White Christmas

This year we were able to have a wonderful white Christmas. We left on wednesday night and drove to Flagstaff, and then woke up early on thursday and drove to Monticello. It is only a 6 hr drive, but we didn't know what Flagstaff would be like so we just decided to take it slow and make sure we got there safe. We arrived in Monticello on thursday around 11am. We surprised my family because they didn't think we were coming until Friday. Kelly and her family and Lindsey weren't able to make it to christmas, but hopefully they will be able to come to Thanksgiving next year. As you can see behind my parents house is the Monticello temple. All you can see of the temple is the Angel Moroni.

We really enjoyed being able to spend time with my familly, even though it was cold ( highs in the 20's and lows less then 10 degrees). We stayed inside most of the time.

Friday morning we were able to wake up and have a nice breakfast and then got to open presents.

Alan did very well this year picking out gifts for me. He got me Diamond Earings, Ipod touch, and some clothes and shoes.

As for Alan he made out pretty good too... He got a flying Helicopter and some hunting gear.

My sister and her husband were able to come down to for christmas and they gave us matching sweaters of my brother in laws company. He and his brother own a car repair/lifting business.

Here are just a few other random christmas pictures.....

My niece Taylynn opening up her present from US

Thomas and His "Fiance"opening up presents


Mom opening up her new CD player

Dad opening up a Portable Digital TV

Family Pictures

Here are a few pictures of our Fleming Family Photo Shoot.......

This was a very interesting day for all of us..... try taking pictures with 7 kids and 10 adults...

Here is our Christmas Card this year

Let the holidays begin

We were just celebrating the 4th of July and now it's already Thanksgiving and Christmas... Where does the year go? We are really excited for thanksgiving this year, for no particular reason, but we are just happy to be off of work for a few days and be able to relax and shop. This year for thanksgiving we are staying here and going to Alan's dads house to have some Ham, turkey, mash potatoes, corn, salad, and some yams (that's our assignment- yams and pie!) It will be fun to celebrate Thanksgiving this year with Alan's side of the family... We love this time of year because we get to spend time with family.... We are very excited for Black Friday too...

Yesterday we started to set up our christmas tree and tonight we finished.... We decided to do a white tree this year with blue and silver. It really looks pretty, but looks even better at night with the lights on!

Halloween

Every year for Halloween we have a Fleming Family Party, and this year Alan's dad was in charge of it and he assigned Alan and his brother to put it together. So were able to make it pretty successful. This year we had it on friday, Oct. 30. It was at Alan's brother's house and we had food, games, face painting, and a pinata. Everyone usually dresses up and we have contest as to who has the best costume, most original, cutest and scariest. Overall, we had a really fun time! For our costume we were the rubix cube. Alan's brother teases me about doing the rubix cube so we made costumes for fun. I took a box and painted Alan's to be the one that was all jumbled up and mine was the finished product. It was pretty funny!

Then on Halloween Alan and I went with my father and mother in law and Alan's brother and wife and their son to Cheesecake Factory and then back to my in laws house for some trick or treating. My niece and nephews were able to go to some house to get candy. It was fun to see them enjoy walking to houses and get candy!

Disneyland

First we had breakfast with Chip N' Dale

Then we went to Disneyland....

When we first got into disneyland we saw Pinocchio so we had to get a picture with him. We were told after we took a picture with him that it was really rare to see him out taking pictures, and signing autographs with people. So that was pretty cool to see.

After taking a picture with Pinocchio we went and rode some rides. The first ride we went on was Dumbo.My niece and I rode together on the dumbo ride, and she really seemed to enjoye the ride..

After Dumbo we went on Mr. Toad's ride, and my ALL time favorite ride Peter Pan! After Those two rides we went over and rode the New Finiding Nemo ride. It was really cool. You went down into a submarine and saw and heard a little bit of the nemo movie. The ride was a little to long, but it was cute.

After the "Finding Nemo" ride then a few of us went and rode the go-cart ride. The kids really enjoyed that ride beacuse they give them fake Drivers licences.

Then after riding the go-carts we thought it would be fun to take the kids over to watch the 3-d movie "Honey I shrunk the Audience." The kids got scared but the adults loved it! :)

After watching the movie we headed over to Mickey's house to say "hello!"

By this time we were all getting tired and wanted to say our energy for the next day so we went on the tea cups and then headed to the Hotel.

When we got to the hotel we took a nap, and then Berne and Cindy offered to take the kids so we could go ride the adult rides and have some fun on our own. We rode space mountain (my 2nd favorite ride at disneyland), star tours, and Indiana Jones. We waited for space mountain for 90 mins!! I had never been on Star tours before it was actually a cool ride. Then we when we got back to the hotel we went to bed!!

The next morning we woke up and went back to disneyland

The first thing we did was head over to where you meet the princesses. The princesses are very kind to the little kids and actually spent time talking to them. My niece brought Cinderella back her wond because she left it at her house when she came to her birthday party :) It was really cute!

Then we saw more Characters......

That night was a parade and fireworks so between the parade and fireworks we rode the buzz light year ride.

The next morning, Alan and I woke up early to go the Disneyland before it even opened. We were able to enter the park 1 hour before everyone else. We were able to ride space mountain, the manahorn, snow white, and Pinocchio, and the manahorn again because the park even opened.

Then when the park opened we wrote Pirates of the Carribean! Then we went over to california adventures and rode screaming, and soaring over California. OH my goodness if you get the chance to do Screamin' oh man .... do it! It was sooo scary but an amazing roller coaster.

Then we were done for the day. I was done being at disneyland, and so we went back to the hotel room took naps, and then went out to eat and then went to bed for the night :)

The next morning we woke up and had breakfast and headed home. We really had a fun time. I thought with there being 17 of us and Yes, we did stay together most of the time we did do a lot and saw a lot.