Shane Christmas Party

It's finally Christmas Eve! The Shane's Christmas Party was this afternoon. It was so great to get together with family during the day, but still have all evening to be at home prepping for Santa. Jan made us a delicious lunch and once the tables were cleared away it was time to open presents.

This is always Brayden's favorite part. We'll have a lot of fun with his new toys, especially the Optimus Prime Lego set.

I loved watching Bailey play with the new Disney Princess dresses that I gave her.

Erika found a ball that she pushed up her shirt so she could look like me. If only I could get mine out as easy as she got her's out. Anyway, we had a blast and I can't wait for tomorrow morning!

Girls' Dinner with Jan

A few months ago, Jan took all of us girls out to Applebee's and we had such a great time talking and laughing that she decided to do it again. Tonight, we all met at Winger's for dinner. Besides Krystal, all of the girls were there. I had so much fun hanging out with my family! I love being apart of this family.

Capizzi Family Pictures

It isn't too often that we can get the entire family together. There are quite a few of us. Sharon took advantage of Grandma and Grandpa Woods being in town and arranged for us to take family pictures. They turned out pretty good.

The Entire Family

 

Phil and Sharon with all of their Children

Phil and Sharon with their Grandchildren

Our Own Little Family

Can't you feel the love?

Shooting with Grandpa Capizzi

Craig's dad is working toward becoming a NRA Training Counselor. In order to do so, he needed to teach two NRA Basic Pistol Courses. Craig and I would each like to purchase pistols in the near future, so we signed up for one of his classes. Once the class was over, Phil took us over to the WSA Range in order to get some hands on experience with a few different types of pistols. Jill's family also came up for the class, so we had a good time shooting with them, too.

Phil was awesome to get one-on-one time with everyone answering questions and helping us out when needed.

I quickly found my favorite pistol. It only shoots .22's so there is almost no kick to it. Mix that with the scope and the nifty little stand and you have the perfect gun. It's easy to be accurate with this one, but it's bulk makes it too impractical to be my next purchase. It sure was fun though.

Jill did really good with this one, especially with the amount of kick this one had. It seemed like this one wanted to hit you in the face every time you pulled the trigger.

Jill's girls even brought up their cute little rifle to practice with.

I think Erika spent more time posing for pictures than she did on shooting.

I liked this one, too. It had a red dot sight and almost no kick. I realize that means that it's not nearly as deadly, but at least I can keep both eyes open when I pull the trigger.

Toward the end of the day, the boys started up a game to see who was the best shot. We found a few small, metal targets that we spread out across the range and who ever knocked the most down won. It was fun to watch how competitive they were.

Christmas with the Capizzi's

Today we met at Phil and Sharon's house for their Christmas party. It was great! The food was delicious and we had a really good time hanging out with the family.

Jill passed out envelopes to all the kids. Inside everyone found their own Christmas card and $2 bill. We love that Jill gives these as gifts. You don't see them very often, but now Brayden has his own little stash of $2 bills.

Now that Brayden is 2 he really understands opening presents. He liked having Craig hold the ripped wrapping paper as he opened the pajamas and clothes that he got from Grandma and Grandpa.

Grandma and Grandpa had a surprise for the kids this year. They made arrangements to have Santa Claus come visit this year to deliver some really special gifts. Brayden was really freaked out by Santa. As soon as Brayden heard Santa's voice, he hid behind a pillow at my feet and refused to come out.

We finally convinced him that Santa was an okay guy and Brayden agreed to go up there so long as he could sit on my lap and not Santa's. He really loved the laptop that Santa gave him though. Hopefully this was the start to a more positive relationship with Santa. Next year, Brayden might even sit on his lap.

But, all in all, this was a great evening. Thank you, Phil and Sharon! And Merry Christmas!

Christmas with Capizzi's

Yup. It's that time of the year again. Time to head up to Clearfield for the Capizzi's Christmas Party.

After all of the traditional festivities (dinner, opening presents, etc.) the adults settled down to a game of Cranium.

Meanwhile, the little cousins played with Grandma and Grandpa's toys on the floor.

We had a great time and we look forward to celebrating another Christmas with this group next year!

Capizzi Christmas Party

Phil and Sharon were kind enough to invite me to their family Christmas party this year. Craig and I were at a party at my mom's parent's home the night before, so we slept over at Phil's and then spent the day helping prep for the party.

Every year, Phil and Sharon have every member of the family write down their gift to Jesus on a small piece of paper and then they read it the next year. When the asked me to join in, I foolishly said that I wouldn't be there next year so why bother. Oops...

Here are some of the pictures that Craig took of the family:

Phil Capizzi

Jill Ozur

Madison Johnson

Emma Ozur

Erika Ozur

Karrie & Kristie Noble

Megan Noble & Steve McFadden

Kelsi