Christmas 2010 Recap!

I am a horrible blogger! I was reading over some old post and I feel like each time I just blog about the same thing... oh man I am SOOO boring! I apologize to anyone who actually reads this!

Okay so there was a little rant of mine! WELL it was just Christmas and I had so much fun! Loved it! The California Maxwell's made the trip up and I already miss them all! It was really fun to get to hangout with them and get an update on their life! Also my sister cousin came home for 5 weeks and I loved that very much! Also Mitch, Russ, and I got to live back at home for a week and this might have been my favorite part of Christmas. I love when we all get together... it's pure chaos but it's the best!

I also really sucked at taking pictures of everything we did! It's just hard to lug a camera the size of a small infant everywhere I go you know? But I did take a few!

First was the annual Maxwell Christmas Eve Skate!
Love these girls!

It freaks me out to look at this picture because
we are all growing up!

Uncle Marty and Aunt Jeanie

Then the boys kicked us out for the hockey game

My dad has mad skills

After some showers we all head to the gym in Raymond for Christmas Eve!

Typical Karli and Nolan!

Cute little girls :)

oh dear...

Maybe they should stick to hockey and baseball?

The kids getting ready for the fishpond!

Then the real volleyball game started!

Sometime we argued with the ref!

After the gym we head over to Brent and Julie's for the adult Christmas exchange! So much fun!

On christmas day we always head out to Cardston to spend some time with the Matkin crew! I didn't get any pictures but it was so much fun! We ate the BEST food ever and I love getting to spend some time with my Grandma Matkin! She is the best!

This is obviously not christmas but I love this picture of us!
It was also my grandma's 87th birthday! I can only pray I age as well as her!

On boxing day it was the Alumni Basketball tourny! It was seriously the best time ever! Finally the 4th year was the charm and all my girls came! Us 5 all got to be on the same team and it was a blast! I seriously miss these girls SO much! I find that no matter what friends you make you just have a very special bond with the friends you had in elementary through high school! Jasmine's dad even came out to watch us play together. He was the one that started it all! He had us practicing at 7:30am since we were in grade 4!

My Girls!
Janet, Meg, Jaclyn, Jasmine, and Shelbi

We had an addition to our team this year!
Shelbi's little girl Breckynn!
I can't believe we are old enough to be getting married and having babies!

One of the last things we did was go to a Hurricane's game of coarse! It was the real reason the Maxwell's from Cali even came! You see when Russ was trying out Carly made her dad promise that if Russ made the team that they would make the trip down and christmas to watch the boys play together. Thinking he was pretty safe Uncle Marty agreed. So when Russ called to let them know he had made it he first talked to Carly and as soon as she found out she yelled "Dad we are going to Canada at christmas!" 

Again not many pictures since my camera died right after this one.

Joce and I

 After the game we all (Morgan, Abby, Brooks, Kenz, Carly, Brian, Jocelyn, and I) decided to go over to Russ and Mitch's billet house to hangout since the Cali cousins left the next day. We almost didn't go since it was late and so cold out but we decided to anyway. I am so glad we did. We didn't do anything besides talk for about 4 hours! It was well into the AM before we headed home! We talked about our families, our sports, our friends, some peoples gfs and bfs, but mostly we talked about our Grandma Colleen and our Grandpa Stan. We all have different memories of our grandpa but we are the younger cousins and don't really have a lot. Some of the cousins only remember him when he was sick so I think it was good for us to help them remember! Of coarse there were some tears shed but overall it was a really special night and I am so glad I have the family I do!