Day with Avlee!!

The Monday after Christmas we got a special treat and got to have my cousin Avlee for the day! After playing around the house for a while we went out to the mall!

First was lunch. Mom and Avlee!

Llama, Karli, and Dad.

And lastly Duck and me!

Then it was time for an adventure!

Karli and Avlee were space warriors fighting different horrible space beings in each and every store that we went to! While in Macy's they found this machine that gives valuable information on the artifacts they found!

Scanning a dark piece of fabric on a crystal hanger!

Fighting evil wild dogs!

Driving the spaceship!

Look at that WTF face!

Konner getting ready to dine on my flesh!

Ducky and Avlee sitting on Karli's feet!

Dog pile on Karli!

And during all of this dad waited and waited...

and waited and waited and waited and enjoyed every single second of it!

Konner riding the lawnmower!

Avlee riding the lawnmower!


And with that all the monster, aliens, and demons were dead and our heroes went home!

Ducky ornament!

On Christmas Eve my bestest friend Tarin and her husband Nathan came over and brought me this!!!

The cutest little ducky ornament ever!!!

Her mommy found it in a store and thought of me and my huge love for ducks and had to get it for me!

Isn't it the cutest! And as you can see I was way excited to get it!

Christmas Day games!

After the gifts were opened, the naps were had, and the food was eaten it was time for games!!

Karli, Kendon, and I playing Jenga!

Kendon thinking real hard!


Laughing and joking!


Karli thinking real hard!


Once we played a few times we went on to building with the Jenga blocks!

Kendon's house!

Karli's house, which is made out of stolen Jenga blocks from the awesome Jenga block chair that Kassi made!


Next was Pit! A very fun and loud card game!


Getting ready to start!

I think it was funnier to watch and listen to the others play sometimes!

Passing the cards!

More card passing!


The day was fun and the food was great! I can't wait for next year!

Christmas food!!

Of course you can't have Christmas without food!

Dad frying the turkey!

Is it food time yet??

Sitting down and eating!

Mmmmmm yummy food!

Christmas!!!!!

Now it is finally time for the Christmas morning post for 2009!!

Us kids waiting in the hallway at 6:30am for our parents to give us the okay to come into the living room.

Every year since we have had Raven she gets to open up her gifts first since it's the funniest to watch! Her just getting her gift filled stocking!

Almost done getting her gifts out!

And now checking out what she got!

Our stocking hanging out on the chairs.

Dad, our Christmas video recorder! Doing this every year for over twenty years and still enjoys every bit of it!

Sitting in our spots, waiting for the gift unwrapping to begin!

Opening our stockings.

Where's Konner??

Hiding behind his fort of gifts!

Konner opening his awesome Vulcan Nerf gun!!

Konner trying to figure out what this strangely wrapped gift was.

It was a plunger given to him by Karli!

This year Grandma and Grandpa Hatch came down to spend Christmas with us!

Grandma's gift from grandpa was a new black sweater and a $100 dollar bill clipped on a hanger!

Grandpa's gift from grandma was some fabulous new boots!

Karli before she started opening gifts

Karli opening up a big gift from mom and dad!

The big gift was a coupon for spending money for her New York trip in the spring!

Karli and me opening up gifts!

Mommy on the couch opening her gifts!

Happy Llama Face in the hat that Brittany got him from Italy!



Opening up the best gift I got him this year!

Yeah it's a Terminator mask!

He had to try it on right away!

Dad at the table opening up his gifts!

Me opening up a gift that ended up being......

Another pair of jeans!!! Yay now I have two pairs!



Me opening up new duck slippers from my Ducky face!



All my gifts in the end! A new and fabulous flat screen tv with wall stand, duck slippers, two beautiful wall hanging/pictures, a six pack of bottled Coke, the Twilight game, a pair of jeans, a new shirt, some socks, a mini hymn book, peppermint bark, a Twix bar, an orange, money, itunes gift card, Wal-Mart gift card, Target gift card, ear phones, Season 1 of Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles, and 18 other movies to add to my ever growing collection!


It was a most fabulous morning and we all got so many awesome things that we all wanted!