Want a gift?

This is what you do: The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a gift from me during this year. When and what will be a surprise. There's a small catch though...Post this same thing on your own blog and then come back and leave a comment telling me you're in. But only the first three people to comment get the gift! Good luck! Thanks Ashley for the fun idea!

Come one, come all!

Do you ever think.....I wish I had the time to make a cute card or you just wish that you had some on hand when those times come up when you need to just grab one?! Do you ever wish that you had the talent to make some cute bows, headband, or a homemade gift for someone?! Well you don't have too... someone can for you at very reasonable prices! Look no further because as you can see off to the right of my blog I have two links....one is for an adorable online affordable bow boutique that 2 of my friends from Utah started and the other is from a friend here who makes awesome great quality homemade cards. Check them both out....it will be well worth your time!!!

Alyssa and Me skiing

After I went skiing with Jason and Alyssa with her school, we were both dying to go again, and because she has such an awesome daddy and I am married to the most amazing man, he said that we could go together Valentine's night. They had a deal and so it was a little cheaper than usual! Alyssa and I had a blast together.....she is a little natural and did great....her and I even caught air on some of the snow ramps set up! It was soo much fun!

This is a picture of our skiis, going up the lift:)

This is my cute daughter Alyssa on the lift....very excited of course:)

Here she is sking down the bunny hill warming up for the bigger ones!

Here she is at the top of the bunny hill!

Here she is coming down from the bunny hill so that we could go get hot cocoa! We had such a fun time, hope for more to come!

Jason and me Skiing!

So Jason and I went skiing with some friends from his work! I have only skiied one other time and that was in high school on a field trip and Jason had never gone. We took lessons and then we were able to do what we wanted. Jason didn' t pick it up like he had hoped but is willing to give it another shot, and I am glad because I absolutely love it and want to go again and again! We still had alot of fun and can't wait until next time! I still can't believe that we lived in Utah the best place to ski and never went.....what a waste!

Our big boy sitting up!

Landon has been sitting up for awhile now I just haven't been able to upload the pictures so here they are finally! He is so much fun! We love him so much and couldn't imagine our family without him being a part of it:)

Visiting my sister

My adorable niece Joseline....I just love her

my sweet niece Hannah and our little Landon

My sister Heidi and Jeff just posing for the camera:)

Heidi and me scrapbooking

Christmas!

I tryed uploading more pics but once again this is all I got! It is getting really frustrating! But atleast this is something:) We had a wonderful Christmas this year! We spent it with just ourselves and I think that was a first.....we have always been with some extended family! It was great to be able to hang our stocking on the chimminy with care(sorry couldn't get the pic to upload!) and be able to stay in our jammies all day:) We just played games together and played with new toys, it was alot of fun! We always tell the story of Jesus the night before Christmas so that it can sink in and we can really feel the spirit of Christmas. Christmas morning the excitement is too much to be able to calm down for a spiritual story so we let the kids go crazy and have fun!

I was totally spoiled this year by my hubby! He got me the Cricut Expressions and alot of scrapbooking stuff(thanks to Adrie:) and also a Micheal Buble Christmas cd! I also got alot of wonderful framed pics from my mother in law, they were awesome, thanks so much!

Jason was excited to get his first drill and bits! He also got quite a bit of hunting gear and a bow from his parents! He got alot of videos about hunting and golfing that will be very useful I am sure! We together got brand new cookware which is awesome! I let him open it because he always would complain that we needed new stuff:) He was really excited and we have loved cooking with it! Thanks to my mom who got it at Kohls the day after Thanksgiving, thanks mom:)

This was one of Alyssa's favorite gifts! Her and I went to the movie together and she loved it, so grandma Debbie bought her the blanket of Edward so that she could have her very own Edward:) She sleeps with it every night:) She was spoiled like the rest of the kiddos and I am not going to attemp to list everything but she did get her alarm clock and globe!

This year like usual Kenzie asked for something random, this time it was a director's wand! She loved it when she opened it, then about an hour later she came up to me and said,"mom I can't believe that Santa actually remembered to get me this and now I don't even know what to do with it!" I told her that every night when we sing our family song, love at home, she can direct it, she liked that idea. She also got Hannah Montana games and Moonsand!

Weston had a great Christmas! Besides the awesome fishing pole and tackle box that grandpa Joe got him he also got a monster truck remote control and airhogs plane and helicopter! He was very excited and can't wait to go fishing!

Olivia's big present was her baby doll set! It came with a stroller, high chair, swing, bouncer, carseat, and diaper bag! Santa also brought her a new baby that she absolutely loves! She also got some clothes and crayola markers for toddlers!

Landon was so easy to please of course because he had no clue! He loved his stuffed puppy and also his busy ball center!

We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year, we sure did!

Christmas eve.....

I wanted to post many more pics of Christmas eve but I am having sooo many problems uploading them and these are the only ones I got~

We had are really good friends over Adrienne and Justin and their two kiddos Colton and Hadley! We had alot of fun opening up jammies and playing games! We also had WAY TO MUCH to snack on, but what is the night before Christmas for?! Jason read a Christmas story to all the kids after they all got into their pajamas.

We hope that this can be an ongoing tradition with the Gilberts now that we don't live close enough to our families:) We are so thankful that they are in our lives!

Jason always has to be silly in pics, nice expression honey! Olivia is in love with Justin, she had to sit on his lap practically the whole night and even got mad when Adrie wanted to sit by him, it was really funny but a little odd......she wouldn't even go to Jason, she loved playing with Justin's beard!

Alyssa got High School Musical Jammies of course!

Kenz got Hannah Montana....what a surprize!

Weston got star wars, and he wears them almost every night now:)

you can't tell but Olivia got Tinkerbell Christmas ones!

And last but not least Landon was stoked about his batman jammies!(Actually I was the one who LOVED them on him....isn't he adorable?!)

J-E-L-L-O Pudding yum!

Livs loves pudding, can you tell? She also loves the bath.....NO WAY?! I think she knows what she is doing when she eats like this because she knows that she gets a bath when she gets really messy:) I swear she is the cleanest child because most of the time I end up bathing her 2 to 3 times a day! I love this little girl, who wouldn't!

Landon's first present:)