All the cousins doing the Christmas Nativity Scene. The yearly tradition.
A bunch of our friends(and my brother) from high school out for our yearly Christmas time dinner.

Yeates Family Pictures. It's not easy getting 19 kids to sit still all at the same time, well this is as good as it gets! My parents, my six siblings and all our spouses!
The WHOLE Famdamily!

JUST US!

SO I just realized that not only are all of my pictures all out of order, but my post are backwards as well. I am the queen of crappy blogging!

Told you this was going to be all out of order. Talk about wiggedy wack. Christmas tree with all the wrapped presents and lights on. It's not complete with out the presents!
Family at the train show!

Averie. Al and Xander.

Al, Karly, Xander, and Averie.

Our friends Karly and Al invited us to go to a train show at the botanical gardens in Brooklyn. It was fun, but Averie got lost for a bit. It was a little scary.

My two handsome hunks all ready to hit the town.

Averie looking at the trains

This is our friends Kassie and Levi Anderson. I just chopped off all Levi's hair. So handsome.

Averie insisted we have a modeling photo shoot. She was telling me just how to stand so I looked good, "no not like that mom, like this."

I must warn you. This is why I don't blog. My pictures all are loading in the wrong order and it's really hard for someone with ADD to figure out how to manuver all these picures and tittles all over the place. So be forewarned. These pictures are not in order and my posts may feel a little chaotic. Kind of like my everyday life! Our friends who we shared Thanksgiving with!
My first Turkey ever, I don't like to boast, but I must say, 5 years of mental preparation really made it a juicy one! YUM YUM! We didn't really even have left overs.
My masterpiece!
My sorry excuse for a Christmas tree. The problem isn't not enough room to put one, but rather not enough room to store a large one! One day we may grow up and have a real tree. (I don't mean out of the forest, I mean size wise, sorry I don't do pine needles!)
The set up. Bryce and Averie worked hard all morning making my apple candle center pieces!
The Farris Wheel at ToysR Us in central square. Averie had been begging to ride it forever.


Holiday windows at Bloomingdales. Before it got fridgid here in the city!
Pierson playing with our friend Evelyn.
Averie snugging up at the weekly Friday Sing A Long at her school with her best pal Jack S. They are a little too close for comfort typically speaking!
I can't believe I talked Bryce into the Pumpkin Pie eating contest at our ward holiday party. MY HUSBAND eating completely usless, desireless calories for the sake of competition.....Unheard off. It was WONDERFUL, hilarious, and shocking but he almost won, a close 2nd place. If he wouldn't have been thinking about the calories, I'm sure he would have won with a mouth that size.
GROSS!
The pig out!
My beautiful kiddos all ready for church!