Christmas 123...and NYE in Vegas! Longest Post Ever!

Alright so the holiday's this year jumped up on us and they are already gone...We did have a blast though despite this busy season...

I got to see some old friends...Joe and Lynzi...I don't have pics with Lynzi though....we are lame i know! Lambert we have to do it all over again so we can get some good ones! ;)

Billy and I were fortunate enough to have Christmas three whole times! We spent the weekend before Christmas with his family in IF! It was so fun! they made steak and crab and we opened all sorts of good stuff! Thanks Bush's! :)

My mom, step dad and two of my brothers came down to celebrate Christmas with us this year! it was so fun and SO GOOD to have them up! We spent the week shopping and visiting and the boys got to go boarding a couple of times! Wayne-O was up and spry as ever bouncing around on his his new hips! Christmas Eve we had my aunts and uncles over and made my mom's traditional lasagna :)

Home for the Holidays....we had a lot of Stockings hung

Our first "real" tree!

Stockings for Billy and Tonya!

Tan Man and Sammy

Billy and Wayne-o Chatting Away

Maddie's new Pj's
Cole, Trav and Mom....and Lyric's behind.... :)

Me, Cole and Tanner Chillin' on the couch

The whole Gang Christmas Eve

My Uncle and his little cutie Madeleine stayed over with us Christmas Eve and Santa came to our house for the first time ever! :) we got to make some fun Christmas Cookies for Santa! the kids did such a good job! It was so fun that I can't imagine Christmas at our house without a visit from Santa! hmm....

I think they ate more of the icing then the cookies ;)

I know she definitely did.... haha

Cookie's for Santa!

Christmas morning we woke to a cute little girl's voice overwhelmed with excitement when she realized Santa found her and downstairs awaited a whole room full of glorious new toys! We all woke up bright and early and TanMan and Maddie were already down there checkin' out what they got from the jolly old guy. We all opened our stockings and then began passing the presents around! It was so fun! After we realized that the presents had all been opened we ate some yummy Cinnamon rolls and the kids played out in the snow until dinner! My mom and I made Christmas dinner together and I must say it turned out quite well for my first attempt! It was definitely yummy and we got to use our dining room and new place settings for the first time ever! yay for Christmas!

The Mom! Love Ya!

Wayne-0 Playing the Wii Fit! Pretty fun game!

The Poo....
Christmas Dinner!
Snow Day!

For New Year's Eve Billy and I busted up to Las Vegas with the pupster and spent a couple nights with Whitney and Al Cameron! It was so good to see them! Yay for being newly weds! :) Whit is the networking queen and her hubby isn't too shabby at it himself and so they got us into Club Rain at the Palms resort on the strip to bring in the New Year! We chilled on the strip for the count down...5,4,3,2,1...where are all the fireworks!??? yes that is right this year Vegas pooped out and decided to do ground fireworks at the ends of the strip! so here we were in the middle of the Vegas strip smack down in front of the Bellagio and we were all looking around like...did we miss something!? lol but its ok 'cause we made our way back to the club and danced our little hearts out! It was awesome and the club put on quite the show! Fire blaring over our heads...crazy dancers all over the place and circus people dangling from the curtains and the ceiling on bunji cords! It was quite the event!

The Camerons

We Made some new friends on the strip....haha random...yes

In front of the Bellagio before midnight!
Club Rain....

After the a night of dancing...I was dying...well my feet were lol....
Midnight Kiss! The camera almost missed us! haha

On New Years Day we took off to my daddy's house in Ventura! We got to Magic Mountain (45 minutes away from our destination) and we missed our next freeway...only we didn't know we missed it and so an hour later my dad calls and asks us where we are...that's when we realized we weren't sure! UGH! and we spent the next hour trecking back to Magic Mountain! yay for 5 our drives that turn into 7! haha we did make it to my dad's before dinner though and it was amazing! But I expect nothing less from them! :) Billy and I keep trying to convince them to open their own restaurant....We opened lots of fun presents and spent some much needed time with the family! The next day we went to breakfast. and took Lyric to the beach....which was a mixture of laughter and stress because she chased the birds up and down half of the length of the beach...getting smashed by the ocean multiple times but she was so focused on her new found toys that she must have forgotten her name?! because she definitely was not coming back! ahhh! so we chased her down into a corner of the beach and finally got her back on her leash! close call a couple of times! then we took her and her new BFF Barley (my dad's dog) back to the house to play and we went to the movies to catch Seven Pounds....so good! definitely a tear jerker though!

