New Year's Eve 2021

New Year's Eve is so tricky as our boys get older.  Everyone has places to be.  We did a fun activity from the book that Nathan gave us for Christmas.  

The boys had to make up a dance and we videoed it.  It was fun!

We had a seafood fest for dinner.

Palmer went to a  a party at Tyler Norr's house.

Lincoln and Hunter went to a stake dance (Lincoln was forced).

McKay stayed home and watch the Georgia game with mom and dad.  It was a great game!

McKay is always left alone with us.  We wanted to make it fun, so we game him a Lego set to keep him entertained that night.  

Looks like a fun stake dance!  Lincoln was watching the Georgia game in one of the rooms...

 

Lincoln JV Wrestling Meet @ Mountain View High School

Lincoln just keeps getting better and better at wrestling.  I didn't have my camera for his first match (Dad brought it later), but he dominated the whole time.  Sad to say, he was worn out and ended up getting pinned (the guy he lost to ended up winning first in the tournament).  He was so exhausted after that match and wasn't feeling great.  He decided to not give up and dig deep.  he ended up wrestling some of the best I've seen him do.  

I always love that they go and shake the hands of their opponent's coach.

Lincoln was a bit intimidated of this guy because "he's huge," but he ended up pinning him super quickly.

Lincoln was so exhausted by this time we didn't know how it was going to go.  This was the match to decide 3rd and 4th place.  

This kid had one move and it was to throw people.  It was pretty effective, but Lincoln was awesome and the guy never got the chance.

Lincoln ended up beating him in points (that's what his coach wanted him to do).  Third place!!

Getting his meddle.

Super proud of this kid!

 

Lincoln at the Peach Bowl

Lincoln had to awesome opportunity to go with the Butler family to the Peach Bowl.  It was Pittsburg against Michigan State.  He had to best time!

 

Hunter's New Calling

Hunter was called as the ward camp director this year.  He's feeling a little freaked, but he's going to do great!
 

Christmas 2021

It was so fun to have Grandma Ann with us for Christmas this year!  Everyone was a little tired from the trip to New York, but the whole Christmas experience was magical.

Palmer and Lincoln got a trip to Utah "from Santa." 

Hunter got a trip to Utah for EFY

McKay got a major lego Millennial Falcon.

Ready to go see the tree!

We had gotten the boys suits and white shirts for Christmas, but they got them early for Grandpa's funeral.  We just put some white shirts in their stocking to remind them...

Grandma Happy (Kathi) gave the boys this awesome boxing set up.

Lots of hugs!  Grandpa Ann gave us part of our trip to New York for Christmas.

McKay's brothers gave him this stuffed animal Appa and I think it was his favorite gift. 

Skiing at Nordic Valley during their Utah trip.

The boys all got Braves World Series Champion shirts.

Josh got a whole bunch of stuff for New York (he needed it) and then wrapped it up for Christmas...

We got Grandma Ann a few things to unwrap.

The boys also got their passports for Christmas.

Mission suit!

Palmer and Lincoln also got tickets to Utah State and BYU basketball games.

He loves hats...

Nathan had our name for Christmas and gave us this fun book that has ideas of things to do together.  It's super fun!

Chocolates from Grandma Happy.

This mini fridge "from Scout" was most of the boys' favorite gift.

Christmas breakfast traditions.

Dinner of prime rib.  Dad smoked it and it was amazing.  We did a program about Jesus Christ that night after dinner and watched "It's a Wonderful Life."  What a wonderful day!