Which one is which?

When I first met Josh and Jason together I couldn't tell them apart. To me they looked exactly the same, had the same mannerisms, jokes and I think Jason was even wearing a shirt that I seen Josh wear before. Obviously it didn't take long for me to be able to tell them apart and as the years have past it seems like they looked even less and less like each other. But just recently it seems like they are looking more and more alike. This picture is from a couple weekends ago.

It probably helps that Jason is wearing Josh's clothes, but I really did a double take for a minute. Aren't they both so handsome?

Christmas at last......is over!

Now I love Christmas. I love everything about it. But it is sure nice a calm now that its over. Maybe that will be my new goal, to keep Christmas next year nice and calm. We'll see.

These are pictures from Christmas morning. Our kids forgot that it was Christmas morning until they meandered down the stairs at about 8:30 only because Teag had woken up about 30 min earlier and was being too noisy for anyone to continue sleeping.

Once they realized it was Christmas they were so excited.
Santa brought a sled, which Teag loved, so the girls pulled him around the house in it all morning.
This was Christmas eve. We had dinner with our good friends and we even put on the Nativity. It was fun. After that we danced to Christmas songs. When I say "we" I mean those 6 and under and an occasional break out dance from me and Tanya.
This is Josh being the narrator and a wise man. Kenady is a wise man and Presley is an angel. Teag was supposed to be the donkey but he wasn't having the costume on his head.
This is Christmas eve as well , all dressed up in their Christmas Dresses from G & G Mackey.
Teag playing some of his favorite toys. What a smiley face he is!

Christmas Rocks!

Jenna's Wedding

This is our latest family picture taken at Jenna's wedding.

So Christmas came and went. It was great, we had all the good food and all the "Littlest Pet Shops" that our hearts could desire and we were completely happy. We saw lots of family and had a great time. My sister Jenna got married on the 23rd and had her reception on New Years Day. It was busy but it was fun. These are just some pictures of the reception.

This was my first wedding cake. I just wanted to toot my own horn a little bit cause I thought it turned out pretty well.

The whole wedding party. Evans and Mackeys
The whole Mackey family. We just keep getting bigger and bigger every year.
Mackey grandkids.

We had a great time at the wedding. Congrats to the happy couple!

First Things First

Of course I will get to the Christmas post, but first I have to blog about everything I haven't since my camera broke.

We spent Thanksgiving in Las Vegas as previously mentioned. These are some pictures taken before the camera accident.

Kenady camped out by the cheese platter.
What's up Cuz?
Kickin' it Vegas style..
The kids played every day in the pool for at least a couple hours. They had a blast. It was only about 65 degrees outside but Grandpa had the pool heated up to nice warm temperature for them.
Then they would all take a bath in Grandma's huge tub.
As you can see they were in the tub a lot. Grandma also spoiled them by this enormous bubble bath. They don't get that luxury at home.
This is how they bath at our house. Rub a dub dub, three kids in the tub. (one that doesn't hold still)
This is just Teag on a typical day, hangin' in the kitchen with mom. He found the powdered sugar, bit a hole it, made this mess and then began to lick his pants. Can ya blame him?

Here's a couple videos of what we do for fun at our house. I walked into this awesome display of lip singing. Presley had cleared off the table and was doing her best impression of Miley Cyrus.

The other video was also typical of a night at the Nacey's. Fun stuff. I hope everyone's Christmas was great. Our was fabulous and will post more on that later.

words of Presley...

Still no camera, but I did want to document some funny stuff that Presley said the other day.

Our conversation went like this:

Me: We are going to have a bridal shower for Jenna this week

Presley: Hey Kenady we are going to watch Jenna take a bridal shower

Next day

Presley: Mom, Jenna is going to chew that gum while she's taking her bridal shower huh? We are going to watch her.

I still don't think she understands.

On a different day, it was really windy, imagine that in Rock Springs. She could her the wind whistling and howling and she says, "Mom, there is really a tomato coming!"

I said, "Yep"

She's a cutie.

The One-Year old, the Christmas candy and the Wedding

So, I think that I was the only blog with Halloween pictures still up. I was in desperate need of an update and lo and behold, my camera gets swatted (accidentally) from the counter, which causes it to break and be in need of repair. So I don't have any new pictures even though we had a recent holiday and a slew full of other things going on. I will try to recap.

Thanksgiving was spent in Viva Las Vegas with Josh's side of the family. LOVED being there, hanging out, swimming (kids), eating, shopping, playing cards and laughing. HATED driving with our one- year old 9 hours each way. Unfortunately for the rest of us, Teag has ruined our chances of making that trip anytime in the next year to eighteen months, or whenever he decides that watching a movie in the car is awesome. So until then bye bye, Viva Las Vegas, I will miss you!

The Christmas tree is up and my December is booked as always, but even more so since my dear sweet sister Jenna has decided that December 23rd is a great day to get married. So on top of regular December stuff, we are throwing in a temple session, bridal shower, bridal pictures a wedding and a reception and I'm making the cake, all before the 2nd of January when her newly wedded husband will return to the army. Sounds crazy but we are very excited for her. They make a great couple.

All during this month I am trying to keep Christmas special for our kids and I want to share one tradition that we do. I wrap 25, thats right, Christmas books and put them under the tree. Each night the kids get to open one and we read it together. They love it and it really gets us in the Christmas spirit, especially on the fateful night that "A Christmas Dress for Ellen" gets unwrapped and mom can't keep her sobs under control. (Thats my favorite night too!)

I love Christmas and all the candy and good feelings that come with it. Bring on the online shopping and ABC Family Christmas movies, "Christmas in Handcuffs" anyone?

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

Halloween time again, and boy do we love it! We got all dressed up for our friend's annual Halloween party. We even won this sweeeet skeleton trophy for most Creative costume. Josh also won for being the most in character. He had us laughing all night. It was great!

My little kiddos, a genie, a butterfly and a cute little bat a.k.a Fat Bat.
Trick or Treating in Wyoming. Actually it wasn't too cold. I was thankful that the wind died down from the day before. (Our trampoline flew across the yard. We had bags of rocks on the legs, so the legs stayed and top blew into the corner of our yard. Needless to say it is now down for the winter.)
The kids had fun trick or treating but had more fun handing out candy. I'm going to be sad to see the days go when two streets of trick or treating is satisfying enough. Ahhhh, good times!