NC Christmas 2007

This is Christmas night. The Barbie house looks like it was in a Florida Hurricane and my kids look like they don't have a mother........Looks like Christmas was a Success!

We can't forget about the missionaries! They came over for breakfast as well. This is Elder Rowe from Idaho. For the life of me I can't figure out what happened to Elder Hoffman's picture. He was here. Really.

It was really fun to have Quinton over for breakfast burritos on Christmas morning. We love you Quinton! Thanks for the Disney Princess dolls and the Harley t-shirts.

Taylor and Haille got a bonafide letter from Santa!

The first annual Stand on your Head contest. Sam is obviously the winner!

All she wants for Christmas is her one front tooth......Taylor lost two teeth a couple of days before Christmas. The other one is in the front on the bottom. Since it was a double whammy and she got hit in the face twice which precipitated the loss and since it was near Christmas, the tooth fairy was very kind indeed. She netted a cool $5.00!

More Christmas Cuteness....

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without new socks!

They had a lot of fun opening presents!

Santa was very good to the Holmes girls this year! Check out the 3 story Barbie House! Awesome!

This is Taylor and Haille opening thier Christmas Eve presents from Uncle Terry and Aunt Marcine! They were so excited to get Hello Kitty notepads, folders and crayons. Thank you!

This was Mark opening Holly's present on Christmas Eve. NC doesn't know what chocolate oranges are and that is all Mark wanted for Christmas. She came thru!

These were taken on Christmas Eve before we went to a prime rib dinner at the Mangums with thier family. We had a wonderful time.

Here was my Christmas present. I have been needing and wanting some bookcases so that we could get all our books out of boxes. They turned out really nice. I feel like I have a mini library when I look at that wall.

This was our nativity. I will be excited when I can get the entire set put together. It is missing the stable, stars, angel and wisemen. It still set a nice tone and was beautiful to look at.

Our mantle, where the stockings were hung with care. Don't you love the stars? Target.

We love our skinny tree! It still looks pretty cute.

This is David being Really Excited about spending his Christmas in Utah! He left on the 15th and will be back the 29th. The snow was awesome and so were his family and friends.

This is Haille, the night of Taylors program. She didn't get to go because she was sick. She was not happy. Can you tell?

This is beautiful Taylor on the night of her kindergarten Christmas program.

Malee Aleisha Oliver

Hey Everyone! This is the first picture of our granddaughter miss Malee! She is due May 23, 2008! Good job Ty and Kristin!

Christine Mangum's 29th!

Les and Chris Mangum are our friends that work with HPC and have been friends of our for years. This was Chris' first birthday out here in the big NC so we made sure that she had friends and a cake to celebrate with....

Halloweenies

Here are our little halloweenies. Taylor was a ballerina princess. She thought of it and put it together with her own stuff. I love it! Haille was Tinkerbell. For a day. The next day which was Halloween she decided she hated her costume with the cool lighted wings and put on an old dress up dress and then put a coat over it. What a character.

It was about 70 degrees on Halloween night. We walked the neighborhood with our friends, The Bailey's. The kids made a haul and we had a fun time.

Mark's HS Graduation

Mark had a GREAT Senior year! He did awesome. Straight A's. It was so fun to share the day with G & G Taggart and family. The graduation ceremonies were held at the Mackay Events Center in Orem Utah. That night we all went to dinner at Mark's favorite restaurant, Spaghetti Mama's. Way to go Mark.

Mark's Ordination

While Ty and Kitty were here, Ty ordained Mark to the office of Elder. It was a very special time. Tyler, you rock. Mark we are so pleased that you are a worthy man! By the way Ty, all your pictures are pretty hot.

We Love Tyler and Kristin!

We all went to Alamance Battleground and did a little sight seeing while they were here. Haille had a cow and wouldn't be in the pictures......We had a lot of fun together. To bad it rained so much.

Taylor is an Artist

This is a picture that Taylor drew at school. It was in the first quarter of kindergarten. I was impressed! Look at the girl and her clothes and the bluebird. Just had to share it.

Sandwich Man

David got a job working at Quizno's! He is now a taxpaying citizen. Occaisionally he gets to stand outside and wave his sign. He was so energetic one day that he nearly caused a wreck!

We Love Holly

Here are a couple of pictures of Holly while she was visiting us. She and Mark were playing the guitar and singing. I kick myself that I didn't make it a video because you would have been able to hear them.

We had a great time just hanging out with Holly. She is doing really well.

We Miss You Holly!