Saturday, February 5, 2011

Christmas/babies/tea party, etc...

Hope you don't mind the plethora of collages in this post. I'm FINALLY getting around to posting the events over the last couple of months.

December 10th, the XANGO Christmas party. We were all quite overwhelmed by the gifts they gave to each employee....

-A Kindle
-$300

It was AWESOME!! Some people sold theirs on KSL, I kept my Kindle, downloaded some books and have even finished a book. I love my Kindle! Normally they only spend about $50/employee.

Plus I got to walk on the stage, along with many others, and get a certificate for my 5 year XANGO anniversary. They gave us $200 for that. Sweet!

We also decorated our Call Center with lights and snowflakes galore - it looks pretty!


Next baby Elizabeth Colleen Curran was born on the 21st. Such a little sweetie! It's so fun having a little baby neice. She's just beautiful!


Following that wonderful event The Summerhays family came into town. I got to meet sweet little Liam that was born in November for the first time. Oh how he melts my heart!

One evening before Christmas we headed to Temple Square with the siblings and then went out to dinner. I love my brothers and sisters!

Then we had all the Christmas festivities. Christmas Eve we went to my parents house. It was nice having everyone home (except Quinn's Darlene who was in NZ visiting family). We played the Oreo game (with Vanilla Oreo's)...man we laughed and laughed!

We had our traditional Potato soup, and French Onion soup that my mom makes, along with her homemade bread sticks..yumm!!

We caroled to the neighbors on our street. Fun! Then opened pixie gifts.

Ryan and I went home and opened our own small gifts. We did things really low key this year, which was perfect.


-January 1st the girls had our annual Tea Party, complete with hats and fun attire. Megan went all out with her crazy red dress. My Mom had gone antique shopping and had found all these hats, and then gave them to all us girls for Christmas. We loved it!

She invited our cousin, Connie and her mother. What a blast we had! The pictures say it all.




January 2nd Gavin was baptized and Liam was blessed. We did a little photo shoot at my house of those boys. It was a great event.




In January I did a little photo shoot with Elizabeth. I love how they turned out!


It was a great Holiday season. I loved having family in town and celebrating it with them.

This is just a random picture of me, my mom and Conn at one of Kalin's basketball games, I thought they were funny so I had to post them. Speaking of Kalin he's the top scorer for his team and I think I heard the he was the top scorer for the Utah Valley teams. He's amazing! And he's only a sophomore! I'm so proud of my nephew!

2 comments:

Caitilin said...

I'm dying over the pics, Shan!! Seriously! They are beautiful! I especially LOVE the candid shot of Kurt w/the boys. Oh how that melts my heart! Please send me copies!!! Thank you a million billion times over for taking these precious pics - it means the world to me. Love you!

Debbie Murdock said...

What a fun tradition with the tea party! What an awesome fam! Plus I bet Elizabeth's Momma is having so much fun with that beautiful dark hair!!