Sunday, December 7, 2008

Holiday Festivities

We've had quite week this week! We had many activities to get us into the holiday spirit. First of all, I got my Thanksgiving pictures! Thanksgiving was awesome this year. We spent the holiday at the Hutchison cabin in Brian Head, with my family. We had a white Thanksgiving, as it snowed the entire time we were there! It made the weekend so fun to play in the snow, go snowmobiling, and drink hot chocolate by the fire. We had the Yamane family come up and celebrate with us as well. This weekend we then decided to go and see the lights at temple square. Jane, Eric's sister, came in town to visit, so we brought her and our friends the Griffin's and the Floyd's up to see the lights. They were absolutely spectacular. It was fun to see the nativity scenes, the bagpiper, and all of the amazing lights. We also had our ward Christmas party this week. We thought it would be fun to have Connor sit on Santa's knee and take a picture, but he wanted nothing to do with it. He screamed and twisted until Eric rescued him. He is being extremely clingy to us right now, and he was not happy that someone else was holding him! We enjoyed celebrating with our ward members and enjoying one another's company.
Connor isn't quite sure of the snow!
Eric taking Connor on a rhino ride.


Connor loved going on rides with his dad!


We're ready for a ride!


Me and Eric on the snowmobile


Eric is always so good with the little kids. He thought it would be fun to make a huge train out of all of the snow toys and pull the kids behind the snow mobile.
It was so cute and the kids had a blast.


The Hutchison and Yamane family. We are getting ready to chow down on some great food!


The little girls! Devon, Sophie, and Gentry.


The boys! Weston, Chandler, and Logan.

The Larkin's in front of the huge tree of lights.


Eric and Connor watching the bagpiper play Christmas songs.


Me and my little man! He was not loving his hat...but it kept his head warm!


Brandon and Kelsey in front of the reflection pond.


Whitney, Eric, Connor, Jane, Cassie, Jessica, and Riley all in front of the SLC temple.


Our little family in front of the lights and nativity scene.


Eric, Jane, and Connor outside of the Conference Center.

The whole crew!

Connor did not like sitting on Santa's knee!
Eric trying to console Connor after the traumatic Santa experience.

Connor and Emily hanging out in the Santa line.

Jane and Connor.


5 comments:

Julie said...

Haha! Connor didn't like Santa! That's a great pic! Looks like you guys are having fun ( :

california smiths said...

Looks like a fun holiday season so far! Our ward party is on Saturday and I am curious to see how Grant does, I imagine he will react similar to Connor :)

Julie said...

I can't believ eyou haven't see Twilight yet! Get on that, Whitney! Tell Eric to just suck it up and go... ( :

Julie said...

Sorry.... ANOTHER comment from Julie... ( : I just made my blog private. Can you send me your email address?

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Allison said...

So cute!! Looks like you guys have had a lot of fun so far! I hope the rest of the Christmas season continues to be great!! (Okay, that sounded kind of lame, like a cheap greeting card, but the feelings behind it are genuine haha)