1.04.2011

Christmas Magic

Christmas Eve was spent with the Zobrist clan. Staci & Tony's crew was stuck home with the croup so it ended up just being just us, Brandon and his fam, Grandma Z and Mom and Dad. It was a really quiet night with such a small group but fun none the less.

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We came home early so we could make sure we were snug in our beds before the man in the big red suit made his debut, which was apparently before 1:30 in the morning. I know this because that was when I was ripped out of my very peaceful slumber with sugar plums dancing in my head (or maybe sugar cookies) to find a crying Bonnie and 3 kids trying to wake her up. After some very stern words about NEVER EVER EVER waking up the Bon at 1:30 in the morning they went back to bed and stayed there until 6:30, a much more acceptable hour for waking up the girl!! When she did wake up happily she came down stairs to see a princess overload!! I am now crowned the official worst mother of the year because I seriously ended up with 1 picture of each Terry, Sam and Brett and all of the rest were of Bonnie and Colby, which wasn't much. Remind me next year to take more pictures of my kids opening presents!!



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After some delicious crepes enjoyed on our super fun Christmas plates we cleaned up and headed out to Logandale. Please don't judge, my photo skillz were left with my dancing sugar cookies because dang, I was having an off night!
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Grandma Becky gave all the kids pillows and blankets which prompted some fun times, fake sleeping, pillow fights and who will ever forget the blanket hats donned by Becca and Amy? NOT ME!! Good times at the Conks!

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All in all it was an amazing Christmas followed by a fun trip to Oregon, stay tuned for a blog post with all the super fun shake weight details!!

2 comments:

Tecia said...

I love all your photos and am amazed at how you are able to organize and keep track of them. My goal this year is to have more organization with our family photos.I am so overwhelm. I love taking photos, but lack organization. I have several photo,CD's, some are on my home computers, others on my laptop, others on SD cards. So unoragnize me. Please give me some of your tips. Thx. Tecia

Kristin said...

Tecia, Thanks for the comments!! What a great goal for this year, I used to be so super unorganized with my pictures. I have been shooting digital for 8 years and have tried a number of different methods but I finally found one that works. When I upload my pictures to my computer they go into a "pictures folder, then in that folder I break it up into months THere is a folder for each month, I name them like this 2011-01-January That way It goes into year and month order but I can also see what month it is at a glance. At the end of each month I upload the whole folder to my external hard drive. It really helps to do it regularly! Hope this help and good luck with your goal!