LOVE FAMILY TIME.....

We had our Grande Christmas party this past weekend.....It's always a blast when we all get together!!! How Our Families are growing.....

The Gibbs....
from left - Ashlee, Michael, Mike, Rachelle, Justin
Front row...Brylee on my right hip, me, Telsea on my left hip
and Mr Landon on mommy's hip......

The Coogle's....
From left- Mark, Ed, Grandpa Jack, Mike(Nicole's Fiance),
Front row- Trena, Rachel(Ed's girlfriend), Crystal and Nicole...

The Grande's....
from left- Daniel, Mike, Debbie, Corie( Stetson girlfriend), Brianna
front row- Whitney, Dustin and Stetson

Our traditional Mexican Food Blowout!!!!
Homemade green and red enchilada's , homemade salsa and guacamole, homemade green chili burrito's, taco and tostada's...YUMMY!!!!!

My favorite place.... life doesn't get much better than this!!!!

not sure what Whitney's talking about, but it must be serious......

Telsea got to see her friend Adian....they have lot's of fun together!
They are only a days a part in age...love their boots!!!

Love this picture of Grandpa Jack.....We love YOU!!!

It was present time!!!!!
Thanks Aunt Trena and Aunt Debbie....

My sister had this photo book made for my brother and myself.....it was AMAZING!!!
The front of the book had a picture of the house that we first lived in as kids....then it had pictures of my parents from when they were young to their wedding day forward, then each one of us kids as babies to childhood to teenage years to current life.....I LOVE IT!!!!

A few tears were shed....

the grand babies thought it was fun looking at Gigi as a baby....

Telsea's signature pose......

Brylee getting ready for the rip off gift exchange....

My sweet lil Landon...

Then the rip off gift exchange began.....this is always a fun way of doing the gifts!!! Once the game was over, I think everyone was happy with what they ended up with!!!

I thought this year we would do something different, so we had a Gingerbread house decorating contest between the three families....Gibbs, Coogles and Grandes. I didn't realize how competitive this group was....It was so fun!!! We decided that this will become a tradition every year!!!

Creation in progress....

The Finish Product~~~
Smiley House..... Coogles
Ho House..... Gibbs
Mint Chalet.... Grandes

We had an outside judge, that we emailed picture's of the finish product to....
and the winner is~~~~~


The HO House!!!! (Whoo Hoo!!)

After the Gingerbread House contest we played Catch Phrase....it was funny to watch how some of us stayed calm, cool and collected and others would get so frazzled....it was so loud at times you couldn't hear the person right next to you.....what a fun game!!!

It was another fun Grande Christmas party for the record....
and it all started with these two people....

We love and miss you both like crazy, especially this time of the year!!!