Our Christm . . I mean, New Years Newsletter

Yes, it really has been a year and a half since I posted on this here blog. What can I say? I'm busy, I work too much, I'm lazy, I have nothing good to say. . . the list could go on but I won't bother. You've heard it all before. Just be grateful I'm posting now. Hurray! :-)

I just recently mailed out our Christmas Newsletter to family so I figured it was time to post it here so that all of you can now see what's been happening this past year.  Sorry we didn't get these mailed these out to everyone.

Our Christmas card:

And our newsletter:

Kaufman Family Christmas Newsletter 2012

(This link will take you to the Google Document.)

We hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Christmas with Gramma and Grampa Gibbs

Well, we had a wonderful Christmas vacation in southern California. The weather wasn't quite as warm as we were hoping for, and therefore Noah was quite upset that we didn't get to swim, but we definitely made up for it in all the other fun things we did!

Christmas morning was full of fun presents! Santa sure delivered the goods this year. Brooklyn got the roller skates she asked for, and Noah was excited to see his asked for "Sky Captain" shark plane.



Daddy made out like a bandit with lots of dvds and music cds, and his totally cool Dogtown skateboard.


I was really excited by our present to Gramma. It turned out so cute that I now have to make one for myself. :)


Santa even brought me what I wanted! And I got some more Demdaco Willow Tree figurines for my collection too. Yeah!


The day after Christmas took us to the Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert. The kids had lots of fun with all the hands-on exhibits.



The next day we visited the Palm Springs Air Museum, and boy was Noah excited to see REAL shark planes!


Thanks, Gramma and Grampa, for the awesome Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Kerman Ward Christmas Party

We attended our ward Christmas party tonight. The highlight for the kids was being able to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas.



Plus all the snacks and cookies they got to eat. :)




They even got to decorate their own cookies.



It's been a fun night!

It's beginning to finally look like Christmas :)

We finally got our Christmas tree decorated this weekend. I was so preoccupied with Primary duties last weekend that I didn't have time to do this as well. But at least this year, I had some help!



After putting the lights on, we started hanging ornaments. :)


And then we put some on the tree.



We couldn't forget our Christmas village.


And my cute Nativities.



Merry Christmas!

Our stroll up Christmas Tree Lane

Tonight we joined the Nehrings and the Molloys for a leisurely walk up Christmas Tree Lane. It was opening night, and therefore only open to pedestrians, so we bundled up the kids, opened up the strollers, and headed out.


The kids had lots of fun finding each of Santa's reindeer throughout the 2 mile walk.




There were lots of really cute displays, but as a Nativity-lover, this was my favorite.


The kids even got a candy cane from Santa himself! :)


Here we all are taking advantage of a good photo-op.




At the end of the lane was this totally decked out house display! Yikes! Imagine his electricity bill!


After taking about 2 hours to reach the north end of the lane, we decided to burn off a few calories on the way back to the cars in preparation for the delicious hot chocolate and cookies that awaited us there. After 35 minutes, and a couple gallons of sweat (from me :)), we made it. And it was totally worth it! Yummy!