Good friends, Christmas parties, and lovely snow!

Merry Christmas Weekend!!

Friday night was our friend Christmas party. Ry's been buddies with "the guys" since Junior High School....they have experienced "life" together. We have all been to each other's weddings, baby births, and special occasions. We try to get together once a month to just hang out and laugh. In the pic we are missing two couples. One of them is my bro Brandon and Emily who are living in Germany.(Brandon is currently a surgeon for the army.)The other, Jamie and Jason Neals met us after dinner.

I met Ryan through my brother (they were best friends growing up!) and I was adopted into the group quickly. We love our friends and cherish our friendship's. They would do anything for us as we would for them! Love ya guys!

Left to Right: Krista Daynes, Dave Daynes, Ry, Jason McNiell, Jason Money, Julie Money, me, and Heather McNiell. Jamie and Jason Neals and Adam and Janae Cox met us after dinner for the party a the Daynes home! We had such a great night!

Snow anyone?? The Mountain House got at least a foot of snow...it was beautiful to see all the big, fluffy snowflakes fall. On Saturday, we had sooo much to do and we were worried because we were almost snowed in! After Jake's basketball game (he scored 18 pts. yay! Gpa Jerry would be proud) We had to meet the carpet guy at our house and we had to go the L O N G way down to the valley!

Later in the day it was the Annual Brown Cousin Christmas Party!!

The kids look forward to this party every year. It has gotten so big that we have to go to a church to meet. We had delicious food, fun games, gift exchanges, and lots of craziness! Kristin is a master cook and brought homemade fudge, Carmel's, toffee, and miracles...it tasted like Heaven. On. Earth. Thanks Kristin for being so talented and always feeding us so well!

I think there are almost 30 grand kids in the Brown clan. We split them all up and play games for each age group. My treat bowl was full of creamy, delicious chocolates....:)

Here is a pic of some of us girls. We all have our winter boots on!

All the kiddos lined up for the Sing-a-long....how the kids love the singing. It is there favorite activity of all. Something about singing Christmas songs fills their little hearts with the Christmas spirit. I think we sang every Holiday tune.........!

Thanks to Misty who is the talented musical prodigy of the family. She can play just about everything....her guitar was perfect! Jakey, Dax, Trey (twins), and Lani helped her out with the kids favorite song of all: Santa's Red Nose

Are we cute or what? Here is a pic of my twin bro and his little boy, Carson. Mace and Carson are a couple of weeks apart...so fun for them! BTW, Troy and Kristin just got back from a week in Hawaii...they were so tan! We were all so jealous.

Later that night, Ry took Austin and his Junior Jazz team to the Jazz game and I took Ash, Jake, and Mace to Misty's ward dinner. It was so nice to watch their program about Baby Jesus and why we really celebrate Christmas! After the party I took the kids on to the Target! It was late and it was so full of Holiday shoppers. We were all running around trying to find the perfect gift...I love it!




So that was our Christmas crazy weekend. It was so fun to have all the Christmas parties and spend time with all of the people we care about!

Merry Christmas..........11 days and counting! It's coming fast....