Before Christmas

Christmas Eve Ryan had a Speed Camp over at FK (Phoenix College) for the Shields boys, our kids and a couple other kids too. This was his third session with the kids and he is having fun teaching them to run faster and better.

The kids had fun and did well.
.It was the first one I'd been to and it was very fun to watch my sweetie teach. He is very talented. And cute.

Peter ran a lap around the track. He loved trying to keep up with the big kids and doing what they were doing.

These two were super speedy :)

Before we went to the track we visited GiGi, she gave us Christmas presents and batted a balloon around with the kids.

She is so much fun.

We love her a lot.

A lot a lot.

For Christmas I made ornaments for our kids and I decided that since I was starting in August that I'd make them for all nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, parents, kid's teachers, visiting teaching people, and various and sundry others. I ended up making 42, if you didn't get one it doesn't mean I don't love you, I just ran out of aida cloth.

Here's some pictures of some that I made.

Jake and Cory's family. We call him Benja, I think it will be cute when he gets older, plus Benjamin wasn't going to even try to fit.

Lindsey and David's family.

Amanda and Oliver's, Amanda is a long name to stitch with that big old fat "m", so she is Nunu. The picture is blurry because I took it while we were riding in the van, who knows why.

This is a riding in the van picture too but it wasn't blurry, who knows why. These are for Whitny's family.

My visiting teaching girls. They liked 'em.

I may be too lazy to turn it the right side up. But these are for the kid's teachers. They liked theirs too.

Our missionaries got some too. My parents like theirs. We'll talk to Justin today and see if he got his package yet. All of our missionaries are due to finish up their missions at the end of February and we are excited to see them again!

So that is that. I took tons of pictures last night and today of our Christmas festivities. I'll get around to posting them soon.

Love you all, Merry Christmas!!