Emily's Wedding - December 29th, 2007

Portland, Oregon LDS Temple

The newlyweds - Golden & Emily
The sistas - Katie and Emily

And no, Emily is not taller than me - she wore huge heels!
My little sister Emily got married to Golden Tawzer in the Portland, Oregon LDS temple on December 29th. They had a beautiful sealing with a reception dinner at a near by hotel. It was a lovely day! I just can't believe that my little sister is married!! Here are a few pics that we took with our camera , but I'll make sure to post more pics from the photographer once they become available - so be on the look out for those.

Winter Wonderland - December 2007

It snowed at our house the other day. It was kind of crazy, we didn't even know it was coming! We just woke up and when I was opening the blinds, there it was! Of course it wasn't lots, but we got a good inch. Megan played out in it for a while and had lots of fun!! Now everyday she looks out the window to see if it snowed. I guess we need to move back to Idaho or something...

Christmas Afternoon at Nana & Papa's House - 2007

It's dinner time...Prime rib, yorkshire pudding, triffle - YUMMY!

And the hats are from the English Poppers.

Uncle Daniel in his purple crown.
Little Daniel relaxing in his lazy-boy recliner at Nana's house.
Megan hanging out in her new owl tent.
On Christmas day afternoon we all headed over to Katie's parents house to have a traditional English dinner. It's one of our favorite holiday meals! Everyone ate lots of food, exchanged gifts, and ate more food! We even got to play two games of Settlers of Catan. It was lots of fun!

Christmas Morning at our House - 2007

Megan opening one of Daniel's toys.

She was good at doing that!

Megan playing with Daniel's new drums.
Daniel didn't know what to think

about this whole Christmas thing! Daniel playing with his new train
We spent Christmas morning at our house. We had Steen's Dad and Nancy come over for breakfast and present opening. After we were done it looked like we were opening a Toys-R-Us store out of our living room. The kids got lots of toys and some cute clothes. Steen and I got some nice things too! And to top off our Christmas morning it snowed on and off for most of the day. We had a wonderful and memorable first Christmas at our new home together as a family!

Christmas Eve at FarMor's House- 2007

Katie & the kids at our house Steen and his new calendar that he got from his Mom
Megan and Daniel in matching PJ's

having fun with some new toys they got from FarMor

On Christmas Eve we went over to Steen's Mom's house to celebrate Christmas Eve. We had a wonderful dinner, ate too much chocolate, sang songs together, and opened lots of presents. We had a wonderful evening spending time together with all of Steen's family.

Billett Family Christmas Party - December 22nd

All Decked Out - December 2007

Steen and my Dad

Megan amoungst the Christmas village Daniel and Santa

So last night we went over to my Dad's best friends house, Joe and Shelly Rogers. So you think that you have a lot of decorations to put out at Christmas, well I think these people have you beat by a long ways. They have like 6 themed trees and tons of decorations and a huge Christmas village. They even switch out there pictures for holiday themed ones, there bathrooms have Santa shower curtains and Christmas themed decorations and I think they even have Christmas bedspreads. My family goes over there every year for a delicious spread of food and to look at all the decorations. Oh I did I mention they have Skee Ball? I am the champion. Megan had a great time. She couldn't even believe her eyes most of the time. Going over to Joe & Shelly's is one of the highlights of the season for us.

Enjoy the video clip of Megan playing Skee Ball.

Elfing Around- December 2007

Click here to watch our family having some fun!

Snow Day!! - December 2007

December started off with a bang in Vancouver this morning. It snowed on and off for most of the day! We had plans to put up Christmas lights on Steen's Mom's house and then on ours. Despite the cold & wet snow, we got all the lights up. We had a super fun day and Megan just loved running around outside in the snow. Daniel didn't even know what to think about the white flakes falling from the sky. He looked a little puzzled!

Trimming the Tree, 2 - November 2007

For those of you who can't see my little slide show that is on my post below...here are the pics of us decorating the tree. And did I mention - IT'S SNOWING OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW!!

Trimming the Tree! - November 2007

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Now I know my ABC's - November 2007

Here is Megan's latest rendition of the ABC's. She been singing it now for about two months. She'll sing it for us on our video camera, but every time we pull out the Kodak she always says "cheese" and waits for us to take her picture! With a little bribing she finally decided to do it! So we are very happy to share this cute video with you...ENJOY!!

Turkey Bowl - November 2007

Here's Steen showing off his football moves at his annual Turkey Bowl at Columbia River High School. It was cold and frosty that morning but I heard the boys had a great time. No big injuries this year, so that was good.

Crazy Megan - November 2007

Megan has been a crazy little sleeper the last week or so. As soon as I shut the door for nap time or bedtime I almost immediately see her light turn on and hear her dresser drawers open. She apparently puts on a little fashion show for herself when she should be napping. She usually ends up falling asleep after she gets bored, but this is how Steen and I found her the other night at 11:30pm. She had emptied all of her jammies on her bed and fell asleep amongst the pile. She was also wearing 4 pairs of PJ bottoms and had her shirt on backwards and half on. We got her tucked in properly after discovering this, but it was pretty darn funny to see this!

Our new FENCE!! - November 2007

Part ONE: We finally saved up enough money to get 1/2 of our yard fenced. We are so excited to have our new fence!! Now we can plant our trees and start landscaping on that side of the yard. Not to mention, now Megan won't be able to run into the neighbors yard anymore. The fencing in our neighborhood can only be almond colored vinyl fencing which is so stinking expensive, 23 bucks a foot. Be on the lookout for part TWO in the spring. Hopefully we will have saved enough for the other half by then!

Steen's 29th Birthday!! - November 2007

Steen celebrated his 29th birthday on the 11th. I cooked a nice dinner for him and we had some friends over, then we had all the family come over for cake and ice cream in the evening. It was lots of fun to have everyone over. Steen got lots of neat gifts and money to spend on "whatever he wants!!" I can't believe that Steen is now 29, and that means that next year he'll be the BIG 30!!

Megan's 1/2 Birthday - November 2007

Megan is now officially 2 1/2! Her 1/2 birthday happens to be on Steen's birthday. So I made Megan some cup cakes and we mainly celebrated Steen's birthday. Megan was excited to have cupcakes of her own and of course all the attention of her grandparents and aunts and uncles!

Dad's 50th Birthday! - October 2007

Daniel enjoyed watching me make dinner. He is so sweet.

Tommy, Megan & Tanner being silly!
My Dad turned 50 on Halloween. We had little family dinner party for him at our house over the weekend. It was really fun to have everyone over to our house.

Happy Halloween!! - October 2007

Megan the Monkey

Daniel the Sweet Pea

Megan got a rock off the road when we were out Trick-or-Treating.

It was practically as good as the candy!

Happy Halloween! We had a great evening tonight. Megan the Monkey and Daniel the Sweet Pea got dressed up and we went Trick-or-Treating in our neighborhood. We then came back to our house and handed out candy all night long. We had about 75-80 kids come by. Maybe more...Then we ate my graveyard cake, it was yummy. We had a great Halloween and we hope that all of you did as well. Now it's time to get ready for Thanksgiving.

Carving Pumpkins - October 2007

So here we are carving pumpkins. Steen carved three and I carved one. Megan helped a little bit and of course Daniel just watched us. Megan thought it was pretty cool to cut designs into the pumpkins. She thought my pumpkin was nice and Steens were mean. Megan even sampled raw pumpkin from the garbage bowl and she liked it. We had to stop her from eating it! We'll take pics with our pumpkins in the daylight and post them soon. Happy Halloween everyone!!