The next day we went to see the Grandma! I love her so much! and she is doing great up and walking just weeks after having hip replacement! I am so proud of her! After visiting for lunch we jetted off to catch the last 5 hours of Universal Studios which turned out to be almost the perfect time frame to see that park lol we got to ride everything but Backdraft! which most of us had been on already....Our family had so much fun and it was the first time that we had seen all of the siblings together in over a year! yay for family fun!

Fun times at Universal!

The whole gang....

Sunday we spent driving 11 hours to get home....well billy spent driving...I mostly slept...but honestly would you expect anything less from me!? haha!

Yay for the Holiday! 'Til Next Year!

Hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year too!

Oh...how could I forget!!!

GO UTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just had to brag...it't not often that a non BCS team not only makes it to a BCS bowl but also kills the number 4 ranked BCS team ALABAMA! woot woot! 13-0 unstoppable! yay for Utah, yay for the sugar bowl!

MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

AMAZING MEXICO!!!

Let me just start off by saying how truly blessed I am to have my wonderful in-laws! I really do love and appreciate them so much and could never have asked for a better deal! Thanks again Bill and Teresa!

Alright so the amazing Bush padres took Billy and I, Chase and Joe along with them to beautiful Playa Del Carmen, Mexico! And it was awesome!

The hotel was Gorgeous, all open verandas surrounded by ponds and jungle and fun little animal friends!

The beaches were to die for, I have never seen water so blue and sand so white! I loved it and felt right at home in my little lounge chair near the ocean! The water was super warm too and we could have all played in it all day long every day! :)

We got to Paradise on Saturday November 29th and were totally famished from the plane ride so we dropped off our bags and after oohing and awwing at the amazingly beautiful hotel that would be our little home away from home for the next week, wewent straight to what would become our favorite Taco bar! The tacos were awesome and the boys couldn't get enough of them, not only did we hit the taco bar multiple times during our stay but the boys ordered them into the room practically every night through room service! :) On Sunday we went into Playa for church and it really was a neat experience. The people were so friendly and it was amazing to see how many people attend church on their little excursions cause I would have to say that about half of the congregation were tourists! After church we went down to get a good look at the beaches for the first time during the day! AMAZING! and the little town area off the beach was pretty as well although we didn't spend much time shopping that day.

On Monday we had our first all day beach day! and I was ecstatic to lay out under the warm Caribbean sun! The boys took out a catamaran and had some fun learning how to sail....they didn't get very far lol but they had a good time!

Tuesday definitely had to be the highlight for me...we went to the ruins, Chichen Itza and Tulum...and it was fantastic. Teresa and Bill set up a tour with an LDS tour guide and it was so worth it! He was so knowledgeable about the ruins as well as the Book of Mormon and taught us so many interesting things about the Mayan people! It really was kind of a testimony builder and I am so thankful I got to have this amazing experience! I would recommend this to anyone who is able to go down that way!

On Wednesday we had another beach/pool day and I was Lovin' life! The boys got to try out scuba gear in the pool, and now Billy is begging to get certified! :)

Thursday we went to Xel Ha, which is a Lagoon/water park made specifically for snorkeling...the park was beautiful and it was so much fun to get to swim around and look at all the fun fish! They had dolphins too that you could swim with, but it was quite a bit extra so we just watched them do some fun tricks! so cool!

Friday we got to lay out on the beach in the morning and took the afternoon to go into Cancun...I was Lovin' life again because the mall was AMAZING haha...and we got to go into one of Billy's favorite stores, Zara and shop around, they are mostly European based and only have a few locations in the US so we were stoked! Billy and I both walked out with nice new winter coats for fairly reasonable prices, yes we bought Winter Coats in Mexico! haha. We also got to shop around the flee markets for some good deals on cheap Mexican crap lol. It was awesome!

Saturday morning much to our dismay, we were forced to say Farewell to our home away from home! No one wanted to leave, we all had such a good time, and are happy to say that we all made it through the week without any major disasters! No one even got food poisoning!

YAY FOR MEXICO!