Pounder Family Christmas Party

This last weekend we had our Pounder Family Christmas Party. We usually hold it on Christmas Eve, but this year we decided it was too hard to get everyone together that evening, so we held it later. We always start off by going somewhere for breakfast, this year we went to The Country Market in Willard:




Scott brought Brett his IOU for winning the weight loss contest, $20 in pennies:


After breakfast we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's (or mom and dad's if you prefer) to play games and hang out until it was warm enough to go sledding:



Of course then the boys all had to start wrestling:


So we decided it was time to go sledding and we all started getting ready:







Then we hit the tubing hill! Check out the slideshow below to see our pics!
When we were all tired out we headed back to Grandma's for our CRAZY dinner (which consists of everything and yet nothing good for you! (mostly snack food items) Grandpa gave in to Easton and let him eat off the serving spoon for the jello salad:


Afterwards we played our traditional game of Present Exchange Bingo:



We had a fun family weekend!

Building our Gingerbread House!

Nik and Austin have been asking to build the gingerbread house since the 1st of the month, so finally on Sunday I told them we would do it after church. We had a great time and I think we did a pretty good job too! Notice the black and white pics - this is where I asked Jason to grab the camera and take some pictures of the kids. He is not very adapt at working the camera so he didn't even notice that it was still on the black and white setting. When we were done I started taking pictures and we came out in glorious color!
We hope you all have a wonderfully Merry Christmas!

a pizza party

Okay, enough of looking at my trees, here are some pictures I took when we had the Stockings over for a family home evening :) pizza party!

Here is Nik and Kylee rolling out their own personal pizza crusts!

Here is the rest of the crew creating their own pizzas with the help of Trulee.
This is adorable McKay, who's dad wasn't thinking he was too adorable at the moment because he spilled his soda all over his dad! "Nash, Nash, where are you?"

And now that the kids are all full and the parents fed Trulee can relax!

The trees are now trimmed and the stockings are hung!

Last week was fairly crazy with a billion things I needed to get done before leaving Saturday morning to Salt Lake City for a weekend of shopping with my girlfriends. With the help of my boys I was able to get all of our Christmas decorations up and the trees trimmed. At the day after Christmas sale last year I bought new decorations for the three trees so I am showing those here as well as my one in the formal living room. It's fun to have something new to look at!

Nash's Sadie Hawkins Date

Nash was asked to the Sadie Hawkins dance by KayCee McCarrey. They went to the church to have dinner, where they made pizza and then played games. They had a group of about 24! They had so much fun they stayed at the church until 9 pm, then went to the dance. What a fun evening!