Christmas Day

This year on Christmas morning it was just us! That is unusual because we are usually either with mine or Travis' family on Christmas morning. This year we went with my family on vacation right after Christmas to Nauvoo, so Travis had to work on Christmas day so that he could take off the whole next week for our vacation. We sitll had a great morning opening up all the gifts that we got for eachother and the gifts that Travis' parents had sent us. Here are some pictures of our Christmas morning 2008!

Travis had to find his stocking. I hid it under the couch pillows : )

Darko and Freddie

Me and my sock!

I love jewelery!

Travis loves clothes!

Most of our stuff!

Happy Christmas 2008!

At my parents house opening our gifts!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we were on our own in La Quinta because Travis had to work on Christmas day so we were not going to be heading out to my family's house until the day after Christmas. That night it was a little rainy but the temperature was perfect, so we threw on our jackets and headed out to Cathedral City to walk down Candy Cane Lane. It was super fun, there were tons of people and the lights were really cool. We had a great night just spending time together.

Some pictures of our Christmas decorations.
Me and the tree.

Darko and the tree

A look into our front window

Freddie

Us on Candy Cane Lane

Giant snowman

They had these huge candy canes every where they were cool.

Christmas Candy

My mom and sister came out for the night and we made Christmas candy together. Travis even helped. We made Chocolate covered pretzels dipped in peppermint and fudge. We had tons and so we took some over to Loves for a Christmas treat, they were really yummy!

Ginger Bread

We had a fun night with Taylor and Shannon. They came out from Blythe to build gingerbread houses. We had tons of candy and barely used any of it, we had soooooo many left overs. It was SUPER hard to keep the houses standing and together. We started getting frustrated and just started throwing the houses together any way they would stand up. The guys were troopers and actually made their own houses. We made a huge mess and had lots of laughs, here are some photos from our night...

Making the frosting.

Travis and Taylor

Getting the frosting in the bags was very interesting.
It was Hilarious to watch the boys.

This is were Taylor ended up.

Our mess. That is Travis' house in the front.
I was inpressed he did pretty well decorating his house.

Shopping for a Christmas tree!

I am usually the kind of person that is so on top of things around the holidays. I have all my decorations up on time or early and this year I am sooooo far behind. Anyway, we usually get our Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving but this year we were about a week late. We made our usual trip to Home Depot and picked out a tree that was still wrapped up! That's right, we didn't even see what the width of the tree was like, how full the branches were, or what the branches even looked like. We were totally going on faith that it would be an awesome tree, and it was. It is a pretty good looking little tree.

Needless to say I am now finally done decorating, getting the tree up and am pretty close to being done getting all the family gifts together that we need this year. I still haven't gotten any stocking stuffers or any of Travis' gifts yet though! Ahhhh, I better hurry! Oh yeah, and I still need to get my Christmas cards out! I usually have them out the first week of December, what is wrong with me this year!!

Oh well, here are some pictures of our tree shopping.

I made Travis climb all the way to the back to get our tree,
I make him do that every year. He loves it! Ha!

Too bright!

Us in the tree lot of Home Depot

This is the first year that we didn't have access to a truck so we had to strap it down on the roof of our car. Travis did a great job of tying it down and he made us turn on our hazard lights the whole way home while going about 25mph all the way! It was quite the adventure!

Getting the tree in the stand.

Freddie, inspecting the tree! He has been doing a great job so far this year, he has not once knocked it over or knocked any ornaments off. He just likes to sleep or hide under it, so does Darko, so cute!

Thanksgiving

This year our family rotation took us up to Utah for thanksgiving! We were so excited to see Travis' family again this year, we don't get to see them too often and it was fun to just have a few days off of work were we could just relax and hang out with family! We had a great time eating and visiting, here are a few pictures from our trip...

I kept trying to sneak pictures of Thayne because everytime I would try to take his picture he wouldn't look at the camera so after dinner he stole our camera and took this extreme close up of Travis and I. It's kind of a scary photo but a funny memory!

Our first day in Utah, Mom Tucker was watching Kelson so we got to hang out with him for a while. He is getting so big and he is so cute!

For Thanksgiving dinner Travis and I were in charge of deviled eggs. Travis wanted "ALOT" so we got 2 dozen eggs at the store, so we had (ALOT). It was my first time making
them and I think they all got eaten so I guess they were good!

Travis even helped!

The finished product!

This is all Thayne needs...a drumstick and Mountain Dew!

Tammi and Thayne brought and made mashed potatoes from Idaho.
They were delicious and we had a HUGE bowl full!

Everyone had a lot of fun with Travis' new I-pod Touch.

I started crocheting a Christmas blanket at home and decided to bring it to Utah to work on. When they saw me working on it Colton and Cheyenne became very interested and wanted to learn so I taught them how to start and make their own scarfs.

Waiting for their turn at pin the hat on the turkey!
Colton, Kelson and Cheyenne

We also got to celebrate Thayne's birthday while we were there.

Mom Tucker had the game pin the tail on the turkey. It was funny to watch everyone be blind folded and spun around then try to get the hat on the turkey!

Colton

Cody

Cheyenne

Goofy Travis!

Thad

Tammi

Thayne

Dad Tucker

The kids waiting for the prizes from the turkey game!

Travis and his turkey game prize

What's a trip to Utah with out going to Iceberg! We have to go, that's were we met!

Kelson and his chocolate shake!

Thad and Dad Tucker

Travio and his yummy shake!

Me and my all time favorite shake, chocolate ice cream, cookie dough, reeses, no chocolate chip!

Dad Tucker entertaining Kelson at Iceberg!

Memories!

We had a great trip and a fabulous Thanksgiving. We had a blast with Travis' family and can't wait for our next trip!