~The Clyde Family~

Snow boarding is a ton of fun! I am however incredibly sore! We went on Monday for our first all day lesson, and then we went back again on Friday. Why the long wait until we went back for more you ask...it's because I couldn't move for quite some time! I finally learned to do the S down the hill. It's so fun! I feel like a kid playing all day at a sledding hill or something! Travis caught on so fast, he's actually really good! So Friday, McKay and him left me while I took another half day lesson. After lunch they decided I was ready for bigger and better hills. I proved them wrong! So they ditched me while I went back to play on my fun little "bunny hill". I have conquered getting off the ski lift too without falling!! That is a pretty cool thing actually! Travis got me this cute snowboard after our first time going, and my instructor told me it was a pretty "awesome" one and that all I have to do is stand by the lift and I would look pretty cool, so when I get tired that's what I do. Just kidding!!!

So if anyone wants to try something new this New Year, I suggest snowboarding, its a riot!! It's also addicting...so I think we're going again on Tuesday!

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Our Christmas this year has to go down as one of the most relaxing and enjoyable Christmas' ever. There was a huge snow storm Christmas day and all of my brothers and sisters and their families were suppose to be coming up to my moms in Midway. We would be spending all day there together playing games etc with 30 plus people (at least 11 of them being under five)..However, nobody wanted to risk driving in such awful weather. It ended up just being my family relaxing at home. Travis's parents came and joined us for our traditional breakfast of abelskeivers. Then around 3pm my parents came over to play with the kids and eat. We had a great Christmas dinner since my mom was in charge of pretty much most of the meal (the meal that my brothers and sisters were not able to make it to). My sister, Carrie, on the other hand, was stuck at home with only the pies that she had made to bring to the party. I think Ben and Celia had stuffing. Oh well, I did kind of feel guilty eating so well though!

Anyway, It was really nice to just hang out at home on Christmas with our family. We didn't even leave the house most of the day. Mckay and Tyson woke up a little before 6 in the morning and wanted to open presents right away of course. And of course I told them they would have to wait until everyone woke up. They did go through their stockings though and ended up watching Kung Fu Panda until Kelsey and Whitney (my late sleepers) remembered it was Christmas around 7. Travis had just finished shoveling a TON of snow off the drive way too, so everyone was ready to open presents.

Whitney opened one of her presents - a Cinderella doll- (her favorite princess) and wouldn't open anything else until we got the thing out of its package and into her arms. The same thing happened with her next present..and the next. She was so much fun to watch opening her presents. I'm going to miss not having a baby around much longer. They get old way too fast.

Tyson opened his first present and it was a Nintendo DS with some games. He was sooo excited! Then he opened his next present which was a lion Webkinz. He looked at it and immediately said oh, he's so cute, I think I'll name him Tuck. Tyson is so funny, I never know what he'll say. I thought webkinz were mainly for girls but he has sure loved his. He's a computer nut anyway. He also got a bunch of Star Wars Lego's which is another obsession. Travis and I helped him put them all together after 2 1/2 hours of work! He was a lot of fun this Christmas. He would wish everyone he saw a Merry Christmas and would ask if we could sing Christmas Carols all the time. He is my happy go lucky boy. Five is such a sweet age!

Kelsey was fun this Christmas too. For a minute she was pretty sad when she saw Tyson open his DS because that is what she wanted. A couple of presents later she was pleasantly surprised with one of her own, so all was well. She also was excited with her "dangly" ear rings in her stocking and couldn't wait to try them all on. Some of her presents were Littlest Pet Shop stuff of which she loved. However, Once it was all opened and out of the packages, Whitney suddenly took it over. Pet Shops our now Whitney's new love. Thank goodness Kelsey is so good to Whitney and doesn't mind sharing!

Mckay..Mckay..my spoiled little boy is what I refer to him as. Anyway, we told him that he would have just a couple of presents this year because he had already got most of his stuff early (I guess that is how Christmas goes when kids get older?) Anyway, he already got a snowboard, board pants, a season pass to the Canyons, and a partridge in a pear tree, so I didn't feel so bad having three little presents there for him. He guessed what one was though, an ipod touch, before he opened it. What to do with these 12 year olds. He was pretty happy with that and some itune cards. At least wrapping gets easier as they get older! He's such a fun kid!

Travis and I decided that we would get snowboarding lessons for Christmas, so stay tuned for that!!

Well, this Christmas turned out really nice this year and we have so much to be thankful for. Our Smith family dinner was postponed until Sunday. So it will be nice to see everyone then! Merry Christmas! We did have a fun time with everyone on Christmas Eve at Trudys. She had a lot of fun games planned. We also had to make homemade gifts (our family each painted a wooden something and glued them to the back of fridge magnets, the kind that hold stuff, they turned out really cute - I used them until I had to wrap them!) Anyway, I put together some of our Christmas pictures from some of our family parties and on Christmas morning.(with Smile box it is the fastest way to post pictures!)