And for the grand finale...random pictures!

I know these Christmas posts have been the longest ever, but I couldn't leave anything out!!  Here are just some fun random things that happened, like the kids playing so much together, my brother leading Tayevion in interpretive dance, the "la ri la ra la ray" cup game, and my dad showing off his skills and silliness by stacking cups super high and hiding under a tablecloth.  Gotta love my crazy family :)

Happy New Year!

For New Years we were back at my sister's house.  We hung out and had chocolate fondue from the chocolate fountain and watched Knight and Day and had fun.

The Condo in Park City

I mentioned my brother Derick and his family got a time share for one week in Park City.  It was a fun little getaway up in the mountains.  Except when it was snowing and I was freaked out about driving through the canyon.  We had some good times up there though.  Here my mom is right there in the mix with the grandkids playing "Just Dance" on the Wii.  Go Mami!  Do you like how Taye is doing it too?

Here is Taye again, he striped down to his diaper as soon as we got there and ran around like this all night.  I wish I had a picture of myself this night.  This was the day that I started the Anthrax research study and I was feeling SO out of it.  Later everyone told me I acted like a zombie.

We also celebrated Gracie's birthday up there.  What a cutie!

And every time the cousins get together they make a movie as a group.  And every year they out do themselves.  Of course this one was extra special because ALL of the cousins got to be in it.  It was awesome!

After the movie they did an "academy awards" show.  Those creative kids!  Oh here in the picture you can kind of see how out of it I look:

Family Pictures at the State Capitol and Birthday GNO

My fabulous brother has picked up photography as a hobby and so we were the benefactors of his talent all thoughout the holidays.  We decided to go take family pictures at the State Capitol.  He took some of us all together outside on the balcony that I would really like to see but he is hoarding them and won't share yet!  So all I have are other random ones.  Like this priceless "grandma" picture of Gracie and my mom.

And this one of Jasmine and Ellie posing and rolling around on the floor.

Here's the boys who surprisingly posed themselves for this picture.

And my crazy nephew Alex balancing the photo light thingy, haha he is so funny.

And don't my parents look so cute in this picture?

Okay so after the picture taking spree, we split up by gender.  All of the boys went to watch the Jazz game.  Well they tried to go watch the Jazz game but they had a bunch of mis-adventures. And all of the girls (plus Taye, poor guy) went to see Tangled and to Leatherbys afterwards to celebrate Gracie's birthday!  It was such a cute movie, I think it is one of my favorite Disney movies.  And Leatherbys is one of my favorite places period.  Plus we were all together!  So it was a pretty great night all around.