Manwaring Family

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

Three Happy Kids on Christmas Morning!

Cute Warnick cousins: Savannah, Makayla, Brooklyn, Logan, Emmy, Ryder & Brynnley

We spent Christmas Day at my mom's for lunch and with Mike's family for dinner that evening. Lots of family fun!

Lots of little girls = lots of barbies!

(I had to include this shot for the 2 dorks in the background. : )

Grandma and her girls

Where's Logan and Brynn? We lost them under all the mess!

Cutest cousins ever!

I love my sisters!

Family Photo Shoot Time . . .

Above: Jeanette and Brandon & Anz and Chase

Below: Me and Mike

We love you, Mom!

We missed James and Lisa on Christmas, but got to enjoy lunch with them, Mom, and Grandma and Grandpa at Olive Garden.

Christmas dinner with Mike's family!

Pictured: Stephanie, Ari, Jenny, Scott, Eileen, and Mike

We had such a nice evening with Mike's family filled with yummy food and family games.

Mike and Steve

Dan, Makayla, Darrin, Anne Marie, James, John, and Logan

Makayla and Logan had a blast playing games with their cousins. Then, after games was of course the annual dart gun shoot out. Logan was in heaven playing with all his big cousins.

The big "boys" had as much fun as the kids.

I hope y'all had a very Merry Christmas too!

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Christmas Eve

I love Christmas! It seems like it is always over way too quickly. I am so happy we get to travel home to Utah each year for Christmas. I treasure the time we spend with our family and friends. We first celebrated on Christmas Eve with Dad and Sharon. All of us got together at their house for a yummy lunch and lots of presents. Then, James and Lisa were off to California to spend Christmas with Lisa's family and we spent the evening at the annual West Christmas Eve Extravaganza.

I couldn't pass this picture of Ryder up. He is such a little cutie! (He doesn't make many of the cousin pictures yet.)

Christmas Eve dinner with my West cousins is a family tradition. We always have a delicious Christmas dinner, followed by the next generation of cousins acting out the Christmas Story while it is read from the Bible. This year we had a puppet show while Makayla read the Christmas Story. (Mike cut Makayla out of the above picture. I was back stage helping our little performers.)

After all the parties, we came back to Mom's to open our one present on Christmas Eve (which is always new PJs, of course. I thank my dad for that fun Warnick tradition!) Then, we set out cookies for Santa, left carrots for Santa's reindeer, and read The Night Before Christmas. Finally, three excited children tried to sleep while anxiously awaiting Santa!

Warnick Winter Weekend in Midway

If these faces are any indication of how our weekend of family fun went, then we must have had a great time all together! We spent a fun-filled weekend in Midway with all of my family at my Uncle's house. Thank you, Uncle Bill! We took advantage of all the snow in Midway sledding at Soldier Hollow and doing some extreme sledding of our own in the backyard. The kids had a blast playing together and we all had fun watching movies and playing games.

The Warnick gang's all here!
Mike, Brandon, Jeanette, Ryder, James, Lisa, Andrea, Emmy, Chase, Jalinda, Savannah, Brooklyn, Mom, Makayla, Brynnley, and Logan

Sledding in the backyard on Mike and Brandon's extreme sledding hill off the deck.

Logan, Brynnley, Makayla and crazy Aunt Jeanette. Oh and there's a side of Brandon's face.

Only these two could pull off such a cute wipe out!

Baby Ryder didn't get too much snow time.

Tubing at Soldier Hollow was so much fun! Our first run down the mountain, we shot down so fast I thought for sure we were going to die! I frantically made sure Logan and Savannah were still alive when we reached the bottom. I soon realized they were fine when they both starting screaming simultaneously. They didn't think plunging down the mountain at record speeds was as fun as Mike and I.