Christmas ~ with the Whipple Fam

Well my camera battery died Christmas morning with the charger

being back in Show Low. So here is the one and only Christmas

morning picture I got of cute Carder. He likes to bang things so

a hammer that makes noises as you bang it seemed very fitting.

So the rest of these are from Christmas Eve. We got together with

my family this year for Christmas (we roatate every year) and so it

was down in the valley this year (which I think is always nice to get

out of the cold for a few days) It was pretty packed with something

always going on but it was fun! We arrived Tues. night and stayed with

my sister Marcy and family. Christmas eve day was spent doing

last minute shopping and then family pictures that afternoon. Then

our traditional Navajo Tacos for Christmas Eve dinner and playing

the White Elephant game over at my parents house. So that is what

the following pics are from; Christmas Eve. The grandkids went

ahead and opened their gifts from Gpa & Gma Whipple. Here is

Carder sitting on top of his gift with Vinnie. He will love this!

This is Carder's first Christmas and he enjoyed all the wrapping

paper best of all! He turned 9 months on the 22nd.


This is cute Paige playing with Carder.

Luke and Camdon showing what they got.

Look at that gorgeous smile from Miss Savannah.

Caden got a gun case. Just what he asked for from Gpa.

"Vinnie keep your gang signs to yourself" ha-ha

Laura (my sister-in-law), Marcy (sister) holding my baby Carder,

me, and my Grandma Ries.

Kamrielle excited to open her gift from her grandparents

Here is what the three girls got...They love their babies!

My Grandpa & Grandma Ries came to celebrate with us on

Christmas Eve too!

Here they are with all of their Great-Grandchildren.

Just wanted to go around the room and get some group shots:

Richard (bro.-in-law), Luke (nephew), Todd (brother) and Gpa Ries.

Caden (my oldest), Tim (brother), Jaron, Trevon & Camdon (nephews) &

Carder (my baby) being held by Trevon.

Kiff (brother) and my Mom.

It was a wonderful time! We had Christmas breakfast at Richard's

parents house (They have done this for several years now) They fed

around 170 people this year. Then we headed to the movie that afternoon

Bedtime Stories It was a great movie and everyone enjoyed it! Then

we came back to Marcy's and had a nice Ham dinner with all the trimmings

and then played games till really late. On Friday we did a little more shopping

and then played some Basketball at my parents church bldg. with some

cousins and there kids we don't always get to see. All the adults in my family

went out to dinner at Tia Rosa's and enjoyed our last night together!

We ended up staying an extra day and came home on Saturday instead

of Friday. I'm glad we did and we had a great time! I am glad to get back

home and back to the regular schedule and not having all those treats around!

I think I gained 5 lbs. just in the 4 days we were there...but it was soo worth it!

Thank You to my wonderful family for making some more fun memories for us all!

Finally catching up a bit...

My brother Todd and his family are here for Christmas

from Texas and on there way through they stayed

with us Sat. and Sun. night this past weekend. It was

great to have them and we sure enjoyed it. It's been a

year and a half since they were last here in AZ.

Laura, Todd, Paige & Luke.

These are there hairless dogs Bailey and Roxie with Laura.

They kept things exciting around the house too! They loved

Carder and were fascinated by him.

Kamrielle and Paige sure had a good time together. They played

until you made them go to bed, which was pretty late both nights.


They also like to be goofy together. Paige is wearing Laura's glasses.

This is taken Sunday after Church. I'm not always that good

at remembering to take pictures but I remembered this time.

This is my cute Kamrielle in her Christmas dress.

Vinnie and the boys got home before us girls and they had already

changed out of there Sunday clothes but we got us girls with

Carder. He looks pretty cute in just his diaper.

My flash did goofy things but It was still so cute of these two I

had to use it. Carder is 9 months now! Wow time flies. He is army

crawling all over the place. Having the wood floors on most the first

floor he is getting around pretty quick on them.

And Vinnie and Caden just returned home last Friday after being

gone for a week in Texas. They also went with Vinnie's dad and

three other brothers~ Joey, Jace and Willie. They hunted pig and

deer. Vinnie took my camera with him and the video camera and

all they got were two pictures for the whole week. So this is Jace,

Caden and Willie with some of the pigs they shot. They had a great

time and the boys enjoyed missing the last week of school. So there

break will be three weeks instead of two! It was very cold there too.

They had to hunt the pigs at night. One day while texting with Vinnie

he said it was 15 degrees and that was in the day. I also had a great

time while they were gone! I headed to the valley to hang out with my

mom and sister. I stayed there the whole time and it was lots of fun!

Of course I did not get any pictures because I did not have my camera

but you can check out Marcy's blog. She got a few from the week.