CHRISTMAS/ New Years 2013!

Oh Christmas.  Isn't it a wonderful time of year? And not only for the presents, but just for the fact that family is together! It's just the best ever. My parents are going to be in Israel for a year from August 2014 to August 2015, so we spent the majority of Christmas with them. Christmas eve and Christmas morning we were with my family, and then Christmas day we were with Tanner's family.  Some of the things we were blessed to get were:
-An ipad Air
-A pressure cooker
-Tan got me a sweet Klim jacket
-A digital kitchen scale
-I gave Tan a bosch organizer tool kit
-perfume
-a safe
-And then of course stockings!! My favorite.
Ever since I was little my mom had the best stockings ever.  just stuffed full of fun, silly things.  This year all the men got nerf guns and shot my mom till she was in pain. hahaha. That was a bad idea Jill. haha. Ash and Eth were there for Christmas and that was a blast!
Christmas Eve we of course did the Pickle Tradition, and I FOUND A PICKLE FINALLY!!! I have never found one, and this year I did. so excited. Here's some pics:

 

Tanner and I are like little kids.  Our kids are doomed.  Neither of us could sleep because we were so excited.  I woke up at 5:30 and sat upstairs waiting for everybody to wake up.  10 minutes laterI get a text from Tanner that says, "Are you upstairs? I'm coming."  So there we sat. like little kids in front of the christmas tree. excited beyond belief. Wyatt woke up shortly after and was SO excited to open his gifts. ALMOST as excited as us I think ;) That got us super excited to have kids. We opened gifts, and the best part was watching Wyatt.  so fun.  Here's some pics:

SO MUCH FUN!!! i love christmas.  it's so much fun.  Anyway, so all of my siblings were able to be up for christmas/new years.  Brett and Aub surprised my mom the day after christmas, she had no idea.  Then Ash and Eth were there for 2 weeks, and Jax and Meg came the 30th I think. Tanner brought his girlfriend up, and we had a party! Some of the things we did were: visit the arcade, bowling, movies, gingerbread houses, fun in the snow, lots and lots of late night games, talking, talent show, wallyball, early morning basketball, more arcade, and much more.  I can't wait to have our official TIME reunion in 7 months!
Here's some random pics of all the festivities:

                           I love this sweet pictures. nothin better than grandpa love.

                                                     wyatt loves his daddy

                                                                cute family

                                                       this picture is my favorite. haha.

                                                    cuties that surprised grandma.

                                            tanny got a squatty potty from his GF.

                                                           cute richardsons.

                                                      such a tiny cute little shoe!

                        I love all these cute faces! It definitely shows all their personalities!

                                            oh ethan. funniest thing ive ever seen.

                                                         matching cousins.

I have so many pictures, I just chose some random ones. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful family.  It always brings back so many memories having all of us together.  This Christmas and New Years was SPECTACULAR and I'm grateful for all my siblings for making it that way!  Thanks mom and dad for giving birth to all of us :)

Here's to year 2014!