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A BUNCH to post!

Well we had a great Holiday Break. Christmas Eve came, and my Daddy had to work a night shift. So we woke up early, and instead of openingup OUR presents, we drove up to my Nana's and Papa's to watch them, Nichole, Garrett, Kolten, and Toddy open theirs. When my dad came home aroun 8:15 we returned to our house and opened our presents. From Santa, I got the purple 8 gb iPod nano (with video and FM Radio!) that I've been eyeing ever since my old iPod got stolen. Santa gave Britta a professional snowboard, with boots and all. Carson got a BMX bike so he can play on all the jumps he's made since we've mobed here. My Dad got some lamps from Santa. I don't really know why he asked for lamps, but whatever floats his boat. My mom got lots of fun new clothes, including skinny jeans!!! Yay for my mom!

We went to both side of the familys for Christmas Lunch and Dinner. Yummy food and time to play in the snow. (Though I didn't do much of that... bleh)

The Hackings came sledding with us at the Amphitheatre on Saturday, the day after Christmas. :)

We also went out to see Alvin and The Chipmonks. That was a way cute movie, with lots of good music. We all have our favorite chipmonks, I love the nerdy one (Simon). Brit loves the Fat one (Theodore) And Carsey loves Alvin.

The rest of my family went to my Aunt Liz's to celebrate the New Year, while I hung out at Darren's house and watched movies with his family. At nighttime Dare and I went to our Friend Julie's house to play games until midnight. We were supposed to eat breakfast at like one in the morning, but I fell asleep. haha.

Umm we had to go back to school on Monday, and I have to admit it was hard to wake up so early again!!! It was the last week of term though, so we will have new classes when we go back on Monday.

Yesterday our little family went to see AVATAR. Originally we thought it looked really dumb, because us kids thought it was Avatar The Last Airbender that was coming out so soon, but really that movie doesn't come out til summertime. Bummer. But anyways, the AVATAR movie was surprisingly really good! :) We all enjoyed it, and if you havn't seen it yet we definitely recomend you seeing it. Also our Van wouldn't start when we exited the movie theatre, even after asking someone to jump start it. SO we had to call Tripple AAA and get it towed back to our house. Man, I am thankful for Tripple A! We have used them multiple times!

And that is pretty much all! Sorry, no pictures. We got a new camera, but havn't spent the time t ofigure out how to put all teh picturs onto the computer. When we do, I'll put up the pictures. Hope everyone had good holidays too! :) Love, The Kings

Gingerbread Cookies for our Tree

After School on Friday, my family made gingerbread dough for cookies on our tree! It's always a very long process, but we have a great time every year. Something we did a little differently is inviting over Mark and Daphne Miller, and their new baby girl, Italia. Daphne was Carson's teacher in 1st grade, and her and my mom have been friends ever since. She and her husband got married in our old backyard.

Well they arrived around 6:00 and we ate Apple-Pecan Salad, and my Dad's ORIGINAL homemade chicken and cheese tortolini soup. Then me made some frosting and began to decorate the cookies. We always get creative, what with giving the gingerbread girls bikinis or stabbing a boy with a "daggar". You'd have to see the actual tree to get the full impact, but they are pretty adorable despite their uniqueness. (More like KING FAMILY-NESS!) :D

Carson and I

Mommy and I, teamwork!

Britta, rolling.

Carsie, rolling his shapes thinner

Mama rolling dough

What do you want, Britta? I'm trying to make gingebread cookies here...

Mark's creative skills

My Daddy putting the star on top of our "Charlie Brown" Christmas Tree. We like our skimpy trees!!! :)

Thanksgiving (GO UTES!!!)

On Wednesday, my small family of five went out to eat at a nice restaurant with a weird name. Sorry, I can't remember what it was called... haha But then we went to see A Christmas Carol in 3D. It was a weird movie.. good, funny, and a bit creepy! We shopped for a bit also, yay Bath and Bodyworks!!!

Thanksgiving was a bunch of fun! Turkey, Pie, Homemade Candy, Stuffing, Green Bean Casserole, Cranberry Sauce... etc. My Mom did a great job with the Bingo games for the kids, along with prizes and everything! (Yay 2 dollar bills!!) A big thanks to Jeremy and Leisa for hosting us all at the Feast! We know it's a LOT of work!!! Maura made delicious home made bread, and the annual cheese ball, yum!

Thank goodness for the good weather, it made playing outside a lot more fun!

Eww, Mommy and Daddy Kissing!!! :P

The weird Frog thingies, and Britta and Carson playing on them

Cute little Utes!!!

Ute Pride!!!

The Old sporting some stuffing mix, haha

Me holding baby Kailani

Symie's face in a wreath at Grandma's House

haha GO UTES!!!

My 15th Birthday Party!!!

We bought tickets to go see New Moon on the big screen after school. I think everyone liked it, especially Annika, who thought seeing Taylor Lautner take his shirt off was the best part of the entire movie! (I gotta admit though, that WAS INSANELY AWESOME!!! :) New Moon was much better than Twilight was, I loved every minute of it! There was only ONE cheesy part in this one!

After the movie, we all came back to my house. We picked up Pizza on our way back, had Pumpkin Pie (because I don't like cake) and ice cream. I got some awesome gifts, thank you everyone! Then we played Air Hockey, DDR, Pool, Board Games, the Lemon Juice game, night games etc. Everyone seemed pretty tired towards the end! Or at least, I was!!!

Annika, Fred (the doll) and I :)
Keenan and Walker, during the Lemon Juice game

Darren and I, dueling at Air Hockey (I won, by the way! But he took it very politely! :)

Kayla, Ali, & Sara during the Lemon Juice game, too.

King Chickens

Can I just say, I miss my old house! My new house is wonderful of course, but there is something about a big red barn, swingset, treehouse, over 40 trees, wide open grassy lawns, and PET CHICKENS!!! Chickens are my absolute FAVORITE animals! They are quite entertaining, and make th emost interesting sounds! Not to mention they laid eggs for us too!

At our King Family Sunday Dinner, we celebrated my birthday and my Grandma made me a cake and a yummilicious dinner! I love Orange chicken and rice! Wow I'm using lots of exclamation points... haha Now I just can't wait to see NEW MOON!!!!

I love how all my Reichert Cousins hug me, offer me candy (candy they bought with their OWN money, from Cummings Chocolate Studio, I might add!) and scream they miss me ever since I moved! :)

Me and one of my old chickens!!

Izabelle, Oakleigh, and Britta holding the brand new baby chicks!!

Carson, chasing a few of the many chickens

A baby chick and I

Hair Hayday

So on Sunday we had our Smith Family Sunday Dinner. We celebrated Maura's, Garrett's and I's birthdays. (Thank you everyone!!! :) My yearbook was left downstairs on the couch, and all the adults had fun looking at the RIDICULOUS hairstyles teenagers have nowadays. From that, I decided to take pictures of the backs of everyone's heads. Only the following complied:

Rowan

Papa

Kayla (I did her hair in that AWESOME twist!!!! :)

And last but not least, uncle Josh. Yes, our GoldiLocks here has hair long enough to french braid!!! Now we see where Kayls gets it from! ;)

Auntie Nichole made delicious homemade Enchiladas. Auntie Leisa bought a yummy taco salad (wasn't really a taco salad, so much as normal lettuce with a ranch dressing/taco sauce mixture on top).