The Holt Happenings

Saturday, February 6, 2010

More Caliente Christmas

Grandkids and Moms--Andrea and Madison, Reagan, Me and Hunter, Chantel and Gabriella. Last year it was only Reag at Christmas, this year 3 more babies! Much louder and much more fun!

Holt Family, Christmas 2009 (minus Uncle Chauncey; he's serving in Texas).

Aunt Andrea, Uncle Calvin and Madison

Uncle Eric, Aunt Chantel and Gabriella

Reagan sad that Andrea wasn't in the picture. Good times!

Aunt Andrea and Reag

Grandpa Holt

Grandma Holt

Papa

Shooting Reag's first real gun

Christmas 2009-Caliente

Papa and Reag

Reagan and her cousin Gabriella

Christmas games

How many people can we get in here?! Well, a baby squeezed in next!

Aunt Andrea and Reag

Uncle Justin and Reag

My brother and dad

Cute niece Kourtney who's getting old way too fast!

My nephew Brandon

After we do Christmas at our own house, we drove up to Caliente and did Christmas with our families. We always have a blast being with everyone. This is my niece Keely. Reagan stalks her!

Christmas 2009-Las Vegas

Nick's such a great breakfast cooker. It's so yummy and I VERY rarely have to do it since he's so into it.

Reag's first real gun, well kinda real, it's a BB Gun. And pink!!

She pulled off her stocking and the weight made all the others fall, oops....

Notice the yawn. And I would like to point out the fact that last year, Nick was so excited that HE woke up REAGAN. This year, not so much!

We LOVE Bass Pro at Christmas. They have so many fun, free activities for kids and thier Santa set-up is great with Mrs. Claus and the reindeer and a real house and it all looks so real and it's all FREE!! Love it!!

Something to Strive For.........

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”

― Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"Come what may and LOVE it!"

--Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just ordinary people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail journey...delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride."

--President Gordon B. Hinckley

"I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner."

--Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley