Happy New Year!

    We got to welcome our New Year in Oregon with our Baker and Larson family. It was fun and simple. A little karaoke, poker and pool and plenty of homemade pizza and other yummy food/treats.

Dyrin helping Charlie or maybe just chatting with her.

Dyrin leaving in sadness because McClane insisted Dyrin was in his seat.

Dyrin, Kayli and Mark expressing different emotions on the upcoming Stake Dance.

Josh arrived and they all agreed they were happy for the upcoming dance.

Cousins.

Charlie's new photo face.

Games.

Karaoke playing in the background.

These three couldn't get enough of these cool tiles. (Forts mostly!)

Charlie made it to midnight.

First selfie of 2015! Happy New Year!

Also while in Oregon we went bowling.

First time for Isaac.

McClane's first time with a little help from Mark.

If you can't roll it, sit on it.

We spent a lot of time at the Larson's. The family with the pool table wins the "favorite cousin, aunt & uncle" award!

Carter's pretty much a pro now ;-)

Cheesy face!

Oh and did I mention they also have the sweetest dog?! 

We couldn't get enough of Haven.

A few of us (Greg, myself, Brock, McClane and Charlie) made a quick visit to Aunt Marie's house in a neighboring town about an hour away from Grandma and Grandpas. I only managed to take a couple photos. The kids enjoyed playing together for the couple hours we were there. Thanks for the nice visit Marie :-)

And thanks to Lottie and Jackson for sharing their new Christmas toys.

McClane was pretty excited about the train set.

 And in case you don't know why I took this next photo, let me explain. Pretty much my whole life my mom has sat on the stand as the organist but now she's her wards Relief Society president so this was weird to see at church.

First time in 40 years my mom's sat on the pew with us.

And here's just a few fun photos from our trip.

Blurry Charlie snuggles.

One big blurry mess of sleeping children. Who else goes on vacation to sleep on their grandparents floor & couches?!

This is why sleeping on the floor isn't so bad, fun with Grandma!

It's a staring contest. 

I think Charlie stared at Elle for at least 3 minutes straight. Intense!

Kari finally warmed up to Charlie, a little.

Now we're headed home and we're only an hour into the trip and we're already on fight #3! Long trip ahead! 

Starting with the sunrise and we'll see the sunset before we get home.