The Osburns

...Moms Christmas Party...

We always have my moms Christmas party on the 23rd, but this year we had it earlier then that cause she was going to Denver to spend Christmas with my brother and his family. I love my moms party, its just a laid back fun party! The kids always have a great time with each other, and they all get spoiled by my mom! This year was no different! We had a wonderful meal, the nativity was just as funny as ever, the cousin gift exchange was awesome, and Santa dropped by... making it another successful party!

My nieces came over to play the afternoon of the party, so we took them to the party with us.
Dont they all look so cute?!

A few of the cousins.

We have a lot more girls then boys in our family!

The nativity this year was nothing but awesome!

Ry was an angel, as well as Sayla, Kenna, and Kate

Mat and Katie stared as the camel and the donkey

Rachel was Mary

John played Joseph and Anystin was Jesus.

Ry was the angel with a cane

Singing and dancing during Oh Holy Night

In comes the wiseman, Ben

The cast and crew!

Santa came!!

Santa gave all the kids a stuffed animal with a little note attached to it with something they did good during the year.

Ry picked Rachy this year for the cousin gift exchange, and was so excited to give her her gift.

Ella picked Ry

You cant tell by this picture, but she loved her gift!
Thank You Ella!!!

My mom does a great job at keeping all the gifts even for the kids. It makes it so nice, and then the kids dont get their feelings hurt if someone gets more. This year they all got pillow pets and a new DVD. They were all so excited to get their pillow pets!!!

Me, Shani and D went in on a gift for my mom. We took all my grandparents old shirts ( The ones they wore all the time) and had them made into a quilt. It turned out perfect, and my mom loved it!

After gifts we hung out and enjoyed everyones company while the kids played with all their new toys!
Thank you mom for everything!!

...A night in Salt Lake...

I thought I took a lot more pictures then I did on our little weekend getaway. Kind of disappointing!

We decided to take off early on a Friday and go stay the night at the Little America in Salt Lake. We had so much fun shopping, eating, swimming, and hanging out as a family. We had every intention to go to Temple Square to see the lights, but it was so cold and Rylee was not having fun being outside! We went to the Grand America instead and walked around. They always decorate it so pretty,and they have the best little sweet shoppe with amazing ice cream! We ended up going swimming all night... a long with the rest of Utah. I have never seen the Little America so busy. Its usually just a few people at the pool. This time you could barely move it was so packed. Ry had a great time though, so we were okay with it!

Ry with the fake Santa.

All bundled up!

Taking Trax to the Gateway. Rylee got on it and said, " Oh mom its the Polar Express!" She was pretty impressed! We finished up our Christmas shopping that night- nothing like waiting until the last minute!

The Grand America

Passed out after swimming. She loved that she got her own big bed.

Can you say spoiled?

Heading out in the morning. The trees there are so beautiful!

The next day we went to the symphony Christmas show with my sister and her family. My Dad and Karen gave us tickets for Christmas. I didnt know how well Rylee would do, but she loved it. At one point she started to walk down our row away form us. My niece caught her before she made a getaway. She said, " let me go I need to go up their and dance." She thought she could go up on stage and dance with the symphony. Other then that she sat through the whole thing. Rylee loves Little Einsteins and alot of the music was from the different episodes. Ry kept looking for them on the stage. Santa showed up at the very end, the kids thought that was so cool. Thanks Dad and Karen for the great gift, we had a great time!