Late Christmas Post

Christmas was awesome this year, we got twice the presents, being married IS FUN!  My family has always started Christmas off on Christmas Eve at Oma and Opa's.  It is my favorite Bakker party of the year.  First on the program; every family comes prepared with something to share with everyone, like a song or skit.  (Brooke and I, in years past would get spoons for microphones from Oma's kitchen and sing to SHeDaisy Christmas!!)  I only got a few pics this year.

Aunt Linda and her kids (Trea and Ammon) singing a Christmas song

...or maybe only Linda is singing

My family signed my dad's made up version on The Christmas Song.  It's a funny song, and the signs made it even better.  If you have never heard the song, you should ask for a demonstration!!!

Christmas Morning looked something like this...

I always am amazed at how surprised my dad looks when he opens a gift we all knew he knew about.

For this particular gift, a few days before Christmas my dad said "Tell Sami to hide that gift a little better, I have seen my bike pump like 4 times"

Sami got a Nintendo DS...Just what she wanted

Brooke, with her new Ipod touch.

Brooke always wins the best hairdo on Christmas morning.

My new cute skirt

 

 

Sami loves Toby more than anything.

The Bakker Christmas tradition...everyone gets windshield wipers every Christmas, Cody even got some.  This REALLY made him feel like part of the fam!

This is NOT a picture of dad on the phone... This is a picture of my brother SHANE!!!  Shane is serving in the Pennsylvania Philadelphia mission.  He has been out for just over a year.  We got to talk to him on Christmas morning.  We miss you Shane.

You can see in the background my new Kitchen Aid from my wonderful husband and check out my HOT boots.

 

Not shown was Cody's favorite coat I got him, or his Clearplay DVD player from my parents.

Yup, we planned it.  We bought these shirts for each other!

I am very sorry to say that I did not get any pictures of our Christmas at the Perkins.  I forgot my camera over the break.  These were taken with Brooke's, that's why I have taken so long to post, I was waiting for her to email them.  When I pulled out my cell phone to take a picture of the cute kids playing their new Wii games and the sweet Double Shot at Grandma and Grandpa's my phone died!  I was so bummed.  We had a fantastic Christmas there too, Treasa and Larry got everyone a beautiful clock and and picture of the Salt Lake Temple as well as some CASHOLA!!

So needless to say, we had to do some redecorating.

 

"Families are Forever"

 

This is the Temple Pic.  Cody and I LOVE it.  But we have not found a place for it yet.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and I hope you made it through this long post!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY ZACK!

This weekend we went to my cousin Zack's first birthday party.  This was not just any birthday party... this was a BRAZILIAN first birthday party... here are a few pics I took with my cell phone (can you believe I forgot my camera again!!)

This is the first thing we saw when we walked into the church ... (Yes the party was held in a church building, I don't think their home would have held all the big clown balloons)

This was front and center, a big sign that says Zack and balloons everywhere.  The hired photographer took a picture of our family with Zack here.  I will have to post that when I get it.

The CAKE!!!

There was even a clown there to paint faces and make balloon animals etc. for the kids... Brooke and I stood in line to get our faces painted for a while and we almost made in the the front, but when I turned around and saw about ten kids half my size behind me, I decided I should let them have a turn first.  Needless to say the line never died down, so I never got my face painted. :(

Sami did though...as a tiger

No, this is not the Birthday Boy!

This is Zack, the real birthday boy

Zack and his mom Marcia.. (and yes, she always dresses like this :)

Happy Birthday Zack!  We sure do love you!  Can't wait for you party next year!

Christmas Time!

We started off our Christmas celebrating in St. George with Cody's cousins at the Annual Palmer Cousin Christmas Party.  We had fun spending the weekend with most of Cody's siblings and spouses.  I remembered to bring my camera, but when I got there I realized the batteries were dead so no pictures :(

Cody and I had fun decorating our apartment for Christmas.  We brought back three small trees and some light and other Christmas decor from Thanksgiving.  And for Family night a few weeks ago, we had a blast at Honk's (a dollar store just down the street from us)  We found the cute stockings you see hanging on the wall in the picture.

We are excited for Christmas and the gifts we have to give.  We are also excited that finals are over!  Cody and I did really well this semester!  One more to go for me :)

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

THANKSGIVING!

Thanksgiving break was a lot of fun this year.  My dad and I kicked it off by making homemade pies together, a tradition we have not done for a few years.  Brooke and mom helped by finding things like pie tins and flour, but mostly they just stood by and watched us do what we do.

 The final product!  I made the chocolate cream pie in the middle of my dad's two delicious Pecan pies.

Alyce and Jason's house looked beautiful.  They worked really hard at making a table big enough for everyone to sit at.

I tried to get Zack to smile at me, but he only does his big smile for the red light before the flash, and my camera didn't have a red light :(

The classic picture of olives on the fingers... Oh Sami!

Can't forget about Toby, the newest member of the family.

Thanksgiving was great!  Thanks to everyone and their hard work!!!

My mom, Brooke, and I went shopping on Black Friday and got a good start for Christmas and tonight (Saturday) Cody and I are going to see The Nutcracker to kick off the Christmas season.  I am so excited!!!

New Moon!

Cody and I went to the Midnight showing of New Moon last night.  Cody was such a good sport about it, even though he was one of only three guys in the theater.  We went to the theater in Providence and it was so much better then Logan.  There were not a ton of people, so even thought we only got there an hour early we still got good seats where as our friends, who got to the Logan theater three and a half hours early were craning their necks the whole time.

Before we left our apartment, I pulled out my big movie theater purse so we could stuff the goods in it to take to the movie.

This is kind of a gross picture, but it is the only one we took, so this is what you get.

Now, I am team Edward to the end, but I do have to say, Jacob looked 100 times better with out his shirt on then Edward did.  Cody thinks he is team Jacob, but that's just because a lot of people have told him he looks like Jacob.  :)

I can't wait for Eclipse, I heard it comes out this summer, so I don't have to wait a whole year this time! 

Rock Climbimg

Cody went climbing with our friend Dan yesterday.  I'm glad the weather was warm enough to go, he had been looking forward to climbing for a long time.  Cody had a great time.  Here are some pictures of his adventure.

Made it to the top!