Happy New Year!

2010

Jeppson Family, 2010
Every year I take a picture of our family right after midnight. Here is our first picture of the new year!

A good, old-fashioned, Jeppson Family Christmas

Before heading to Utah for Christmas, we opted to have our own little Christmas celebration early. So, on the morning of Dec. 23, the kids came downstairs and got to open gifts from us and each other.

The girls are always pleased to be able to open gifts before Christmas!

Hunter's first present. He actually ripped off a little bit of paper...he has a very strong grip!

More opening...let the festivities begin!

Jack's first gift. He wasn't as interested in the paper as his brother. He is more laid back, and less intense. He played it very cool!

Christmas 2009

The kids in the Christmas Jammies in front of our tree.

Next year we have opted to spend Christmas at home, and then travel to Utah a few days after. It was a hard decision, we felt like we should visit as often as we have the chance. Plus we have NEVER missed a Christmas with family, when we have lived away from Utah. However, I got a memo from Santa, and he is tired of hauling our gifts to places that aren't our home. I think, with 5 kiddos, it is time to let him deliver the goods to our house...instead of asking for extra favors! We will see how it goes, and what the year brings. For now, as it stands, we will have a "good, old-fashioned, Jeppson Family" Christmas next year right here at home!

Christmas Continued...

I ran out of space for pictures in the last post. So here is Christmas revisited...

Great-Grandma Gale holding Hunter

Great-Grandma Gale holding Jack

Great-Grandma Gale with her two newest great-grandson's

Anya looks very pleased with this gift. She loves cats, and this is a "cat" a pult, you shoot cat figures.

The three new grandsons on the Gale side, or Great-Grandma Gales three newest great-grand children.

The best story of the day was centered around Great-Grandma Gale...who is still sharp and spry at a young age of 94. After Christmas dinner, we had some relatives tune into the party via Skype, or web cam. So we are all huddled around the laptop in the kitchen talking with our cousins, when grandma comes over. "what are you doing". We told her we are talking to TJ and his family. She kind of just smiles at us knowingly...like we are crazy for talking to a piece of plastic. She goes on to say that she hasn't seen a picture of the baby yet, and that the one on the screen is a good one. We tell her again..."grandma, its them in real life on the other side. We are talking to them, and we can see them too...like TV...go ahead grandma...talk to them". Again, she looks at us like we are crazy and headed to the nut house. She makes another comment " oh...that's TJ...He doesn't look like himself". We say, grandma, it is TJ...he can hear you, go ahead and say HI, he can hear you. Again, grandma just smiles at us like we are crazy, shakes her head and walks into the living room to sit on a couch. I guess it is pretty amazing to go from a life of mainly horse drawn carriages to a life where you can talk to a piece of plastic and have it respond. We had a great Christmas, and we were glad we could spend it with so many family members!

Christmas Morning

Ok, so this is very belated, but better late then never right? Christmas 2009 was awesome! We were able to travel to Utah again for Christmas, and we had two new members in our family to share it with! First off, the kids have to eat a good breakfast before seeing what Santa left. I am adament that the kids get at least one good meal in that day!

After breakfast, the girls (and boys) all line up in the hallway to go into the living room to see what Santa left.

Santa was very gracious this year and got most everything on their lists. Anya wanted a Vet kit, and got one. Hannah wanted a My Little Pony house, and Cora wanted a Littlest Petshop house. What was Santa thinking, both items come with multitudes of small parts...perfect for crawling boys to eat and choke on!!! Darn you Santa :)


Discovering the loot!

The girls in their Christmas jammies, waiting for more gifts to open. So spoiled! They even got a gift from their Uncle Quinn's dog, Bubba!


Grandpa with his Christmas gift...two new grandsons!

Blessing Pictures

We blessed the boys on December 27th. For those of you able to come, thanks so much. It meant so much to us for you to take the time to come to our event. We saw a lot of good friends, and family, that we haven't seen for awhile. For those of you that couldn't make it, we missed you and hope to see you sometime soon. In any case, it was a great day. Very special. Matt felt the spirit strongly as he blessed our boys, it was very touching, we know that these are special spirits that have decided to join our family. We are excited to see them grow and learn, and hope they grow up into well mannered young men!

Amber, Matt and Hunter

Amber, Matt and Jack

Hunter Wade

Jack Matthew

The whole gang!

Cora, Hannah, Matt holding Jack, Amber holding Hunter, and Anya

Still WOW, 5 kids!!!

I still have to download Christmas pictures from Matt's phone (my camera died), So those I will post another time...hopefully soon :)

New background

In honor of the boys, I finally have a "boyish" background up. I didn't get a chance to do it sooner, because of all the Holiday backgrounds. So here's to you boys and everything blue!