Brown Family

Add this to the Snow Day fun.  Rachel and Taylor spent hours building this snow fort.

  We had an official snow day on Friday.  We have had quite a storm.  These pictures are snow accumulated just on Friday.  We have had snow/rain/sleet for 5 days.  Today the sun is finally out!

We are having so fun with Addison.  A few times she has escaped our watchful eye!

Cruising in Mexico....... Christmas Eve on the Norwegian star Adam and Ashley in the 15 passenger van driving around Puerto Vallarta View of our Ship from Lover's Beach Doug snorkling at Lover's Beach in Cabo Tanner and Morgan sitting on Santa's lap (or close by) White Elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve (beach towel wrapping) Rachel and Addison visiting Santa Zip line in Puerta Vallarta Eating a "Shrimp Snack" at a restaurant on the beach in Matzalan Parker and Doug with Addison on a swinging bridge in the jungle at Puerto Vallarta Playing football in Matzalan Rachel excited about her folded towel elephant Addison with 2 girls from the Salvation Army children's home Taylor in the "Van" with Addison Sand sculpture nativity scene along the Boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta Cathedral of Our Lady of Gaudalupe Rachel handing out candy at the flea market Our favori te dessert...

We are enjoying this holiday season. We cut a Christmas tree in the Wildcat pasture on the ranch. Morgan was the driver. Doug and Rachel were the look-out crew from the back of the truck. We found a beautiful tree. It is only about 6 feet tall, but is perfectly shaped and has a powerful smell! Next, we put up some Christmas lights. We are trying to function without Taylor this year! We went to the electric light parade. We made a gingerbread house to top off the wonderful day!

Taylor was able to go to the Mt. Timpanogos temple on Friday after Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful experience.

Ok, this is quite a goofy combination. (I got the word "Goofy" from the Mtn commentator on Saturday's BYU/Wyoming football game. Did you notice how many times he said "goofy.") Anyway Saturday as I was doing the dishes, I noticed a roadrunner outside walking across our basketball court. At first I thought it was Morgan because he is so fast on the BB court..... Funny. Seriously, we all looked and sure enough it was a roadrunner. We have never seen one in our yard before. As for the Christmas Tree. Saturday afternoon we attended a "Capitol Christmas Tree Celebration." Arizona has the honor of providing the 2009 Capitol Christmas Tree for the US Capitol. The tree is an 85' blue spruce harvested from the Apache Sitgreaves Forest south of Eagar. This is the first time a tree has been selected from an Arizona forest. Rachel's school choir sang in the program. The tree is packaged up and goes on tour across the US until it arrives in DC Nov...