Not even the two year old

All our stockings were hung
From our mantle of wood
Just waiting for Santa
To fill them up good

With Paityn in her crib
And Austin put to bed
I just couldn’t sleep
So I played Santa instead

I began by wrapping up gifts
I wrapped up the toys
I wrapped up clothes for girls
And a Nerf gun for boys

I wrapped and wrapped
Till I ran out of wrap
Then looked around to find
There was still more crap

Amidst the shear volume
I nearly lost me temper
Until Nathan rescued me
With a cold Dr. Pepper

With our holiday saved
By my caffeine just right
we wish you a Merry Christmas
and of course a good night

Merry Christmas, With love from the Wells Family

Cook Books

I went to Barnes & Noble today to pick up a few things when I came across a great cookbook! The Biggest Looser has a few cookbooks out and they just put out a new one called The Family Cookbook! I just had to have it and it is full of great family friendly recipes that are fairly in-expensive to make. I'm sooo excited. Just thought I would share!

We've been counted!

Little Miss Pai and Bubba have officially been counted by Santa's reindeer! A family tradition that my parents started when they started having kids was that the morning before Christmas Eve the reindeer go around and they count all the good children by marking their noses with a black soot mark. Well you just can't get rid of a great tradition so following in suit my children woke up this morning to a small soot mark on their noses. The reindeer have been here and I guess my kids have been good (some days that's open to interpretation).

From our family to yours we wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a safe and fun New Year! I also have in my possession a video of Bubba and his cousins rein-acting the Nativity and it's soooooo cute but I have no idea how to upload it off my video camera so you'll have to wait till I figure it out (any advice would be appreciated!) .

SANTA!!

Every year Nathan's Mother puts together a huge Christmas party that involves every living descendant of her grandfather and his sister. Needless to say over the years the families have grown and even though not everyone came make it every year it's nice to come together at Christmas. This year we had a turn out of about 75! We all have dinner and dessert then the kids put on a talent show followed up by a special visit from Santa! We missed the party last year because I was sooooo sick and so Bubba didn't get to see Santa. This year I was worried that he would be scared of Santa (being the first time he would sit on his lap) but I had nothing to worry about. Austin broke down into tears because Santa wasn't there to see just him. He didn't understand that he had to wait his turn so he kept saying to me "can't I just look through his bag for my present?" Then he finally got to see the big guy and sit on his lap. He told Santa that he "needed" cars for Christmas. I couldn't get his to smile for the camera but trust me, he had a good time.

We also exchanged gifts with all the cousins (which are Nathan's cousins actually) and I have to say that Bubba was by far happier with his present than any other kid there! His eyes got so big I thought they might pop out of his head!!! I'm so sad that I didn't have my camera with me when he opened his presents! One of Nathan's cousins Aubrey gave Bubba a new Lightning McQueen and the big Mack Truck that opens up and has a car wash inside! I have never seen Bubba so excited or happy!

Not to be out done, Little Miss Pai was totally sweet with Santa and kept playing with his beard! She liked him about as much as he liked her outfit. They totally matched!

Gingerbread House!

Christmas isn't Christmas without a gingerbread house! This year I let Bubba help me which turned out to be a chore in itself but I think that he had a good time all covered in frosting. We had a bunch of gingerbread cookie men so he insisted that we make "snow angels" out of them. We had a good time and now we get to eat it!!! YEAH!!!

Here are some random pictures of Little Miss and Bubba that I thought were cute! I've decided that every time I take a picture of Bubba, his face is dirty! I promise that I do wash his face regularly!

Too Long.

I got Bubba all dressed up in his snow clothes so that he and I could go and play outside. I told him to sit on the stairs and wait for me while I went and changed into my snow clothes and this is what Nathan and I found a few minutes later. I guess I just took way too long getting dressed for an excited two year old to wait. I like the drool, I think it adds a little somthin,somthin.

hanging with Pooh

It's not what you think! I have a life size Pooh bear that Nathan gave me when we were dating a million years ago and now Bubba thinks that it is his so he carries it around some days and plays with Pooh. Here he is watching Cars with Pooh who he covered up with his favorite blanky so that Pooh wouldn't get cold.

As I have mentioned before, we like to play the Mario Carts Wii game a lot and Bubba thinks that he is an expert driver because he has managed to fall off of every course. Bubba has started saying things that despite my best efforts not to I can't help but crack up. Whenever I fall off the course he pats me on the arm and says "it's alright mommy" over and over until I tell him that I feel better and thank him for his help and when we start a new race he hunkers down in the couch and says "lets do this!" . It really is the funniest thing. I don't know what I would do without his little spats of humor in my day!

Growing up

They truly grow up way too fast! My Little Miss Pai is only 4 1/2 months old but she just seems to be growing up too fast. I have started putting her in Austin's old saucer to play because she has decided that she needs to be entertained whenever she is awake. She just looks way to big. I feel like she was just born and that she should still be too little.

I have to say something about this swing. I bought it before Austin was born because everyone talked about how much they loved having one for their kids and how necessary they were and all that good stuff. I got it and I totally hate having it in my house because it takes up way too much space and neither of my children had really cared for it. Austin hated it until now apparently and Paityn still won't have anything to do with it so it will be going soon but for now it's good fun for Austin.

BLACK FRIDAY!!!!!

I have to say that Black Friday embodies everything that I hate about this world all rolled up into one, however, I have way too much fun going every year. In fact I look forward to Thanksgiving just for black Friday! I was up and gone from my house at 3:30 am again this year and didn't make it back until after 1pm! I'm pretty sure that we hit every store in the greater Wasatch Valley! We started at Kohl's then made our way to Shopko, across the street to Smith' Marketplace, down to Target (south town), over to Linen's and Things, to the Mall for JC Penney's across the street to Bed Bath & Beyond, down to Walmart (Riverton) then finally to Cafe Rio for lunch a 10:30!!!!! Who ever thought of LUNCH that early but we are generally starving by that time. Then (we are not finished yet) off to K-mart, Lowe's and anywhere else you can think of!! We always have a great time. I go with my Mother in Law Bonnie, Sister in Law RyLee, and my Mother Jane and this year my Sister in Law Jacci decided to try things out. I'm glad to report that I am finished with my Christmas shopping so it was once again worth going! I don't have pictures of the truck this year but I do have pictures from last year and they are hilarious!