New Years in AZ!

 We spent Thanksgiving in Idaho and it was our turn to go to Arizona for Christmas. We spent Christmas day at home and headed to AZ two days later for a "late" Christmas and New Years. Growing up we had a few little Suzuki 80 quads. We had so much fun on them and even though we could have ridden the bigger ones at home we had a blast on the little one. My Dad and I had a conversation about how much we missed that a few weeks earlier and then bough 4 little 50 four-wheelers! My kids were SO excited and hopped on to ride as soon as we got there!

 My Mom, Andrei, Jess and Brooklyn all worked together to make this cute little playhouse out of a card board box for the grandkids. Marlee loved it!

 I love Casen's face in this one, he seriously never wanted to get off of these things! :)

 These two had way too much fun together, probably one of their best visits together.

Great Grandma Schoenberg bought these coloring kits for the grandkids. It was the perfect gift and these girls had so much fun with them!

 I love it when these two play good together, such a sweet pic!

 Brinley, Andelin, and Laurie had a blast making orange juice all on their own! Haha, such a sticky mess! :)

 Oranges! Nothing is better than fresh oranges from my parents citrus trees! I love them so much that we filled an entire suitcase with oranges and brought them back to Las Vegas!

 Casen Racing Grandpa! He won every time... crazy! And he loved every second!

 My Dad was so excited to take Marlee... you might just say they are best friends :)

 Marlee had a lot of fun trying to steer on her own!

We stayed the whole time at Mark and Clarissa's house and the kids had so much fun with their kids! Here they are having a little dance party! We had a great time staying there and they were great hosts!

 I love this picture... if you look at my Dad this is totally the face he would make when he would "race" me when I was little and he would always wave his hand backwards like he was trying to push himself to go faster :)

Amber and I were able to sneak away for quick breakfast at my favorite place "Crackers and Co." As usual we had great conversation. She is awesome at everything she does and mothering is no different, so I spilled all my stresses out on her and she was able to re-motivate me :)  Love her!

My parents hows was a little crowded and crazy with all 9 kids, all 4 in-laws, and all 12 grandchildren. But it was sure fun to get to spend so much time with my WHOLE family!

Marlee loved this little baby Jesus that my Mom uses as a decoration in a little manger. She carried it everywhere with her, and didn't want anyone else touching him :)

There was a big Judy family potluck at my parents on Saturday and my uncle brought his DJ equipment. Casen asked him if he could sing Justin Beiber's "Baby" song. My unlce was so nice to let him do it, since it wasn't karaoke! He looked so cute up there! Dancing and singing his little heart out, everyone was cheering for him... it was a little dream come true for this kid :)

My Dad doing cartwheel competition with Brinley!

They did a line dance. Ryan had to finish a paper for school, so Casen was my partner. He was the only little kid and did great. So cute :)

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We did a white elephant gift exchange, one for the kids and one for adults. We had never done this before but it was a lot of fun! Haley looked awesome in her glasses :) Above is my oldest brother Brian holding a framed picture of himself and my brother Mark. It is them in highschool flexing their muscles at Lake Powell. I framed it and used it as my gift, everyone loved it... especially Brian :) haha

Marlee and her monster mouth she got in the gift exchange! :)

My Mom is always so good to play quietly with the kids, building block or playing with lincoln logs.

The whole gang and all our awesome gifts!

We played this fun game kind of like "Telephone" But you have to pass around a paper and guess from the picture or drawing that came before. This was one of the final papers. I cried laughing so hard. Check out the horse in the bottom right, and then the person's guess to the left... what is a "gift pony"?? But yeah, that does look like on "special" horse :)

My sisters! We were finally all together after 2 years! Mom - Sharon, Jenn - 30, Becca - 28, Jess - 23, Madeline - 15, Brooklyn, 14

The WHOLE family! Jessica was on her mission the past 1.5 years and we hadn't all been together in over 2 years! It was so great to have the whole family together!