Christmas Sunday picture

Here is our family picture on Christmas Sunday, just a few days after Jacob came home. Now he leaves again to go to Ft. Rucker tomorrow night. Hopefully we'll all be together again soon in Alabama.

I love how the more kids we have the harder it gets to have a "perfect" picture. I love how Lizzie is trying to comfort Simeon while he cries and Bekah has a weird look on her face while Sariah sucks on her fingers as usual. I think I actually like the pictures where the kids don't look picture perfect better than the good ones where they are all smiling and happy. I like looking at the kids and remembering how they were at that age. It's fun.

Simeon's blessing day

Simeon was blessed this past Sunday. We all went home and had lunch together afterward. Here are a few of the pictures I took later that day. He's such a sweet baby. We love having him in our family.

Here's one with Sariah wanting in on the picture taking.

I love how his cute little ears turn out at the top.

Toppling over again and loving it!
Oh, and he has spit up on his face as usual. Gotta love those reflux babies.

Lowell Christmas

Our Christmas started early this year but not because of excitment although we were excited. Eliza woke up at 4:00 AM throwing up and then Lucy woke up at 4:30 throwing up. Lucy threw up again at 5:30 ands then about 6:30 she discovered anew thing as she exclaimed, half laughing, "I think I threw up in my butt!" Other that that we had a beautiful Christmas and everyone seemed well enough that we decided to try going to Fallbrook even with our sickies. Below are pictures of our Nativity scene including Eliza and Vilate as the "Wise Princesses". Hannah was being so cute with the manger that I had to take pictures. Here is another more loving one.

Christmas at the Cabin

Christmas Dinner w/Brian, Nikiesha, and Parker Richards

Hello Holt family members!!
It's been a wonderful Christmas for everyone here in Alaska. We decided to be adventurous and rented a public use cabin and rough it for Christmas. It was gorgeous, and it snowed while we were there. We, and our friends, the Richard family, went down Christmas Eve night, we were a little slow in starting (and stressed). So our timing of events (ie: nativity scene, opening presents) was rather unoriginal. Everything was moved to Christmas Day. Woke up, had omelets, then got the kids playing outside, because they were being naughty in the cabin, and brought back a waist high pine tree. We decorated it with glue/glitter ornaments and popcorn on string. We were very proud of our Christmas Tree. Then the boys went outside again in the snow and we played until Santa came, which he did. All morning we had told the boys that Santa had been watching and hadn't come yet because the boys were being a little naughty. So Santa finally came and boy were there a lot of presents! Then that night we had our "big" Christmas dinner and played a nativity scavenger hunt game (thanks Mom!) the boys loved looking for the presents. Christmas day & night it snowed a lot, so Travis is out plowing right now, afraid he's lost some business. I took some pix to give you an idea of how beautiful it was this morning.

The beautiful winter wonderland
Boys in their Gramma Nancy PJs posing on the top bunk

Cute brothers

Santa Came!! Presents

Our family, our Christmas Tree

The Upper Omer Lake Cabin, I'm standing on the frozen Omer Lake, and to the left is the 1/4 mile trail to the road.

Popcorn on string

Sledding w/the tree

Travis pulled me, Tracker, Trayton, Tustin, Nikiesha, and Parker to the cabin Christmas Eve. We sang "Dashing through the snow in a one daddy open sleigh" It was fun.

Love you all, and hope you had a Merry Christmas too. Thanks Jacob, Tiff, Rebekah, Sariah, Joseph, Elizabeth, and Simeon, for the Sunday notebook, and the game of Mancala!

Gramma's Recipe Swap

As a christmas present to all of you. We have created a special web site for publishing all of Mom's many recipes that she has collected in her grey cookbook.

For the time being, it can be reached at http://vz117.securenet-server.net:8080/recipe/index.htm. In the near future you'll be able to use gramma.biz.

Christmas Eve 2008 at Gramma Holt's

Here are some shot's of what it was like at our house last Christmas Eve. Jacob was on leave, Ezra was with us and the Little Holt's put on the Nativity Pageant.