Happy New Year 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Whitney's. Lots have happened this last month and need to catch up the blog. 2008 was a busy year for our family. The Lord has truly blessed our family this past year. We flew to Utah on the 16th and stayed until Christmas. We didn't get out to see everyone, with half of Nick's family with the flu (thank heaven none of us got sick) and the weather outside was frightful for driving conditions, we weren't able to make it out to see everyone. Grandma cried when she picked us up from the airport, she didn't even hug her own daughter, went straight for the grandkids! She missed us a lot. But we enjoyed spending what time we could with family and friends.
Emma loved the snow, she went tubing with her uncles and had so much fun! We went to the Fun park and Emma took her friend Kiya and won lots of arcade tickets and prizes. We went bowling, shopping, we stopped and had a Brazilian dinner with our friends the Fish family. Great food. It was great for Nick to work on his Portuguese, and had FHE with them as well. We spent time with Nick's Dad and Mom.
We were worried that we wouldn't make it on our flight, lots of storms coming through, thought our flight would be cancelled or delayed. But we got lucky and we were able to fly out on time in between snow storms. But in the end we were ready to be home! Its a lot warmer here in Tennessee. Here are some pics which are past due.

Just playin in the Utah Snow!

Rick and his favorite uncle Brandon! Christmas Day

Me and Rick Christmas Day!

Emma and Grandma! She's rockin pj's from grandma. Grandma gets all the kids pj's to open Christmas eve so they can wear them Christmas morning. Just keeping up the tradition her mother started 25 years or so ago.

Rick got a stuffed monkey from his uncle Brandon and he loves it! He's also rockin the new pj's grandma got him.

Ho Ho Ho! Went to see Santa. Rick did very well with Santa. Emma was upset because she wanted a car for Christmas (the electric ride in one) which she didn't get, obvious reasons why, and so she was a little upset by it. But Santa promised her that when her family gets into a house then she will get one.

Rick met his new cousin Kara for the first time.

Rick LOVED the snow, couldn't get enough of it. He built a snowman with daddy in grandmas front yard (the back has dogs, need I say more) not the cleanest snowman with all the pine needles, but they had fun. and a little friendly snowball fight between me, Nick, and Brandon was fight for your life fun!

Reindeer at the Tanner Family Christmas Party! It was a close race for Nick, Jay, Uncle Dan and Grandpa. Dan took home the prize for filling his pantie hose first with balloons and wore it atop his head! Manly! But such a riot to watch! I'll soon have it downloaded to YouTube!

OMG! its Gabriel from High School Musical!

Me and Emma went to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Radio City Rockets! Grand Ol Opry Dec 12th 2008. She loved the show, and we got to meet a couple of the rockets. Gotta love those outfits!

Santa lil helper! Such a cutie!

Carnton Ward Coven Newborns! Twilight Premiere!

Happy New Year 2009!

We went to a party at the Lori Stucki's Home. Had so much fun, haven't been out for new years eve in years! Got a babysitter and got home at 2 am!

Karaoke never sounded good. But I was amazed with Nick, he never does this and we had a lot of fun playing all kinds of games and all you can eat buffet!