Christmas Day!

This year we switched off holidays. We were in Santaquin with Dave's family for Thanksgiving and in Logan at my parents for Christmas. Traditionally for Christmas, my mom makes breakfast and Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Steve, Aunt Melissa and their family, come over to eat and play with our new Christmas stuff! This year, Dave and I went over to my mom's after we opened our gifts and opened up our gifts from them and gave them their gifts. After that, the rest of the family came over and we ate. We then showed grandma and grandpa what we bought with their Christmas money they gave us. My parents got us some clothes as well as money that we are using to take a trip next week. My brothers got some new games for their Wii, so we played those. The games got kind of competetive and my little cousin Austin who is about 7, lost at Mario Kart and threw a fit and started throwing stuff, so his family took off and it was pretty quiet after that. We went to the movie "Bedtime Stories" with Adam Sandler! That is a cute movie and I recommend it as a good family movie. Anyways, we had an awesome Christmas!! Hope you all did too!Dad and Dave cleaning up wrapping paper! Brady playing the new Cabela's big game hunt on the Wii while Bubba and Dave watch. Dad's not too excited about his picture being taken!!

The day after Christmas, we went to Santaquin to celebrate with Dave's family. We opened gifts Friday night and watched the Phantom of the Opera. On Saturday, December 27, we went bowling and to dinner and to see the Festival of Lights in Spanish Fork. This is Dave's grandpa Fowers, Katelyn and Kristen after opening presents the day after Christmas.

Our First Christmas

7:00 a.m. rolls around and Dave's little sister decided she needed to call Dave to tell him what Santa brought her. I was not planning on waking up until about 7:30 but Dave was so excited after talking to Katelyn that he was just dying to open our Christmas presents. Dave got me a really pretty jewelery box, a necklace and earrings, a new blow dryer, new earphones for my ipod, and lots of stocking stuffers and other gifts!! I got Dave a new Carharrt vest, a puffy blue vest, ipod accessories, sunflower seeds, a couple John Deere tractors and some stocking stuffers! We both got just what we wanted from each other, it was AWESOME. I'm really good with the self timer on the camera! Dave's new John Deere tractor ornaments and his new headphones! He's a happy camper!

Sleddin' Fools!

On Christmas Eve, Dave and I thought it'd be pretty fun to go sledding. We got a couple of tubes from Big O and got them filled with some air. Before we went, we cruised over to Taco Bell with Bubba and my mom for some food then dropped off mom and drove over to a park in Providence. But, it was pretty scary and I'm pretty sure we would have died or ran into a tree if we would have sled down it. So, we decided to go up to Cliffside to a park. There were a lot of people. We found the biggest hill we could and just started going. Only having tubes and a little saucer, jumps were not really a good choice (because of the donut hole, your butt was doomed to get hurt) But, being the crazzies that we are, we did it anyways. Here are a few of the pictures that we took while sleddin!

This is Dave and Bubba, hardcore and ready to rumble. Note: the small red saucer to the right of Dave will come into play later in the pictures.
This is me, I'm not gonna lie, this hurt a little!Bubba didn't even hit this hard! Wuss! Dave hittin his jump!!

Bubba and I, Cheesin it! This is the small red saucer incident...Bubba ran and jumped on his stomache onto the saucer, trying to be cool and bounced his chin off the ground!!! He layed in the snow for about 5 minutes! Not too long after this tragedy, we packed up our stuff and ended the Christmas Eve fun!!

Pond Family Christmas Party

Every year, my side of the family, the Ponds' pick a day around Christmas time that works for everyone and they have a party at my parents house in River Heights. It's not a very huge family. My dad has 4 brothers who each have kids. Everyone comes from my dad's side of the family that is able to. We usually eat dinner, exchange gifts, play games like Grab Bags, and watch some football if any is on. My uncle Scott and his family came from Spanish Fork, my uncle Ryan and his family from Lehi, my uncle Steve and his family from Providence. And my cousin Aaron represented his family that is from California and couldn't make it out for the party. Of course Grandma and Grandpa came too! This year my mom cooked a really good homemade Chicken Cordon Bleu!! We ate and exhanged gifts. Everyone seems to have a good time and a lot of really good food! I love when my family gets together. Even though they may be disfunctional at times or a little loud, it wouldn't be Christmas without a Pond Family Christmas party! This is Brady, Aunt Andrea and Grandma!This is mom and dad (aka Elfman)

Christmas Pictures!!

So many people take cute family pictures almost every year. Well, I don't remember the last time my family got together to take pictures, and we finally did today!! My mom's friend Teresa took some with her nice camera and I took a couple with mine so they're not professional but maybe later I will post some of hers that she took. I love this time of year because it just brings families closer together. I think it's pretty important to take family pictures to preserve the memories of what everyone looks like and new things that occur in the family. Things that have updated in my family are things like Dave and I getting married or my brother just getting engaged. Both people are additions to the family and it's important to keep updating our family history and pictures. Anyways, that's my spill on pictures...Here are a couple.