Christmas EVE......

AHHHHHHH.......Christmas EVE......I love this day! We have a couple of fun traditions we do in our home after all the parties and festivities are over for the day.....My kids FAVORITE one is something we started about 10 years ago....Randy reads them "Twas The Night Before Christmas" Before they go to bed.....Even Baby Ellie got to hear the story. They all look so cute in their Christmas Jammies listening to Daddy tell the story....By the way, he's gotten REALLY good at telling the story over the years!


The kids get to each open up their new jammies on christmas Eve......It's fun to have new festive jammies to wear and EVERYONE looks so cute on Christmas Morning for pictures. This year due to having a baby, I only had time to find Pants, so we had to do without cute shirts!

Megan

I think Taylor was the most excited about hers, she LOVED them!

Travis.....

Even Randy surprised me with a pair of pants....they are so WARM though it's like wearing a fleece blanket around your legs!

I think she loved hers!

Reading the story...Megan didn't want to hear the story for some odd reason so that's why she isn't in the picture...

Sweet Little Baby Ellie.....9 days old!....The Best Christmas Present of ALL!

Weight Family Christmas Eve Program and Party......

We get together with my family and spend Christmas Eve Together. We have a yummy Mexican Dinner followed by the nativity, talent show and then we exchange our brother and sister gifts and the grandkids exchange gifts. This picture above is Mary(Megan) Joseph (Brigham) and Baby Jesus (random doll)

The Three Wiseman....Travis, McKay and Tyson...I LOVE the serious faces

The WHOLE nativity.....Reagan, Anney, Bethany, Megan, Taylor, Brigham, Travis, McKay and Tyson

Some of the audience during the Talent Show....

reagan and Travis playing Jingle Bells as a duet.

Anney singing I Am A Child Of God.....She is so silly!

Olivia, Megan, and Anney singing a song together

Anney got a baby doll from cousin Rayder

Megan got this fun drawing set from Whitney

Walker got Taylor some jewelry and hair things

Laynie got travis some video games and a Harry Potter book

We love our family and so grateful for the time we get to spend with each other especially during the holidays. We are grateful for this time of year and for the birth of Jesus Christ.

Ferrin Family Christmas Party

This is our sweet Anney singing "I Am A Child Of God" at Randy's family Christmas Party. My kids love this party and have so much fun....it is such a fun time for all ages!

We have a gift Exchange/White Elephant and this is the gift Anney opened up.....She puts it right on back and not ONE person has the courage to take it from her.....Anney LOVED her backpack!

Ohe of the gifts were marshmallow guns and all these little girls cared about were the bags of marshmallows......I think Anney stole Daddy's present here!

Meredith, Randy, Anney and Baby Ellie who is only 5 days old..

Megan, Kaybree, Sean, Taylor, Hannah, Emmee and Grandpa Ferrin (who just had back surgery 10 days ago) sitting on the couch watching the talent show.

We always act out the 12 days of Christmas.....Megan and Sean were 4 Calling birds

Randy was 12 drummers drumming

Taylor and Hannah were A Partridge In A Pear Tree

travis played a violin solo for the talent show.

I know this picture is out of order but this is what Travis opened up for his gift...we tell him year after year....don't open something....he does it EVERY YEAR and ends up always with something he doesn't want. He tried real hard to be a good sport.

Anney's Haircut........

Look Mom......"I LIKE PORTER"....This is what Anney said to me as she ran out so excited to show me her new haircut! Taylor had accidentally left a pair of scissors out on her bed and Anney decided she wanted to be just like my good friend who cuts out hair. Her Last name is Porter and for some reason Anney calls her by her last name. Anney had taken a big chunk out of the side and a big chunk out of the top....Luckily it was able to be fixed and it looks adorable on her, but man kids.....put the dang scissors away so I don't have to do this again!

Ellie's first photo shoot.................................

The hospital always takes pictures of your newborn.....After she left we decided to snap a few with our camera....They turned out so cute.....

Introducing....................Ellie LeAnn Ferrin

Our sweet baby girl Arrived Tuesday December 15th at 3:39 p.m. Many of you know how hard it was for us to come up with a name for this baby......I wanted to do Kennedy all along, but as it got closer and closer it just didn't seem to fit with my other kids names. About an hour before having her we were online looking at 2 syllable girl names.....Ellie had always been a favorite of ours and it just seemed to really fit. So went with it. I wanted to spell it Ellee but after spelling Anney's different, I didn't want to do it again. Anney has her name spelled wrong all the time. The funny thing is we knew from the day we found out we were pregnant that if it was a girl we were going to have her middle name be LeAnn after my Aunt LeAnn. Both Randy and I look up to admire her for so many reasons we both felt we wanted to name our baby girl after her. We are so lucky to have LeAnn in our life and we feel so honored to name our sweet baby after her. We couldn't be more happier and feel more blessed at this time. Both randy and I couldn't ask for a more special Christmas Gift. The Kids are truly in love with her....their favorite thing to do is just sit and stare at her as she is in the swing or laying on the couch. Everything went perfect for the delivery and recovery and we are all home trying to adjust to having a newborn again.....here are a few pictures from the first couple hours of her life.


We had the best nurse ever...her name was Tara and she was so cute and sweet. She really made Ellie some cute "girlie girl" things and she was so great taking care of me also. In this picture she is getting Ellie's footprints....So sweet!

First pictures of those sweet feet.

Tara took the original Baby hat they give you in the hospital and added a cute bow....Both Rand and I LOVED it!

On my way up to my room........

Ferrin Family Christmas Party

Every Year Randy's extended side of the family has a Christmas party. This party is at his Aunt and Uncle's home...(the Phelps). Everyone loves it and looks forward to it every year. We have goodies, a talent show, and everyone just hangs out and plays and visits.


Megan and Anney love the swing and even love it more when Randy pushes them.

This little train was a huge hit....Kyle pulled the kids around the backyard the whole time. Anney LOVED it!

One of Randy's cousins husband ties balloons....The kids LOVED him. Taylor is sporting her new hat!

Aunt carolei giving everyone directions and announcing the program...

A butterfly!

A balloon inside of a balloon....

Anney amazed.....

Ashlee's sweet sixteenth birthday was this day...Of course we had to embarrass her by singing to her......She was not happy with us!

Megan with another hat creation!

Chloe and Anney....best of friends!