Christmas! and a wedding

I know I am a little late blogging about Christmas but I have either been busy this week, or too lazy haha! 

I had a wonderful Christmas! Soo much fun, and Santa did VERY good this year ;)

Christmas Eve was spent at my sister's new home. 

They built the cutest house ever this past spring and one of these days
 I AM going to go out and take pictures. 

It is a little bit country, cozy, and still modern. 

My family does this thing where we all sleep in the same room Christmas Eve, we used to be able to all sleep in one bed, but thank goodness we don't do that anymore.

 5 sisters + my brother-in-law + a niece + a nephew
would be WAY too much to handle. 

So we settled on all sleeping together in the loft/family room instead.

Luckily Santa was able to find us, and my 6 yr old nephew, Ty, was
 SUPER DUPER excited. 

Chrissa, my niece, loved her gifts. Unwrapping presents is her forte though. 

See the little blue kitchen in the background? Danielle (the big sis) saw all the cute homemade kitchens on Pinterest and knew that Chrissa would absolutely love one. She did. Chris (the big brother-in-law) spent the week before Christmas making it. 

SO CUTE!

Danielle & Chris have been married for almost 7 years! 

After deciding to NOT do gifts for each other Chris surprised Dani with a 

diamond band to replace the band she already had. 

After we opened Santa gifts and had breakfast we went back to the 

parentals to open gifts they had given us.

 I think my parents are making fun of us girls in these pictures about us getting excited over gifts haha.

 I didn't want to miss out on a photo op so when my sisters were posing
with new blankets they received, I grabbed my sister's new saddle blanket
and hopped in the picture.

 Yes, my mom is crying in this picture. We are that good! 

For Christmas we all gave my parents a book that we made.

 It showed pics of them & us growing up, weddings, family vacations,
and all sorts of other stuff. 

Ever Year my family takes pictures in our new church clothes. 

 But of course my family can never take anything too seriously.

 I know you can't really see anything in this picture but that is basically the point. 

This picture is of me and my sister Amanda, playing with Ty's lightsabers. 

She dominated me.

 The day after Christmas my family rode the Front Runner
down to Salt Lake for my cousin's wedding.

We have rode it before, but this time we decided to play hide-n-seek on the train,
SOO FUN!!

Unfortunately all of the pictures from the wedding dinner Monday night are on my sisters camera, in Logan. So you don't get any. Sorry.

But I do have a few pics of us on the temple grounds Tuesday morning. 

 We had some time to kill between the ceremony and the reception so of course 

we went swimming at the hotel.

 Yes, this is a picture of us trying to look pregnant haha.
Actually, Danielle is pregnant with #4 :)

 but you can barely tell, the bubbles from the jets help though.

 I was so excited when we got to the reception and I saw this! 

Don't ya just love missionary cardboard cutouts?

My cousin Landon is currently serving in the England Manchester Mission. 

He gets home in June & I am very excited. 

Isn't she the cutest ever?

I know I have more pictures somewhere but this post is already a million miles long!

Hope everyone had a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Love ash