Christmas Eve afternoon...

We had surprise visitors from Eugene Oregon (Trent's mission on the way to Brazil!) Christmas Eve afternoon.

This is brother and sister Hooker.... They knocked on the door and said we have pictures of Trent! Of course I let them in immediately! I would like to say they made a special trip here just to bring me pictures of Trent... but they were here visiting family. They had the missionaries over for dinner and took pictures for their families and mine just happened to get hand delivered. What a great surprise and what nice people. We sure enjoyed visiting with them and greatly appreciated the pictures they brought!

Christmas Eve morning...

Christmas Eve morning all the guys went shooting...

What an arsenel of weapons of mass destruction!

So what did I do while they were gone?!?.... Cooked and baked of course and Krisitn came over and joined me. Fun times!

KFC night!

Whenever my brother Dan comes in town we have a big dinner of KFC... compliments of Dan!

 LOTS of KFC!

 Then we play the gift game... but it has a theme... this year the gifts had to start with a K, F or C!

You can see we had a LOT of fun! Thanks everyone!

Temple lights!

Last night my brother got into town so we grabbed a bite to eat then braved the rain to go see the temple lights! Poor Mike had to get up at 2:30 to go to work so he missed all the fun!

 Brandon is standing by a tree he helped decorate!

 That's me... standing by my favorite purple tree! I've got to get me some purple lights for next year!

 Brandon, Erin, me and Dan all huddled under the umbrella!

 In the visitors center to see the Nativities and dry out a little.

 We found a few things from Brasil...

Going on a rainy night was great... no crowds!!! It was fun and it wasn't raining very hard anyway.

BUT... before we went home we did a VERY fun thing that Brandon and I haven't done in a few years...

It was almost 10:00 when we left and they turn out ALL the temple lights at 10:00...  ALL of them at once! You have to watch very closely and don't blink or ya might miss it! Try it sometime... it's way cool!

Visitors

We had some special visitors at work the other day! Santa is really checking his list!! He's interviewing relatives of boys and girls to get other opinions of how good they've been this year! I have to say Santa left my office with glowing reviews of all my family members!!

Eleven is here!!!

Welcome to the world Lyndi Rose Gunnell. Our 11th arrived this weekend and everyone is doing terrific! Another beautiful little girl to add to our many blessings. Life is good!!

Concert

(See the great picture of Erin... she is the third bass)

Saturday we went to a great Christmas concert by Symphony of the Southwest. Wonderful Christmas music and fun singalongs (right Mike?). Thanks for the tickets Erin!