Mark and Terry Reed Family

January bride

Melissa Merrill, our niece on the Reed side of the family, married her sweetheart on January 17th in the Mesa temple. She and Brookly were close cousins growing up and Melissa was in Brookly's wedding line almost ten years ago.

A Milestone

Dad, Calla, Jenny and I finished reading the Harry Potter series! A friend let us borrow a CD set and we finished the last hundred pages listening to a great professional reader as we drove to Mesa. We marveled the past couple years at the imagination of J.K. Rowling. Without her talented literary skills we would have never met brave Harry, bumbling Ron and level-headed Hermoine, Hagrid and Buckbeak, Luna and the Weasley's, Grawp and Sirius Black, Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore...
and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. We can't wait for the next movie due out this summer!

Sledding near Sunrise

Calla's friend Mikayla, Calla and Jenny, impersonating a suicide bomber. The wind was fierce and cold below the hill, but once we hiked up-- the trees provided a nice wind break and it actually felt warm. That really is Jenny even though you can only see her nose. She hates to be cold.

Getting ready for a nice push down the hill from Dad.

The view from the top

This lucky shot we called "Wipeout!" Calla and Mikayla hit some bumps and ended upside down on their heads before they came to a rolling stop. Calla is on the right. (Should of had the video camera with me) Mikayla wanted to go home after that scare. We talked her into staying after her headache subsided.

Okay, I took a self portrait. I just wanted proof that I was there (the photographer on excursions often is overlooked).

The wind was whipping the snow across the road...such a pretty scene.

Quick reunion at the Freeman's

This morning LeeAnn Freeman called and invited us to her home to pick some citrus before we headed up to Taylor. While there, Tim showed up with his little family to pay some rent to the Freeman's. He didn't know we'd be there, so he was surprised. Then Tiffany drove up with her two sons (she's down visiting for the holidays from Colorado). We talked and compared babies and shared hugs and smiles. Good friends!

Merry Christmas morning

We went and saw the Bigler's that night and the only picture I took was of Saylor in her new tunnel from Grandma and Grandpa Reed. Peek-a-boo!

Christmas Eve

We're modeling the socks we got from Calla, they sure are warm! and the funny thing was how perfectly they matched the girls new Christmas Eve 'jammies! Connor was already dreaming of sugarplums. We read the Christmas story in Luke and sang and Mark read, "Twas the Night Before Christmas." The girls were sent to bed and they were pretty hyper before they settled down for the night. Mr. and Mrs. Claus were up until 12:30 a.m. wrapping presents and stuffing stockings. It seemed we had just closed our eyes when there was a knock at the bedroom door at 5:30 a.m. and bright-eyed Jenny was asking if "Ho Ho" had come...

Gingerbread houses

This is a fun family tradition and the kids were really excited about it. Grandma Reed let us use her kitchen and we appreciated her hospitality. Saylor and Stryder were very patient as we passed around and shared the decorating icing tube. We had way more candy than we needed, and alot of it didn't end up on the houses. Yum!