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!!