Spoiled Christmas Kids

I never believed I was spoiled until this Christmas. I helped plan a Christmas Angel type activity with the singles branch and I was truly taken back when I realized how little some of these kids were getting for Christmas. It almost didn't make sense to me that a child would wake up to only two gifts to unwrap on Christmas morning and I mean if they did only have two gifts, then they for sure must be getting some cash too. Well of course they weren't, so I worked really hard to make each kid have more then a few gifts to open. So needless to say, I felt incredibly spoiled this year, and I never admit that, I tend just to expect to be spoiled. But my mom did spoil all of us this year. The little boys were of course spoiled too. Every year since Ive been home I feel like they get everything under the sun and this year was no different. In my effort to make sure the little boys didn't get 500 different toys, I decided to make them blankets. It was a fabulous idea until I realized my time to finish them was slowly diminishing. I ended up having to stay up literally all night to get them done on time.
On Christmas day, my dad's family came over for dinner. He has 10 brothers and sisters so its always an event to have almost everyone together. I wish I would have had a note pad to take notes of all the funny things they say. My favorite quote of the night was of one of my aunts who told the story of when she was babysitting my twin 2nd cousins. She took them to Walgreen's for a treat and the 5 year old girl was being a pill I guess, so she told her "I'm gonna beat your A$$!" It was pretty hilarious.

Court got the new G2 Rip Stick

Billy got a new bike

Casey got some Costco sized A1 sauce cause he never has enough

Court's blanket

My mom always makes us hug each other after we open their gift.

Mom got a new tv for her room

It wouldn't be an Overfield Christmas without some Jeff Gordon gifts

And then our family got the wii and wii fit!

My Little Family

I'm pretty sure this will be the last family picture of the kids without my parents since most everyone thought I had gotten married and had a few kids. So just to clarify, I didn't marry my brother and give birth to a 5 and 8 year old this year. We just have 20 years in between the youngest and oldest. I'm pretty sure if I had my way, I would have sent out an 8x10 to fit all the pictures that I liked. And I literally could do a whole post with just pictures of Billy. Here are a few....

My favorite picture of the whole shoot

My mom was dancing to try and get us to smile, so Billy tried to get us to laugh too

Walking Club

Who has a baby growing inside of them, taking all their resources, MOM or DAD?

2 Worlds 2 Voices

You may remember a while back, I went to a concert called, 2 worlds 2 voices. It featured two artists, one from country, one from pop. Yes of course that was the Reba and Kelly concert. In December, I had the opportunity of attending another concert, that could have very well been titled, 2 world 2 voices. This concert featured two artist, one from Canada, one from Heber City Utah. Its hard to compare the two really, in the video below it might be hard to determine, who is who, is it Shelly singing 'power of love', or Celine? From a distance it may look as if Shelly is dressed immodestly dancing around the stage, but one thing is certain, though vastly different in range and accord, their audiences are strangely similar. I would hypothesize that the average age of either concert was roughly 68 years old. Literally I was astonished by the geriatric crowds of each famous artist. My favorite part of each concert: during Celine's concert she had these amazing treadmill like platforms, after Shelly's concert going to olive garden. Even though the talent was on the same level, the price of tickets was drastically different, Shellbell (her stage name) played at "The Forum" for free, while Celine played at "Jobing.com Arena" for 170 dollars a ticket! despite the reinforced glass, this was not a mental institution.

This was backstage with their vocal coach

Monkey Boy

Billy was following me around while I was putting up Christmas lights. I took my eyes off him for about 10 seconds and turned around and he was gone. Our yard is pretty wide open so it wasn't like he was hiding behind something. It was a good thing he was wearing a red shirt though, cause that's the only thing that helped me spot him. Apparently he had thrown his whistle up and it landed in the tree so he went to get it. He was alot higher up but this is after I had him climb down a little and said, what are you a monkey? Then he made monkey faces and sounds and is just one of the reasons he got a Curious George book and stuffed animal this Christmas.