ChRiStMaS 2009

I absolutely love Christmas! We were so excited this year because it was the first time celebrating in our house, we moved in the week after Christmas last year! Our upstairs is still in the works but I put our tree up and loved my decorations even more this time around. We are extremely lucky and have both sides of our family close, which means we get to celebrate with each of them. On the Bybee side it is tradition to get together Christmas eve, have a dinner and open our Christmas pajamas. This year we had prime rib and it was delicious! Casey and Heidi announced that night that they are having a girl by wrapping up cute little pj's for Alan and Kathy to open. We are so excited to meet baby Madelyn in May! Christmas morning Chris and I woke up, opened presents and then headed back to the Bybee home for their traditional breakfast. After eating way too much food and being spoiled with presents we headed to my parents. It was so fun to celebrate all over again. We got spoiled again... After dinner Chris ended up getting sick with the flu, poor guy. That weekend we had another family party at my grandparent’s house from my mom's side. It was way fun to see all my cousins and be with family again. Here are a bunch of pictures.

Every year we take our own little family pictures:

All of us

Taylor ~ Alan ~ Kathy ~ Braden

Cameron ~ Nicole ~ Marty ~ Katelyn

Me ~ Chris

Casey ~ Heidi ~ and Baby Madelyn

This kid melts my heart.  He did NOT want to get pictures taken and fought it the whole time.  But...when Chris and I were getting our pictures he wanted his taken with Aunt Weswee.  He has been on this I love Aunt Weswee kick lately and I am eating it up for all it's worth!

And this little princess gets cuter every year!

I know these next pictures are not from Christmas but I have three little nephews that live out of state that also melt my heart.  We didn't get to see them this Christmas and I had to throw some pictures of their family in here.  My brother will be done with dental school in May.  We will be so excited for them to move closer to home.  We love and miss you guys!!!

Greg ~ Nolan

Shalet

(I hope she doesn't kill me as this was the most recent picture from her blog I could steal)

Halloween 2009

Lucas ~ Daxton ~ Nolan

Dax

Lucas Bug

and sweet Nolan

Playin in the snow

This picture speaks for itself!

Randomness:

Katelyn and Braden Christmas day

Santa Bybee

(This guy loves loves Christmas and makes it all the more fun to celebrate)

Chris gives funny gifts every year to his little brothers to tease them.  This year Braden sprained his thumb and has had to wear a support for it, so Chris got him a wrist shield to equal things out!

Don't we look like we are having fun?

My cute hubby, oh how I just love him!

I don't know what was going on here but it looks like it must have been super exciting!

This was the start of the gift opening and Cameron was having a hard time waiting.  If you look closely you can see him biting the present :)

Chris was really excited about his new wallet, "the big skinny"

This is a picture of popcorn stuff we gave Alan.  We got him one of those 4 foot popcorn machines for his new theatre room! The popcorn machine had to be ordered and was not here yet, other wise I would have taken a picure.  It's pretty sweet, and he was really excited.  It got here right before new years but we haven't all had a chance to try it yet. 

I had to post this because I just love my tree, I told you we still had lots of work to do on the house! I can't wait for floors to be put in and walls to be painted.  You can't tell from the picture but when we ripped up the carpet one of the previous owners had nailed every plank down, so there are nails every foot and an inch apart from each other down each plank :(

And last but not least another picture of Chris.  This was at my grandparent's party, he was reading the bible story of our Savior and the little great grandkids did the skit to go with. 

I promise I love my family too I just forgot the camera when we went to their house!

Thank you friends and family for a wonderful Christmas and a chance for us all to remind each other of the true meaning behind it all.

What a great year, so excited for 2010!

Debate?

I have debated for a while now whether I want to go private with our blog....I am pretty sure that in a day or two I will make a post and start collecting addresses.  The reason for this post is to see what everyone else has to say about open blogs oppose to private.  Details later on why!  I'll post Christmas pictures soon.  We had such a fun Christmas and New Year's!  Hope everyone else did too :) 

December 11, 2009 Marks a Day to Remember!

Even though I pushed through school pretty fast this day felt like it would never happen. I finally graduated and what a relief it has been. I graduated with my B.S. in Accounting. I've been working for Carver Floreck & James CPA's for a week now and it has been such a great job. I love it and am so excited for the experience. Here are a few pictures, and I don't know what else to say about those graduation caps other than..............they are not flattering!

I wish it would have been nice and warm outside to take pictures there :(

Thanks for celebrating with me guys!

1 Week!!!!!

The official countdown is on!  In ONE week from today I am graduating!  Classes ended today!!!  I still have four finals and a group project but I'm almost there!  More blogging and pictures to come after graduation :)  Thanks for everyone's love and support!

I am Now a Dinosaur....

I'm really not that OLD, but I had my 26th birthday a few weeks ago. I actually love birthdays and don't have a hard time with getting older. It's just weird for me to think that I am now in my LATE twenties... Anyway, we had a birthday dinner one weekend with my family and another weekend with the Bybee side.  Thanks for all the gifts and fun memories guys! On the actual day Chris and I just spent time together and he made me a cake, how cute is that!  (Bet you can't guess which one) ;)  He also took me shopping and to the Cheesecake Factory. It was fabulous. My SIL Nicole made me a super cute cake and I appreciate her doing that. Thanks Nicole :) Other than that we have just been busy as usual with the house, the business, school, and work. The basement is almost finished so if you know of anyone that needs a place to rent let us know!

I tried to fix Chris's red eye, but it made his eye look weird.  And no we didn't plan on both wearing argyle it just happened that way.

The Mighty Deer Hunt

Chris and I were able to get away for a couple days to go deer hunting with his family! I absolutely love being up in the mountains where it's so quiet and peaceful. This year was adventurous and I love the memories we'll always have together. We got in late the first night so I decided to sleep in and go with Chris the next time they went out, well that was a mistake! He ended up getting his deer that morning. Yeah! He said it's been almost 11 years since his last one. You could see the excitement in his face when he pulled back up to camp in our truck:) The deer was deep in the mountains though so we had to hike back in to get it. We had some minor bumps through out the trip including Chris with his gimp knee (he doesn't remember hurting it, his knee just started bothering him and it's only when he goes up and down stairs; or in this case a huge mountain), Casey needing stitches in his hand, and Taylor falling on a coal and getting a second degree burn! Yikes, first time Alan has had to use his first aid kit in over ten years! We had yummy food while there and appreciate all of Alan's hard work to make these trips so fun. Anyway, here are some fun pics:
Chris zonked after shooting his deerSuper Cute :)What's his is mine...right? J/KCasey and ChrisChris with his walking cane ;)Casey and Heidi"The Crew" Heidi, Casey, Braden, Taylor, Alan, Kathy, Me, Chris