Christmas Eve

Adam and Paola had our family over for dinner on Christmas Eve, what a beautiful home they have, what great food they made and we had the best time.

Getting ready for the blessing on the food to be said.

Diaper change, love me some toes!

Chritsmas Even Dinner Connor

Aubrey

Beautiful spread!

Perfectly set Dinner table!

The Host and Hostess

Taking a nap before dinner!

We opened presents before dinner because Dora was flying back to Washington. Dora, Renee, Paityn and Jonny

Aubrey and Dora

Ohhhhhhhh Paityn loves Taylor Swift

Paityn loves to open presents.

Get together After the Wedding

Nothing like spending your wedding night with a house full of people!

Renee and her mom Dora

Renee and her friend Paola. Paola is the one who put the little get together together. She is an amazing woman!

Renee and Loren

Paola and her husband Adam

Jonny and Renee's Wedding December 22, 2011

Renee being goofy! She's so cute!
Momma and her baby! Renee and Paityn.

Dora, Renee, Jonny, Paityn, Sandie and Loren

The Bishop, Jon, Paityn and Renee

Taylor, Renee and Aubrey

Silly kids!

Paityn cried the whole ceremony! She wanted us to know she was there!

Jon and Renee were married on December 22, they are so adorable. Their Bishop married them at the church.

Pre-wedding dinner

Aubrey, Connor and Taylor

Not nervous here!

Renee and her mom Dora

Dora and me

Taylor

Loren and I

On December 22, 2011 Jonny and Renee got married before we went to the wedding we went to dinner at Gordon Biersch, oh it was so good. I had fish taco's, the best I've ever had!

Christmas Vacation Trip to Arizona Dec 21

In December when the kids went on winter break from school. We took a vacation to Arizona to see Jonny, Renee and Paityn. We had origionally planned to drive down through New Mexico and over to Phoenix. Two days before our trip, Southern Colorado and New Mexico got a blizzard that closed I-25 down for two days. The morning we were due to leave we quickly changed plans and instead took off through I-70 up through the Mountains of Colorado, and down into Moab Utah. We had a great drive, no snow and literally there was no snow anywhere, the mountains in Vail were making snow. We spent the night in Moab at a La Quinta, which was a very nice hotel, very clean. The next day we drove into Phoenix, Flagstaff and more snow than Vail Colorado, that was funny to me. These are some pictures of our South/East Utah drive. We loved the rock formations.

Church Christmas Party

The Manger scene

Aubrey, Connor, and Taylor sporting the shepherd look

The Tolman kids singing

Our Bishop singing (he has a beautiful voice)

Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus

Pregnant Mary

Bruce our narrator

Paul and Faline singing, their son is behind the piano and their daughter in law is playing.

This year the kids were asked to be part of the Christmas play. They were Shepherd's. This year the Christmas program took on a whole new meaning for our family as two of our children were came to the realization that Santa wasn't actual. This play helped them understand the true meaning of Christmas, it was beautifully done and the music was amazing.

Pumpkin carving days

The kids carved their pumpkins that we drove all over to find. I wanted to go to a pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins this year, but all the places around here were just pumpkins hauled in, so depressing! So, we ended up at one of the grocery stores and found three great pumpkins! We didn't take any pictures of costums this year, I am not sure why, and if we did...I have not found those pictures!