Christmas and our new house

 

 Christmas 2013 was a great Christmas.  To tell you the truth I actually hate Christmas, its stressful, there is way too much expectation, stores are crowded.  But I do it for my kids....  I think this was a great Christmas because it was the first in 7 years that we were home.  I loved being home for Christmas.  We made our annual gingerbread houses.

As always Kaden is just not quite into it as Tanner and Kali are.  But I think he does it to make me happy.  Such a nice boy

 Kali is way into making her nail all beautiful for holidays, she is so creative.

 My frozen view

 Love being home even in the winter

 We usually don't do big Chirstmas's but this year was a little different.  We had to get so much warm clothes, snow clothes, blankets.  We haven't lived in the cold for 7 years by kids didn't even have coats.  And on top of that we were moving again to a new house, so we had a few things we got each other for that.

 Kaden's presents

 Kali actually liked her presents this year.  (that's a first)

 Tanner's presents

 Christmas morning sure can wear a girl out (she's faking it:))

 It was so great being with the whole family for our annual Christmas eve party.  Best parents/ grandparents ever

 The girls sure love their grandma

 Ok so we moved to Utah last June, we moved to a house which I loved, it needed a lot of work and was kind of small.  So Kevin found us another house very close to our current one, which was still close to the kids schools and grandma's and grandpa's.  It is massive we moved Christmas day great present to us.  Here are some picture of it before we moved in.   Here is the grand entrance.

 Formal dinning

 Kitchen,  this house was gorgeous in the early 90's  it has tons of potential.  And tons of space 5900 square feet.

 Half bath

 Master bath

 Master closet

 Family room, with amazing views all around, more windows than wall space

 Tanners room

 Kaden's room,  The kids bedrooms are full of cubbies

 Kali's room

 Upstairs hallway

 up stairs bath

 Kali's dance room

 Another view of Kali's dance room

 basement, family/play room

 Another view of basement family/ playroom with wet bar, this room is twice this big I just didn't get a picture I guess

 Laundry room

 The piece da resistance, the theatre

 It has three tiers, surround sound, this is defiantly what sold the house for us.

 The kids think our new spiral staircase is their new jungle gym